Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Volodya S
Sorry, Paul, but you mustn't be so black and white about AM vs FM. Colin is very correct. A few km out of town, and you can completely lose the CBC signals. 690 is (was) very far reaching, easily covering most of Vancouver Island, the lower mainland, and even mid to upper WA state. At night, I

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
Another treat from a CBC Staffer that shared with me under conditions of strictest confidence-- *CBC has few few hardware techs deployed and very little "break and fix" policy -* *That means when anything (and I stress ANYTHING) fails, declines or breaks - it is left to languish until* *such time

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Eric Floden
I had thought l read they went to ND when they lost some real estate... ef Ontarioariario On Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 12:20 Neil Kazaross Same pattern for CBU now or a change to reflect lower power? 73 KAZ > > > > ___ IRCA mailing list

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Theo
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

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
I don't know if the pattern has changed Neil, but Jon Pearkins was mentioning that they were moving to some sort of "modulation dependent carrier level" scheme. This seems to mean that the carrier level drops as modulation level increases. At the least, it means savings on the power bill, as

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Neil Kazaross
Same pattern for CBU now or a change to reflect lower power? 73 KAZ On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:19 AM Paul B. Walker, Jr. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > So a station should just continue to pour money into something and spend > tons and tons of money for maybe a few hundred or few

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
So a station should just continue to pour money into something and spend tons and tons of money for maybe a few hundred or few thousand listeners? FYI, im also for reducing the 750 mile protection afforded to 50kw Class A's in the US On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:17 AM R. Colin Newell wrote: >

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
And if you are a cabin up the coast with ZERO internet access Ya gotta bear in mind that B.C. is NOT Ohio. We have wilderness on top of wilderness. You can stop on a B.C. highway and slip 6 feet into the woods to take a leak... AND NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN... after likely being devoured by bears,

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
thats what internet streaming and relays in other towns/villages are for.. clean up the AM band a bit... On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:58 AM R. Colin Newell wrote: > If you ignore the fact that CBC 690 is listened to hundreds of miles away > by BC residents... where the FM signal does not reach...

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
If you ignore the fact that CBC 690 is listened to hundreds of miles away by BC residents... where the FM signal does not reach... then maybe the AM signal is redundant... IMHO. On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 8:54 AM Paul B. Walker, Jr. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > And with nearly 100kw on

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
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 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

Re: [IRCA] [HCDX] CBU 690 Vancouver now at 25,000 Watts fulltime

2018-11-23 Thread R. Colin Newell
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. < walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > From Canadian Radio News on Facebook: > Northwest