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KPQ-AM/FM Wenatchee - Changes
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Cherry Creek knows what they're doing - they run small market operations all over the west - sometimes you just bite the bullet and get it over with. We'll all moan about the corporatization of radio and two weeks from now no one in Wenatchee will remember what the fuss was. It's time to move on...
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I think they should become a Jack-FM or Bob-FM type formatted station. With their monster signal, they would be playing music into areas that otherwise woudn't have so much of a variety of music choices.
As far as their signal goes, their signal covers a very large area. Even areas in Western Washington get their signal. They have prime coverage off their stick on Mission Ridge, that reaches even over into Idaho and the Puget Sound area, which all depends on what setup your home or car stereo has. When I was living over in Bremerton, KPQ's signal would come in as a local station in alot of areas, even in the worst weather conditions or even on a little AM-FM clock radio. However, over in East Bremerton, KSWW from the Aberdeen area would end up at times taking over the frequency, until you got up into the Silverdale and the North Kitsap area. Not really DX conditions either. Their transmitter itself has a very good signal even over the Cascades. Over on this side of the state, it's just dependent on which part of western Washington you are in. Places that are away from the Cascades can get the signal alot better than if you're right up against those mountains. Kinda like the rain shadow effect you get over in Sequim, and over there even on a car stereo that has a good antenna, KPQ's signal makes it to there... KPQ, and KXDD in Yakima, and even the KMCQ that is in The Dalles, are really the only 3 stations that are able to make it up and over the Cascades, in alot of areas on this side of the state.
As far as their signal goes, their signal covers a very large area. Even areas in Western Washington get their signal. They have prime coverage off their stick on Mission Ridge, that reaches even over into Idaho and the Puget Sound area, which all depends on what setup your home or car stereo has. When I was living over in Bremerton, KPQ's signal would come in as a local station in alot of areas, even in the worst weather conditions or even on a little AM-FM clock radio. However, over in East Bremerton, KSWW from the Aberdeen area would end up at times taking over the frequency, until you got up into the Silverdale and the North Kitsap area. Not really DX conditions either. Their transmitter itself has a very good signal even over the Cascades. Over on this side of the state, it's just dependent on which part of western Washington you are in. Places that are away from the Cascades can get the signal alot better than if you're right up against those mountains. Kinda like the rain shadow effect you get over in Sequim, and over there even on a car stereo that has a good antenna, KPQ's signal makes it to there... KPQ, and KXDD in Yakima, and even the KMCQ that is in The Dalles, are really the only 3 stations that are able to make it up and over the Cascades, in alot of areas on this side of the state.
Back in Lynnwood in the '80s, I could pick up KPQ-FM (a very hissy stereo) but it was there. Driving with KPQ-FM on 1-5 was spotty, it showed up even in parts of downtown Seattle.
Then KSWW came on and ended that.
Back then, from Snoqualmie Pass to parts of Montana (before KTSL came on in Spokane), the signal was rock solid everywhere you went in Eastern Washington, north to the BC interior as far as Castlegar and south to Pullman/Moscow and the Oregon border. Lewiston was the farthest it went south. The KPQ-FM signal seemed to go on forever.
Did they actually reduce power at some point? I heard it once ran at the full 100,000 watts off Mission Ridge from the '60s to the '80s. They now run at 35,000 watts according to their web site.,,,
Then KSWW came on and ended that.
Back then, from Snoqualmie Pass to parts of Montana (before KTSL came on in Spokane), the signal was rock solid everywhere you went in Eastern Washington, north to the BC interior as far as Castlegar and south to Pullman/Moscow and the Oregon border. Lewiston was the farthest it went south. The KPQ-FM signal seemed to go on forever.
Did they actually reduce power at some point? I heard it once ran at the full 100,000 watts off Mission Ridge from the '60s to the '80s. They now run at 35,000 watts according to their web site.,,,
I used to get KPQ out in Graham quite a bit back in the late 70's. I could also get KATS out of Yakima regularly. I even remember getting KIOK from the tri cities once.
When I lived in Mount Vernon just a few years ago, it wasn't unusual to occasionally get KING-FMs and KISW's signals overrun by KISC's and KXLY-FM's out of Spokane during the fall/winter months. And on the flip side, I once picked up KUBE in Moses Lake. Neither stations could be heard regularly at such distances as KPQ-FM used to.....
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