What do you think you could get if you were...

[gr8oldies]

I'd think WNND, Pickerington (Columbus) would have a shot in the Mansfield area.

 

[ftballfan]

I drive through there several times a year on the way to Indiana (ever since US 30 got upgraded to freeway between I-71 and I-75 it's become a great and little-known alternative to the Oh Tpk), and the answer is "not much." Burgettsville PA (which is really Steubenville) pops in, as does WMUZ from Detroit, but otherwise it's just a typically open channel of the kind that doesn't exist much in urban areas. It's just a smidge too close to WCKY-FM on 103.7 to be a useful translator channel in Ontario/Mansfield.

I was there last month and I was able to get a very weak WMUZ. I would guess with a good setup, WNND, WLYI, and WGRR would have a shot. I agree with you on US 30 being a nice alternative (I went to Ashland for a basketball tournament and 75 -> 15/23 -> 30 -> 71 is much better than Turnpike -> 250)

New one:

100.5 MHz at Sleeping Bear Dunes, near Empire, MI

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Here's another "retro" one:

94.9 in Mexico, Missouri BEFORE two LPFMs in nearby cities signed on since at least 2003 (KSDC-LP Centralia, MO and KWWU-LP Fulton, MO).

This is about 35 miles northeast of Columbia, MO.

 

[MarioMania]

Again

What people get on 103.5 in Sacramento in 1995

 

[ftballfan]

Retro 94.9 in Mexico, MO: KCMO Shawnee, KS; KGGO Des Moines, IA; WAAG Galesburg, IL
Retro 103.5 in Sacramento: KHSL Paradise, CA; KRAY Salinas, CA
100.5 in Empire, MI: WDTX Rothschild, WI

 

[ftballfan]

New one: 104.1 MHz in Irons, MI (approximately 25 miles west of Cadillac)

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Retro 94.9 in Mexico, MO: KCMO Shawnee, KS; KGGO Des Moines, IA; WAAG Galesburg, IL

Doesn't surprise me on WAAG's reception in Mexico, MO--I have heard it back in the day as far southwest as Hannibal. IMO if Western Illinois was in Zone II rather than in I, WAAG would have likely been a strong candidate for a Class C 100,000 watter--a la Mexico's blowtorch at 95.7 (KWWR). Both WAAG and KWWR great legendary country stations--and back in the day would have been nearly 24/7 regulars for reception anywhere between Macomb and Quincy, IL.

Meanwhile, retro 95.7 in Galesburg (which now has an LP on that frequency): Most often KWWR, with rare appearances by another country station, WCRC Effingham, IL. (That's status quo for 95.7 in the Springfield, IL area--the battle between KWWR and WCRC for country reception supremacy).

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WLW-D was not the only Midwestern station on Channel 2 that used a hyphen in their call letters during its history. WTWO Terre Haute, prior to about the early 1990s, frequently identified as "W-TWO." Including on their news, station IDs, and in TV Guide listings.

Interesting about W-TWO. As you undoubtedly know, the WLW part stood for parent WLW radio (several shows were simulcast there and on the TV network) and WLW-T, Cincinnati, WLW-C, Columbus, WLW-D, Dayton, WLW-I, Indianapolis and WLW-A, Atlanta.

The same FCC decision which moved the Channel 2 allocation 95 miles southwest from Springfield, IL to St. Louis (where KTVI moved to) also was able to shoehorn another channel 2 for Terre Haute, which signed on as WTWO (or W-TWO) in 1965. And thus a lot of interference on Channel 2 anywhere between about Vandalia and Effingham, IL, which traditionally has been a fringe OTA reception area for all stations in general.

 

[schmave]

I'd think WNND, Pickerington (Columbus) would have a shot in the Mansfield area.

It might, but I wouldn't count on it with just 4,200 watts and plenty of hilly terrain between Mansfield and 103.5's tower just off I-70 east of Columbus (for anyone who might find themselves driving that way, it's right around mile marker 115). Their signal really starts to fall off north of Mount Vernon and even struggles in the hilly terrain of northern Licking County, the same county in which its tower is located. It's good for maybe 35-40 miles to the east and north, and a little farther than that to the south and west.

 

[Signal]

The same FCC decision which moved the Channel 2 allocation 95 miles southwest from Springfield, IL to St. Louis (where KTVI moved to) also was able to shoehorn another channel 2 for Terre Haute, which signed on as WTWO (or W-TWO) in 1965. And thus a lot of interference on Channel 2 anywhere between about Vandalia and Effingham, IL, which traditionally has been a fringe OTA reception area for all stations in general.

Anywhere from Vandalia, IL to Effingham, IL seems to be where STL FM signals die out. I seem to remember KSHE holding out all the way to Effingham before finally dying out.

 

[bobdavcav]

I was just up here last weekend, but didn't take a radio of my own and we shut the car radio off when signals just kind of died before we even got to Crystal Mountain, but what do you think you could get on any frequency at the Sunrise visitors center on Mount Rainier?