DX report - Saturday, 7/23

[n8fnr]

I got WFMT, 91.3 from Chicago at 00:06 7/23.

Also got WVPE, 88.1 Elkhart, IN in HDRadio at 00:07 7/23

Using a 5 element modified Stellar FM beam and a Sony XDR-F1HD receiver.

[radioandtventhusiast]

I didn't do a real scan early this morning, but I was able to pick up 106.1 from Mansfield from my home in Toledo. I've been able to pick them up before during tropo sessions. They were playing a rather large library of 80's and 90's songs,

[k8jd]

About WDKL, I still see the old WBRB site tower is still there at 14 MIle and Gratiot. Did WDKL abandon that facility ?
I know a lot of stations moved to the new WWJ / now CBS's Ch 62 site behind the O L D WWJ
AM site on 8 mile road. Hard to keep track where everyone is transmitting from

[k8jd]

There is no station using 91.3 MHz in Chicago. WFMT broadcasts at 98.7 MHz.

Did you mean 91.5 WBEZ?

If you picked up NPR programming at 91.3 MHz, you probably heard WGTE Toledo.

Some years ago I was able to hear WMBI in Chicago on 90.1 ! Now too many local (Detroit/Windsor) signals to do any FM DX listening.

[Colonel Flagg]

About WDKL, I still see the old WBRB site tower is still there at 14 MIle and Gratiot. Did WDKL abandon that facility ?

I believe they sold the site to American Tower. Last time I passed by, the tower looked bare. I wonder if the environmental issues were ever solved? As I recall, it was a former dump (Pitko Landfill) and benzine was detected on the property. There was a major dust-up between Ragan Henry, and Inner City Broadcasting about that, many years ago.