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VHF Broadcast Band Frequency of the Week - 107.9 MHz

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Darth_vader

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Going out to the far end of the band.....

Out here it's sometimes (usually) the religious station KHPE out of Corvallis. Nice 90-mile jaunt down I-5. Up until a few years ago KHPE's payload also had a fairly DXable Spanish 67kHz SCA, but I think they may have taken that off.

So, what do you hear way up there?
 
Darth_vader said:
Going out to the far end of the band.....

Out here it's sometimes (usually) the religious station KHPE out of Corvallis. Nice 90-mile jaunt down I-5. Up until a few years ago KHPE's payload also had a fairly DXable Spanish 67kHz SCA, but I think they may have taken that off.

So, what do you hear way up there?
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In the Chicago area it's WLEY in Aurora, Il
 
From Coldwater, MI

Not much here due to splatter from WRKR (107.7), a 50kw station 21 miles away from me.

The frequency is not completely washed out though. I can get on a semi-regular basis
WJFX- New Haven, IN- Rhythmic CHR (Hot 107-9)
WCRZ- Flint, MI- AC (Cars 108)
WMUS- Muskegon, MI- Country (107 WMUS)
WLEY- Aurora, IL- Spanish (La Ley)
WNTR- Indianapolis, IN- (The Track)

And sometimes heard, maybe once or twice a year..
WVAC- Adrian, MI- 87 watts, 48 miles away
W300AL- Mishawaka, IN- 10 watts, 66 miles
 
In Durham, North Carolina, 107.9 is usually local translator W300AR, which rebroadcasts WRTP 88.5 in Franklinton, NC, Greenville, NC's "Oldies 107.9" WNCT-FM or Raleigh's WVDJ-LP "Pulse 107.9". W300AR and WVDJ-LP depend largely upon what side of town you're in. We also occassionally receive Charlotte's WLNK "107.9 The Link" and "108 WYYD" from Amherst, Va.
 
In Houston, semi-local Regional Mexican KQQK-Beaumont "El Norte" is the dominant station at 107.9. We used to have KIXS-Victoria "Kicks 108" visit us from time to time, but since they went to the shorter stick they've been a no-show in SE Texas.
 
In Manassas, VA, it's usually semilocal WFSI in Annapolis, MD about 50 miles east of me. It is a non-commercial religious station with inspirational music and preachings. It was clear as a bell on my Sony XDR-F1HD; when WWWT 107.7 in Warrenton, VA about 10 sw of me turned on its IBOC, WFSI isn't heard as well unless I position the dipole antenna in the way to get it well. (No, I don't really listen to WFSI.)

WKDN in Philly, WFME in NY, and a big translator near Roseburg, OR relay the religious programming.
 
from Nashville: WCVQ Ft Campbell, KY (Clarksville, TN) signal is fair in Nashville in-car,
pretty much invisible otherwise.
 
In Carthage-Watertown, NY I usaully get WWHT Hot 107.9 from Syracuse, NY with a fair signal.

During good tropo conditions I can get interference from CHUC from Cobourg, ON. And during a great ES opening last June to Nebraska I managed to log KTIC 107.9 The Bull from West Point, NE.
 
Vermilion, OH

107.9 is WENZ/Cleveland 'Z107.9' Their transmitter tower is actually in Geagua County. Not sure why their tower isn't with most of the other Cleveland FMs in Parma/Seven Hills. Does anyone know if it is to protect WXXF/Loudonville on 107.7?
 
In Greenville, PA..it's WENZ 107.9 Z 107.9 Cleveland, the whole Geauga County thing would explain why we get it so strong out here.
 
From St. Petersburg,FL I receive Oldies 108 at 107.9; they are a semi-local; reception is always good outdoors and in a car and inside it is strong on a good radio. Oldies 108 is WSRZ licensed to Coral Cove,FL with antenna in Nokomis (about 13 or 14 miles south of Sarasota and just north of Venice,FL)

Sometime, if the tropo conditions are right, WIRK out of West Palm will over-ride or try to over-ride WSRZ. WIRK is a country format.

drt,
st. petersburg
 
107.9 in Phoenix is "Camel Country" KMLE. It has a great sound but unfortunately plays Country music. And yes, there is a link to "camel" and Arizona. Google "Hi Jolly" for an interesting history.
 
From Rochester, it's mostly WWHT in Syracuse, 70 miles east of here. (I can even lock it in HD most of the time.) Turning the antenna north instead of east, CHUC in Cobourg, Ontario often comes in as well.
 
One fine afternoon last July, Drt, I was driving around a hill between Ashland and Shenandoah PA, listening to 'Oldies 108'. The mentions of Route 41 didn't register right away until the announcement came that it was a car dealer -- one office in Bradenton and the other in Sarasota.

The car radio was the usual, extraordinarily engineered FM car radio installed in every high-end 1992 four-cylinder Topaz. I'd've thought it was a real gold-medal catch, but someone in Poughkeepsie NY also heard them that same afternoon. I got trumped by about 150 miles.

In the waning E-skip ... somehow you can always tell by some seventh sense when it's still active .... I did get Spanish on 107.9 after WSRZ left. There was a Spanish station in Key West listed in Radio-Locator, but, alas, no ID.

Normal 107.9 reception here normally involves a station from near Williamsport PA and some occasional splash from downstate 107.7's WGTY Country.
 
StveGreenPA said:
One fine afternoon last July, Drt, I was driving around a hill between Ashland and Shenandoah PA, listening to 'Oldies 108'. The mentions of Route 41 didn't register right away until the announcement came that it was a car dealer -- one office in Bradenton and the other in Sarasota.

The car radio was the usual, extraordinarily engineered FM car radio installed in every high-end 1992 four-cylinder Topaz. I'd've thought it was a real gold-medal catch, but someone in Poughkeepsie NY also heard them that same afternoon. I got trumped by about 150 miles.

In the waning E-skip ... somehow you can always tell by some seventh sense when it's still active .... I did get Spanish on 107.9 after WSRZ left. There was a Spanish station in Key West listed in Radio-Locator, but, alas, no ID.

Normal 107.9 reception here normally involves a station from near Williamsport PA and some occasional splash from downstate 107.7's WGTY Country.
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Wow StveGreenPA, that was quite a catch; if not the Gold Medal, you certainly should get the Silver Medal! As a bit of local color and history; U.S. 41 from just south of Tampa to just west of Miami is AKA the Tamiami Trail; of course this was built long before the interestate system.

I've been listening to Oldies 108 on and off since they were Oldies 106 at 106.3 with just 3000 watts and a 300 foot antenna height.

drt,
st. petersburg
 
107.9 is local for me in Clovis, its KLLE from Fresno, 33 miles away, transmitter located in the Sierra -Nevada Mountains near Oakhurst at 5060 ft Above sealevel, HAAT 2200 ft with 1750 watts, before they went on the air a few years back it was quite common to get KUZZ from Bakersfield 115 miles away which I have occasionally pulled in since then,also have picked up The End KNDN in Sacramento.
 
Nothing but KNDD 107.7 splatter here. In Yakima I get K300AP Sunnyside, WA (K-LOVE).

-crainbebo
 
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