Re: CJLS 1340 off the air

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Although CJLS probably had the best signal of any of Canada's "Super Class C" 
AMs, it was not the only one. I don't know if the other stations are still on 
AM, but there were two 10-kW AMs (both, I believe, on 1450) in far northern 
Quebec. I think that those stations used (or maybe still use) more complex 
arrays than CJLS's three-tower setup. IIRC, both had or have four-tower arrays 
producing rather narrow "teardrop" patterns aimed due north. Since there were 
no stations north of them, the 10-kW operations did not interfere any more with 
co-channel stations than did the predecessor 1-kW ND operations.

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> Sometime within the past two weeks or so, CJLS 1340 Yarmouth Nova Scotia
> went dark. This follows their recent shift to 95.5FM according to a
> recent issue of Scott's NERW.
> When I did an AM bandscan a few minutes ago I found only a faint WNZS
> signal on 1340 with CNN Headline news.
> 
> As far as I know CJLS was one of very few, if not the only, Class A
> Graveyard AMers to operate with 5,000 watts, and a directional antenna.
> 
> Their three tower array on the shore of Cape Fourchu, just west of
> Yarmouth, was easily visible from the water. You could  see it from the
> CATferry on the way into Yarmouth Harbor. 
> 
> And they put out a killer signal across the Gulf of Maine.
> 
> Rod O'Connor
> Southwest Harbor, Maine  
>