Forgot to add this, but here in the Greenwood area, 104.1 is a mix of KAFE and ‘GNW’s trslr. As well, Channel Q’s trslr was barely audible in the North, but very clear (even with the southern null) in Cap Hill.
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Seattle Radio Dial (According to the Tacoma News Tribune) in August, 2008
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K277AE was, and still is designed to cover a portion of downtown Seattle that is shadowed by Capitol Hill and the ridge to the South. It has a very tight horizontal directional (yagi) antenna pattern aimed due South. It's located on a building on the corner of 5th and Marion. Coverage is essentially South of Belltown towards SODO.
I tried to include an actual copy of the pattern image, but this site is blocking attaching a 183kB .jpg image file. Time to join at least the 20th Century folks!
Interesting KS, where in Cap Hill were you? I've never known Seattle signals to be so multipathed in that area. I do know that downtown and Sodo have problems, but not nearly as bad as downtown Edmonds. When I was little and couldn't tolerate much in the way of static on the radio at all, there were only a few times I asked to change the station downtown, as then KBSG was our primary. Cougar signals do okay downtown, but have problems around the stadiums. Tiger signals seem to have those problems throughout the area. I always thought that was because of the amount of concrete down there. If you're in a building anywhere downtown with a less than good radio, you can't get anything. When I took my iPod down to the Talking Book and Braille library when I was working there a couple days in 2010, all I could get when I scanned for stations was 95.7 and 103.3. As for KAFE, I'be never gotten the KGNW translator, it's always been KAFE. I can get KRKO's translator at 95.3 which completely overrides CKZZ, but CFMI makes KKXA's 101.1 hard to pull in. Last time I tried 104.9 I couldn't get any of the LPs there. Where I am, 100.3 is now dominated by the KBLE translator, but if I move my antenna just right, I can pick up CKKQ with KBLE underneath.
That's because Cougar is 8 miles closer to Seattle than West Tiger. In high multipath (reflection) areas, the station who has the highest primary field strength typically has better reception. Multipath reception happens when the reflecting/delayed signal field strength is equal or greater than the primary.
Multipath is why a Pike Place Market storefront years ago was playing KGY 'Real Country' on their boombox instead of KMPS or The Wolf. Those steep hills going into Downtown from the Waterfront mess up Tiger and Cougar Mtn stations quite well.
When they flipped to The Sound, they had a nice freeform '70s-'00s mix of music. And now some 7-8 years later, KSWD 'The Sound' is in the top 10 in the Seattle PPMs, beating out KRWM, even slightly, month to month. Programmers here in Yakima are quite backwards on music formats. It's country, or rock, or Spanish, or CHR, or the two classic hits stations. We have NO soft rock station in town. There's no station in town that is designed to play at the office. KARY Cherry FM is about as close as it gets, with their Classic Hits.
When they flipped to The Sound, they had a nice freeform '70s-'00s mix of music. And now some 7-8 years later, KSWD 'The Sound' is in the top 10 in the Seattle PPMs, beating out KRWM, even slightly, month to month. Programmers here in Yakima are quite backwards on music formats. It's country, or rock, or Spanish, or CHR, or the two classic hits stations. We have NO soft rock station in town. There's no station in town that is designed to play at the office. KARY Cherry FM is about as close as it gets, with their Classic Hits.
I was at Cal Anderson.
Did some follow up scans today, including one at Gas Works. Signals came in MUCH better, including ‘ODX and ‘MGP. Still couldn’t get Hollow Earth on 104.9. While the 92.1 West Seattle trslr didn’t come in there, it did come in at Kerry Park just fine (the LPFMs had issues up there as well).
Now t I think about it, there must be a lot of places in Seattle I've never been. Gass Works would be okay, as I'm pretty familiar with that area and haven't heard any problems anywhere near there. Never been to Cal Anderson or Kerry though. I would imagine Kerry would be a good spot to DX from being so high up. An interesting observation about Discovery from when I was there last week, as we were driving down to the water KUBE became multipathed for a bit, but then actually cleared up.
It does sound like it could have been, had Drake-Chenault still existed in 2008.
KRXY is actually a station that I try to listen to when I'm in the South Sound -- their mix of Hot AC current music with 70s & 80s pop and rock is unique.
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