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Old August 30th 04, 08:50 PM
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CBU (Vancouver, BC) is not 50 Kw at night.
Nor does CBU have an ancillary 1650-1700 Khz frequency at 50Kw.
Nor do most Canadian MW stations close to the border.

US stations have bombarded Canada with US material for the past 60 + years.

It is not a good reflection on the US to be bombarded (in Canada) by 3 to 5
US stations on top of each other, as soon as leave a major Canadian
metropolitan centre.

Canada should (if it does) adopt DRM for MW radio, at least for daytime
transmission.

The US AM band is so heavily overallocated already to meet the classical
cold war definition of jamming, with respect to being able to hear

stations
in Canada during nighttime hours (no Canadian station operates at 50 kW

at
night that I am aware of).


There are plenty of Canadian stations that run at 50kW. CKLW in Windsor,

for one.
CBU in Vancouver, as well as CBC stations in Regina and Winnepeg, too

(although
they've divested themselves of the 740 and 940 kHz operations in Toronto

and
Montreal). There are still quite a few Canadian Clears, although some of

those
channels, like 800kHz, are shared with Mexico, and thus run lower power or
directional patterns at night.