Re: [IRCA] U.S. Punjabi stations broadcasting into Canada

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK so it was a few years ago when CKST and CTFE combined. It has been several years since they switched to night rig IMO. Perhaps there was an error made when they moved and broken hardware to switch was never fixed. 

Several years ago they went from never being heard here at my IL QTH to backgrounding WHO on nights when skip is good to the Pac NW.

I can tell that they didn't switch on nights when they'd be coming on legally using day pattern prior to Vancouver sunset switch time, when there'd be no reduction in power at or after switch time. .. ie they'd be bothering WHO all night. It is the same situation this month, although cx aren't yet good enough to allow presunset skip to the Pac NW. Note also that high lat. cx were better a couple years ago than they are this year and on really good nights in late Sept and late Oct, stuff like KOMO could be coming in here with WMVP phased down, as much as an hour prior to Seattle's sunset switch time.

73 KAZ Barrington IL  Perseus and two element Broadside DKAZ array aimed west

-----Original Message-----
>From: Theo <theod@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sep 17, 2014 12:39 PM
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>Subject: Re: [IRCA] U.S. Punjabi stations broadcasting into Canada
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>Here's the actual notice from the CRTC:
>
><http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-426.htm>
>
>The situation does appear to be covered by Canada's Broadcasting Act 
>so..  Personally, I don't know what all the fuss is about, although 
>rumour is that Shushma Datt's CJRJ/1200 has not exactly been the money 
>tree she expected.
>
>As for non-compliance by Canadian stations of technical issues such as 
>day/night patterns, I'd suspect that would come under Industry Canada 
>not the Commish.
>
>Someone mentioned CKST/1040: it would be strange for a major outfit like 
>Bell Media not to be following The Rules; only a few years ago, they 
>spent a bundle of money to re-locate (and combine) the facilities for 
>both CKST/1040 and CFTE/1410 to a new site with seven towers.
>
>Theo
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