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What can you usually get on your radio on the Olympic Peninsula?

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fordranger797

Im curious about what you usually can get on the radio if you are in the northern or western region of the Olympic peninsula, such as Port Angeles or Forks.

To my understanding, your reception of Seattle FM radio is gone once you hit Aberdeen on the south end, or Sequim on the north end. Of course there are exceptions, but from my experiences I have not received a truly listenable signal after I have gotten into the twin harbours or Seqium.

So what can you get after you are up far enough on the Olympic peninsula that the Aberdeen stations are faded to static, or far enough west past Seqium that everything from Seattle is blocked?

Next time I drive the loop starting from Aberdeen, im curious how the stronger stations originating from that town (KSWW 102.1 and KDUX 104.7) will fair while traveling due north up to forks.
 
Reception is not gone in Aberdeen, I still pick up a few Seattle stations, and then once you hit the Washington Coast I can get varying threshold-fair signals of Seattle stations at 100+ miles.

KSWW makes it up the Hood Canal to Brinnon then fades after Mt. Walker as Quilcene becomes a "Canadian FM" area. Instead of KOMO you get CBUF. Everything south is blocked, badly, by mountains.

I remember with a crappy radio in Clallam Bay and Sekiu, NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, not even KVIX (!) came in on FM. But I received CKMO 900, CFAX 1070, KAPS 660, CBU 690 etc like locals.
 
I usually can pick up the Canadian FM's once I hit the Hood Canal bridge heading west, and I usually can keep the signal until I get to Forks. I am unsure how long I could keep reception on any of the Seattle FM stations.
 
Aside from the local signals, Forks is pretty much a radio dead zone.....
 
Well, wait a while and try again... There's a new FM signal coming in Port Angeles, and another in Sequim.
 
Years ago, I was somewhere around there and Seattle AM was completely blocked. I was able to pick up several Portland AMs instead, coming in just fine.
 
Hey guys, I plan on taking a camping trip at a few locations around the Olympia Peninsula here in the future. I wanted to know if there were any specific locations you would like me to sample.
 
I'd be curious as to nighttime AM radio reception in the Kalaloch / Forks area -- because it's next to the ocean, and across from the Olympics from the Seattle area.

It's been a long time since I was in that area of the state, and when I did, I didn't have a good radio handy, and didn't do much DXing.
 
boombox4 said:
I'd be curious as to nighttime AM radio reception in the Kalaloch / Forks area -- because it's next to the ocean, and across from the Olympics from the Seattle area.

It's been a long time since I was in that area of the state, and when I did, I didn't have a good radio handy, and didn't do much DXing.
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I'll be happy to update you when i'm out there. I'll be sure to bring my high quality equipment. However, I did make a YouTube video on your exact inquiry. Please excuse how terrible this video may be, as I was somewhere around 12 or 13 when I made it, and I clearly was ignorant to how radio works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK87a8EP2KE

The bottom line.. Seattle AM seems to work at night. They skip over the Olympics.

FM is a little tricky and I really need to experiment with it when I bring my equipment. However, FM stations from the Oregon cost will come in at times, and there is some life of a signal from Cosmopolis Hill stations such as KANY (when they were on 93.7 and on Cosmopolis Hill), KDUX, KSWW, and even KYNW.
 
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FM was pretty good at Pacific Beach (north of Ocean Shores) when I was there in 2011. Had KCRF, KPPT, KYTE etc from Newport and Lincoln City like locals at 150 miles. At sea level! Also had tropo out to Eugene, OR and KKNU 93.3 was pretty common. Nothing from east of the Cascades - may be too far.

-crainbebo
 
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