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ROAD TRIP TIME!

C

crainbebo

Finally, after a long break from any overnight vacations, I'm finally doing another one.

Saturday Morning-Labor Day afternoon I will be in the Portland, OR area (Darthvader are you listening?), with a couple stops along the way at Centralia, WA and Kalama, WA. Nights I will be at the Hampton Inn, Gresham, OR on NE 181st. Anything that I should look out for?
When I was in Portland a year ago, I stayed at the Comfort Inn near PDX Airport. Nasty amount of noise on AM forced me to go outside to DX, and I got several regulars, including I think KSTP 1500-MN.
I'll be busy with a lot of activities + shopping, especially in the Downtown area.

-crainbebo

P.S. Usually I don't tell you logs until I get back since I don't have a laptop or smartphone, but I may be able to if I am in the hotel. Not sure how much it will cost to use the hotel computer...

-crainbebo
 
Be sure to fire off a private message to me when you're in town, if you're able to. It'd be interesting to meet up somewhere, preferrably on this side of the river!
 
Darth_vader said:
Be sure to fire off a private message to me when you're in town, if you're able to. It'd be interesting to meet up somewhere, preferrably on this side of the river!
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Read my first post. I'll be busy with shopping and other things on the OR side, so I probably won't be able to go up to Vancouver at all.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo and Darth....

Sorry I'll miss you guys. As posted earlier, I'm in town just for the night on Sunday....and that's spoken for with a dinner with my niece. 3-way meetup would've been great. Perhaps another time.

Here's wishing crainbebo a safe, fun trip and great DX. Perhaps we'll be able to compare notes.
 
Got some bad news-the hotel I am staying at is just a mile from KFXX 1080 and KKSN 910's towers. So degradation of AM signals may be possible, day and night. :(

This is probably going to be my last post before my trip. Hopefully I'll get some good AM catches, even though I've got 1080 and 910, as well as 1230 KRYN, just blocks from me.

-crainbebo
 
If it's the same KKSN tower I'm thinking of (the one along Airport Way & NE 158th), they tore that one down last Fall. But being as close as you claim you'll be to KFXX's tower, you'll probably still get a bit of overload from it, yeah. But I don't think it'd be nearly as bad as trying to tune anything within the vicinity of the way-overdriven KKAD/KPAM towers!

Good luck!
 
I'm here in Portland now. Have some highlights to share, then I'll post again before I head to bed.

First, KVI, KIRO, KTTH, KJR and KOMO from Seattle all make it to North Portland (150 miles) in the daytime. My hotel is very close to KFXX so I may have reduced DX due to it tonight. But hoping for the best!

While on the road, I noticed KWPZ 106.5 Lynden in Maytown, as well as a tentative CIOC. Do they have public affairs programs on Saturdays? One more highlight: a 103.5 with Christian music. Only result is a KCMS translator in Astoria, OR, 60 mi away+!
Also: while at the Toutle River Rest Area S of Toledo, WA, KISM 92.9 was making it, plus most full-powered Seattle and Portland stations.
KXXO and KNBQ make it to the hotel (Rooster Rock/Capitol Peak), but for a weird reason, KOMO 97.7 does not make it. I wonder why? The last breath for Seattle was close to Three Rivers Mall in Kelso.
Weather is really nice here, sunny and around upper 70s. Will post again tonight. No fee to use the computer here!

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
I'm here in Portland now. Have some highlights to share, then I'll post again before I head to bed.
-crainbebo
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Hope you're having a great trip.

Your experience with the Seattle stations making it to Portland are in line with mine. Here's another report for you (and darth) under the heading of "Two Way Street". In Victoria, BC today heading into town from the ferry terminal, there was KPOJ at 620 on my car radio. 11:30am. Weak, but still a nice surprise.
 
Tonight, the band is a bit "normal" for September. Here's some logs.

570 KVI fair
610 KONA strong
640 KFI strong
660 CFFR strong, as well as 670 KBOI.
710 KIRO strong
720 KDWN, KFIR and another to E-W, WGN??
760 KFMB poor-fair in 750 splash
790 just an awful, unlistenable mess.
870 Mexican stn, likely KLSQ-NV?
930 CJCA mixing with KSEI-ID
990 CBW fair
1060 CKMX strong
1110 KBND with football, KFAB with talk under (1300 miles?)
1160 KSL strong
1200 CJRJ fair
1210 KMIA, surprisingly, making it strong.
1250 KKDZ and KWSU
1260 KLYC and the Classic C&W from Weiser, ID making it above the jumble
1280 KIT and KFRN Los Angeles
1300 KKOL/KLER
1350 KRLC good
1360 KKMO good
1440 KMED mixing with KODL
1450 KONP above the mess with ID at 2202 PDT
1500 KSTP Minneapolis mixing with KSJX at times
1540 KMPC (surprising) and KXPA
1560 KNZR good
1610 NOAA TIS on the coast. Good signal.

A little bit of Tropo on the FM as well. Some logs...

