KPQ-FM

KPQ-FM
City of license	Wenatchee, Washington
Broadcast area	Wenatchee, Washington Yakima, Washington
Branding	102.1 The Quake
Slogan	Central Washington's Rock Station
Frequency	102.1 MHz
First air date	November 15, 1967 ^[1]
Format	Classic rock
ERP	35,000 watts
HAAT	809 meters (2,654 feet)
Class	C
Facility ID	71524
Owner	Wescoast Broadcasting
Sister stations	KPQ, KWNC, KYSN, KKWN, KWWW, KAAP
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	thequake1021.com

KPQ-FM ("102.1 The Quake") is a classic rock radio station primarily serving Wenatchee and Central Washington. The Wescoast Radio outlet operates with an ERP of 35 kW with its city of license being Wenatchee, Washington.

Coverage

KPQ-FM is not very powerful wattage-wise, but with its transmitter located atop Squilchuck Peak ^[2] near the Mission Ridge Ski Area, its exceptional HAAT (Height Above Average Terrain) at 2,654 feet allows KPQ-FM to have a line-of-sight signal that consistently reaches the Tri-Cities and Ritzville areas. Despite those locations being around 95 miles away, listeners can still receive KPQ-FM clearly even though Radio-Locator's map inaccurately shows them to be out of KPQ-FM's range. Most of Eastern Washington, Yakima, and Omak also receive KPQ-FM regularly. Under the right atmospheric conditions (such as during tropospheric ducting, for example), KPQ-FM reaches parts of Seattle, the Olympic Peninsula, northern Oregon (especially in the Blue Mountains), parts of Idaho and the Idaho Panhandle, outside Spokane (with a powerful selective tuner like Pioneer's Supertuner IIID due to interference from KTSL-FM and/or declining line-of-sight of Squilchuck Peak), and even as far as parts of southern British Columbia, Canada.^[3]^[4]

References

External links

Official Website

Query the FCC's FM station database for KPQ

Radio-Locator information on KPQ

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KPQ

Radio stations in the Wenatchee, Washington market

By FM frequency	89.9 90.7 94.7 95.9 97.7 99.5 99.7 101.1 102.1 104.7 106.7

By AM frequency	560 810 900 1340

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.475

By callsign	KAAP KKRT KKRV KKWN KNWR KOHO KPLW KPQ KPQ-FM KTBI KWWX KYSN KZAL KZML WXM48

Nearby radio markets Northwest Washington Richland–Kennewick–Pasco Seattle-Tacoma Spokane Yakima See also List of radio stations in Washington

Radio stations in the Yakima, Washington market

By FM frequency	88.5 89.5 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.9 94.5 96.9 98.7 99.3 99.7 100.9 102.1 103.1 104.1 104.5 104.9 105.7 107.3

By AM frequency	930 980 1020 1280 1390 1460

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	K283BX KARY KATS KBBO KDBL KDNA KDYK KFFM KHHK KIG75 KIT KMGW KMNA KNWY KPQ-FM KRSE KSOH KTCR KUTI KXDD KYAK KYKV KYPL KYVT KYXE KZTA

Nearby radio markets Portland Richland–Kennewick–Pasco Seattle-Tacoma Wenatchee See also List of radio stations in Washington

Classic rock radio stations in the state of Washington

By frequency	92.9 98.5 98.9 102.1 102.5 102.9 104.7 105.7 105.9 106.5 107.1

By callsign	KDUX-FM KEGX KEYG-FM KFBW KISM KKZX KPQ-FM KRQT KRSE KVAB KZOK-FM

By city	Bellingham Castle Rock Clarkston Grand Coulee Hoquiam Richland Seattle Spokane Vancouver Wenatchee Yakima

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Washington See also active rock classic rock mainstream rock modern rock

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