Two New FM Logs today (while in CN87vh)

[crainbebo]

Today, while in Auburn, WA for festivities, local KRWM 106.9 went off the air around noon time. I logged these new ones.

106.7: KLTH Portland, OR; local ads for Video Only (electronics store), back into a rerun of Casey Kasem's AT40. New #191, 127 mi, 96kw.

107.1: KRQT Castle Rock, WA; classic rock and ID "KRQT, Rocket 107". New #192, about 80 or so miles, 800w (!).

106.9 was usually static but at times had some brief activity. Heard a rocker for a few seconds (might have been CHWF Nanaimo BC via aircraft scatter) and a C&W likely KMOK Lewiston, ID (which would be a new FM state, but 250+ mi is REALLY pushing it). KRWM came back on around 1232 PST and IBOC covered up KLTH and KRQT.

-crainbebo

 

[Darth_vader]

Interesting that you can get KRQT all the way up here; 296FT pretty much jams it in Cascade Park!

I guess 'RQT must be using a really directional pattern that favours the north more than the east...

 

[crainbebo]

The log of KRQT was a RARE moment, as when KRWM was back on around 12:30PM, 107.1 was obliterated by IBOC (hammering KRQT).

-crainbebo

 

[Bongwater]

The log of KRQT was a RARE moment, as when KRWM was back on around 12:30PM, 107.1 was obliterated by IBOC (hammering KRQT).

-crainbebo

KRQT has been heard as far away as Vancouver, BC hilltops. Strange but true.

I'm not sure WHAT comes in though, their 800 watt MAIN signal or their 2,000 watt Longview booster

CHWF usually appears in Bellingham (duking it out with KRWM on the hills) I've picked up KMOK fairly clear (in spite of the noticeable distance hiss) on the east side of Stevens Pass.

On a clear night last summer going through Moses Lake, my FM scan stopped at 102.5, just in time to hear Beau Robert's KZOK TOH voicer. FM tropo from Seattle happens occasionally in Eastern Washington, usually in areas along I-90......

 

[Darth_vader]

So here's what I discovered yesterday:

I can copy KRQT PERFECTLY on my Patrolman SW60 and F1HD at the office. On the same equipment at the apartment (about 10 miles due east down Highway 14, pretty straight shot for the most part) it gets obliterated by 296FT. And yet, at the Fred Meyer store at Mill Plain, NE Chkalov Drive and 1-205 (about three miles NW of the flat, 45.620374 -122.55503) it comes in PERFECTLY again. Yet at the Chevron station just across the parking lot (45.617927 -122.555025) everything completely goes to static.

In the nearby community of Hockinson, KRQT seems to fluxuate, except for the parking lot of the local High School (45.737577,-122.499028) which is really the only place up there it comes in crystal-clear. Everywhere else up there, 296FT is BOOMING.

[size=8pt]107.1 really has some strange characteristics around here. My guess is the various signals on it might be getting reflected into odd places by the Cascades, stronger in some areas than in others, with the capture effect ultimately determining *what* you'll receive *where*. I think it's highly probable.

(F.Y.I., I've never heard Ibiquity on 107.1, unless you count 296FT since its audio is sourced from an HD2 secondary.)

 

[crainbebo]

(F.Y.I., I've never heard Ibiquity on 107.1, unless you count 296FT since its audio is sourced from an HD2 secondary.)

The IBOC on 107.1 is the upper sideband of my local KRWM 106.9. Your upper sideband of KLTH would obliterate any chance of KRWM. But, how did you get 94.9 KIOK out of the Tri-Cities with your F1HD when usually it's the upper IBOC sideband of KNRK?

-crainbebo

 

[Darth_vader]

--Interesting! KLTH does have Ibiquity and I've heard it, but I can tune to 107.1 and not hear it hashing away there. 107.2, yeah, but not -.1.

KNRK has some VERY big nulls in my area of town, especially so on the Ibiquity side. Every once in a long while it's possible to get into one of them and intercept KIOK, particularly if you're in the right area (e.g. at or near the river) and your antenna's pointed the right direction (e.g. eastward, toward the Gorge) and you have a half-decent receiver (e.g. an F1HD.)

My friend Dan's house is only a block away from the complex, and KNRK is completely non-existant there--no analogue, no Ibiquity, nothing. It's another one of those parts of the band that has some pretty bizarre characteristics around here. (And KRQT is crystal-clear at his place!)

 

[KA7PAT]

--Interesting! KLTH does have Ibiquity and I've heard it, but I can tune to 107.1 and not hear it hashing away there. 107.2, yeah, but not -.1.

KNRK has some VERY big nulls in my area of town, especially so on the Ibiquity side. Every once in a long while it's possible to get into one of them and intercept KIOK, particularly if you're in the right area (e.g. at or near the river) and your antenna's pointed the right direction (e.g. eastward, toward the Gorge) and you have a half-decent receiver (e.g. an F1HD.)

My friend Dan's house is only a block away from the complex, and KNRK is completely non-existant there--no analogue, no Ibiquity, nothing. It's another one of those parts of the band that has some pretty bizarre characteristics around here. (And KRQT is crystal-clear at his place!)

Darth, Don't forget KNRK is directional to protect 94.5 in Longview/Kelso to the north.