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



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 <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>
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. <
walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> 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

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