by VE7ROX » Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:16 pm
Holy smokes, is that you jon? I remember when we used to put labels on to paste bottles and/or glue bottles at Peerless Paste haha. That didn't have much to do with broadcasting but was an interesting production line job. Maybe they have machines doing that now. I was just talking to Mr. CFAY last night, he has cell phones now (plural - more than one), so we can keep in touch. I have both landline and cell, so that is handy. On top of that, I set up one of my computers on his kitchen table, and put a wireless card in it so he can get on to the internet without a cable or Telus connection. There is a Messenger Box in it, so we keep in touch using WLM (Windows Live Messenger), along with using the e-mail. He mentioned something about talking to you the other day. I will send you some pictures via e-mail.
So let's see, transmitter on top of Mount Seymour. Could be pushing the envelope there. Hmmm, I am on the south slope of Capitol Hill, about half way up, so it is a reasonably high location. On 89.1 MHz, I hear the signal (the one transmitted from here) at about a 5-mile radius. I have heard it as far west as Nanaimo and East Hastings, and south as far as Metrotown. That frequency (89.1 MHz) is reasonably clear around here, although you have to contend sometimes with splash from "Radio 89.3 FM Tourist Information Radio" (they never use a callsign) and CBUX-1 FM 88.9 in Victoria, the two umbrella frequencies on either side. Mr. CFAY and myself did some FM DXing a little ways back (OK, back in the eighties) on Thorne Hill (east of Haney) and picked up KZEL FM 96.1 in Eugene, Oregon. They even sent us QSL cards, posters,and other goodies. That frequency is now occupied locally, but the FM band back in the eighties didn't have anywhere near as much on it as it does now. In Vancouver, we now have a vacated frequency on the AM band as you probably know, 600 KHz. You can hear CJWW Saskatoon, SK reasonably well in this area. The frequency is totally clear during the day. Maybe a Ramsey transmitter running a couple of watts could do something there. Hmmm.
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VE7ROX on Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:56 am, edited 8 times in total.