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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