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That's it. Time to haul the Boatanchors down to the kerb, so's the Garbage will pick 'em up...Buh-bye 1955 Collins R-390A...So long, '54 Collins R-389....Adios, Rohde Und Schwarz EK-07...Been nice knowin' you fellers...(grin)
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I wouldn't be in such a hurry to get rid of your Collins, etc. boat anchors just yet. As I understand it, shortwave in the US isn't going to disappear any time soon; just standard AM broadcasting. Just think of what an outcry there would be from ham radio operators in this country if SW were legislated out of existence, and the ham bands reallocated to other services (the latter has happened on a very small scale here with part of the 220-MHz band, and could eventually happen with six meters as well, but to the best of my knowledge, all nine high-frequency ham bands, and most VHF-UHF bands, are still allocated to the Amateur Radio Service and are still in use). With over 640,000 amateur radio licensees in the US alone, the FCC probably wouldn't hear the end of it (if they reassigned the amateur frequencies, especially HF) for quite some time.
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AM does have it's main niche, talk, but there are plenty of local and music AMer's out there. I would hold up the headstone on AM radio, remember in places like Canada, it took government pressure to clear the AM band of the CBC but there are plenty of private AMer's in Canada as well.
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two Montreal AM stations die the same day
Info 690 (French language all news) and AM 940 (earlier English
language all news, but lately a old hits music station) were both shut down by parent company Corus News this morning at 10 AM EST, both are currently sending a loop stating that the company was closing the stations due to poor economic conditions, with operations to continue on two existing FM outlets. Final transmitter shutdown is scheduled for 7 PM tonight. These two stations had been operating since around 1999 on two frequencies earlier used by the CBC. I don't think these two spots will be taken over by any Canadian broadcasters anytime soon! Last edited by electroking; 01-29-2010 at 12:03 PM. Reason: corrected spelling |
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