They went back to 101.1 probably 2-3 years ago. IIRC
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Fm bandscan Francis, WA 2-22-14
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I think there is a K-LOVE somewhere in Lewis County utilizing 102.3 or 102.7 which causes KZOK to be almost absent from the radio dial. The interesting part to this, K-LOVE is already utilizing a signal on the non-com section of the FM band. It seems like they just don't want people listening to KZOK...
Hey guys, something else I would like to bring up...
Does anyone know if the Portland FM's are using directional antennas? If not, I really think that they should be. I really should not be complaining, as the Portland radio stations do not cause any harmful interference to local stations. However, I am back once again to hearing KKRZ and KXL blasting in like a local. Impressive coverage, but still annoying! Why would they not want to try to radiate the signal to the south anyway? I would think that southern Washington would still be adequately covered by a directional signal.
Does anyone know if the Portland FM's are using directional antennas? If not, I really think that they should be. I really should not be complaining, as the Portland radio stations do not cause any harmful interference to local stations. However, I am back once again to hearing KKRZ and KXL blasting in like a local. Impressive coverage, but still annoying! Why would they not want to try to radiate the signal to the south anyway? I would think that southern Washington would still be adequately covered by a directional signal.
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Don't know, I talked to an engineer at KINK, several years ago, if he was in fact working for them or contracted, but he replied nonetheless, when he said about the better signal quality into SW WA. I don't recall if it's an omni but I think he said they improved the antenna. Before, I think it faded somewhere before Chehalis in a car radio but now almost makes it to Marvin RD. 106.3 KLOO out of Corvallis @ 1400' makes it to about Winlock, I used to get it a little further north. KACS has a 90.? primary transmitter a few miles from their translator on 101.7, really not necessary. On a off topic note, I had lunch with a couple of retired radio techs, one was with WSP and we talked about mobile signals not going as far these days especially simplex and he stated that the noise floor, with all the RF, is affecting the signal quality in terms of distance.
KLOO was common in Tropo, I still hear them once in a while here in central Washington (near Yakima) when conditions are up. KLOO was strong in Portland - semi local. Even heard them on the WA coast a couple of times.
KINK is blocked here by KZIU Weston, OR but I can hear them reliably at the Selah Creek Rest Area just down from the top of the Umtanum Ridge.
102.3 in Chehalis is NOT necessary. If 90.5 is in the same area, and the same huge signal strength, then it's an absolute waste of a frequency for KACS. That frequency should be open - KZOK comes in OK down there in spots. The 102.3 I heard a couple times from Hood Canal (near Lilliwaup). Impressive signal for a translator.
K-LOVE's xlator is on 101.7 - not 102.3. I've heard them all the way up to I think the Hood Canal area.
-crainbebo
KINK is blocked here by KZIU Weston, OR but I can hear them reliably at the Selah Creek Rest Area just down from the top of the Umtanum Ridge.
102.3 in Chehalis is NOT necessary. If 90.5 is in the same area, and the same huge signal strength, then it's an absolute waste of a frequency for KACS. That frequency should be open - KZOK comes in OK down there in spots. The 102.3 I heard a couple times from Hood Canal (near Lilliwaup). Impressive signal for a translator.
K-LOVE's xlator is on 101.7 - not 102.3. I've heard them all the way up to I think the Hood Canal area.
-crainbebo
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So K-LOVE is on 101.7 in Centrailia and it still knocks out KZOK?
To be clear, there is an adjacent to KZOK and one next to KINK, both religious translators
K269FS (KLWO) 101.7 FM 0.6 mi. Signal Strength 5 Centralia, WA Christian Contemporary 205 watts
K272EP (KACS) 102.3 FM 0.6 mi. Signal Strength 5 Chehalis, WA Christian Contemporary 205 watts
K269FS (KLWO) 101.7 FM 0.6 mi. Signal Strength 5 Centralia, WA Christian Contemporary 205 watts
K272EP (KACS) 102.3 FM 0.6 mi. Signal Strength 5 Chehalis, WA Christian Contemporary 205 watts
I've noticed one signal from Centralia that doesn't get out at all. KCED 91.3. I can only hear that for about 5 or 6 miles and then it's gone. I don't know what the power is but if the two translators are getting up 40-50 miles, then KCED should as well nulling out KBCS.
I've heard KLOO way up in the Seattle area before but that was only in really good tropo (when KDUK 104.7 would come in). I haven't heard KDUK since I moved to Yakima. We have a 104.9 (KYXE) with SS Christian that blocks 104.7 with my G5 - should be doable on the G8.
96.5 KJAQ is the most common Seattle from here. I can rely on that fading in and out all day long here in Yakima. But never a peep out of KJR, KING or KMCQ. 104.5 is completely open but I have not heard KMCQ even once. I don't think it makes it to the ocean beaches like the other Seattle stations do either. (I actually heard a very weak KNHC 89.5 on the coast. KYAO-LP Ocean Shores was off and it was mixing with KTCB in Oregon.)
-crainbebo
I've heard KLOO way up in the Seattle area before but that was only in really good tropo (when KDUK 104.7 would come in). I haven't heard KDUK since I moved to Yakima. We have a 104.9 (KYXE) with SS Christian that blocks 104.7 with my G5 - should be doable on the G8.
96.5 KJAQ is the most common Seattle from here. I can rely on that fading in and out all day long here in Yakima. But never a peep out of KJR, KING or KMCQ. 104.5 is completely open but I have not heard KMCQ even once. I don't think it makes it to the ocean beaches like the other Seattle stations do either. (I actually heard a very weak KNHC 89.5 on the coast. KYAO-LP Ocean Shores was off and it was mixing with KTCB in Oregon.)
-crainbebo
I just looked it up, KCED runs 1 kw with a haat of -22 meters. I think that negative number has something to do with it. As for KDUK, we had some minor tropo enhancement about a week before I conducted the bandscan that started this thread, but not enough to bring in KDUK. I haven't heard that station since July of last year when I was using my iPod.
When summer does come, KDUK should come in here and there with the G8. I have personally heard KDUK right at Marina Beach Park in Edmonds along with KDUX and at Yost Park mixing with 350W blaster CKKS Sechelt, BC (CISW). I have them in the western WA FM log from Marysville along with the NWPR translator in Bellingham and KKRV Wenatchee.
-crainbebo
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I was down that way in March and could get KXL and KKCW all the way down past Eugene and into Douglas County.
How were the Stonehenge sticks? Yes they all come in down there, but if you go to my website and find the very first KKRZ aircheck I posted, you'll hear about halfway through that the signal nearly disappeared for a few minutes before coming back strong. The Stonehenge sticks never do that with the exception of KGON in tropo, when they completely blow KHRB off the dial. Oddly enough though, I've recorded KKRZ 4 more times since then and have only had one minor problem with signal fade. KBFF on the other hand I've recorded less from but have had 0 problems of this sort. Is it because the tower is higher that this happens? KXL is a little harder to judge since they don't broadcast in stereo, but they do come in pretty well down there.
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