[IRCA] Nova Scotia/PEI Bandscan

[John Cereghin <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I spent the last week of June/first week of July up in
Greenwood, Nova Scotiaw with a side trip to Prince
Edward Island, and here is a quick report of what
there is to hear on the bands up there.  All I had was
my Kaito KA-1103, no external antenna.  

Living in Delaware and being used to a congested AM
band, it's striking how relatively empty the AM band
is during the day in some parts of Canada.  But there
is plenty to hear at night.

My real aim was to check on some Newfoundland
stations, as many of them put in decent signals across
the Maritimes, but I have yet to hear one in Delaware.

Greenwood, Nova Scotia and Cavendish, Price Edward
Island
RADIO- Kaito KA-1103 with no external antenna

540	UNID French station
590	CJCW Sussex NB, "Your station for inspiration"
	VOCM, St Johns NF, talk at night with call-in shows,
country at other times.  I have heard IDs for "the All
Newfoundland and Labrador Call In" in years past, but
didn't hear that slogan this time.
610	UNID French station
620	CKCM Grand Falls NF- call-in show.  VOCM network? 
I think it was //590.
630	CFCY Charlottetown PEI, country.  
720	CHTN Charlottetown PEI, "Good Time Oldies"
780	CFDR Dartmouth NS, "Continous Classic Country",
"KIXX Country"
810	UNID French w/country mx (heard in PEI).  CJVA
Caraquet NB?
870	UNID NF station.  Part of the "VOCM/CFCB network",
country.  //1230.  CFSX Stephenville?  Stephenville
ads, but no CFSX ID (from PEI)
900	CKDH Amherst NS.  "Lite Rock 900"
920	CJCH Halifax NS Adult contempoary format. "AM920
CJCH"
930	CFBC Saint John NB, "Oldies 93", "Good Time
Oldies"
950	UNID from PEI/daytime with A/C mx.  CKNB
Campbellton NB?
960	CHNS Halifax NS, "Oldies 96", "Good Time Oldies"
1070	CBA Fredericton NB CBC-1
1230	UNID NF, see notes under 870.  Presume CFGN Port
au Basque (heard on PEI).  VOCM network?
1350	CKAD Middleton NS, country, "AVR" (Annapolis
Valley Radio)
1420	CKDY Digby NS, country, AVR (Annapolis Valley
Radio)
1450	CFAB Kentville NS, country, AVR (Annapolis Valley
Radio)

Other notes:
990	CBAO St Stephen NB, a low-powered CBC-New
Brunswick relay.  Can only be heard in the St.
Stephen/Calais, Maine area.  40 watts?

90.1	Central Nova Scotia Information Radio.  Unsure of
QTH, somewhere between Amherst and Truro.  Lots of
tourist info, weather, traffic reports for
Confederation Bridge (between New Brunswick and PEI). 
It has a higher power than the 96.5 station below, as
this can be heard along the Trand-Canada highway
throughout western Nova Scotia.  There are signs along
the Trans-Canada advertising this station.

96.5	St. Stephen Information Radio, St. Stephen NB. 
They play loops of customs and border crossings,
weather and local St. Stephen tourist info. 
Low-powered.  They have signs along US1 in Calais,
Maine, asking you to tune to 96.5 for customs info. 
No calls are ever used.

101.9  Moncton (NB) Information Radio, with similar
programming to 90.9 and 96.5 above.

93.9 Confederation Bridge Infomation Radio, with
traffic reports for the bridge to PEI.  Similar format
to the other FM stations above.  There seems to be a
network of these stations across sections of the
Maritimes, but can't find any info on the internet on
them.

The AVR stations are Annapolis Valley Radio, a network
of AM and FM stations throughout the Annapolis Valley
in Nova Scotia.  They mainly play country music.

VOCM in St. John's NF also runs a network of stations
throughout Newfoundland.  My listening picked out 620
and 870 as network stations in Grand Falls and
Stephenville but that was all I could hear on this
trip.

I believe the two PEI AM stations in Charlottetown are
supposed to be moving to FM but both were still on
normal AM operations when I was up there.  The 630
outlet tends to put out a somewhat better signal into
Nova Scotia, especially during the day than the 720
outlet.

John Cereghin
Smyrna, Delaware
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