KQRZ-LP

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KQRZ-LP
City of license Hillsboro, Oregon
Frequency 100.7 MHz
First air date July 22, 2012
Format Educational Adult standards
Oldies Ham Radio News
ERP 5 watts
HAAT 131 meters (430 ft)
Class L1
Facility ID 134266
Transmitter coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Callsign meaning Amateur Radio Q Code: "Who is calling me?"
Affiliations Western Oregon Radio Club, Inc.
Owner Oregon Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
Sister stations KISN-LP
Website kqrz.org

KQRZ-LP (100.7 FM) is a low-power radio station licensed to Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. The station is owned by the Oregon Amateur Radio Club, Inc. KQRZ-LP signed on the air July 22, 2012, on an initial frequency of 101.5 MHz.[1] On July 11, 2013, at 8:00 PM, KQRZ-LP changed the transmit frequency to 100.7 MHz, although the license to cover that frequency was not issued by the Federal Communications Commission until September 4, 2013.

On July 22, 2012, KQRZ undertook an affiliation with the WORC Oldies Network, which syndicates broadcast material to other low-power radio stations interested in amateur radio. Programming includes amateur (ham) radio news, educational material, comedy, oldies, and adult standard music.

Veteran disc jockey (DJ) "The Vegetable Man", who was local to Pacific Northwest radio in the 1960s, is also broadcast by the network with periodic shows daily.

Fictional

The call letters of KQRZ were used for a fictional TV station in Los Angeles, California, in the Adam-12 television episode entitled Pick Up.

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