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6070 KHZ CFRB

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Icangelp

4:57 PM Sat 5:00 PM
SW Ohio

Strong signal today

Haven't tried them in a while. Don't know if it always like this, but they are near local quality.
 
They used to get wiped out by Germany at night, but with so many international state broadcasters abandoning shortwave, nighttime reception of stations like CFRB (actually CFRX) may be much more possible. They've been a daytime regular here in the Chicago area for as long as I can remember (at least when the transmitter isn't offline).
 
I sometimes would get CFRX at night on 6070. Sometimes CVC from Chile, a Christian station, would come in too.

-crainbebo
 
Several big AM stations in Canada have SW simulcasts, including CFRB Toronto and CKNW Vancouver. I believe an AM station in St. John's Newfoundland had one I heard maybe 30 years ago.

I suppose they're aimed at listeners in remote Northern Canada who don't have much to listen to locally. Although with the internet, their continuation these days is in doubt. I'm not sure how it profits CFRB to be heard in the Arctic on SW. I'm sure it isn't cheap to run a SW simulcast. I wonder if they do it from their own AM tower or do they maintain a seperate facility?
 
CKMX uses CFVP on 6030 (Calgary, AB). CBU 690 uses CKZU 6160 for rural BC listeners. CBN 640 uses CKZN 6160 for remote listeners.

CKWX used to have a 10w simulcast on 6080, but it's been gone since around 2000...

-crainbebo
 
Here in the Chicago area, I used to get fairly regular (albeit weak) reception of the simulcasts of CFCF Montreal on 6005 and CHNS Halifax on 6130 (with oldies, no less). Both are long gone.

I tried CFRX last night on 6070 and got a complete blank. My guess is that they might have been off, but I really have no idea.

I did hear something on 6030, but I didn't hang around. Perhaps it was CFVP. I didn't realize there were any other Canadian simulcasts of regular broadcast stations still on the air. So, bottom line is I'll check out 6030 (and for that matter 6070) in the near future.

I have to say 49 meters at night seems like a "ghost town" compared to what it used to be.
 
Beware-6030 is also the Cuban jammer/Radio Marti. I can only get CFVP in winter daytime because of Marti and Cuba's jammers.

-crainbebo
 
EJ204 said:
Several big AM stations in Canada have SW simulcasts, including CFRB Toronto and CKNW Vancouver. I believe an AM station in St. John's Newfoundland had one I heard maybe 30 years ago.

I suppose they're aimed at listeners in remote Northern Canada who don't have much to listen to locally. Although with the internet, their continuation these days is in doubt. I'm not sure how it profits CFRB to be heard in the Arctic on SW. I'm sure it isn't cheap to run a SW simulcast. I wonder if they do it from their own AM tower or do they maintain a seperate facility?
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There is information including photos on CFRB/CFRX on the Ontario DX Association (ODXA) website, under the Station Guide tab.

CFRX is located at the CFRB transmitter site, and has been, since going on the air in 1937.

The station was originally brought in service to cover Northwest Canada and was directional. At some point, it became one tower non directional. The 1 KW solid state transmitter is fairly new, so I assume unless something happens to the tower or transmitter, they should be around awhile longer. Can't imagine it costs all that much to operate.
 
One of the hotels I regularly use in the Toronto suburbs is just down the road from the CFRB/CFRX site. Close enough that I've listened to it on groundwave. I didn't know that the CFRX transmitter is relatively new, but I did know that CFRX is operated by the Ontario DX association (and not CFRB) operates the shortwave. Agree that it probably doesn't exactly cost a fortune to operate, and I've always been appreciative of what the Ontario DXers have been doing.

As discussed the other day, I also checked out 6130 last evening. What I was hearing turned out to be Romania....English language service. This was around 10:15 pm CST/0415 UTC. There were intermittent tone pulses fading in and out, which I assume was the Cuban jammer of R. Marti. (No trace of R. Marti, however....or anything else.)
 
If what I heard last night from south FL was CFRX, it was stronger than usual, even on my lil Kaito 1102, the only SW I use now.

If not for the ODXA, would CFRX even be there now?

cd
 
One of my more unusual SW DX catches was hearing CKZU and CKZN both mixing with each other on 6160 khz. This was sometime earlier this year, in the Spring. I heard it on my Realistic DX350A -- with just its whip antenna. CBC news with a definite echo. Very surreal.

Prob. my only chance of hearing anything from Newfoundland (aside from internet radio).
 
cd637299 said:
If not for the ODXA, would CFRX even be there now?

cd
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Highly, highly doubtful. CFRB is now owned by a multi-station conglomerate. Unlike what may have been the case in the past, they're only interested in covering metro Toronto and adjacent southern Ontario. They have a fine 50kw signal, which is more than adequate for that.
 
Here is Southeast Wisconsin, I haven't heard CFCX for a week or more. This time of year, they are usually heard here 24/7.
 
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