Another 980 or Vancouver?

[bobdavcav]

I was tuning around last night and my radio landed on 980, I thought I had landed on KOMO so kept it there for a bit. What I found odd was they were talking fairly extensively about the Iran nuclear deal, but that doesn't seem like it would be a topic to go in-depth on on a Canadian station. Could this be something else or would CKNW air such a piece?

 

[boombox4]

If you're in the Seattle area, the only station you are probably going to hear on 980 is CKNW.

I've heard other stations underneath it but it is rare.

CKNW runs Coast To Coast AM at night.

 

[bobdavcav]

Hmm that's interesting. I'll check it with some of the other C2C outlets I get at night if I hear them again.

 

[boombox4]

Hmm that's interesting. I'll check it with some of the other C2C outlets I get at night if I hear them again.

You can always listen near the top of the hour and you'll hear CKNW's ID and news broadcast.

 

[Darth_vader]

I don't know how we could have anything on 980, at least with any power; it would be too close to KUFO and possibly KOOR for comfort.

... Oh, I see, you mean that other Vancouver ...

 

[boombox4]

And technically, CKNW is in New Westminster, but I guess we're talking generalities here.

KUFO does get out well, although KXTL and KEX are the most powerful Portland area stations here in Seattle.

KKOV and KBMS (both are Vancouver stations, I think?) are both pretty strong, but have lots of QRM.

 

[bobdavcav]

My most common Portland area signals are KEX, KXTG, KDZR, and KKVO though KKVO has another station likely Bellingham underneath.

 

[boombox4]

Looking over my post, I meant KXTG. I think KXTL is a station in Butte on 1370 I hear a lot.

Bovcavdav, your station under KKOV 1550 is undoubtedly KRPI. Usually I hear both those stations, too.

 

[W7PAT]

What about KPOJ?

 

[boombox4]

Here where I am in the Seattle metro KPOJ has a lot of QRM from KWAL, and when KWAL isn't interfering, KPOJ's signal has a lot of fading at least half the time. Some nights they are strong and steady, though.

 

[bobdavcav]

I don't think I've ever heard KPOJ up here, though I've only in the last 2 years or so had a radio that can filter out a good portion of the adjacent channel splatter from other stations, in this case KCIS.

 

[Darth_vader]

"K-Piece-O-Junk".

"Portland area signals are KEX, KXTG, KDZR, and KKOV"

KKOV is in Vancouver, not the "Portland area".

KKOV's biggest problem, has been mentioned elsewhere, is the transmitter site is way too small and the antenna completely inadequate for the levels of power they're operating at. Or something to that effect. Andy_brown on pdxradio can tell you all about it. Oh yeah, and the site also has a major residential areas surrounding it, a hill directly to the south and Cascade foothills to the east, probably none of which help any.

50000-watt KEX has no trouble spewing its H&D across most of the West yet 50000-watt KKOV barely gets out of the region.

 

[bobdavcav]

Uh, Vancouver and Portland are just across the river from one another, not miles apart. You don't call that the Portland area?

 

[Darth_vader]

The commercial ma$$ media (including Portland Central Broadcasting [a.k.a. OPB]) of course do, but no real Washingtonian who knows any better would. The Portland area ends at the state line. Unfortunately most Portlanders will argue this to the death and you'll occasionally find an ultra nationalist, pro-unification Portlander who will try to convince you that we are somehow a suburb of it. (I couldn't make that up if I tried.)

Basically there is the Vancouver area which extends to the state line and the Portland area, which conversely extends to their side of the border. We are two separate parts of two separate countries with entirely contradictory goals and ideology. While there is a river between us we are, in fact, scores of miles apart; politically, economically and socially.

 

[W7PAT]

Darth, The Portland Metropolitan area includes Clark(Vancouver) and Skamania Counties in Washington, like it or not. Look it up.

Also, KKOV reduces power at night to 12,500 watts directional.

 

[frankberry]

Darth, The Portland Metropolitan area includes Clark(Vancouver) and Skamania Counties in Washington, like it or not. Look it up.

Also, KKOV reduces power at night to 12,500 watts directional.

KKOV also has a bad frequency. Not much ground wave at 1550. Their night pattern puts Portland in the null.

 

[boombox4]

Sometimes (actually, most times) KKOV has an S3-S4 signal here in King County WA, with fading and some interference, of course -- but often it's very listenable. So most of that 12Kw night signal must be headed towards Sea Town.