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The National Park Service has proposed building a new radio communications system that includes a dozen new radio towers for the North Cascades National Park. The new system, intended to improve radio communications for Park Service employees, would replace the park's wideband radio system with a narrowband system. A Park Service spokeswoman says the towers are needed to comply with federal regulations and will improve communications in an area where radios often are unusable. They won't be useful to hikers in the park with cellular phones.

(that last statement is an interesting but maybe a useful one as it explained to Joe Public what it won't do)

http://kiro710.com/Article.asp?id=168769&spid=7564

Thanks for the post. What a bunch of BS from KIRO. Not about the new system or the North Cascades, but what about the 'wideband' or my fav 'to comply with federal regulations'.
I usually do the Times and KING. KIRO doesn't site a source, I wonder where they got the info. MTM you're letting us down if we are having to get our info from the TV media!

-m

166.750 FED SKAGIT - KOF7999 USFS NORTH CASCADES NATL PARK (*165.975 IN)

Kiro has gone downhill since they lost the Mariners and brought in new management to wreck once was one of the top rated stations in Seattle. Entercom seems to have blown up all the formats of their other stations as well to see how bad they can screw it up.

I must haved dozed off --. What am I blamed for now ???? The FCC and Federal Agencies have agreed to make it -- a little more easy for anyone to use Federal Land or to relocate towers --- without a lot of the envirnmental "road blocks" or screams from the general public -- like "not in my back yard". This was to help the TV stations move to HDTV -- and to relocate -- the TV sites "IF need be". HDTV only will cover about 60 % of what the old analog TV does. As for the NPS moving to "narrow band" channels -- talk to the Feds. Anything close to the Border -- should be watched ---( Homeland Security ). As to KIRO TV's use of "Wideband" -- Call the TV answer man. It's not the same station since Bonneville sold them off. --- But I would think that the new rules WOULD allow or permit cellphone companys to "rent" those new sites. However both USDA and BLM have very strict requirements against "high powered" broadcast use of the same radio sites used by them --.