I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that RCI just a week or so ago
revamped its entire program and transmission lineup, and dropped all
the CBC-originated programs, and that the new ones are so limited in
scope and essentially uninteresting that there is just about no reason
to
listen to RCI any longer!

The thrust of all the RCI programming is now oriented toward new and
prospective immigrants, explaining the details of life in Canada to
them. Can be interesting at times, but not as a steady diet, and gets
repetitive already, even after this short a time. The Maple Leaf Mail
Bag
program on Sundays is supposed to continue, but last week's edition
was a repeat of the previous, pre-changeover one.

Their current lineup drastically reduced English, and they now have a
series of other-language programs with some English hours interspersed,
in a totally incomprehensible arrangement, in the service directed
toward the US and North America. How many Chinese-speaking
people interested in emigrating to Canada would be listening to 9610
kHz
at 1405 UT (8 AM Central) in the US? I'll guess twelve... :-) Yet they
devote an hour to that language daily then. (9610 replaced the previous
3 frequencies -- 13655, 9515, & 17810 [might be off a bit on that last
one] --
even though they worked OK.

They waited to do this AFTER they had printed and mailed out the new
season's program/frequency schedules, all of which are now wrong and
useless. What a waste!

If you can receive the CBC Northern Service on 9625 kHz, as mentioned
before in this thread, it provides the main worthwhile shortwave signal
from Canada now. But reception of that is really problematical.

Will