City Wenatchee, Washington Frequency 102.1 MHz | Branding 102.1 The Quake First air date November 15, 1967 | |
Broadcast area Wenatchee, Washington
Yakima, Washington Slogan Central Washington's Rock Station | ||
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 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.