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105.1 CBC Music - Vancouver Island ?
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This is right, but you got lucky. radio locator is horribly out of date and or inaccurate for canadian data
For the CBC i use this: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frequency click print frequencies by province.. youre not actually printing but you can select provinces from a drop down menu and presents evertything for that province
For Canada, use fccdata.org michi bradleys site pulls from the relevant canadian databases and is current
I *know* you know this Paul, but as a reminder for everyone else: what appears on R-L and every other site that uses the FCC database for Canadian station listings isn't designed to be a perfectly accurate reflection of what's actually on the air in Canada.
Those listings appear in the FCC database so that consultants like me know what US stations are required to protect on the Canadian side.
Those Canadian protections are sometimes actual licensed stations and sometimes they're just allocations that haven't ever been built or that have left the air but are still protected internationally. Canada makes no particular effort to keep callsigns updated in the FCC database, since it really doesn't matter.
In addition to FCCData's Canadian search tab, the Radioland app for phones also pulls directly from the Industry Canada database and is much more accurate for Canadian listings.
Here's how that 105.1 comes up on a Radioland search for Victoria BC...
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The 99.5 CBCV-FM1 from Metchosin/Sooke made it onto the hills above Marysville daily...at only 64 watts. This was before the Everett translator came on. And so did CKKS (now CFUN) 104.7 Sechelt // Mountain FM CISQ. Only 350 watts and a long way up the Sunshine Coast, but there they were, very weak but audible.
Thank you for the solid answer. CBU-FM-2 Metchosin/Sooke BC on 105.1 FM at 64 watts H . That would be it. CBUF-FM-9 99.7 Victoria (Radio-Canada) remains listenable in places like Oak Harbor, Anacortes and even Mt Vernon. However, that one is running 1200 watts bore-sighted on 120 degrees (SE). That one has some "in-treaty power limits" towards Seattle: " Limited to 550W and 250m towards 260C Seattle,WA (Az. = 145.5°)"
99.5 in Everett definitely has a hot signal for a translator, perhaps a little bit too hot. I don't see how 99.5 Sooke could still be on the air with 99.7 Victoria blasting away, apparently so though.
99.5 in Everett definitely has a hot signal for a translator, perhaps a little bit too hot. I don't see how 99.5 Sooke could still be on the air with 99.7 Victoria blasting away, apparently so though.
LOL didn't mean to start a mini firestorm here. I got "lucky" becuase I was just in Sooke a few weeks ago and listened to this translator at the B and B we were staying at. So I already knew what I was looking for and radio-locator works pretty well IF you already know what you are looking for! Sooke has several translators even though it is physicvally not that far form Victoria. The topography just kills the local FMs in that area- too steep a slope towards the water.
I subsequently learned if one travels to the Deception Pass Bridge connecting Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands, then the 99.5 Sooke CBC-1 repeater comes blasting in. There's very little land (San Juan Islands) between there and Vancouver Island so this makes sense. I also learned that my mobile phone re-affiliates to a Canadian cellular carrier in that US location.
The official CBC Music repeater for Vancouver Island is on 92.1 CBU-FM-1.
That definitely sounds like the main CBU-FM signal on 105.7 to me. It could be a reflection that you're hearing. The terrain between you and the transmitter is extremely flat, with saltwater being the main barrier. It makes sense that you're hearing the signal bounce of something end up on on a frequency nearby. As I recall, I've had a similar experience at my place in Richmond before. Anywhere you go in the Vancouver area, you can almost always see Mount Seymour (unless you end up too far west past Horseshoe Bay, or too far east). Field strength of any of the local Vancouver FM's is never really an issue in Vancouver proper. You're directly in the firing line of 100kw.
Heck, even as I type this, I can actually see Mount Constitution on Orcas Island. 100kw on 105.7 is definitely not going to be weak when you're that close by.
I didn't know Radioland had accurate Canadian listings so thanks for that tip.
For those Sooke (Vancouver Island) translators, a trip to Deception Pass bridge between Fidalgo and Skagit counties provides some great reception possibilities without leaving US soil. Both the 99.5 and 105.1 signals heard are indeed the CBC low-powered outlets. Likewise, he French-language 107.9 250-watter in Victoria has a solid signal along with UVic's CFUV.