[IRCA] NORTHWEST QUICKIE

[Pete Taylor <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We recently drove to Coeur d'Alene for a few days. The following were of note:
1. 1700 The Russian language station is still here. Very usable signal noted driving through Everett (I didn't get that far when I scouted the station a while back). 
2. 1610, a Part 15 station in Winthrop, WA. Sort-of-country music, then an ID around 10am PDT on 8/7, "This is the KSAC LP Network" followed by IRN news. The news went on for about ten seconds and then stopped mid-sentence, leaving an OC. Not enchanted by this, I moved up to 1700 where I heard the exact same sequence, news cut-off included. The latter was a much weaker signal (possibly from Twisp, WA?) and we are talking about a delay of about 45 seconds. I probably have some of the info wrong since I was driving at the time and had to rely on my memory.
3. 1520 KKXA Snohomish is maintaining a Facebook blog which depicts their progress putting the thing together, including when they blew a capacitor. Lots of pictures. I haven't viewed it yet today so don't know if they are still running 12kw ND. It carried reasonably well off of I-5 toward Winthrop on Saturday. It is fairly decent in NE Tacoma but does not hold up too well on WA 509 as I drive 10 miles to downtown Tacoma. They are still playing a lot of the "radio" songs but are now giving frequent IDs and are inviting listeners to set their pushbuttons already even though they purportedly have not decided on a format. I have not detected IBOC yet. In the blog, they haven't mentioned anything about problems encountered co-siting with another 50kw station.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-300/380






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