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CFAX 1070 Victoria, B.C

CFAX isn't dark, but a couple other Victoria area AM stations went dark, CJVI 900 being one of them. CKAY in Duncan, and the station in Nanaimo (can't remember the call) also went dark.

CFAX seems to run local talk and some local sports talk, as well as C2C overnights.

PS, good catch, Mario.
 
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CKDA was the big one that went dark. They were at 1200. Victoria's hit music station for a long time and a good one at that. CKAY wasn't considered a Victoria station but Duncan is only about half an hour away, so it might as well should have been. Nanaimo had 2 AMs. CKEG 1350 (which did not reach Victoria) and CHUB 1570, which did reach Victoria. CKEG was country, CHUB was hot AC. Outside of Vancouver, I've never been able to catch CFAX, due to local stations either on 1070 or on 1060 which made reception impossible.
 
And now 1200 has another station, CJRJ, playing South Asian music.... I think it comes in better in the Seattle metro at night than CKDA did.
 
Despite the fact that Victoria is closer to Seattle than Vancouver is, CJRJ is transmitting from somewhere in Vancouver with a much different pattern than CKDA did. Was CKDA audible in Seattle at night?
 
I just checked my DX log list, and it shows CKDA on 1220. There was a period from the late 1980's until 2002 I didn't log stations on MW (although I did log stations on SW), and most of my MW "DXing" was limited to listening to Art Bell on KFBK and KPNW, or listening to KGO.

I probably heard CKDA but I just don't remember how well they came in.

I don't recall listening to them on 1200, but I'm sure they were audible because there isn't anything else local on the frequency. They would have had to have been extremely low power to not be heard in the Seattle area.

Maybe one of the other DXers here can recall how well they were heard in the Puget Sound area on 1200.
 
On July 1, 1986 CKDA made the move from 1220 to 1200, and got a power increase to 50,000 watts. I don't know what their pattern was like towards Seattle, but the signals was great in Vancouver on 1200. It was decent on 1220, but the change was noticeably for the better. Where I lived in Tsawassen, they were as strong as LG73 and a bit better than AM 1040. There's audio of the frequency change online, but It was taken from quite a distance away. When they made the switch, they actually did a live broadcast from Vancouver as part of it.
 
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