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Moving To Sch. Haven will i still get philly radio???

R

Roxborough

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hi, i have lived in this city my whole life. i will soon be moving to Schuylkill Haven PA, about 40 miles north of Reading. my concern is, will i still be able to hear the radio stations from my home town in my new area? when i was up to check out some houses, i didnt get the chance to scan the dial. anyone with information please let me know. if not, time for xm/sirius. unless theres some good stations up that way.
 
Doesn't look like it, even with f fringe at:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/lo...b=Y&format=&dx=2&radius=&freq=&sort=freq&sid=
NO dice.
WKRZ is good, WRFY is good too. ZZO and CTO are good also. If you prefer WXPN, WXPH may work for you too since its a translator.
WBEB and WDAS-FM are fringe.
If you like AC WROZ is good. SO is WWMX for Hot AC.
WLAN is a good CHR, better than WIOQ.
WLEV, WAEB are good.
the AM's will be weak, but according to radio-locator, it can be picked up on.
Hope that helps?
John
Bensalem, PA
 
Q: will you get philly stations in schuylkill haven?

A: YES, i have a place in pottsville PA, and the philly stations come in great in the car and in the house! if you like rock, WMMR, WRFF and WMGK have good signals, especially MGK. for hiphop, WIRED, the beat and power 99 come in, WIOQ dont come in too well though because of local t102. but as alradey mentioned, WLAN is an option. for AC, i can tell you that B101 walks all over the rose. WLEV comes in good though. you can even get 885 XPN, its a little weaker than the rest but its listenable. as far as the allentown stations go, ZZO has certain spots where it comes in good, but there is a local on 949, 999 the hawk is good, and comes in decently. but suprisingly the philly stations are stronger than those in the Lehigh Valley. as for reading y102 is good for a ben-fm type format, which 95.7 comes in good around here too. the best LOCAL station though, is WFKB (in my opinion). if you like country, this is the place to be. you get 92.5 XTU, 105.1 and WCTO (some places). another station for rock worth metioning is 1057 the x. theyre good, if you can get it in over local 1055 wmgh. heres a tip, everyt station except 1019, 991, and 949 fade oiut when you get into the city of pottsville. when you get out of pottsville they all come back in, up until frackville where rt 61 passes rt 81. and you can have most of them almost the whole way to the first hazleton exit on rt 81. as far as i know, that is the line for all the philly stations.

sorry i had to write a book on the subject, but is not often people ask about radio up this way.
i hope it helped. and sorry john, but i had to prove your theory wrong, i hate that radio locator page because of how wrong it is.they obviously didnt take the mountains into consideration while drawing those maps. look at the one for bensalem, 106.5 doesnt show up, but it comes in clear as day. and there are no mountains in levittown. for the most part the radio locator maps are right for the local ranges, except the one for the bone in allentown should have a much bigger red zone then it does, but anyway, lets keep this page on track.

-Russ
 
i spend a lot of time near that area and can attest that most of the strong Philly stations (except ones like 97.5 and 103.9) come in pretty good, as long as you're using a decent radio. a 20 dollar Walmart boom box won't do the trick and a cheap 5 dollar clock radio will get about 2 stations from the local area. but if you're using a nice stereo, you won't have much problem. a friend of a friend has a kloss radio attached to a cheap set of amplified rabbit ears sitting on top of his refrigerator. he picks up most of the philly, allentown, reading, harrisburg, lancaster, york, and scranton stations, all not that well, but listenable. so look at it this way. nothing comes in super strong unless you're talking about the handful of local schuylkill county stations, but you'll get decent reception from all over eastern pennsylvania's cities. also to take into consideration is the mountains in the area. what comes in in one spot may not a mile down the road behind a mountain or in a valley. hopefully you're new house isn't right behind one of schuylkill county's many hills.
 
I am blind so can't see the maps over at radio-locator, but i know what you mean. When I'm in the villages, there are stations that don't show up as fringe at all that come in on my boombox with just a six foot tellascoping antenna. Also, radio Locator doesn't list some stations that come in here in Bensalem, PA with my DX rig.
Interesting.
Makes me begin to wonder if its not radio-locator that's inaccurit, but the FCC, since the maps are provided by the FCC that shows what should be gotten, and what shouldn't.
John
Bensalem, PA
 
Something else just occured to me. Perhaps Radio-locator's fringe is refering to what comes in clearly no matter which direction you're goin in the car? but that doesn't make sense either, because if that was the case, it would list all of the Philly FM's as at least a 2, Russ.
 
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