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FM Bandscan - Waterville and Withrow, WA, 5/15/2021

*NO AUDIO CLIPS*
Spent the day in Douglas County along US-2 and Hwy 172 today, mainly to visit Waterville's city-wide yard sale. This is about 50 mi NE of Ellensburg as the crow flies. What's amazing is how far away I am from Walla Walla, Pendleton and Tri-Cities...and many still showed up!! Also had tropo scatter to Oregon.
88.1 KLUW East Wenatchee / KYRS Medical Lake
88.3 KMLW Moses Lake
88.5 KOMQ Omak / KLRF Milton-Freewater OR
88.7 KDMB Moses Lake
88.9
89.1 KFAE Richland
89.3
89.5 K208EY Wenatchee (KAWZ) / KSOH Wapato - both were variable and not heard inside Waterville.
89.7 KWWS Walla Walla
89.9 KPLW Wenatchee
90.1 KQWS Omak / KOLU Pasco
90.3 UNID (assumed Wenatchee KLWS translator)
90.5
90.7 KNWR Ellensburg
90.9 K215AD Chelan (KMBI)
91.1 KPBX-FM Spokane
91.3 KGTS Walla Walla
91.5 KLWS Moses Lake
91.7
91.9 KPBW Brewster
92.1 very fadey KUMA-FM Pilot Rock OR east of Waterville
92.3 KZUS Ephrata
92.5 KZHR Dayton
92.7 KNCW Omak
92.9 KZZU Spokane
93.1 K226AK Ephrata if anything (KFAE)
93.3 KRKL Walla Walla
93.5 KOZI-FM Chelan / KWDR Royal City buried under
93.7 KDRK Spokane
93.9 KTAC Ephrata
94.1
94.3 K232ED Sunnyslope (Jack FM Wenatchee)
94.5 KATS Yakima - full RDS on Hwy 172 above Withrow, almost 100mi from Yakima / Tentative KHTQ Hayden ID
94.7 KZAL Manson
94.9 KIOK Pasco / KUOW Seattle on Hwy 2 dropping down to McCartney and the Moses Coulee.
95.1 K236AH Synarep (KNCW) still clocks out at 1 watt ERP on a high hill
95.3 K237AW Chelan (KCSY)
95.5 KBFF Portland OR in and out
95.7 KKSR Walla Walla
95.9 KZML Quincy
96.1 KXXO Olympia in Waterville / mixed with KFOO Opportunity - KFOO dominated E of Waterville and up on Hwy 172.
96.3 KRCW Royal City (dead air)
96.5 K243CD Brewster (KDMB)
96.7 KWWW Quincy
96.9 KEZE Spokane in and out
97.1 KXRX Walla Walla
97.3 K247CH Entiat (KDMB)
97.5 KOLW Basin City / KTRT Winthrop (finally! Heard above Withrow on 172. They were playing Blues music. Their format is Americana and eclectic, but they do not have a webstream currently.)
97.7 KYSN Wenatchee
97.9 K250BL Brewster (EWTN Spanish)
98.1 KISC Spokane
98.3 KEYW Pasco
98.5 KEYG Grand Coulee
98.7 K254CJ Chelan (EWTN Spanish)
98.9 KKZX Spokane
99.1 KUJ-FM Burbank / KORE-LP Entiat (Kore Community Radio)
99.3 KDRM Moses Lake / K257DN Brewster (KNCW) especially near Withrow, full-quieting and KDRM barely there.
99.5 KQBG Rock Island
99.7 KHHK Yakima (not in Waterville)
99.9 KXLY-FM Spokane
100.1 KQFO Pasco
100.3 KKRZ Portland OR east of Waterville briefly
100.5 KWIQ Moses Lake
100.7 K264BF Wenatchee (KMBI)
100.9 K265AX Chelan (KOZI-FM) / KARY Grandview
101.1 KOHO Leavenworth
101.3 K267AX Brewster (KCSY)
101.5 KATW Lewiston ID
101.7
101.9 KZIU Weston OR
102.1 KPQ-FM Wenatchee
102.3
102.5 KZOK Seattle briefly near Withrow
102.7 KORD Richland
102.9 KEFA-LP Wenatchee / KZTM Centralia
103.1 KYKV Selah / K276BY Pateros (KOZI-FM) / K276CY Manson (KOZI-FM) echoing
103.3 KWLN Wilson Creek
103.5 KWHT Pendleton OR
103.7
103.9 K280BZ Wenatchee (KWWW) / KBBD Spokane
104.1 KXDD Yakima
104.3 KZBE Omak
104.5
104.7 KKRV Wenatchee
104.9
105.1 K286CA East Wenatchee (KKRV) / KRSK Molalla OR 10mi E of Waterville briefly
105.3 KONA-FM Pasco
105.5
105.7 KZBD Spokane
105.9
106.1 K291CS Ephrata (KTBI-AM)
106.3 KLOO-FM Corvallis OR (briefly in between Douglas and Farmer WA - farthest log of the day. 260 miles!) / KCSY Twisp
106.5 KEGX Richland
106.7 KKWN Cashmere / KLTH Lake Oswego OR at the same spot as 105.1
106.9 K295AU Moses Lake (KGTS)
107.1 K296BP Ephrata (KGIO-FM Spanish Rel.)
107.3 KFFM Yakima (solid at Withrow and notable across the whole Waterville Plateau. Impressive!)
107.5 KXJM Banks OR (at the same spot as 105.1, briefly)
107.7 KWVN Pendleton OR
107.9 KMBI-FM Spokane
 
Nice scan! This is totally what you could expect to get in Waterville. Trying going further north - like Brewster and Omak north. Aside from a bunch of translators popping up, nothing much changes.

I went on a family camping trip to Conconully (west of Omak) back in 2017, and one morning I went with a couple cousins up to a peak called Funk Mountain. I STILL got Tri Cities, Walla Walla and Pendleton - roughly 200 miles away; got Penticton and Spokane as well.

Tri Cities/Pendleton area stations are absolute monstrosities, so is The Quake. I wouldn't be surprised to get any of the full-powered TC area stations on the west side if I can fight off Seattle HD hash.
 
You can. In downtown Shelton. (At least a couple of them, some may have been covered up by new-ish translators). The Mt. Rainier path goes straight through Shelton and out to Jump Off Joe. Heard 106.5, 99.1, 89.1, 98.3 and I believe one other out there in 2013, along with 92.9 the Bull in Yakima. Go a mile west, north, or south, and they are gone.
 
A few nice catches from Portland there! Nice to see the Capitol Peak signals making it in as well. KZTM not shocking with their high ERP output, but KXXO a little surprising.
 
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