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RCI Reception in Seattle, is it possible? My understanding is that the HR antennas that target North America cannot target Puget Sound...
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 |
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RCI Reception in Seattle, is it possible? My understanding is that the HR antennas that target North America cannot target Puget Sound...
bpnjensen wrote:
Dan Say wrote: CHU not newsy? The news changes every minute. LOL! And it only the upper frequency that is in danger. Oh - my mistake - I thought I recalled that all three may be in jeopardy. Bruce Jensen Linkname: ARRLWeb: Canada's 7.335 MHz CHU Time Signal Could Go Silent, Shift URL: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/11/30/100/ Linkname: NRC Short Wave Station Broadcasts (CHU) | NRC-INMS http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time...rtwave_broadca sts_e.html quote ...."In April 2007 the licence on 7.335 MHz will have to be modified to reflect changes on the status of the band allocation by the International Telecommunications Union. This frequency has been changed from "fixed service" to "broadcast". (The ITU decision does not affect the frequencies 3.33 MHz and 14.67 MHz.) Some alternatives a... " [ more ] -- -\_,-~-\___...__._._._._._._._._._._._. For real Dxing, see]http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~vz6g-iwt/index.html |
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