[IRCA] Vancouver Moves to AM

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)


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