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ANY CANADIAN STATIONS HEARD IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND?
- Thread starter blackgold
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Been able to pick up a few in Lubec, Maine and Jay Peak area of Vermont. This was years ago, before I really paid attention. But... of course you could! all across N.N.E.
Sheffield heights on I-91 mile marker 150 or so you could literally make that the canadian border... I would say some canadian stations start coming in vaguely around Wells River VT on I-91 (mile marker 105 or so) and more fill the dial as you get up towards saint Johnsbury... I miss it up there some days
I'm not sure about northern Maine, Franconia Notch in NH is an interesting place.. One the Littleton side of the Notch, you can hear stuff from Sherbrooke.. CBF-FM10 on 101.1 FM, then you head towards the Lincoln side and WGIR-FM comes in.. CITE-FM1 @ 102.7 can be heard all over northern NH and VT.. Q106 and CIMO tussle it out on 106.1 north of Wells River, VT.. The Montreal stations boom into Plattsburgh but are not as easy 'gets' in Burlington due to crowded dial.. CHOM @ 97.7 fights it out with co-channel WGMT from Burke Mountain on the NW side of the WGMT signal.. 92.5 CFQR from Montreal shoots a nice unobstructed signal into northern and central VT.. On the AM side.. CJAD 800 from Montreal throws a nice lobe from their 50kw daytime signal into northern VT and NH.. 690 CINF, 940 CINW, and 730 CKAC all have 50kw signals that hit northern VT and NH nicely day and night.. There are no AM's in Sherbooke anymore.. Used to be rather interesting hearing Top 40 on CKTS 900 back in those Lyndon days on those road trips to Sherbrooke.. 
If you include AM DX in your question, I regularly heard some Canadians when I was living in Portland several years ago. At night, Montreal's CKAC was a loud, consistent regular on 730. VOCM from St. John's, Newfoundland (don't recall the freq) was often heard after midnight.
When I lived on Peaks Island (a few miles offshore from downtown Portland), for some reason CJAD, Montreal on 800 came in surprisingly well late into the morning even in summertime, although I rarely heard it in the city of Portland itself.
It's not Northern New England, but in my hometown of Buffalo, NY at least 5 Toronto AMs are always nearly as loud as the local stations all day, all year. Since the late 70s, many Canadian FMs are also clearly heard in Buffalo around the clock. One of the them, CKEY-FM, licensed to Niagara Falls, Ontario if I'm not mistaken, even markets itself to a Buffalo audience. In the last arbitron, it had a 2.5 share, not bad for a cross-border rimshotter.
Nick Seneca
When I lived on Peaks Island (a few miles offshore from downtown Portland), for some reason CJAD, Montreal on 800 came in surprisingly well late into the morning even in summertime, although I rarely heard it in the city of Portland itself.
It's not Northern New England, but in my hometown of Buffalo, NY at least 5 Toronto AMs are always nearly as loud as the local stations all day, all year. Since the late 70s, many Canadian FMs are also clearly heard in Buffalo around the clock. One of the them, CKEY-FM, licensed to Niagara Falls, Ontario if I'm not mistaken, even markets itself to a Buffalo audience. In the last arbitron, it had a 2.5 share, not bad for a cross-border rimshotter.
Nick Seneca
Indeed CHOM used to come in better--also better before Eagle County 97.5 debuted...
>>The Montreal stations boom into Plattsburgh but are not as easy 'gets' in Burlington due to crowded dial
though a little further north in St Albans quite a few get in...nice lakeside park where you can relax and tune your radio to see what you get
radio-locator.com St Albans (purely estimates, YMMV)
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=St+Albans,+VT&x=0&y=0&sid=
>>The Montreal stations boom into Plattsburgh but are not as easy 'gets' in Burlington due to crowded dial
though a little further north in St Albans quite a few get in...nice lakeside park where you can relax and tune your radio to see what you get
radio-locator.com St Albans (purely estimates, YMMV)
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=St+Albans,+VT&x=0&y=0&sid=
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I can pick up Montreal's AM 940 overnights in Boston. When WTAM in Cleveland is talking about their minor league baseball team I tune into 940 for Coast to Coast AM.
AM Radio in Canada is fast becoming a thing of the past.. If you want to talk about AM DX, 740 and 860 from Toronto blast into Vermont at night.. 1010 CFRB Toronto and 1010 WINS from NYC fight it out.. CFGO 1200 from Ottawa can be heard, even with RRUUUMMMBBAAHHH 1200 powering up to 50kw from Framingham MA.. 580 CFRA from Ottawa can be heard daytime in Northern VT.. 1570 CFAV from Montreal is an easy 'get' at night.. 1070 CBA from Moncton and 1580 CBJ from Chicoutimi, PQ used to blast in here, before those signals went dark.. 1280 in Montreal can be easily heard at night..
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