I have been hearing CBW Winnipeg with a good signal in the mornings
about 7:00 am. There is national news and then local programming with
no commercials. The national news at 7:00 am includes world and US news
items often not heard on the US networks. Their mailing address is:
CBW communications, 541 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B
2G1
Fax 204 788 3104
Website for an email form:
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/
Click "contact " on the home page to get to the email form.

ve3... wrote:
I have been hearing CBW Winnipeg with a good signal in the mornings
about 7:00 am. There is national news and then local programming with
no commercials. The national news at 7:00 am includes world and US news
items often not heard on the US networks. Their mailing address is:
CBW communications, 541 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B
2G1
Fax 204 788 3104
Website for an email form:
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/
Click "contact " on the home page to get to the email form.

I've been hearing them from Western NY during the evenings on my
Sangean DT-200V, some nights with a signal so good it almost sounds
local. I listened to their election coverage (ridings in Winnipeg and
Manitoba environs) a few weeks back and sent them a snail mail report
the next day. I never noticed them on the dial until the beginning of
this Fall. All of a sudden they just appeared one night and I couldn't
believe my ears. I wonder if they changed their antenna pattern. It's
not true DXing, but 1200+ miles on a pocket radio is kind of satisfying.

Its been coming in great around 0300 for the past three nights in
Tulsa, Ok. Sunday
night they had an excellent Jazz music program playing, no station ID
at the top
of the hour, but I could tell programing was Canadian... Almost
armchair (or
bedside) copy at times. Using a GE P780 with internal ferrite antenna,
73's

Chris KC5IIE
wrote:
ve3... wrote:
I have been hearing CBW Winnipeg with a good signal in the mornings
about 7:00 am. There is national news and then local programming with
no commercials. The national news at 7:00 am includes world and US news
items often not heard on the US networks. Their mailing address is:
CBW communications, 541 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B
2G1
Fax 204 788 3104
Website for an email form:
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/
Click "contact " on the home page to get to the email form.

I've been hearing them from Western NY during the evenings on my
Sangean DT-200V, some nights with a signal so good it almost sounds
local. I listened to their election coverage (ridings in Winnipeg and
Manitoba environs) a few weeks back and sent them a snail mail report
the next day. I never noticed them on the dial until the beginning of
this Fall. All of a sudden they just appeared one night and I couldn't
believe my ears. I wonder if they changed their antenna pattern. It's
not true DXing, but 1200+ miles on a pocket radio is kind of satisfying.

On 14 Nov 2006 09:21:57 -0800, "ve3..." wrote:

I have been hearing CBW Winnipeg with a good signal in the mornings
about 7:00 am. There is national news and then local programming with
no commercials. The national news at 7:00 am includes world and US news
items often not heard on the US networks. Their mailing address is:
CBW communications, 541 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B
2G1
Fax 204 788 3104
Website for an email form:
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/
Click "contact " on the home page to get to the email form.

Are CBA, CBW and CBU the last 50 kw MW CBCers? Many years ago, when
radio drama was almost gone from the U.S. I used to listen to CBL or
CBM at 11 PM eastern after Shep on WOR.

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Tester wrote:
Are CBA, CBW and CBU the last 50 kw MW CBCers? Many years ago, when
radio drama was almost gone from the U.S. I used to listen to CBL or
CBM at 11 PM eastern after Shep on WOR.

CBK-540, Regina
CBU-690, Vancouver (DA)
CBX-740, Edmonton (DA)
CJBC-860, Toronto (French)
CBW-990, Winnipeg (actually only 46kw at night...)
CBR-1010, Calgary (DA)
CBA-1070, Moncton (has applied to move to FM)

There used to be some (CBO/CBOF on 910/1250 in Ottawa, for two) on
regional frequencies - I didn't check but I *think* they're all gone now.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Doug Smith W9WI ) writes:
Tester wrote:
Are CBA, CBW and CBU the last 50 kw MW CBCers? Many years ago, when
radio drama was almost gone from the U.S. I used to listen to CBL or
CBM at 11 PM eastern after Shep on WOR.

CBK-540, Regina
CBU-690, Vancouver (DA)
CBX-740, Edmonton (DA)
CJBC-860, Toronto (French)
CBW-990, Winnipeg (actually only 46kw at night...)
CBR-1010, Calgary (DA)
CBA-1070, Moncton (has applied to move to FM)

There used to be some (CBO/CBOF on 910/1250 in Ottawa, for two) on
regional frequencies - I didn't check but I *think* they're all gone now.

The "AM" stations moved to the FM band some years back in some major
municipalities. Actually, I thought it would have included more on that
list of yours.

The amusing thing is that here in Montreal, when CBC AM (now renamed
"CBC Radio One" moved to FM, there were complaints about reception problems
in some areas, so they took over another frequency for a secondary
transmitter. So much for the vaunted "better coverage" that they moved to
FM in the first place for. Meanwhile, I can get a non-local CBC Radio One
station on yet another frequency.

Michael

The amusing thing is that here in Montreal, when CBC AM (now renamed
"CBC Radio One" moved to FM, there were complaints about reception problems
in some areas, so they took over another frequency for a secondary
transmitter. So much for the vaunted "better coverage" that they moved to
FM in the first place for. Meanwhile, I can get a non-local CBC Radio One
station on yet another frequency.

San Francisco has somewhat better AM ratings and worse FM ratings than
most areas and this is frequently blamed on the hills. A few FM
stations have transmitters near both San Francisco and San Jose.

Of course, Montreal certainly has hills, most notably the hill after
which it;s named.

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Michael Black wrote:
The "AM" stations moved to the FM band some years back in some major
municipalities. Actually, I thought it would have included more on that
list of yours.

Seems to be an ongoing process. Commercial stations aren't immune
either. DXers are only half-joking when they ask "would the last AM
engineer in Canada please turn off the lights"...

The amusing thing is that here in Montreal, when CBC AM (now renamed
"CBC Radio One" moved to FM, there were complaints about reception problems
in some areas, so they took over another frequency for a secondary
transmitter. So much for the vaunted "better coverage" that they moved to
FM in the first place for. Meanwhile, I can get a non-local CBC Radio One
station on yet another frequency.

Thing is, with AM they have a fair signal everywhere but don't have a
real blasting signal anywhere. With FM they don't have the same areal
coverage, but in the areas the FM *does* cover it gets through the
various noises a lot better. My workplace is only about 10 miles from
the 50kw WSM-650 transmitter but we have difficulty getting a clean WSM
signal inside the building. A 1kw FM at the same site would be a lot
easier to reliably receive.

In a couple of cases in the Prairies, they've been building
modestly-powerful FM transmitters in the major cities while leaving the
associated AM transmitters on the air. There's been an 820-watter on
102.5 in Regina for several years (// 540 CBK); they've recently added
stations in Winnipeg (2.8kw, 89.3 English/90.5 French); Saskatoon
(94.1/4.1kw, English only); Calgary (99.1/1.1kw, English only); and
Edmonton. (3.9kw; 93.9 English/101.1 French) In all of these cases the
FM of course doesn't come anywhere near duplicating the AM coverage, and
they plan to leave the AMs on the air.

Because of the lighter population densities I don't expect they'll ever
shut down the big AMs on the Prairies. I do kinda half expect
CBU/Vancouver will flip eventually and am surprised they aren't doing
more FM conversions in NL. (the N part, as they do seem to have already
flipped them all in the L part)

--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com