Re: [IRCA] CBE-1550 Windsor ON applies to move to FM (97.5, 3.2 kW)

["Karl J. Zuk" <karlzuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There goes my last firm grip on CBC on medium wave.

Is the frequency going dark or will someone else take it over?

Karl Zuk  N2KZ






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> From: dmcintyr@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:19:12 -0700
> Subject: [IRCA] CBE-1550 Windsor ON applies to move to FM (97.5, 3.2 kW)
> 
> CBE-1550 Windsor ON has applied to the CRTC to move to FM (97.5 MHz,  
> 3.2 kW, 130.1 meters)
> with a second transmitter at Leamington ON 991.5 MHz, 6.1  kW, 58.7  
> meters).
> This will replace the never implemented nested FM relay on 102.3 MHz.  
> CBE will go
> silent after the usual three month simulcast period. Excluding a few  
> 40 watt low power relay transmitters
> this is the last (assuming that CBI will also actually move) English  
> language CBC station
> on AM between Manitoba and Newfoundland.
> 
> <http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Hearings/2008/n2008-14.htm#31>
> 
> 31.
> Windsor and Leamington, Ontario
> Application No. 2008-1352-8
> 
> Application by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to convert radio  
> station
> CBE Windsor from the AM band to the FM band.
> 
> The applicant is also proposing to establish a new FM transmitter at  
> Leamington.
> 
> The new station would operate on frequency 97.5 MHz (channel 248B)  
> with an average
> effective radiated power of 3,200 watts (maximum effective radiated  
> power of 19,000
> watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of  
> 130.1 metres).
> 
> The Leamington transmitter would operate on frequency 91.5 MHz  
> (channel 218B1) with
> an average effective radiated power of 6,100 watts (maximum effective  
> radiated power
> of 10,400 watts with an effective height of antenna above average  
> terrain of 58.7 metres).
> 
> The applicant is requesting, pursuant to sections 9(1)(e) and 24(2)  
> of the Broadcasting
> Act, the revocation of the licence of CBE effective at the end of the  
> simulcast period.
> 
> The applicant has indicated that it will apply, within 30 days of the  
> implementation of
> the proposed FM transmitter at Windsor, for the revocation of the  
> authority granted in
> Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-101 for a nested FM transmitter on  
> the 102.3 MHz frequency in Windsor.
> 
> The applicant has indicated that it will launch both the Windsor and  
> Leamington
> transmitters within one year of the approval where, at which time, it  
> will operate
> in simulcast mode for three months. Following this period, the  
> applicant is also
> requesting, pursuant to sections 9(1)(e) and 24(1) of the  
> Broadcasting Act, the
> revocation of the licence of CBE Windsor.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Deane McIntyre VE6BPO
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