If you've been having problems in S.E. Portland hearing Way-FM on their translator licensed to Chapman, Oregon on 104.7MHz you'll soon have another signal.

Way-FM Media Group, Inc. purchased K272EL 102.3 Camas, WA on March 10, 2008 from Horizon Christian Fellowship. They signed the translator on in 2007 from Prune Hill, just off N.W. 18th Ave. in Camas. K272EL runs with 75 watts and rebroadcasts KWYQ 90.3 Longview.

On June 17, 2008 K272EL was granted a license change to Portland, Oregon, locating the transmitter to Mt. Scott on S.E. Quail Ridge Drive. Power will be reduced to 34 watts but on Mt. Scott K272EL will have larger coverage.

102.3 has been on the air from Mt. Scott for awhile! I'll guess about a month. I think they're still licensed to Camas. I'm getting a new translator on 105.5! Has anyone heard it yet? I just noticed it today. By the way, I still hear 102.5 on the freeway, near Mt. Scott. You'd think that 102.3 would block it out but my "seek" stops on 102.3, 102.5 and 102.7 and I don't hear any first adjacent interference!

The 105.5 must be this one: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=138942, licensed 7/26/07. It's hard to believe they would just be getting it on the air, but how much FCC oversight could there possibly be over the zillions of translators out there?

CSN's 105.5 has been on the air for quite a while now, blocking out KUKN...

All I gotta say is "WAY COOL" (no pun intended)

With KDUK's penetration into Portland, the Chapman translator needs to move from 104.7 to 104.5!

I forgot about that one. I don't think it's the one but I can usually get Newberg's 97.7 and that isn't much further away.

I talked to Danny at WAY-FM. He said they are working on something for the 104.7 translator.