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Class A Stations in Newfoundland - 540, 640, 990

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Gregg.

There are three Class A stations in Newfoundland. But I don't remember them having Class A status when I started looking at these things a few decades ago.

540 CBT Grand Falls-Windsor

640 CBN St. John's

990 CBY Corner Brook

When did this happen? Each of these stations is 10,000 watts, non-directional. They share their frequencies with conventional Class I-A stations. But I guess they are so far from the stations we remember on 540, 640 and 990 that they can operate with non-directional antennas.

Canada also has another Class A station I don't remember, CKBI Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It's on 900 kHz, the same frequency as XEW. So I don't think it was a Class A station when XEW was powered at 250,000 watts. CKBI is non-directional, 10,000 watts by day, 2,800 watts at night. Why does it have Class A status if its nighttime power is so low?
 
540 and 990 are CBC-owned stations on frequencies where the dominant station is also CBC-owned (CBK and CBW, respectively). I’d guess the CBC when to the CRTC and said they could live with some co-owned skywave interference over the middle of Quebec or thereabouts.

640 in the U.S. is a mess compared to the truly clear data. KFI is beat up east of the Missouri River.
 
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