Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 690 French Saskatchewan

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El Paso is quite a haul to Toronto. However, here in IL I noticed a huge improvement in El Paso about 3 or 4 years ago on 690. They went from rare DX to a near pest. I suspect a facility improvement or the pattern is out of whack?

73 KAZ


-----Original Message-----
>From: Saul DX <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Aug 20, 2010 8:35 AM
>To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx, irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM]  690 French Saskatchewan
>
>They were good last night. Also had El Paso TX and various unID Latins, all 
>kind of weakish..
>Saul
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Barry McLarnon" <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] [IRCA] 690 French Saskatchewan
>
>
>On Tuesday 17 August 2010 22:15:22 Saul DX wrote:
>> Good chance for many of you in the east who need the French-language
>>  station in SA not to log it ... heard it last night for third time this
>>  month, and I've only checked a handful of times. In the overnight hours.
>>  Not //540 860 etc CBCs but remember there's a time zone difference. It is
>>  // during news. Nothing else there that would be French, though. Pattern
>>  must be a bit outa whack? Mixed last night with WELD and a Spanish
>>  station. Have had lots of Cuba there, another I suspect is Colombia
>>  (which I've yet to conclusively ID).
>
>Thanks for the heads-up, Saul!  I'd forgotten about your previous report
>about this station, but last night I set up to record 690 overnight.  I had
>hints of FF in my 0000 EDT recording, but it really improved in the next few
>hours after that.  Best reception was at 0400, when they were dominant and
>came through with a nice TOH ID: "Vous ecoutez a la Première Chaîne de 
>Radio-
>Canada, CBKF en Saskatchewan... il est deux heures".  Also heard at times 
>was
>CBU, with CBC news and "CBC Radio One" mentions.  Interesting to note the 
>use
>of a callsign ID on the French network, something that has disappeared from
>the English network.  CJGX-940 was also very good here last night, 
>indicating
>a return to better conditions.
>
>I heard not a whisper from CBKF-1 last fall and winter, when conditions were
>better to the west than they are now, so I conclude that they are staying on
>day pattern 24/7 at the moment.  I know quite a few of the CBC engineering
>folks, and I'm certain that this is inadvertent... in any case, DXers are 
>the
>beneficiaries!  Check this one out before they fix it!
>
>Barry
>
>-- 
>Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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