When Espace-Musique was off the air from 88.9 in Victoria for a couple of weeks this fall, my analog tuner drifted over to 89.1. On my trusty old, but slightly greasy Panasonic "all-frequency" tabletop radio, shifting the antenna a bit would pick up two of those 89.1 translators at a time, with the audio between them off by a quarter second or so. Interesting effect, fer sure, from their chain of satellite robots up and down Puget Sound.
By the way, Espace-Musique was silent for a day or so again this week, but at last check, seems to be back in business. My jome reception of them is sitll there, but with "frayed sidebands" now - reception is more fuzzy, probably from the ether fight from KPLK. I hate to think of my next weekend drive up to LaConner to try to listen to Espace-Musique, since that was always my soundtrack station in the scenic flatlands west of Mt Vernon. I can still hear them on my kitchen radio about the same as before where I live close to the King-Snohomish County line, without the new "Sedro-Wololey" station coming in at all. But since KXOT went dark, 91.7 from Mt Vernon comes in OK now at home on that radio. The half-day Spanish language programming from Radio-Bilingue is a lot more interesting than the commercial "Spanish" stations from Tacoma and Elma, Wash., in my opinion, but I admit I don't listen for long. I guess that may change when AM-1090 goes all sports and my listening patterns will have to change, to, in a constant search for something I want to stick with for awhile while making dinner. I'm not a fan of the hip-hop, "classic hits" or "Classic rock" or country stations, and the "all Christmas" schtick could stand to expand its playlist, too, to include some choral and international tunes, for my taste. As they say in Madrid this time of year, "fum, fum, fum." By the way, the 88,9 French station (they like to write it with a comma instead of a . in Quebec) plays some wonderfully atmospheric Christmas music, but not usually until Christmas Eve and Day.
