Polkas on 1030, County on 1010...oh my!

[Paul Hopfgarten]

I would think the key would be if you heard a time, and if it was 90 min
ahead or 'on time' would certainly have answered the issue...

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org]On Behalf
> Of Dan Strassberg
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:50 PM
> To: Bob Nelson; Scott Fybush; Boston Radio Interest
> Subject: Re: Polkas on 1030, County on 1010...oh my!
>
>
> Except that I don't think there's anything on 1010 in eastern Canada other
> than CFRB and the Newfoundland station. There is an allocation in Thunder
> Bay ON, which is northwest of Toronto and protects CFRB. CFRB is a Class A
> AM (kinda weird because CFRB's skywave service receives severe
> interference
> from WINS, but there are historical reasons related to the CBC's
> confiscation--in the early 1940s--of CFRB's former frequency, 860, and
> frequency swap of CJBC with CFRB). Anyhow, although the dominant
> Class A on
> 1010 is in Alberta (Calgary, I think), CFRB is not supposed to receive
> skywave interference from any Canadian station. However, the Newfoundland
> station might have been on 1010 before NF became part of Canada, so its
> skywave contours may be grandfathered. The fact that the NF
> station is ND-U
> (5 kW-D/1 kW-N) suggests that the station is very old.
>
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@yahoo.com>
> To: Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>;
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Polkas on 1030, County on 1010...oh my!
>
>
> > Scott Fybush wrote:
> > > As for country on 1010, surely Mr. Nelson knows
> > > better than to believe
> > > either radio-locator or WNTK's own website! <g>
> >
> > Well I was hoping either might be accurate but I
> > guess they aren't :) I haven't been up there in
> > awhile but in the summer I drove through the area
> > and heard country on 1020 and talk (Howie Carr)
> > on 1480. But as you say, they moved the 1020
> > to 1010 and the talk became oldies in _Sept._...
> >
> > So maybe I was picking up WNTK 1010 instead of
> > the station from Newfoundland. But the fact that I've
> > gotten some Canadian AMs before here on the coast
> > (in daytime) made me think it was possible...
>