What Happened to FM Channels 1-199?

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Garrett Wollman wrote:

> Channel 200 is 87.9; 201 is 88.1, and so on up to 300 which is 107.9

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?

Bob Goudreau
Cary, NC

[Garrett Wollman]

In article <telecom2...@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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