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Last FM station in Seattle to sign off at night?

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crainbebo

I know KNBQ did in the 90s, but what was the last FM station around Seattle to not have a 24-hour music format? Plus, did they just cut carrier, or what?

-crainbebo
 
I believe that was KNHC in 1986. They went 24/7 in 1987......
 
I remember sometime in the late-90s that KISW would occasionally go off at night for an hour or so, playing a 1kHz tone
 
swhyde1980 said:
I remember sometime in the late-90s that KISW would occasionally go off at night for an hour or so, playing a 1kHz tone
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How annoying DXers would be if they heard that! Was it every night, or like, once a week? And , what time would they go to test tone? 2AM-3AM?

-crainbebo
 
The last Seattle daytimer AM as I recall was KBLE 1050. They used to have a sunset sign off. But when the Catholics bought it in 2001, it went 24/7......
 
crainbebo said:
How annoying DXers would be if they heard that! Was it every night, or like, once a week? And , what time would they go to test tone? 2AM-3AM?

-crainbebo
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It was about maybe once a month, and at that time frame (2AM-3AM). It was weird hearing a radio station playing that tone, like a TV station would.
 
KBRD in Lacey (680 AM) is a daytimer, signing off at sunset to protect KNBR.

-crainbebo
 
Used to be that most of us would use after midnight Sunday night for testing, tuning, etc. At KOL for some time we didn't even have a Sunday night midnight jock scheduled.

You would often hear us using tones to check frequency response, distortion, etc., or just to have something on the air when we did field measurements.

This was also a time that we radio engineers would visit each other's stations to talk kilocycles and stuff... sometimes this led to late night breakfast at Dennys on Fourth Avenue South.
 
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
Used to be that most of us would use after midnight Sunday night for testing, tuning, etc. At KOL for some time we didn't even have a Sunday night midnight jock scheduled.

You would often hear us using tones to check frequency response, distortion, etc., or just to have something on the air when we did field measurements.

This was also a time that we radio engineers would visit each other's stations to talk kilocycles and stuff... sometimes this led to late night breakfast at Dennys on Fourth Avenue South.
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I remember how that used to be a weekly thing at KING-AM. And how back in the day, you sometimes got to hear XERB (now XEPRS) and Wolfman Jack on the vacant 1090 frequency in the wee hours of Monday morning.......
 
crainbebo said:
swhyde1980 said:
I remember sometime in the late-90s that KISW would occasionally go off at night for an hour or so, playing a 1kHz tone
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How annoying DXers would be if they heard that! Was it every night, or like, once a week? And , what time would they go to test tone? 2AM-3AM?

-crainbebo
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DX'ers are annoying. I agree with that statement completely.
 
Yes, but I also think it's weird to hear a 1kHz tone on KISW in the late 90s around 2AM. If DXers were up that late, getting that tone, they wouldn't know what it is.

swhyde1980, did they go on and off with a sign off/on message, or did they immedietly go back to rock music?

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Yes, but I also think it's weird to hear a 1kHz tone on KISW in the late 90s around 2AM. If DXers were up that late, getting that tone, they wouldn't know what it is.

swhyde1980, did they go on and off with a sign off/on message, or did they immedietly go back to rock music?

-crainbebo
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I never paid much attention to it other than noticing that it was odd. It was just on whenever I passed by 99.9 on the dial and happened to catch it back then. I never was around for the beginning/end times of it when I was a teen. At that time ususally I wanted to go to bed and sleep with music, and not tone...lol
 
swhyde1980 said:
crainbebo said:
Yes, but I also think it's weird to hear a 1kHz tone on KISW in the late 90s around 2AM. If DXers were up that late, getting that tone, they wouldn't know what it is.

swhyde1980, did they go on and off with a sign off/on message, or did they immedietly go back to rock music?

-crainbebo
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I think that was about the time they moved from Cougar to Tiger Mountain......

I never paid much attention to it other than noticing that it was odd. It was just on whenever I passed by 99.9 on the dial and happened to catch it back then. I never was around for the beginning/end times of it when I was a teen. At that time ususally I wanted to go to bed and sleep with music, and not tone...lol
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