CHAI-FM

CHAI-FM
FM);
Branding	CHAI 101.9 FM
Programming
Format	Community radio
Ownership
Owner	Radio Communautaire de Châteauguay Inc.
History
First air date	1980
Technical information
ERP	100 watts
HAAT	50 metres
Repeater(s)	CHAI-FM-1 Candiac
Links
Website	1019fm.net

CHAI-FM is a

radio station located in Châteauguay, Quebec, near Montreal

.

It broadcasts on 101.9

class A1) using an omnidirectional antenna. The station also operates a co-channel repeater, CHAI-FM-1 in Candiac, also on 101.9 FM. The use of two transmitters is in order to protect several co-channel and adjacent-channel stations in nearby areas, the closest being CIBL-FM and CINQ-FM in Montreal, plus co-channel CJSS-FM in Cornwall, Ontario.^[1] (CBMG-FM in Cowansville, a local repeater of CBME-FM

that also broadcasts at 101.9, did not sign on until 2002.)

The station operates under a community radio licence and has a variety format. It opened in 1980.^[2]

In December 2015, CHAI-FM announced plans to replace its two-transmitter system with a single transmitter, from a location southeast of CHAI-FM's main Châteauguay transmitter. The new transmitter would broadcast at 238 watts, with a directional antenna set on an east–west pattern, also to protect nearby stations as discussed above; this was due to synchronization and interference problems between the Châteauguay and Candiac transmitters, which is evident where the two transmitters overlap in an area between

Delson.^[1]

The station is a member of the Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec.