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101.9 FM Open Carrier in NW Seattle?

JayBee

JayBee

What is the open carrier on 101.9 FM that I'm hearing in Northwest Seattle? Driving around I can hear the OC fighting with a couple of other stations, one is KVSH and possible 2 other stations that I couldn't ID. No PID or anything else on the OC.
 
The stations it's fighting with are likely KVSH, KQES, and I can't remember the calls of the Slovik one in Mukilteo. If I remember correctly there used to be a pirate on 101.9 in the Capitol Hill area, but it was shut down years ago before any of these LPFMs signed on.
 
bobdavcav said:
The stations it's fighting with are likely KVSH, KQES, and I can't remember the calls of the Slovik one in Mukilteo. If I remember correctly there used to be a pirate on 101.9 in the Capitol Hill area, but it was shut down years ago before any of these LPFMs signed on.
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That would be KCSC-LP in Mukilteo. I know KVSH is not silent as that was the only one I could ID. I'll try to check out KCSC and KQES this week.
 
I doubt it's KCSC-LP. They're pretty consistent about being on the air. Their antenna is right off WA-99 adjacent to a cell site.
 
KQES is currently on the air with about 2 seconds of audio repeating endlessly. Sounds something like "ack-wok" over and over. Something is locked up somewhere, unknown how long it's been like that. And the signal is terrible along I-90, no matter what car I'm in. Guessing the tree foliage is eating their antenna.
Useless LPFM that's nothing but a bunch of violations.
 
I kind of heard that open carrier in the Preston area where I work and also west of downtown Seattle when KQES wasn't trying to jump in. I do hear the KRXY HD-3 101.9 translator as I'm up on Tiger Mt., could the open carrier be that translator? Haven't tried to listen to the KRXY translator in a known location since the OP's first post.

Here is the KQES stuck audio courtesy of my rental Corolla yesterday. Note the somewhat correct RDS and ignore the "KINK" logo on the left; that's on the button for 101.9 in this car as it's from Portland.


KQES stuck 1-29-26
 
valvashon said:
I kind of heard that open carrier in the Preston area where I work and also west of downtown Seattle when KQES wasn't trying to jump in. I do hear the KRXY HD-3 101.9 translator as I'm up on Tiger Mt., could the open carrier be that translator? Haven't tried to listen to the KRXY translator in a known location since the OP's first post.

Here is the KQES stuck audio courtesy of my rental Corolla yesterday. Note the somewhat correct RDS and ignore the "KINK" logo on the left; that's on the button for 101.9 in this car as it's from Portland.


KQES stuck 1-29-26
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I heard the KQES audio stuck today as I drove to Bellevue, I almost made a video like you did, LOL so it's not them.
The OC becomes much stronger the more North I go. That is quite a signal if it reaches all the way to Preston. I drove up to Lynnwood from Seattle on I5 but did not hear a pip squeak of what would be KCSC. If it were KRXY HD-3 I expected it to be much louder on the Eastside but it was louder in Lynnwood.
 
JayBee said:
KRXY HD-3
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Well to nitpick and be silly, I think you mean exactly K270CJ because KRXY doesn't broadcast HD anymore.... well, from the last time I checked.

I've been asked twice to check 101.9 for any open carriers. I don't hear any open carrier in Tacoma where I am currently at so I sadly cannot help.
 
valvashon said:
I kind of heard that open carrier in the Preston area where I work and also west of downtown Seattle when KQES wasn't trying to jump in. I do hear the KRXY HD-3 101.9 translator as I'm up on Tiger Mt., could the open carrier be that translator? Haven't tried to listen to the KRXY translator in a known location since the OP's first post.

Here is the KQES stuck audio courtesy of my rental Corolla yesterday. Note the somewhat correct RDS and ignore the "KINK" logo on the left; that's on the button for 101.9 in this car as it's from Portland.


KQES stuck 1-29-26
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I'm pretty sure that audio was a famous line in the movie Office Space.
 
It's still hard to believe that when I left western WA for good in December 2013, 101.9 was wide open. CFUV Victoria was weak but audible north of Everett, and tropo from KINK often made it to the Eastside. Sometimes it was crystal clear in the late summer. Now it's LP after LP, and based on the posts, some don't care about the broadcast quality that goes out.
 
Was just up on Tiger Mt. for an overnight maintenance shift. Easily heard that open carrier at 101.9 in the parking lot at the Tiger summit, where I usually hear the 101.9 signal with the sports betting talk format, which I assume is K270CJ. So, pretty sure that the open carrier on 101.9 is K270CJ licensed to Olympia.

Val
 
As of Wednesday, 2/4/26, KQES is carrying actual Chinese language programming again instead of 2 seconds of stuck audio. Signal is the same. Will check on 101.9 again today on Tiger.
 
crainbebo said:
It's still hard to believe that when I left western WA for good in December 2013, 101.9 was wide open. CFUV Victoria was weak but audible north of Everett, and tropo from KINK often made it to the Eastside. Sometimes it was crystal clear in the late summer. Now it's LP after LP, and based on the posts, some don't care about the broadcast quality that goes out.
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The FCC priorities at this moment are not the dead air/incompetent LPFMs. (However they'll be dealt with later.)

It is making sure radio does not say anything that may offend Dear Leader and His Flying Monkeys.

And making sure your favorite public radio stations live in terminal fear of What Comes Next.

And making sure Dear Leader is happy.

That is all.
 

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I alerted the ownership/management of KRXY to Dr. Sandi's passing. I also alerted her family, who are not radio folks, about my vague understanding of the nature of her relationship with KRXY and also a third party who was leasing(?) K270CJ 101.9 Olympia to run sports betting programming via rebroadcast of KRXY-HD3. Not much more I can do besides that- I was involved in the operation as someone who provided voice tracking on several of her LPFM and translator projects over the years. I was otherwise not really involved. (BTW, she and I got in contact with each other initially via this here radio board, some 22 years ago!)

She was both the owner and engineer for the100.3 and 101.9 translators, so with her passing I think that all is in limbo. I do know that KRXY themselves program 100.3 via KRXY-HD2 and to the best of my knowledge it remains on the air. I know it is still streaming. To get 101.9 off the air, someone is going to have to go through a locked gate, head up the side of a mountain outside Kimilche, unlock a transmitter shack, and flick a switch. I do remember her saying that was her most reliabile tranmitter and so it may stay on air, trasmitting nothing, for a good long time.
 


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