** CANADA. It's getting interesting at the end of the AM dial --- some tentative launch dates for CJLO 1690 were released today. Direct from the CJLO march to AM blog:
"I'm going to go out on a limb here and put down some TENTATIVE on-air dates. I repeat. TENTATIVE. Things change, bad things happen, etc. Just remember that. With the radio inspector coming on August 25th, I expect that our government mandated and approved testing period will start that week. Towards the third week of September, we should be able to switch over from the MP3-based testing period to our live content. This will be our soft-launch (when we're sort of on air, but not officially). The way things are shaping up now, we should have a full press conference on October 6th. Our full official launch date will be in the days after that, depending on how things shape up around the (Canadian) Thanksgiving holiday. And then, to make things all that much more awesome, full parties and shows on the weekend of the 17th." That's all I have for now, 73's for everyone, may you all be safe and in good health (Neofoodog, Aug 5, ABDX via DXLD) CJLO is at Concordia University, Montréal, neofoodog might have mentioned; but then he(?) doesn`t even give us his own real name or location (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CJLO 1690am begins early unofficial testing Thought some of you here would be interested in this read as CJLO on 1690 am has some early testing going on, here is a statement from the station manager via http://www.cjlo.com/am At 4:59pm EST [sic] on Monday, July 28th, 2008, a signal was broadcast on 1690 AM in Montreal, Quebec. This is the first time that it has ever happened in a legitimate, city-wide capacity. Brian and I were at the site when the AM guy finalized the connection between the antenna and the transmitter. There is still some minor tuning to do, but it's working as is. We broadcast a tone at 440 Hz on CJLO for about 5 minutes. We listened to it in my car the whole way back to the radio station from the site. Let me tell you, a 4-minute car ride listening to a piercing A is not a pleasant experience. However, we were able to confirm that the signal is very strong at the school. We also had a friend downtown check it out and it was loud in clear, even in his underground parking garage. Now for the bad news. The radio inspector, the fellow who works for Industry Canada, is currently on his unionized month-long vacation and won't be able to inspect our operation until he gets back. This means that we won't have any official approval from the government until August 25th. It also means that, legally, we won't be able to start our official testing period until then. We're going to make the best use of our time between now and then. We'll be able to test in short spurts, never more than 5 minutes. It'll let us know if everything is connected properly, but won't let us see how the signal interacts with the terrain or other broadcast signals. I'll have some more info on how we're going to tackle the testing period and full launch in my next post. Check back in a day or two! Then on Wednesday they relayed this message... As we'd stated in the AM blog, we've been broadcasting a tone (440 Hz) off and on over the last few days. We started at 200 watts of power on Monday. Today, we went beyond our 1 kW goal and sent the tone out at 1,200 watts. We confirmed reports of the tone coming in loud and clear downtown, in NDG, and from the West Island. If you're curious about the tone, feel free to turn your radio to 1690 AM. We can't be on the air all the time, as we're still in an early testing phase. If you're lucky, you might just hear CJLO's pirate broadcast tone! (steverockamaniac, July 31, radioinmontreal yg via DXLD) Funny, I just tried listening today (August 1st) at 12:35 PM, and the only thing I can hear on AM 1690 is programming from CJRS AM 1650 (Radio Shalom, who I work for as the community reporter, oddly enough), which is 40 kHz to the left of CJLO on the AM dial. When I tuned in, they were broadcasting news from Israel in Hebrew, as opposed to anything that might be CJLO-related. I wonder why this is (Mark David, ibid.) _______________________________________________ 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]
