If you click on the word "information" on that page, you another page that links to other pages. Some of them are philosophical or political in nature, but others talk about improving telecommunications services on Pitcairn Island (http://cbc.am/ptt.htm).
From there you can go to a page with shortwave-related items on it (http://cbc.am/radio.htm). It says the CBC BC site is a proposal and includes a draft(?) of a letter to the Canadian Prime minister promoting the idea. There's also a proposal for a BBC World Service transmitter site in the Faulkland (sic) Islands, proposed frequencies are 1530 and 1620 kHz with 500kw.
This is obviously the work of someone with a vivid imagination and way too much time on their hands!
Mike Brooker wrote:
mayHere's the URL: http://cbc.am/rci-bc.htmBut I think it's a hoax! In my opinion CBC would use it's own web-site to
spread such information. ".am" leads to ARMENIA! The content seems to be
"professional made" using the VoA HF Propagation software. But everyone
download it via NIIA/ITS web-site and use or abuse this programme. A late April-fool hoax ...?
I'm also going to file this one under "H" for hoaxes. The .am Armenian URL is a dead ringer for a bogus site. CBC has never referred to any of its radio networks as "CBC-AM", even before many of CBC's AM stations (CBL-Toronto, CBM/CBF-Montreal, CBO-Ottawa, etc.) moved to FM.
What I can't figurer is why would someone (a disgruntled DXer in western Canada, perhaps) who appears not to be an amateur teenage nerd when it comes to web design skills, go to all the trouble of creating such a hoax?
73
Mike Brooker Toronto, ON
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