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DX/Retro: While living in Pacifica, Sideband Splatter from 107.7 San Francisco
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DX/Retro: While living in Pacifica, Sideband Splatter from 107.7 San Francisco
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FM Frequency of the Week: 107.9
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Tyler TX:
This really depends. Mostly a weak signal from KTLH Hallsville, which is the eastern side of the two part simulcast of local Regional Mexican "La Invasora". However, KDXX Lewisville, a Spanish CHR from DFW, is often heard here especially in the morning hours. Have also picked up KQQK Beaumont, a different Regional Mexican from east of Houston, called "El Norte".
This really depends. Mostly a weak signal from KTLH Hallsville, which is the eastern side of the two part simulcast of local Regional Mexican "La Invasora". However, KDXX Lewisville, a Spanish CHR from DFW, is often heard here especially in the morning hours. Have also picked up KQQK Beaumont, a different Regional Mexican from east of Houston, called "El Norte".
W300DL - Melbourne FL - 1560 - The Fan CBS Sports Radio // WLZR 1560 (about 3 miles away)
WEAT-FM - West Palm Beach FL - Sunny 107-9 - Greatetst hits of 70s, 80s, 90s - can sometimes override it
(@120 miles south of Melbourne)
kw - Melbourne FL
WEAT-FM - West Palm Beach FL - Sunny 107-9 - Greatetst hits of 70s, 80s, 90s - can sometimes override it
(@120 miles south of Melbourne)
kw - Melbourne FL
Wilmington Delaware
Semi-Local WPPZ Philadelphia with R&B Oldies and a fair-good signal. It is a Class A with only 780 watts so I'm on the fringe of the signal but I manage to get an HD signal now and then. A much stronger station is to my SW - WLZL in College Park MD with Hispanic programming and it makes regular appearances when conditions are right especially overnight.
Semi-Local WPPZ Philadelphia with R&B Oldies and a fair-good signal. It is a Class A with only 780 watts so I'm on the fringe of the signal but I manage to get an HD signal now and then. A much stronger station is to my SW - WLZL in College Park MD with Hispanic programming and it makes regular appearances when conditions are right especially overnight.
Hartland, VT:
WVPS Burlington. Public radio from a long way off -- 48,000 watts at over 2,500 feet helps!
Meriden, CT:
WEBE Westport. Adult contemporary format.
WVPS Burlington. Public radio from a long way off -- 48,000 watts at over 2,500 feet helps!
Meriden, CT:
WEBE Westport. Adult contemporary format.
Denver - K300CP, the half-million-dollar translator rebroadcasting KBPI Fort Collins (on the same channel) via 95.7 KDHT-HD2.
Retro - In the early 1980s, I made several trips to Albuquerque. At the time, the Albuquerque FM dial was well populated up through 100.3. And then...nothing...until KFMG at the very top of the dial at 107.9. KFMG is now KBQI, "The Big I", referring to the gigantic interchange of Interstates 25 and 40 in the middle of Albuquerque.
More retro - In 1997, a Kansas City man, Michael Calderón, began a pirate Spanish-language station that he called "KCMG" at 107.9, which was Kansas City's first full-time Spanish-language station. Calderón was open about what he was doing, as attested in numerous Kansas City Star articles that year. The FCC seized his equipment and shut the station down in November, after receiving complaints from 107.3 KCCX. Two months before, I visited Kansas City and airchecked the station. That's one of the more interesting tapes in my collection, I think!
Retro - In the early 1980s, I made several trips to Albuquerque. At the time, the Albuquerque FM dial was well populated up through 100.3. And then...nothing...until KFMG at the very top of the dial at 107.9. KFMG is now KBQI, "The Big I", referring to the gigantic interchange of Interstates 25 and 40 in the middle of Albuquerque.
More retro - In 1997, a Kansas City man, Michael Calderón, began a pirate Spanish-language station that he called "KCMG" at 107.9, which was Kansas City's first full-time Spanish-language station. Calderón was open about what he was doing, as attested in numerous Kansas City Star articles that year. The FCC seized his equipment and shut the station down in November, after receiving complaints from 107.3 KCCX. Two months before, I visited Kansas City and airchecked the station. That's one of the more interesting tapes in my collection, I think!
East Tennessee: It's difficult to pick anything up with powerhouse WIVK next door.
Retro/other: Dayton OH area, another powerhouse, WMMX, but I managed religious WEMM, Huntington WV. The last breath of WVMX, Westerville OH can make it to Springfield. Then there's WNTR, Indianapolis. West Central Ohio home: WJFX Fort Wayne or previously mentioned WNTR.
