Well, Radio One/88.1 pretty much disappears while driving once Hwy 99
turns the Big Bend and heads north from Horseshoe Bay, only about 20km
west of the Mt Seymour tx, and reception from the Squamish FM relay is
spotty till you're well up Howe Sound. Residents in parts of HB and
especially Lions Bay likely would agree with that assessment too.
Even driving along parts of Marine Drive on the southern edges of the
cities of Burnaby and Vancouver, the steep rise up to the Kingsway ridge
can block the FM'ers from Mt Seymour.
Mother Corp applied to the CRTC to turn off 690 but the request was
denied because of the difficulties with FM in our, um, mountain-goat
environment...
Once upon a time, while driving across the southern part of of BC on Hwy
3, there was constant AM coverage from LPRT's and lower-powered
commercial/private stns in towns along the way. Nowadays, daytime travel
is a blank band, AM or FM, for considerable distances.
Theo
On 23/11/2018 7:53 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
And with nearly 100kw on FM, that 50kw on AM isnt really needed.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:51 AM R. Colin Newell <[email protected]>
wrote:
And you can certainly tell!
They are easier to null and the nulls are deeper - and my N Flag that
points right at them no longer "pins the S meter..."
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 8:49 AM Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
[email protected]> wrote:
From Canadian Radio News on Facebook:
Northwest Broadcasters is reporting that CBC Radio One in Vancouver CBU
690
has now decreased power from 50,000 to 25,000 watts fulltime. The
reduction
in power was necessitated after a fire destroyed part of the stations
transmitting facilities last year which would have been too costly to
repair. Radio One programming is also available in Vancouver on repeater
CBU-2 at 88.1 which operates with 97,600 watts.
--
Colin Newell
_______________________________________________
IRCA mailing list
[email protected]
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original
contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its
editors, publishing staff, or officers
For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org
To Post a message: [email protected]
