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FM Bandscan Stampede Pass, WA 5/11/2009

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crainbebo

Radio: Sangean ATS-909

Antenna: Whip

88.1: KCWU, Ellensburg, WA (49.1 mi)
88.5: KPLU, Tacoma, WA (28.3 mi)
88.9: KCSH, Ellensburg, WA (33.3 mi)
90.3: not sure, most likely KEXP but there are other possiblities, including KNWY
91.5: K218DF (KAWZ), Cle Elum, WA (32.3 mi)
91.7: K219BM (KFAE), Chelan, WA :eek: (69.5 mi) (FARTHEST CATCH OF A FM TRANSLATOR EVER!) :eek: :eek:
92.5: KQMV, Bellevue, WA (28 mi)
92.9: weak station, KISM/KDBL?
93.3: KUBE, Seattle, WA (35.1 mi)
93.7: KXAA, Cle Elum, WA (32.8 mi)
94.1: KMPS, Seattle, WA (28 mi)
94.9: KUOW, Seattle, WA (45.5 mi)
95.3: KXLE, Ellensburg, WA (32.3 mi)
95.7: KJR, Seattle, WA (35.1 mi)
96.5: KJAQ, Seattle, WA (28 mi)
96.9: KZTA, Naches, WA (60 mi!)
97.3: KIRO, Seattle, WA (28.3 mi)
97.7: KFMY, Oakville, WA (92.9 mi!!!) (Has since changed formats to all news)
98.5: not sure, most likely CIOC Victoria, BC but other possiblities are in my brain too :D
98.9: KWJZ, Seattle, WA (28 mi) (This station I could hear to about 1 mile from Cle Elum)
99.3: KDDS, Elma, WA (92.9 mi!!!)
99.9: KISW, Seattle, WA (28.3 mi)
100.7: KKWF, Seattle, WA (28.3 mi)
101.5: KPLZ, Seattle, WA (35.1 mi)
102.1: KPQ, Wenatchee, WA (46.1 mi)
102.5: KZOK, Seattle, WA (28 mi)
102.9: KNBQ, Centralia, WA (87 mi!!)
103.7: KMTT, Tacoma, WA (28.3 mi)
104.3: KAFE, Bellingham, WA (111.4 mi!!!) (TROPO ALERT)
104.5: KMCQ, Covington, WA (27.9 mi)
105.3: KCMS, Edmonds, WA (35.1 mi)
105.7: CBU-FM, Vancouver, BC (more than 120 miles away!!!!) (TROPO ALERT)
106.1: KBKS, Seattle, WA (28 mi)
106.5: KWPZ, Lynden, WA (111.4 mi!!!) (TROPO ALERT)
106.9: KRWM, Bellevue, WA (35.1 mi)
107.3: KFFM, Yakima, WA (70.1 mi) (one of only TWO Yakima stations to reach west of Cle Elum!)
107.7: KNDD, Seattle, WA (28.3 mi)

-crainbebo

Cheers!
 
Those stations from Bellingham and Vancouver for which you put 'tropo alert' - were the conditions ripe for tropo or are you simply basing the comment on distance?

I ask because, from a mountain ridge or other elevated location with good line-of-sight, 120+ mile catches of class B or C stations are not all that unusual in the west. On the surface of it, I wouldn't be that shocked to get some reception from Vancouver or Victoria from a location like Stampede Pass - at least at or near the top of it....facing west.
 
Yeah, but 120+ mile reception is almost nada in Seattle because of low elevation, and summer is the only time when the band "opens up" to TROPO.

-crainbebo
 
But wouldn't your location at Stampede Pass gives you that extra elevation and line of sight to pull in a 120 mile catch on most days?

If I recall correctly, that location is a good 2,000 feet above the Puget Sound region - so you would expect to pull in many stations that sail over the heads of those in the Seattle area. Or am I wrong about that?
 
Yes, because over North Bend pulling in to 468th Ave SE (Exit 34) on I-90, almost everything from Victoria/Vancouver/NW Wash. pulled in, like CBU-FM1 on 92.1 was almost clear as a bell!!! Same with KBCS out of Bellevue, and CIOC Victoria, and others too.

-crainbebo
 
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