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Two Tyler-Jacksonville FM stations skips into Irving this morning

andrewduong77

andrewduong77

My first FM DX experience! I was able to pull in two FM stations out of Tyler-Jacksonville, TX into Irving, TX this morning. KNUE 101.5 (Country) and Sunny 106.5 Soft Rock KOOI came into Irving very clear on my Sony XDR-F1HD receiver. I didn't even use the rabbit ears antenna that I had, I just used the basic FM antenna that came with the receiver. I was able to capture KNUE RDS, but I wasn't able to capture KOOI RDS, I'm not sure if they even have RDS either.
 
Pretty Cool!
Those are two of the easier Tyler Stations to get. If your ever in Rockwall 104.1 from Tyler can blast in at times too. If your ever in Wylie Tyler's 96.7 Tends to come in pretty well at American National Bank.
 
I wondered where that 104.1 signal was coming from. It blows KTCK out of the water at times in eastern Grayson and most of Fannin county.
 
For years I've gotten KOOI in Mesquite. Especially in the early mornings. And at night. But I don't listen them because it all Delialah.

-BGH
 
OHTBGH said:
For years I've gotten KOOI in Mesquite. Especially in the early mornings. And at night. But I don't listen them because it all Delialah.
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I get KOOI pretty reliably on the east side of Dallas County as well at all times day and night. Yeah, Delilah, and on 11-second delay. (Flip to KVIL to hear the difference.) And don't forget their John Tesh marathons. But they do play American Top 40 classics back-to-back on Sundays (a 70s, then one from the 80s) 1PM-8PM...and when you listen online, their stream doesn't time out incessantly (like KLUV's.) Really, I don't know if there's any "live" and truly local talent that works there. KOOI is many years displaced from when our pal Ben Laurie left KVIL to take the operations manager job there around 1990 AND from when his dad owned sister station KEBE. Then again, radio itself is displaced from anything recognizable these days, anyway.
 
Andrew, next time try 99.9. I've heard from LibertyNT and others that WACO in Waco, TX pops in sometimes. Plus, it's one of the few open channels in the area.

-crainbebo
 
Granted, it's been quite awhile since I lived in Texas, but I used to live near the Hulen Mall in Ft. Worth and rarely had trouble getting KOOI 106.5, KNUE 101.5, KPXI 100.7 (had a stronger signal 15 years ago), and KKUS 104.1 (KTDK was KXIL and off-air as it was eternally in the process of being sold).

As crainbebo mentioned, I also never had any trouble getting the Waco stations with the possible exceptions of KWBU, then at 107.1 and KBCT if it was even on-the-air at the time. There has, however, been a lot of dial shuffling since then!
 
The only Tyler-Longview stations that run RDS are Townsquare's stations (KNUE, KTYL, KKTX & KISX).

Has anyone caught KYKX 105.7 over KRNB?
 
CHR_FAN_TX said:
I sometimes get Mix 93.1 in my car when im close to home in Rowlett..I also get 106.5 quite frequently
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I was getting something on 93.1 that morning, but it wasn't very clear. I believe it must have been Mix 93.1 KTYL.
 
andrewduong77 said:
My first FM DX experience! I was able to pull in two FM stations out of Tyler-Jacksonville, TX into Irving, TX this morning. KNUE 101.5 (Country) and Sunny 106.5 Soft Rock KOOI came into Irving very clear on my Sony XDR-F1HD receiver. I didn't even use the rabbit ears antenna that I had, I just used the basic FM antenna that came with the receiver. I was able to capture KNUE RDS, but I wasn't able to capture KOOI RDS, I'm not sure if they even have RDS either.
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KNUE can be picked up pretty regularly at night and in the morning from just south of Waco. I was driving to Little Rock from Austin and I was able to pull in KNUE from just south of Waco all the way to Tyler. There is a translator somewhere in the Dallas area that overpowers it, and it's choppy in Waco, but outside of that it's very listenable in a car. The station doesn't go very far to the east of Tyler. When I drive to Waco at night (about once a month) I can pull in KNUE with little or no static once I get to Falls County on I-35, right at the Old Blevins Road exit.
 
Kent said:
Granted, it's been quite awhile since I lived in Texas, but I used to live near the Hulen Mall in Ft. Worth and rarely had trouble getting ..... KPXI 100.7 (had a stronger signal 15 years ago ....
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Sorry if this is a bit off topic.

I miss KPXI 100.7 when I'm in NE Texas. I never heard it in DFW. It was the Mt. Pleasant, TX FM for decades. Sort of a (ex KDNT people will know this term) "modified Top 40" , maybe a bit more A/C. It went away a number of years ago to make way for WORD 100.7 rimshot to DFW. MT. Pleasant FM is now on 95.9 & 96.9. Same thing on both frequencies but off by a few seconds for some reason.
 
dfaulkner said:
Kent said:
Granted, it's been quite awhile since I lived in Texas, but I used to live near the Hulen Mall in Ft. Worth and rarely had trouble getting ..... KPXI 100.7 (had a stronger signal 15 years ago ....
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Sorry if this is a bit off topic.

I miss KPXI 100.7 when I'm in NE Texas. I never heard it in DFW. It was the Mt. Pleasant, TX FM for decades. Sort of a (ex KDNT people will know this term) "modified Top 40" , maybe a bit more A/C. It went away a number of years ago to make way for WORD 100.7 rimshot to DFW. MT. Pleasant FM is now on 95.9 & 96.9. Same thing on both frequencies but off by a few seconds for some reason.
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I remember them!! "Rockin' on the X" was their catch-phrase. I used to have one of their bumper stickers.
 
Those are two fairly common catches, but I always find it fun to DX something like that. :)
Most common for me would be KKAJ 95.7 from Ardmore. (done this a lot lately because one of our favorite Christmas light displays also played music on this channel so you could watch the show and listen in your car) 99.9 WACO is another one, but I also run across a lot of translator activity on that frequency now around the DFW area making it a less common catch.
 
I still have one of those X-100 stickers and unless I tossed/erased them, a couple of unscoped cassettes in my collection. X-100 had a unique blend of CHR (no teen pop, dance or rap), Alternative (no Grunge) and some upbeat Adult Contemporary.

The original KPXI had an awesome Class C 100K signal. It may have been the best in East Texas. Too bad after Salem purchased KPXI to move KWRD 100.7 into DFW, they downgraded it to 8100 watts and moved it to Overton.
 
Yep. KPXI was a good one. When did they go to "X100" as a moniker ? In the 70's it was just KPXI & played a good mix of A/C & Top 40. Sounded like it was automated most of the time. But had TSN News at 55 past each hour & someone from the AM side (KIMP) would break in with weather bulletins when needed.
 
dfaulkner said:
Yep. KPXI was a good one. When did they go to "X100" as a moniker ? In the 70's it was just KPXI & played a good mix of A/C & Top 40. Sounded like it was automated most of the time. But had TSN News at 55 past each hour & someone from the AM side (KIMP) would break in with weather bulletins when needed.
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From what I heard X-100 started around 1986-7 with a few DJ's who were from from KKTX 96-X then in Kilgore. X100 lasted about 1991-2 when it became country "K-101". That didn't make a lot of sense to me, most car stereos had digital tuners by then. Before the filp they experimented with adding more R&B and hard rock.
 
Makes sense. I wasn't out there much in the 80's. Heard thru family that it went away & that they had 95.9 & 96.9 in it's place sometime in the 90's.
 
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