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Grayland WA SDR open (temporarily)

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crainbebo

Grayland, WA is about 5 miles south of Westport, 20ish miles SW of Aberdeen on the Washington coast. I've been through here before. This is a long-time DXpedition site and so many great catches from across the Pacific have been made here. Bill Whitacre of Virginia is staying at Casa Sea Esta, a Vrbo site on the beach. Temporary, so you better listen to this while you can.

http://csekiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073

A daytime scan noted these stations - note the water path to Coos Bay!

550 KARI Blaine (mixed with KOAC Corvallis OR)
560 very weak (KPQ?)
570 KVI Seattle
600 CKSP Vancouver BC
620 KPOJ Portland OR
630 KCIS Edmonds/KWRO Coquille OR (water path)
650 CISL Vancouver BC
660 KAPS Mount Vernon
680 KBRD Lacey
690 CBU Vancouver BC
710 KIRO Seattle
720 KFIR Sweet Home OR
730 CHMJ Vancouver BC
750 KXTG Portland OR
770 KTTH Seattle
790 KGMI Bellingham
800 KPDQ Portland
820 KGNW Seattle/KWDP Waldport OR (water path)
840 KSWB Seaside (dead air)
850 KHHO Tacoma
860 KPAM Troutdale OR
880 KIXI Bellevue/KWIP Dallas OR
890 unid
910 KMTT Vancouver / unid (KURY?)
920 KSHO Lebanon OR
930 KBAI Bellingham
940 KWBY Woodburn OR
950 KJR Seattle
970 KXFD Portland OR
980 CKNW New Westminster BC
990 unid (KTHH?)
1000 KOMO Seattle
1010 KOOR Milwaukie OR
1030 KMAS Shelton
1040 CKST Vancouver BC
1050 KBLE Kirkland / unid (KORE?)
1070 CFAX Victoria BC
1080 KFXX Vancouver
1090 KFNQ Seattle
1110 KRPA Oak Harbor
1120 KPNW Eugene OR
1130 CKWX Vancouver BC
1150 KKNW Bellevue
1170 KPUG Bellingham
1180 KLAY Tacoma
1190 KEX Portland OR
1200 CJRJ Vancouver BC
1220 KSLM Salem OR
1230 KHSN Coos Bay OR (water path)/KWYZ Everett
1240 KBUP Olympia
1250 KKDZ Seattle
1260 KLYC McMinnville OR
1270 KBAM Longview
1280 unid (KLDY?)
1310 KNPT Newport OR
1320 KXRO Aberdeen
1330 KKPZ Portland OR
1340 KBBR North Bend OR (another water path...S6 signal!)/unid(s)
1360 KKMO Tacoma
1370 KAST Astoria OR
1380 KRKO Everett
1390 KZZD Salem OR
1400 KBCH Lincoln City OR/two UNIDs (one sounds like KEDO)
1410 KBNP Portland OR/CFTE Vancouver BC
1420 KITI Chehalis/KMHS Coos Bay OR (water path)
1430 KYKN Salem OR
1450 KBKW Aberdeen/unid talker way under
1470 KELA Centralia/CJVB Vancouver BC
1480 KBMS Vancouver
1490 KWOK Hoquiam
1520 KQRR Oregon City
1540 KXPA Bellevue
1550 KKOV Vancouver
1560 unid (KZIZ?)
1590 KTIL Tillamook/very weak KLFE Seattle under
1600 KVRI Blaine
1610 WQEL572 Westport (Grays Harbor USCG TIS with weather info)
1620 KYIZ Renton
1640 KDZR Lake Oswego
1650 Oregon DOT TIS (with repeating non-ID)
1680 KNTS Seattle
 
One of the biggest surprises to me is that KIRO 710 was kind of weak compared to some of the other Seattle AMs. Not bad, but I thought it would be a little stronger. Out of curiosity, what equipment does one need to set up their own SDR? I'm sure that it's very expensive, and quite complicated, but I always thought it would be interesting if you were in a unique location.
 
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Interesting.. KCFM Florence, Oregon and their KinStar antenna did not make the list. I would imagine KARR would be a tough catch as well because of their cell-tower shunted antenna.
 
Heard a hint of country music on 650 tonight. Could that have really been WSM? That seems like a real long shot, and it certainly didn't last long with two other competing signals getting in the way.
 
fordranger797 said:
Heard a hint of country music on 650 tonight. Could that have really been WSM? That seems like a real long shot, and it certainly didn't last long with two other competing signals getting in the way.
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Long ago when I was a kid I heard it on a multiband transistor radio -- so the signal can indeed make it here to the Seattle region. Naturally, that was before the other stations were added to the channel, but, still.... that signal is capable of making it here.
 
Doubtful. Try KMTI Manti, UT; far more common than WSM and at times, a pest at night.
 
I think it was KMTI now that you mention it. It would be interesting to catch WSM someday, but it doesn't seem very likely with so many powerful 650s on the west coast.
 
Heads up - KGNW is off the air for maintenance and it REALLY sounds like KJR is off too from here in Ellensburg...
 
Thanks! I did briefly catch WBAP on Grayland. In other DX news, Key West had a good signal from WGN & WBBM. Even WLS could be heard below Cuba. WWL was in clearly on Key West even in their null. On Hawaii I heard WGN briefly above the noise level. KKOH was too strong on 780, but I did hear WBBM weakly underneath.
This was all between 12:20--1:00AM CST on Feb 27.
 
Thanks for the heads up about 820 and 950! Haven't been able to catch much of anything else on these frequencies, but it's cool to have those channels open for once.
 
fordranger797 said:
I think it was KMTI now that you mention it. It would be interesting to catch WSM someday, but it doesn't seem very likely with so many powerful 650s on the west coast.
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Where I was in Laramie, WY for 2 years, I did hear WSM several times.. and Laramie is just 40 miles west of KGAB 650 Cheyenne... 850 Watts and 3 towers at night but pointed right at Laramie

HEre's some audio.. the talk is KGAB, the music is WSM:
 
fordranger797 said:
I think that KLDY is officially off the air. I was driving through Lacey just the other day, and didn't hear anything on 1280 whatsoever. I wonder if they will be coming back at this point.
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I also thught I had read somewhere that KLDY was gone.

I'm looking forward to checking out that SDR myself. Hopefully, I won't wind up being late to the party. Anyway, in the meantime, I'm wondering if anyone has heard Hawaii on the rig.
 
Unfortunately, it looks like the SDR is now officially shut down. It's too bad, because the coast is always one of my favourite regions to DX the dial, and it was so convenient to have access to a way to listen all of the time without ever making the drive!
 
Looks like Bill has packed up to go home. Did anybody catch much info on what antennas he was using? I just saw a mention of a KAZ on the website for the virtual DXpedition. I'll browse more later.
 
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