88.1 KQOC Glenden Beach, OR mixing with
KWAO Ocean Park
88.5 KPLU with blues
92.9 KISM Bellingham (200 mi!)
93.3 KUBE Seattle
94.1 KMPS Seattle
95.7 KJR Seattle
96.5 KJAQ Seattle and KWLZ Warm Springs, OR (KBNW)
98.1 KING
98.9 KLCK Seattle
103.7 tentative KMTT
103.9 KVAS Illwaco, WA
104.3 KMNT Centralia


Heading to bed very shortly, getting up tomorrow and doing a ton of shopping around the OR side of the river.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo, I used to live out near to where you are staying. At the end of 181st (going north) is where the new KFXX/KKSN towers are located. Across the river is KPAM/KKAD, so you have some RF in the neighborhood. The Safeway lot on 181 and Halsey is where I have done some good FM Dx'ing in past years with the car radio.
 
Agreed on the 181st St DX. Two more new logs today-KUOW 94.9 over KNRK IBOC, and KIRO 97.3 weak over KYCH's HD sideband. Both on the hotel's top floor (3rd). Will update with AM DX later.

-crainbebo
 
1360 was SS music, so likely KKMO. KUIK can be received daytime...

Spent time antiquing and shopping on the Oregon side today. Went over along Hawthorne Blvd and did some shopping, then got on 205 and went to Red Robin. Good food! Then went off to the Westmoreland district. I noticed coming back that KXXO comes in better the farther East you go. Do you get KXXO where you are W7PAT?

-crainbebo
 
Also, I have a couple of bandscans to share from my travels. First, Maytown Rest Area, FM, with the Grundig G8.

88.1 KWAO
88.5 KPLU
88.9 KSWS
89.1 KMHD
89.3 KAOS
89.5 KNHC
89.7 KWFJ
89.9 KQAC
90.1 KPLI
90.3 K-LOVE xlator (Longview I think)
90.5 KACS
90.7 KBOO
90.9 KVTI
91.1 KTJC
91.3 KCED
91.5 KOPB
91.9 CSN xlator (where?)
92.1 CSN xlator (from Delphi, WA)
92.3 KGON
92.5 KQMV
92.9 KISM
93.1 Surprise! KJET's Montesano xlator (K226AN, 250w)
93.3 KUBE
93.7 KANY
93.9 KPDQ
94.1 KMPS
94.5 KRXY and KLYK mixing
94.7 likely KNRK
94.9 KUOW
95.1 KITI
95.3 KXXK
95.5 KBFF
95.7 KJR
96.1 KXXO
96.5 KJAQ
96.9 KGY
97.1 KYCH
97.3 KIRO
97.7 KOMO
98.1 KING
98.3 KPPK
98.5 tent. CIOC Victoria. Do they have public affairs programming or infomercials Saturday mornings? I definitely wasn't hearing music.
98.7 KUPL
98.9 KLCK
99.3 KDDS
99.5 KWJJ
99.7 KOMO xlator Centralia
99.9 KISW
100.3 KKRZ
100.7 KKWF
101.1 KXL
101.5 KPLZ
101.7 K269FS (K-LOVE Centralia)
101.9 KINK
102.1 KSWW
102.3 KACS xlator, Chehalis
102.5 KZOK
102.9 KNBQ
103.3 KGHO xlator, Olympia
103.5 the unid Christian xlator. Only option is KCMS' xlator in Astoria, OR, 60 mi+ out!
103.7 KMTT
103.9 KVAS
104.1 KMTT xlator Olympia
104.3 KMNT
104.5 KMCQ
104.7 KDUX
104.9 KKBW
105.1 KRSK
105.3 KCMS
105.5 KUKN
105.7 KJET
105.9 KFBW
106.1 KBKS
106.3 KLOO
106.5 KWPZ
106.7 KLTH
106.9 KRWM
107.1 KRQT
107.5 KXJM
107.7 KNDD
107.9 KHPE

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
1360 was SS music, so likely KKMO. KUIK can be received daytime...

Spent time antiquing and shopping on the Oregon side today. Went over along Hawthorne Blvd and did some shopping, then got on 205 and went to Red Robin. Good food! Then went off to the Westmoreland district. I noticed coming back that KXXO comes in better the farther East you go. Do you get KXXO where you are W7PAT?

-crainbebo
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Crainbebo,

Yes, the Hawthorne area is where I grew up (near Mt. Tabor).
When conditions are good I can get KXXO. Some areas get KZEL.
The reason I asked about KUIK is that on the weekends KUIK has allot of programming in Spanish.
My wife and I took a trip up to Timberline Lodge today and for several miles I was hearing a Country station on 103.9. I never heard an id and I think it would be too far for the Ilwacco station.

Pat
 
Crainbebo....

Sounds like a great road trip. I'm in the Lloyd Center area south of downtown. I'll report anything I hear of interest (on AM) tonight in my "DXing the West" thread. ack at

One quick observation.... I'm not surprised you're hearing KFAB. I've been very impressed with their nighttime signal wherever I've been all week on my road trip. (Especially since they're pretty much invisible on their night pattern back at home in Northern Illinois.
 
My results from tonight on the "DXing the West" thread-sorry about that.

-crainbebo

P.S. Gotta be KVAS for that 103.9. I heard it over at Maytown as well.
 
Also-scratch out KLOO on 106.3-was looking at the wrong bandscan. Also: add an UNID 107.3 which was likely an xlator from Greenwater, in Maytown.

Today going to do some clothes shopping, get something to eat, and then head back on the three+ hour drive back to Seattle. Sure been a fun trip!

-crainbebo
 
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