[BC] "New" station in SF

[dean tiernan fiber guy]

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> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:59:47 -0600
> From: Alan Kline <akline at netins.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] "New" station in SF
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> I'm guessing here that Peter refers to the San Francisco Municipal 
> Railway, and its streetcar and trolley-coach operations. Those can wreak 
> havoc on the reception of AM radio anywhere near a car or TC line. The 
> scraping of the current collector shoes against the overhead wire 
> generates all kinds of AM noise. For a trolley coach, multiply by two, 
> as each coach has two poles.
>
> When my wife and I were first married, we lived briefly at her 
> grandparents' home, about a half-block from the 31-Balboa trolley coach. 
> Whenever a coach would go by, it would completely obliterate KCBS--not 
> exactly the weakest signal in the market.
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> I can guarantee that the Muni's electric vehicles are not going to go 
> away--not in *that* city. In fact, the voters by referendum have 
> mandated the elimination of diesel coaches. I think they have to be 
> replaced by LNG or propane fueled vehicles, or by electric transit. 
> Besides, at the moment it seems that everyone there is preoccupied by 
> the Mayor's love life...
>
>   


perhaps, but there is also a state and federal funding mandate as well. 
The state of California does (i have a friend in the bus business in San 
Leandro, CA) NOT allow the replacement of diesels for pub transit with 
diesel.

BTW the friend in the bus business does very little work in Ca as a 
result because of their diesel power plants, you can see them on the 
east side of the San Mateo Bridge approaches doing little predelivery 
test runs up and down the road. Gillig

Dean Tiernan formerly of California Street and Laurel St.
> IIRC, the Muni's land-mobile radio system operates up in the 480 mHz 
> band. For years, they still used a channel way, way down--31.14 mHz off 
> the top of my head--but I'm sure that's long gone. Anyway, I've never 
> heard of the Muni's two-ways causing BC interference.
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> ak