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Pre sets
- Thread starter Roger
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wilk wvia
Sad, ain't it?
Sad, ain't it?
Our primitive little 1992 Topaz has twelve pre-sets -- six for AM and six for FM.
Both dials have stayed the same since we bought the car six years ago. Eerily and morbidly, the presets are pretty darned near what we've had on the other cars after moving to here 20 years ago.
Being a DXer, I insist on doing it by frequency
.
AM:
660 WFAN NY, at night
830 WEEU Reading (full-service A/C, proximate to CJBC 860 at nite)
1060 KYW Philly (for news and the time ; sometimes the dash clock is
fooey)
1360 WPPA Pottsville, loudest signal during the day ; handy for
adjacents
1410 WLSH Lansfoed -- Oldies 1410 (a daytimer)
1510 WWSM From downstate Lebanon PA -- tradional C&W ; daytimer
FM:
88.9 WQSU Selinsgrove PA. College station out of Selinsgrove
University. Huge signal. To keep up (somewhat) with the kids.
94.1 WQKX ('94 KX, out of Sunbury). Hot A/C and local.
94.9 WVIA translator in Pottsville. Poor signal up by us, though.
99.1 WRTI Philly translator from Pottsville (Jazz at night)
101.9 WAVT Pottsville (T-102, a hot A/C collage that actually plays
just about everything)
107.3 WEGH Northumberland (Eagle 107). Sort of a Chicken Classic
rocker with a huge library. Spotty signal by us, to their east.
Zenith T-O is right. The variety is sad.
(Maybe on the DX forum, some people with pre-sets have a button on each dial set to some pilot station -- Aurora on AM ; Tropo or eSkip on FM :- )
Both dials have stayed the same since we bought the car six years ago. Eerily and morbidly, the presets are pretty darned near what we've had on the other cars after moving to here 20 years ago.
Being a DXer, I insist on doing it by frequency
.AM:
660 WFAN NY, at night
830 WEEU Reading (full-service A/C, proximate to CJBC 860 at nite)
1060 KYW Philly (for news and the time ; sometimes the dash clock is
fooey)
1360 WPPA Pottsville, loudest signal during the day ; handy for
adjacents
1410 WLSH Lansfoed -- Oldies 1410 (a daytimer)
1510 WWSM From downstate Lebanon PA -- tradional C&W ; daytimer
FM:
88.9 WQSU Selinsgrove PA. College station out of Selinsgrove
University. Huge signal. To keep up (somewhat) with the kids.
94.1 WQKX ('94 KX, out of Sunbury). Hot A/C and local.
94.9 WVIA translator in Pottsville. Poor signal up by us, though.
99.1 WRTI Philly translator from Pottsville (Jazz at night)
101.9 WAVT Pottsville (T-102, a hot A/C collage that actually plays
just about everything)
107.3 WEGH Northumberland (Eagle 107). Sort of a Chicken Classic
rocker with a huge library. Spotty signal by us, to their east.
Zenith T-O is right. The variety is sad.
(Maybe on the DX forum, some people with pre-sets have a button on each dial set to some pilot station -- Aurora on AM ; Tropo or eSkip on FM :- )
When in the area, WRTI translator in the Poconos. I can take it from almost Hackettstown NJ to almost Scranton taking 80 west and 380 north. If they have a pledge drive or opera on, I listen to my own music. S-WB in my opinion has some of the worst commercial radio I have heard in many moons. It use to be one of the best markets!
Kind of an interesting topic. Here we go...
AM -- two
590 WARM -- although it never comes in anyway
910 WILK -- Morning show isn't bad, I like Sue Henry, Corbett lets the dumbest things bother him -- always good for a laugh.
Nothing else
FM -- four
89.9 WVIA -- an occasional stop.
91.7 WVMW -- VMFM -- Marywood -- I'm still involved with the station. I'm still on the station. It's still the finest alternative/indie station in NEPA. (And that's NOT just me. A LOT of other hard working individuals there doing it for free).
99.5 WUSR -- U OF S. Mainly only on Sunday's. John Lucas still does his polka show. I worked with John many years ago at WCDL in Carbondale. Nice to still hear him plugging away on Sunday mornings. I like the Soundtracks show after that too. The hosts aren't great, but the music is interesting for us movie geeks.
106.9 ROCK 107 -- still like to hear how my old buds are doing. Plus my Film Critic bit still runs on the morning show. I still catch Dave and Eric semi-regularly.
Not a preset, but I will swing by 88.5 WRKC, KING'S COLLEGE, when I'm in Luzerne County.
That's it.
Any car ride over 25 minutes gets the World's Greatest Ipod -- 12,000 songs and counting. No downloads. All CD and vinyl rips. All genres. All eras.
AM -- two
590 WARM -- although it never comes in anyway
910 WILK -- Morning show isn't bad, I like Sue Henry, Corbett lets the dumbest things bother him -- always good for a laugh.
Nothing else
FM -- four
89.9 WVIA -- an occasional stop.
91.7 WVMW -- VMFM -- Marywood -- I'm still involved with the station. I'm still on the station. It's still the finest alternative/indie station in NEPA. (And that's NOT just me. A LOT of other hard working individuals there doing it for free).
99.5 WUSR -- U OF S. Mainly only on Sunday's. John Lucas still does his polka show. I worked with John many years ago at WCDL in Carbondale. Nice to still hear him plugging away on Sunday mornings. I like the Soundtracks show after that too. The hosts aren't great, but the music is interesting for us movie geeks.
106.9 ROCK 107 -- still like to hear how my old buds are doing. Plus my Film Critic bit still runs on the morning show. I still catch Dave and Eric semi-regularly.
Not a preset, but I will swing by 88.5 WRKC, KING'S COLLEGE, when I'm in Luzerne County.
That's it.
Any car ride over 25 minutes gets the World's Greatest Ipod -- 12,000 songs and counting. No downloads. All CD and vinyl rips. All genres. All eras.
AM
590 WARM - Poor signal here in W-B, but I listened for the oldies
FM
97.1 BHT
98.5 KRZ
103.1 WILK - Corbett, George Noory, national and world news
104.5 Gem 104 - Plays a wide variety of oldies than WARM, and it's locally manned!
104.9 The River - Plays some stuff that is also heard on Gem 104, but more emphasis on the 80's and 90's(I'm a huge 80s music fan)
106.9 Rock 107 - I'm totally into classic rock stuff.
Going to NYC, I usually listen to WKTU, CBS-FM, Fresh 102.7, and WBLS.
In Philly, it's Ben-FM, WOGL, B101, Q102 and WMGK.
In the LV, it's usually just ZZO, B104, and The Hawk, and sometimes Y-102 out of Reading.
In all of the above cases, I also listen to NJ 101.5 as well.
590 WARM - Poor signal here in W-B, but I listened for the oldies
FM
97.1 BHT
98.5 KRZ
103.1 WILK - Corbett, George Noory, national and world news
104.5 Gem 104 - Plays a wide variety of oldies than WARM, and it's locally manned!
104.9 The River - Plays some stuff that is also heard on Gem 104, but more emphasis on the 80's and 90's(I'm a huge 80s music fan)
106.9 Rock 107 - I'm totally into classic rock stuff.
Going to NYC, I usually listen to WKTU, CBS-FM, Fresh 102.7, and WBLS.
In Philly, it's Ben-FM, WOGL, B101, Q102 and WMGK.
In the LV, it's usually just ZZO, B104, and The Hawk, and sometimes Y-102 out of Reading.
In all of the above cases, I also listen to NJ 101.5 as well.
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