Re: [IRCA] CBU 690 to be off air 3 hours next weekend

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

The daytime outage will severely limit any usefulness to DX on 690.
Thanks, Eric for alerting us, though.  73, Walt

On Sunday, November 8, 2015, R. Colin Newell <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is an important event! Not sure on what level, but it would allow
> us crystal clear reception of whatever else is on 690khz.
>
> And now for a slight exaggeration: When there is a technical failure of
> virtually any AM or FM transmitter in B.C. (and likely in any other
> Province...)
> resources for our stately CBC are so stripped down and cut to the quick
> that there are few technicians to respond to any issue.
>
> Recently there were some hardware issues in Ucluelet / Tofino with
> the FM transmitters - they had to send someone from Vancouver B.C. -
> as one of the few techs that still work for Canada's mother network radio.
> Issues like the current flakey behaviour of CBC 6160 Khz on the West Coast
> will likely continue for some time as there are simply no staff resources
> to
> look after the trouble.
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Eric Floden <eric.f99999@xxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > I just caught part of the announcement -- it seems that next Sunday 15th
> > (or Saturday 14th), CBU-690 will be off the air from 0910 to 1210 PST.  I
> > was distracted and could not focus on the whole of it, but think I have
> it
> > right.  Their other signal (88.1) will remain on
> >
> > FWIW
> >
> > ef
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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