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Grindlfan
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Anyone else having trouble getting 104.5? I tried all weekend and all I could get was either static or KAFE. I thought maybe their transmitter went down due to the weather.
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Ahhhh. Your post beat me by 70 seconds! Off the air, short term or long term, I do not know. Ask the bankers.
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Grindlfan
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Oh, that sucks. Well, back to listening to my CDs and progressive talk radio. They both beat the hell outta KJR FM's playlist.
Thanks to the (soon to be dissolved? :'() Post-Intelligencer, here is your answer!
I checked at 2:00pm today and it was back up. Guess the got the laptop running again.
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Correct. ironically they had just put in a new much larger propane tank to handle backup @ xmitter. Ice up there was so bad, though, it couldn't be refilled.
Glad to see that they are finally back on the air. And I agree that listening to progressive talk radio or our personal music collection's is better than KJR (except Sunday mornings from 8-11 
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).Lonely Summer said:Glad to see that they are finally back on the air. And I agree that listening to progressive talk radio or our personal music collection's is better than KJR (except Sunday mornings from 8-11
Indeed Mac Summer, LonelyDaddy, or whatever personality you're agreeing with yourself with today!
So let's see if I understand this... You're happy that 104.5 is back with their rather eclectic placeholder programming, yet you are actually listening to paid programming on KPTK or your IPod?
TVradioguru said:Lonely Summer said:Glad to see that they are finally back on the air. And I agree that listening to progressive talk radio or our personal music collection's is better than KJR (except Sunday mornings from 8-11
Indeed Mac Summer, LonelyDaddy, or whatever personality you're agreeing with yourself with today!
So let's see if I understand this... You're happy that 104.5 is back with their rather eclectic placeholder programming, yet you are actually listening to paid programming on KPTK or your IPod?
Let's see if I understand YOU tvradioAQHguru. Somebody is glad there's an alternative of some kind to KJR-FM (placeholder it may be, it's playing something. And somebody's listening.) And you have a conniption over THIS? On top of having a cow because of some nice things I said about KHIT?
I mean, if you're representing the industry in any way with YOUR views, you're REALLY not making it look very good right now and nothing illustrates WHY people are giving up on radio more profoundly.
Get over yourself. It's just the RADIO. ....
TVradioguru said:Lonely Summer said:Glad to see that they are finally back on the air. And I agree that listening to progressive talk radio or our personal music collection's is better than KJR (except Sunday mornings from 8-11
Indeed Mac Summer, LonelyDaddy, or whatever personality you're agreeing with yourself with today!
So let's see if I understand this... You're happy that 104.5 is back with their rather eclectic placeholder programming, yet you are actually listening to paid programming on KPTK or your IPod?
What about Mack Mama?
Nice response, Bongwater. I'll listen to KMCQ as long as I enjoy the selection of music they play. Placeholder or not, it sounds better to me than most of the other stations on the FM dial. No, I don't listen to radio 24/7, I've got a large collection of records, cassettes, and cd's, and why wouldn't I? I love music. Some people here apparently just love $$$. Ain't got time for the music, give them the blood from a clone!
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KCRadionut said:
I am still not receiving KMCQ. Is their signal weaker than it was before?
Grindlfan said:
It's not coming in here either, and when it was on it came in very clearly here in Des Moines. I think they forgot to charge the ipod batteries!
Grindlfan said:
I think maybe they are broadcasting with a Mr. Microphone from a treehouse somewhere in Covington. If you get close enough to that tree your radio just might get the signal!
Mrwns said:
Oh, I get it! The Placeholder is driving around in his car up by the Canadian border with his ipod and Mr. Microphone. Thats why we can't get it down here in King County now!
Mack Daddy said:
Could be. The very BALLS of a Seattle station depends on how well you can still also penetrate Vancouver, BC (sorry for the innuendo, but it IS true.)
But it still depends on how much Vancouver is willing to put out (sorry again.....)
But in reality, you're probably experiencing tropospheric skip. It can even happen over strong adjacent channels. I once heard KSKD in Salem, OR (105.1 not actually sure if it was actually KSKD, it was playing "Rock This Town" Stray Cats, something KBIQ or it's successor KCMS would NEVER play to THIS day) blank out KBIQ in Edmonds, WA (105.3) in 1984. And I was less than 4 miles away from KBIQ's 115,000 watt tower at the time.
It can and DOES happen. With HD et al, I wonder how HD-2 channels sound like coming from so far one minute, then disappearing. You could be hearing Christian rock one minute, then a dose of FCC unmonitored, unedited old Sam Kinison comedy the next. Haven't heard it yet. But it CAN.....
Planet Earth is a strange place for radio....but it's the only one that we currently acknowledge for both. So I guess we'll all have to live with it. It's just RADIO.......
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