Retro/other: Dayton OH area, another powerhouse, WMMX, but I managed religious WEMM, Huntington WV. The last breath of WVMX, Westerville OH can make it to Springfield. Then there's WNTR, Indianapolis. West Central Ohio home: WJFX Fort Wayne or previously mentioned WNTR.
Kiss 107.9 is owned by IHeartMedia which plays mostly 90's/2K music but also plays some 2010's hits and currents.
Clifton, New Jersey
I receive WEBE "WEBE 108" Westport, CT on a regular basis. I can also get its HD signal in spots depending on propagation. I have also received WCFT-LP "Crossway Radio" Dover, NJ before, but WEBE usually blocks it out.
DX/Flashback: On 5/31/2023, I received WXKS-FM "Kiss 108" Medford, MA during tropo. On 6/22/2023, I received WSRZ-FM "107.9 WSRZ" Coral Cove, FL during e-skip. It's a hard frequency to DX because of WEBE.
I receive WEBE "WEBE 108" Westport, CT on a regular basis. I can also get its HD signal in spots depending on propagation. I have also received WCFT-LP "Crossway Radio" Dover, NJ before, but WEBE usually blocks it out.
DX/Flashback: On 5/31/2023, I received WXKS-FM "Kiss 108" Medford, MA during tropo. On 6/22/2023, I received WSRZ-FM "107.9 WSRZ" Coral Cove, FL during e-skip. It's a hard frequency to DX because of WEBE.
In Wilkes-Barre, PA(Northeast PA), it's mostly bleedover from 107.7 WLGD. However, I can get the translator located in Carbondale on my SPARX HD radio with some intereference. This translator is rebroadcasting Oldies 1400 WICK from Scranton(which used to have an AM Simulcaster in W-B over at 1340 when they were easy listening, first incarnation of oldies, and FOX Sports Radio). On other radios, it is impossible.
On other occassions, during tropo, I could sometimes pull in WOTH from Williamsport.
On other occassions, during tropo, I could sometimes pull in WOTH from Williamsport.
Although I've only casually dabbled in FM DX and am nowhere near the FM specialists you folks are, I have spent a lot of time listening to 107.9 out here. Two towns NW of here some buddies had an LPFM on there for a while, and I'd help them out asbestos I could checking their clearer coverage and reach by put-putting around the region off the average radio in a 1992 Topaz. The actual coverage was, of course, nowhere NEAR that Euclidean circle assigned to it on its initial Radio-Locator map. The mountain blockages and lines-of-sight instead made for a corsetted bowtie pattern obediently hugging the arc of the alps. Up and down mountains and through passes of terrain and buttonhook turns (and in between the Harry James and Andrews Sisters songs the station insisted on playing) I did snatch bits of Curtis's Williamsport WOTH , the thing from Tobyhanna near the Poconos, WEBE 108 from CT once, and that Reading PA translator of the 107.5 Boyerstown PA station.
And SMH again on 'terrain' : On my way home after a coverage voyage there was the long Ashland Mountain between the car and the station. Total distance could not have been more than an air mile. But I was getting 'Too Late To Turn Back Now' and other Oldies from a station with ads for places on a HIghway 41. Since I know of know '41' in Pennsylvania, I stayed tuned. Then one ad the station ran gave locations in Bradenton and Sarasota. The Oldies station was WSRZ Sarasota FL. In fact, back at home with the GE SR 2, WSRZ had drifted off and there was a drifty Spanish station. I was thinking 'Key West', because 107.9had only that one listed as SS, but never got an ID.
When my station pals were informed, there were few groans from them. I tried to theorize that, quite often, Tropo amd ESkip can be recirprocal ; that confused people in Bradenton might've been hearing Perry Como and Ethel Merman on 107.9 for a while, but I was just told to go home and leave them alone.
And SMH again on 'terrain' : On my way home after a coverage voyage there was the long Ashland Mountain between the car and the station. Total distance could not have been more than an air mile. But I was getting 'Too Late To Turn Back Now' and other Oldies from a station with ads for places on a HIghway 41. Since I know of know '41' in Pennsylvania, I stayed tuned. Then one ad the station ran gave locations in Bradenton and Sarasota. The Oldies station was WSRZ Sarasota FL. In fact, back at home with the GE SR 2, WSRZ had drifted off and there was a drifty Spanish station. I was thinking 'Key West', because 107.9had only that one listed as SS, but never got an ID.
When my station pals were informed, there were few groans from them. I tried to theorize that, quite often, Tropo amd ESkip can be recirprocal ; that confused people in Bradenton might've been hearing Perry Como and Ethel Merman on 107.9 for a while, but I was just told to go home and leave them alone.
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