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Farewell 600 AM

Bongwater

Bongwater

One of the Puget Sound's oldest and historical stations is finally gone. CKBD (also known as CJOR and CHRX) has finally signed off.

It's currently simulcasting it's replacement, 100.5 The Peak (CKPK-FM)......

Listen here for the sign off show:

http://www.600am.com
 
I am so sorry that happened! I did hear CKPK-AM this evening at 8pm with a couple AC songs, but I thought after the farewell show, they would just cut the carrier forever. If they cut the carrier, then I would have gotten KOGO San Diego and other stations, but I'll wait until 2009 to do that!

-crainbebo
 
Sad for CKBD to leave the air, but for me... If KOGO makes it up here to the Puget Sound area, i'd prbably have an ear into my hometown finally without much interference. The only other stations from San Diego that remotely ever made it up to the Puget Sound area, with alot of interference, were 760 KFMB and XETRA 690. The exception was always the Grays Harbor area though, where both stations would be crystal clear at night, with few fadeouts.
 
KOGO protectes/has a null towards the Vancouver 600 allocation and will continue to protect it even if there's no staion there to protect. That is until Canada notifies the US they don't want that allocation anymore. Fat chance of that happening.
 
boiseengineer said:
KOGO protectes/has a null towards the Vancouver 600 allocation and will continue to protect it even if there's no staion there to protect. That is until Canada notifies the US they don't want that allocation anymore. Fat chance of that happening.
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It will likely be filled by a new Vancouver broadcaster. Though nothing has been officially filed in to the CRTC that I know of yet, my sources up north say there are people there already slobbering over that frequency because FM has been pretty much maxed out. And for AM, 600 is a damn good one. With a 10,000 watt clear channel daytime signal that reaches effortlessly directly south into Seattle (and can be heard solidly at night too.....), someone will make use of it......
 
Bongwater said:
boiseengineer said:
KOGO protectes/has a null towards the Vancouver 600 allocation and will continue to protect it even if there's no staion there to protect. That is until Canada notifies the US they don't want that allocation anymore. Fat chance of that happening.
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It will likely be filled by a new Vancouver broadcaster. Though nothing has been officially filed in to the CRTC that I know of yet, my sources up north say there are people there already slobbering over that frequency because FM has been pretty much maxed out. And for AM, 600 is a damn good one. With a 10,000 watt clear channel daytime signal that reaches effortlessly directly south into Seattle (and can be heard solidly at night too.....), someone will make use of it......
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We may have the same sources. I'm hearing rumblings of plans for something at 600 AM, and it may not be another station moving there, rather a new station may be in the planning stages.
 
mimo said:
Bongwater said:
boiseengineer said:
KOGO protectes/has a null towards the Vancouver 600 allocation and will continue to protect it even if there's no staion there to protect. That is until Canada notifies the US they don't want that allocation anymore. Fat chance of that happening.
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It will likely be filled by a new Vancouver broadcaster. Though nothing has been officially filed in to the CRTC that I know of yet, my sources up north say there are people there already slobbering over that frequency because FM has been pretty much maxed out. And for AM, 600 is a damn good one. With a 10,000 watt clear channel daytime signal that reaches effortlessly directly south into Seattle (and can be heard solidly at night too.....), someone will make use of it......
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We may have the same sources. I'm hearing rumblings of plans for something at 600 AM, and it may not be another station moving there, rather a new station may be in the planning stages.
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A whole new station indeed, What I've heard ranges from Aboriginal to Talk to (my favorite) full blown Alternative Rock (specializing in CanCon.....)

Whatever can drag AM radio out of the typical AM gutter, I'm all for it. KWLE 1340 in Anacortes last year was a good start. Now let's hear MORE!

But there's already a perfectly good transmitter and towers there. Why dismantle it all when you can sell the whole thing cheap?....Well, maybe not cheap. That's a helluva signal for 10,000 watts.......
 
semoochie said:
It isn't a clear channel. Does it really need to be protected if the station remains dark?
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Yes, if it's in a sovereign nation.
 
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