Re: [IRCA] Lower Mainland BC signals ( Van-Vic)

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

1040 is nice and strong here at my location in Fairfield, Victoria (S 9 +
20) in mid-afternoon.  No sign of distortion on 1070, but they're only about
a mile from my home, so maybe too close to be sure of anything.......Walt

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:33 PM, bill kral <jwkral@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  1040 Vancouver/ 1070 Victoria :
>
>
> 1040 CKST's signal is relatively weak towards Victoria since their daytime
> pattern runs mainly east-west for maximum population coverage in the Lower
> Mainland of BC and not concentrating too much on covering areas in southern
> Vancouver Island and northwest Washington while also supposedly protecting
> another station in Oregon.
> 1070 CFAX could have a stronger signal in every direction now as of a
> transmitter upgrade which was done about a year ago after I noticed that
> they were causing some off frequency distorted harmonics on I guess 1065 and
> 1075 which I reported to their CE who was not aware of the problem. I don't
> know if it was corrected because of my report or by the previously planned
> upgrade.He told me that the power output had been 8000 watts and would be
> returning to normal at 10kw after the transmitter work was completed.
> Bill in BC
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