{"id":49325,"date":"2021-06-22T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49325"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:24:26","slug":"guest-post-great-news-from-cfvp-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/guest-post-great-news-from-cfvp-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Great news from CFVP Alberta!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson<\/a>, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Big news in these days of declined shortwave<\/h1>\n

by Dan Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is rare — no super rare — that we get any good news these days about shortwave broadcasting. Remember the excitement a few years ago when Guinea returned to shortwave? Then, Nigeria returned but has now become worryingly intermittent.<\/p>\n

Today, a station returned to shortwave, one that was absent for some time.<\/p>\n

CFVP<\/strong>, the low power relay of 1060 kHz AM in Calgary, Alberta returned to 6,030 kHz with the help of amateur radio operators. The station had been off the air through 2019 — the last time it was reported was in late 2018 when it was relaying CKMX 1060 AM in Calgary.<\/p>\n

According to a note posted on the World of Radio<\/em> group:<\/p>\n

“two engineers from Bell Media, Dale and Gerry, who are also hams, VA6AD and V6QCT respectively, rebuilt the transmitter (partially with ham radio parts) and repaired the connection to the antenna with a temporary matching network…the temporary matching network means that not all the 100 watts are going into antenna.”<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Harold Sellers, who is acting as eQSL manager for the re-activated shortwave station, CFVP 6030 was back on the air as of 0900, though I was unable to hear it until later on June 19th. Best reception was via SDR sites in southern Alberta, northern Montana, Idaho and up in Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n

Programming consisted of straight comedy routines from Funny 1060 AM, the Calgary station that carries old recordings of standup comedians, with local IDs and ads mixed in every few minutes. I made a video showing CFVP reception on one of the SDR sites<\/a>, changing between 6,030 kHz and 1060 kHz which was also audible at SDR locations.<\/p>\n