VHF Broadcast Band Frequency of the Week - 96.1 MHz

[Darth_vader]

What can you intercept on 96.1 MHz?

In my area it's KXXO all the way. Really staticky on my Yacht Boy 400PE and the Super Radio III, but (predictably) crysal clear on the XDR-F1HDs. Almost sounds local considering it's about 75 miles away!

But that's not what I am hearing right now. In Spokane, KXXO is being jammed out of this market by the "local" country station KIXZ (the Cascades sitting right in the way really don't help, either.)

 

[ddsparxx]

In northern VA,

Just IBOC hiss from DC's WHUR 96.3. WHUR was, I believe, the first DC area's station to turn on the IBOC.

 

[spunker88]

In Carthage-Watertown, NY its usually a mix of two weak signals. WVLF from Norwood, NY and WODZ from Utica, NY.

This is a good ES channel, I have recieved WRXK from Bonita Springs, FL and WJMC from Rice Lake, WI last year.

 

[vibe]

Re: VHF Broadcast Band Frequency of the Week - 96.1 MHz

Here in central mass a srong 96.1 WSRS Worc MA broadcasting from a hill/tower W of Worc (Paxton, MA). Supposedly one of the best sites for FM broadcasting at least in New England. Station gets out well and can be heard up to 70 mi out, sometimes way beyond the RL contours.
Not my kind of music-sometimes a good song-not one of my presets.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Western parts of the area have no problem with WKFM/96.1 "K96" Huron OH, the country powerhouse in the Sandusky region. It's heard pretty easily in Cleveland's western suburbs.

 

[dx1ng]

This one is pretty easy... on 96.1 we have WPKF Poughkeepsie, my closest/strongest local. Nothing else has been received on this frequency since I started my log in 2003. I do seem to recall that in the early 90's before the local 96.1 signed on, WLEV-Allentown, Pa was quite regularly receivable here. Way back when I lived in Southwestern Connecticut, WSRS Worcester was quite common with any tropo.

 

[dave73]

Unless I can DX WLKG Lake Geneva Wisconsin, then it gets hammered by Chicago's WBBM-FM on 96.3. I haven't gotten any other 96.1's, & not sure of any other nearby ones.

 

[crainbebo]

Darthvader, can you do a Spokane FM bandscan? Which radio did you bring?

-crainbebo

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Here in Vermilion, it is a solid signal of the aforementioned WKFM/Huron, OH. Before WKFM signed on the air, it wasn't uncommon for me to be able to pick up what was then 'Variety 96' from Pittsburgh (Now Kiss FM) with a directional attic antenna pointed east. When tropo is really strong, WHNN/Bay City, MI can be heard under WKFM.

 

[Darth_vader]

"Which radio did you bring?"

The crappy one built-in to my pocket CD player. It only seems to pull in KPBX, KIKZ and KEEH, but is deaf to pretty much everything else. I have an XDR-F1HD installed in the truck but I'm not doing a bandscan out there! It's way too cold.

Had I not been told to come out here at less than a moment's notice (it's another business trip) I would have grabbed my other F1HD and my SCA rig. I'm sitting right in the middle of Evergreen radio Reading Service turf, with no way to listen.....

 

[fybush]

At home in Rochester, it's Buffalo's WJYE, unless it's buried by IBOC from 96.5 WCMF.

Here in Daytona Beach where I'm parked tonight, it's WEJZ from Jacksonville, up the coast...

 

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI-

96.1 is a MESS! Three stations will come in on any given day. WMAX- Holland, MI, WHNN- Bay City, MI and WMTR- Archbold, OH.

WQLK- Richmond, IN will also come in during strong Indiana tropo, but is not as common as the above three.

 

[RadioDaze]

In Durham, North Carolina, it's Raleigh-licensed WBBB (96 Rock) on that frequency, though I did log Shelby,North Carolina's WIBT on one occassion here.

 

[radioman148]

25 miles north of Chicago it's lots of splatter from WBBM-FM

 

[BRNout]

25 miles north of Chicago it's lots of splatter from WBBM-FM

And, a little farther up, 40 mi NNW of Chicago the formerly moderate signal of WLKG Lake Geneva, WI is now very degraded by IBOC hash from WBBM-FM's increased-power IBOC jammer. I can still pick it up with a good radio - but with a lot of static and hash mixed in.

On that note, the hash sometimes upsets my reception of Milwaukee's WKLH (96.5) - but this depends on where I am in/around the house. In most spots, 'KLH is strong enough to blast through the crap. However, the hash is enough to ruin reception of WKLH in the car until I get a little farther north.

Before CBS cranked up the juice on their IBOC hashmaker for 96.3, in-car reception of both WLKG and WKLH was acceptable. Now it's a mess. Thanks CBS!

 

[charlestondxman]

96.1 used to be a 100,000 watt flamethrower, WAVF, which brought a signal easily heard 80 miles every day. They moved to 101.7 though, and now it's mostly interference from the new FM at 95.9.

During summer, Jacksonville cuts through the noise though, and I've also picked up The Beat several times.

96.1 from Shelby and Charleston used to mix as far away as Columbia, but now The Beat comes in there.

 

[mc_billy_bob]

In Greenville, PA, usually hash from WAKZ 95.9/Sharpsville, but a lot of times in the morning I will get WKST 96.1/ Pittsburgh, but it's very rare.

 

[kenrayc]

From Fresno/Clovis CA KSLK from Visalia and KSLY from San Luis Obispo.

 

[purpledevil]

In Houston, it is a grab bag of possibilities. The most common at this frequency is "Aggie 96" KAGG-Madisonville, Tx. featuring a country format. Another regular find is KYKZ-Lake Charles, La. also country as "Kicks 96". I have caught and logged the new KIOX-Edna, Tx. "Country Legends 96.1 KIOX", and Top 40 "Mix 96.1" KXXM-San Antonio.

 

[RyanHoward]

Here in Warminster PA, it's usually WCTO(Cat Country, the former WLEV) from the Lehigh Valley.
Sometimes, WTTH(96.1 the Touch) from Atlantic City NJ would come in over WCTO.