FM Frequency of the week - 99.1

[Tincap]

CHRI Ottawa ON is dominate, but Toronto's CBLA does pop in for a visit.

~BG

[borderblaster]

Local WHKO in Dayton, OH. That is all.

the DXFM.com site used to have a very tall antenna on a tower streaming 99.1 (before Lexington got a local on the frequency). In one sitting I had a mix of WHKO, WIAI (or whatever the calls were then) Danville, IL, WSLQ, Roanoke and KFUO, St. Louis

[bgfred]

Believe it or not, I have never heard WSLQ in northern VA despite its huge, monster 150 kW signal, not even in tropo conditions.

Maybe not so surprising - I think - if you consider the topographic orientation of their transmitter site, your location, and the spine of the Blue Ridge Mtns between you and them.  When I lived in that part of the world, I could never carry WSLQ over Afton Mtn going to Charlottesville.  WHFS would start showing up in patches, though, as soon as you topped the ridge eastbound.

[ddsparxx]

That may explain why I don't hear WSLQ.

[danikayser84]

Tropo here, I've picked up WAAL from Binghamton, NY... have also tried for WAWZ/Zarephath and WPLR/New Haven but haven't received either one yet

[borderblaster]

99.1 is one of my locals (WHKO Dayton). The dxfm.com site, based in Lexington used to feed 99.1 from a very high tower on the site before Lexington got a local on 99.1. One session netted me WHKO, WSLQ, Danville IL and KFUO alternating

[cde876]

99.1 WPLR New Haven, CT

[RadioDaze]

Since I posted this, translator station W256AX has moved to 99.3 MHz as W257CS, opening 99.1 back up to (mostly) WZFX, Whiteville, NC.

In Durham, North Carolina, 99.1 FM these days is Morrisville-licensed W256AX, a translator of Franklinton-licensed WRTP 88.5 FM (contemporary Christian-formatted His Radio).  There was once a WRTP translator in Creedmoor on 99.1, W256AH, but I think that is silent now since a city of license move and signal improvements to WRTP made it redundant.  If we hear anything else here on 99.1, it's usually either Whiteville, NC hip hop station WZFX Foxy 99 or Roanoke, VA AC WSLQ Q-99.

Other 99.1's I've logged include:

WVOD, Manteo, NC
KRYS, Corpus Christi, TX
KODA, Houston, TX
KEEZ, Mankato, MN
WIKB, Iron River, MI
WKFX, Rice Lake, WI
KXKC, New Iberia, LA

(any dated call signs reflect the era in which they were logged)

[ddsparxx]

Update from my Feb. 2011 post, the 99.1 in Annapolis, MD is now all news WNEW-FM.

[danikayser84]

99.1 is no longer a good DXing frequency here in Albany... a new translator, W256BU signed on and is running an Urban format as "Hot 99.1"