TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: What Happened to FM Channels 1-199?

Re: What Happened to FM Channels 1-199?

Garrett Wollman (wollman@lcs.mit.edu)
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:21:21 UTC

In article <telecom24.125.17@telecom-digest.org>,
<BobGoudreau@withheld at request> wrote:

> Now that we've covered the history of VHF Channel 1, can anyone
> explain why the official FM channel numbers are in the range 200-300
> instead of 1-101?

I believe it was simply to avoid confusion with the TV channels 2-83.

-GAWollman

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