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        <title>The FRN Vines - FM Logs</title>
        <description>Loggings of unusual transmissions in the FM broadcast band, 88.7 to 107.9 MHz.</description>
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            <title>Mystery WQMS 95.7FM, 0615 UTC, bowling over local translator. (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11462,11462#msg-11462</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I was going to fall asleep to C2C AM, on the WVTS FM translator, on 95.7FM, but it was totally bowled-over by a Classic Rock station around 1:15AM EST. YL announcer talking over the beginning of the start of some tracks, so it didn't seem that she was voice tracked, but live-on-air. I clearly hear the call WQMS, but did not get a legal ID. Doing a search for WQMS, on [<a href="https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?freq=95.7&amp;sort=Call&amp;count=100&amp;sr=1&amp;band=FM&amp;is_fx=Y&amp;prev=200"  rel="nofollow">radio-locator.com</a>]  yield nothing plausible. So, maybe a very recent format change? Strange, but Eastern USA Tropo, due to the heatwave, was certainly going on.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ThaDood</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:18:15 -0400</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11213,11213#msg-11213</guid>
            <title>KKOK 95.7FM, MN, 7/4/2025, 1300 UTC, Sporadic &quot;E&quot;. (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11213,11213#msg-11213</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Woke up to country tunage on WVTS's translator FM FREQ 95.7FM. Even heard the full ID / Promos / Liners at 9AM WV EST time to hear it was KKOK, a 100kW blow torch.  [<a href="https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&amp;s=C&amp;call=kkok&amp;nav=home"  rel="nofollow">radio-locator.com</a>]  And, this was on that little Yorek YK-901 DSP portable, connected to a VHF High Band Delta Loop. Sure enough, CB was nuts and 6M FM 52.525MHz Simplex was full of CQ-CQ's. So, quite a &quot;E&quot; opening indeed, and totally over took that WVTS translator for minutes at a time. NICE!!!! BTW, the Delta Loop is the VHF version of this,  [<a href="https://archive.org/details/pren2mdvuhfindoortvantennaandtestpdf/6342862%2C%20Pamphlet%2011-2014%2C%20hi%20res/"  rel="nofollow">archive.org</a>]   Being, the VHF High Version, centered for 200MHz, no real gain for the FM BC Band, but it still is very bi-directional, and is in a North / South facing on the wall.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ThaDood</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:03:25 -0400</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,10945,10945#msg-10945</guid>
            <title>Nice &quot;E&quot; opening bowling over WCST 98.7FM, by Charleston, WV. (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,10945,10945#msg-10945</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ At work, I was setting up a used VIBE Camper for resale, and this unit, from 2018, it had a Weingard Rotatable TV / FM antenna, and was able to hear WCST on the camper stereo. [<a href="https://radio-locator.com/info/WCST-FM?loc=38.48830%2C-81.80511&amp;locn=25159%20%28Poca%2C%20WV%29"  rel="nofollow">radio-locator.com</a>]  Yeah, less than 1kW, at 15 miles from the TX site. Around 10AM EST, (14:00UTC, I believe.), that station was getting trounced by several stations just popping in and out quickly. No DX ID's, but I heard Arkansas mentioned on one station. By 10:40AM, it was just back to hearing only WCST again. Well, always neat to hear FM DX at work.  BTW, those Disc-like, King TV antennas, that newer campers seem to come with? Those totally are 100% garbage!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ThaDood</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:45:30 -0400</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9790,9790#msg-9790</guid>
            <title>Possible Franken-FM Pirate, 87.7MHz? (1 reply)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9790,9790#msg-9790</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ 2/10/2022, 9:20PM EST, commuting from one job location to another and put the truck stereo on 87.9FM for possible pirates and Part #15'ers on satellite radio. Exiting from an industrial park, I was hearing co-channel bleed-over. It wasn't 88.1FM, but 87.7FM, to my surprise! (Possible Franken-FM on TV audio CH6, 87.750MHz? There were clues to tell me. Audio wasn't loud, but maybe 1/2-level of commercial FM, and MONO. Audio didn't sound compressed, but did sound limited, and no gain to quiet passages, like TV. Good, strong, full-quieting, signal that was heard for over 2 miles, when I rounded the valley side that I was traveling on. Unfamiliar with artist aired, but what sounded like a mix of modern rock with soul thrown in. After +2 miles, the signal went from full-quieting to faded gone within a few hundred feet of rounding a valley side. Signal, never recovered after that. This isn't the 1st suspected Franken-FM that I've heard traveling. The last time was in Western New York, almost 20 years ago, traveling through the Allegany Indian Reservation, jamming classic rock on 87.7FM. Heard that one for almost 10 miles, further than I've heard known analog CH6 TV LPTV and translators. Anyway, I thought that it was a neat catch, just wish that I had time to check it out more.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ThaDood</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:57:42 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9654,9654#msg-9654</guid>
            <title>87.9FM, 12/16/2021, 0230 UTC, weak, mono. (1 reply)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9654,9654#msg-9654</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Sometimes I'll set the truck stereo on 87.9FM to see what comes up on the work commute. This time, a weak, mono station playing a Gorillaz tune that came IN / OUT for 2 miles. No ID. And, it wasn't bleed-through from 88.1FM's LPFM station locally. Usually, I hear other drivers on 87.9FM airing MP3's, or satellite radio, but they are true Part  #15 at just a few hundred feet. This covered miles. Station was gone by 06:30UTC, when I checked, later.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ThaDood</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:37:56 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9612,9612#msg-9612</guid>
