My oh MY!!!! Yahoo! I never expected CBC to give up their marvelous West Coast Anchor, CBU, the Mighty 690. AM is truly being shoved into the dustbin of history in Canada. When we are on Orcas Island, the towers of both AM 600 and 690 are line of sight from my antennas across twenty miles of open sea water. Even with the very best of DSP and SDR receivers, 594, 603 and 684, 693 are nearly absent from my Orcas log book. Its not really slop so much as just transmitted energy that swamps every receiver that I've ever tried. Hearing 594-Tokyo in audio takes a REALLY good Asian morning on Orcas, where 594 is almost a pest, twenty miles further away from Vancouver at Nick and Walt's in Victoria, BC.
We'll say a prayer that the frequency is not filled by some semi-amateur narrowcaster like 1200 in Victoria has become.... Who me? Selfish? A narrow-minded DX fiend, as they used to call us in the 1920s. CBU has been a marvelous station for all of southern BC and carries quite an audience on the southside of the Border, as well. R.I.P. John B. Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA (and Orcas Island, WA) Rcvrs: WiNRADiO 313e, Eton e1, NRD-535(kiwa-mods) Antennas: 700' NE/SW mini-Bev, Wellbrook Phased Array (pre-production version) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
