Montreal's 690 and 940 to power down tonight

[Jim Hall]

We had a house at the beach in NH when I was growing up. We had an old
furniture-size console radio/turntable from the 40s or 50s there. It had
wideband AM and shortwave on it. CFCX Montreal (//CFCF), CHNX Halifax
(//CHNS), and CFRX Toronto (//CFRB) used to come in loud and clear in the 49
meter band all day long. At night, they were drowned out by the big
international broadcasters. I think the three Canadian relays only operated
500 watts.

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Subject: Re: Montreal's 690 and 940 to power down tonight

revdoug1@myfairpoint.net wrote:

>CINW (940) is the successor to CFCF, Canada's first radio station, 
>which Marconi Wireless put on the air in 1919.  The station's old TV 
>counterpart, Channel 12, is still known as CFCF and is under 
>separate ownership, I believe.

Wasn't the original CFCF on 600?  As a kid I remember listening to 
their shortwave simulcast CFCX, I think I have a QSL from them.  A 
number of Canadian stations had shortwave simulcasts back in the 
60s/70s.  When did they pull the plug on them?