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CHBE Victoria 107.3 Filing with the FCC

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RF101

Canadian border area stations file with the US authorities for "visibility", to keepthe frequency data bases aligned. US stations also coordinate with Industry Canada (or whatever is their new name).

So CHBE has been listed as 20kw non-directional but now it looks like the transmitter is moving from Colwood to the northwest near Mount Jeffrey with a very directional signal. Coverage might actually increase thanks to the higher HAAT:



Any insight?
 
I'm not much help here regarding this issue, but I do ask:
Are they doing well as Virgin radio? If not, is signal strength the problem? Or is it possible that they really were doing better in their Kool FM days?
 
This is interesting. I’m not sure I understand the logic on this one, as I was under the impression that the Colwood antenna farm was becoming sort of the de-facto transmitter site in town.

The Pattison media stations have their own site on Malahat Ridge, but as I recall, CIOC migrated to the Colwood site at some point and dropped their power significantly (which I assumed was out of convenience and practicality). I believe CIOC used to be located on one of the gulf islands with a monster signal that easily made it into Seattle.

The Colwood stations all are around 20kw, and have decent coverage in the area (albeit not monster coverage like you would get at a site on Malahat ridge, or up at the CHEK site).
 
RF101 said:
Canadian border area stations file with the US authorities for "visibility", to keepthe frequency data bases aligned. US stations also coordinate with Industry Canada (or whatever is their new name).
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The stations themselves do not file with a foreign country. Each country’s regulatory body coordinates with each other in accordance with international treaties and accords.

What we have today are remnants of the North American treaty that included, back to the late 30s, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, etc. Today we have agreements between the US and Mexico, the US and Canada and also with the Bahamas. Those agreements control what can be licensed by each nation at a certain distance from other nation borders.
 
davideduardo said:
The stations themselves do not file with a foreign country. Each country’s regulatory body coordinates with each other in accordance with international treaties and accords.

What we have today are remnants of the North American treaty that included, back to the late 30s, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, etc. Today we have agreements between the US and Mexico, the US and Canada and also with the Bahamas. Those agreements control what can be licensed by each nation at a certain distance from other nation borders.
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The US government has made many bilateral "working" agreements for its two major neighboring nations:


For FM/TV the US also has to worry about : Bahamas, Dominican Republic, British Virgin Islands, Samoa (the nation), and perhaps others.

True, the transnational station does not "file" with the adjacent country's governing body but the host nation's "agency" coordinates with the adjacent nation to make sure the filing is "compatible". The CHBE entry into the FCC data base is a "visibility" thing. (I am just surprised it has yet to show up in the source Canadian frequency data base.)
 


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