            <title>FM 90.3 Jukebox station, Frederick, Maryland 11/26/21 (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9612,9612#msg-9612</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ 11/26, 1756, 90.3fm, long-running Frederick MD pirate playing a Chickenman short, followed by a canned station ID, &quot;Great Gold Radio&quot;, and into more classic hits by Frankie Vallie and Peter Frampton. First time I've ever heard anything close to an ID on this station after years of monitoring.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>cosmikdebris</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:09:31 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>WMTO-LD 87.7 Norfolk VA (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9419,9419#msg-9419</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ 9/23, 1535, 87.7fm. Rap music heard on this channel in the higher elevations of northern Montgomery County. A more detailed search based on the &quot;Streetz 87-7 102-1&quot; ID heard on September 13 reveals that this is most likely WMTO-LD Norfolk VA, a low power TV station, which was recently granted a special temporary authority to operate an &quot;ancillary or supplementary service within the Station's assigned digital channel frequencies&quot;. WMTO-LD is licensed for 3 KW on TV channel 6. The application also says that they're running the ATSC 3.0 standard for their television service. The STA expires in January 2022. (Links to the FCC applications and data via rabbitears.info.)<br />
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<a href="https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&amp;appKey=25076ff37a831161017a8d3902691c50&amp;id=25076ff37a831161017a8d3902691c50&amp;goBack=N"  rel="nofollow">LPTV Engineering STA Application for WMTO-LD</a>]]></description>
            <dc:creator>cosmikdebris</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:50:51 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>FM 90.3 Jukebox station, Frederick, Maryland 6/17/21, 1-2PM (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9092,9092#msg-9092</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ 6/17, 1700-1800, 90.3fm. Jukebox pirate station in southern Frederick/Urbana, Maryland area, playing a mix of classic hits including Billy Crash Craddock, Rub It In; Rolling Stones, Miss You; DeFranco Family, Heartbeat It's a Love Beat; England Dan and John Ford Coley, I'd Really Love To See You Tonight; Pointer Sisters, Jump For My Love; Staple Singers, If You're Ready (Come Go With Me); Todd Rundgren, Hello It's Me, and more. Full quieting between songs. Same signal map as heard before, faded in around three miles north of I-70 and faded out at MD 85/355 in Urbana, about 10-12 miles straight line. Fair to good signal overall, except in the low area near the Monacacy River.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>cosmikdebris</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:44:55 -0400</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9024,9024#msg-9024</guid>
            <title>FM 90.3 Jukebox station, Frederick, Maryland 5/19/21, 2-3PM (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9024,9024#msg-9024</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ 5/19, 1800-1900, 90.3fm. The long running classic pop music station is still active in southern Frederick, Maryland, with the strongest signal in the Ballanger Creek/Buckeystown Pike area. Signal faded out traveling south on Maryland 355 towards Urbana, but appeared again south and east or Urbana, around 8-10 miles from the Ballanger Creek area. I noticed this before and thought that this might be two stations, but now I think it's the same pirate, as the signal peaked around the &quot;Urbana Highlands&quot; development. The station runs a jukebox of classic hits from the 1960s to the present with full quieting between songs. Today's fare featured My Maria by Brooks and Dunn, Spill the Wine by War, Love Machine by The Miracles, and a wide variety of music. Signal variable, fair to very good.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>cosmikdebris</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 10:57:18 -0400</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8696#msg-8696</guid>
            <title>X-mas Part #15 TX still on-air, sort of... Mobile FM's? (3 replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8696#msg-8696</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ That dude a mile up the road from me, whom goes balls-out for X-mas yard lights, still has his Part #15 X-mas tunage station on-air at 101.3FM, even well after X-mas. This week though, station still on-air, but all dead-air. Huh... And, try this... Drive around with your car stereo on 87.9FM, and you may hear several stations come-in with various formats. That will happen if you are bored at a supermarket parking lot. Folks will be driving around, RX'ing XM / Sirius satellite radio, and dumping audio to a mini FM Part #15 TX. You may hear 3, or more, stations coming in and out just parked and listening to a normally empty 87.9FM FREQ.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ThaDood</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:13:51 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8694,8694#msg-8694</guid>
            <title>FM 90.3 Jukebox station, Frederick, Maryland 1/21/2021, 3PM (no replies)</title>
            <link>http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8694,8694#msg-8694</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ 1/21, 3PM local time, FM 90.3. The long running jukebox pirate in south Frederick, Maryland, is still going. They have a deep playlist that varies from Fleetwood Mac pop/rock songs from the 1980s all the way back to mid-1960s sugar pop. Full quieting between songs. Fair signal in a three to file mile area centered around the Ballenger Creek area.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>cosmikdebris</dc:creator>
            <category>FM Logs</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:38:42 -0500</pubDate>
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