[Lowfer] AM740 Zoomer Radio

[Mitch Powell]

Ron and others:
740 used to be the national Canadian Broadcasting Commission ( C B C ) station
located just West of Toronto.... clear channel and full power.   But, in addition there
was a French CBC station  ( 860 kHz ) full power - and both feeding the same tower.
They had quite a matching network - and you can imagine that it was well maintained,
in the hopes of no unbalanced, mismatched and rust connections.
The CBC later gave up the A M slots and went to FM and repeaters.
Renamed the networks CBC1 and CBC2 .

Mitch
On 2010-11-09, at 11:16 AM, Ron Barlow wrote:

> 
> Several years ago, I heard the announcer at AM 740 mention that they were operating at reduced power, because they had some maintenance personnel, up on the tower! I believe that they were replacing failed lighting equipment, but memory failure prevents me from being certain of that.
> They still had a good signal, despite the reduced power output, and they were playing great "sounds" (Friday night)
> In addition, I have often heard "zoomer radio", during winter afternoons, well before sunset, here in central North Carolina. I have also listened to them, via ground wave, in central Pa., year round. 
>                                 73 de Ron n4gjv
> 
> 
>> From: wa3usg at verizon.net
>> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:03:31 -0500
>> Subject: [Lowfer] AM740 Zoomer Radio
>> 
>> This is a bit Off Topic but do any of you listen to AM 740 (740 KHz)? It's
>> a great oldies station out of Totonto, Canada. Plays a lot of contemporary
>> music from the 30's through the 60's. It comes in quite well on the E-Field
>> probe. There's just something about listening to a slightly noisy A.M. radio
>> station late at night playing that kind of music ...
>> 73
>> Dick, WA3USG
>> 
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