Ia this a glimpse of the future?
I'm just back through a road trip through Western Ontario. During a remote stretch of more than 500 miles from Thunder Bay to North Bay. While the area is sparsely populated, there are a number of towns along the route. and no shortage of highway traffic. The Transcanada Highway, (Ontario highway 11) is the main motor vehicle route linking eastern and western Canada. It's also a very scenie drive.
There are also FM signals available throughout most of the journey. In French as well as English. Mostly CBC rebroadcasters/translators.
Specificallty, in Thunder Bay, the lone daytime signal that tripped the scan button in my rental car radio was WEBC from Duluth (560). And that only stopped the scan about half the time. By the time I was out of town by about 20 miles, the scans didn't land on anything. On the other end of the drive, the scan started to land on CKAT (600) by about 40 miles from North Bay. (The ground conductivity in the area....the southern edge of the Canadian Shield....is pretty bad. ) CKAT did better going south. And in less than an hour south of North Bay the big Toronto signals started showing up. CFZM and CFZM first. Followed by CJCL and CFIQ (ex-CFMJ/640). CFRB and CHUM not much longer after then. The car radio was a stock model for a Chevrolet Malibu. Good....but not great....on AM.
In 1994 when I drove the same route, there was AM coverage (albeit at times only one signal), for pretty much the entire way. These stations have now moved to FM (if not gone dark).
The AM dial at night was a different story. I'll post about that shortly.
I'm just back through a road trip through Western Ontario. During a remote stretch of more than 500 miles from Thunder Bay to North Bay. While the area is sparsely populated, there are a number of towns along the route. and no shortage of highway traffic. The Transcanada Highway, (Ontario highway 11) is the main motor vehicle route linking eastern and western Canada. It's also a very scenie drive.
There are also FM signals available throughout most of the journey. In French as well as English. Mostly CBC rebroadcasters/translators.
Specificallty, in Thunder Bay, the lone daytime signal that tripped the scan button in my rental car radio was WEBC from Duluth (560). And that only stopped the scan about half the time. By the time I was out of town by about 20 miles, the scans didn't land on anything. On the other end of the drive, the scan started to land on CKAT (600) by about 40 miles from North Bay. (The ground conductivity in the area....the southern edge of the Canadian Shield....is pretty bad. ) CKAT did better going south. And in less than an hour south of North Bay the big Toronto signals started showing up. CFZM and CFZM first. Followed by CJCL and CFIQ (ex-CFMJ/640). CFRB and CHUM not much longer after then. The car radio was a stock model for a Chevrolet Malibu. Good....but not great....on AM.
In 1994 when I drove the same route, there was AM coverage (albeit at times only one signal), for pretty much the entire way. These stations have now moved to FM (if not gone dark).
The AM dial at night was a different story. I'll post about that shortly.
