{"id":50205,"date":"2021-09-13T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50205"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:35:22","slug":"rci-sackville-antenna-farm-map-and-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/rci-sackville-antenna-farm-map-and-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"RCI Sackville Antenna Farm Map and Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been going through some old paperwork recently and discovered this map of the antenna farm at Radio Canada International’s former Sackville, NB, transmitting site (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n

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I was given this printout by one of the staff members at Sackville when I visited there in the summer of 2012<\/a>–only a few months before they closed, permanently.<\/p>\n

I thought perhaps some others here in the SWLing Post<\/em> community might enjoy checking out this map.<\/p>\n

I do miss hearing RCI on the air. Hard to believe it’s almost been a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been going through some old paperwork recently and discovered this map of the antenna farm at Radio Canada International’s former Sackville, NB, transmitting site (click to enlarge): I was given this printout by one of the staff members at Sackville when I visited there in the summer of 2012–only a few months before they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,960,3,305,288,43],"tags":[1195,1197,9446,1159],"class_list":["post-50205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-canada-international-sackville-new-brunswick","tag-rci-sackville","tag-rci-sackville-antenna-farm","tag-sackville-rci"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-d3L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35702,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/former-rci-sackville-transmitter-sites-slow-transformation\/","url_meta":{"origin":50205,"position":0},"title":"Former RCI Sackville transmitter site’s “slow transformation”","author":"Thomas","date":"January 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who writes: [Here's] an interesting article about former RCI transmitter site (Sackville): Former RCI transmitter site \u2013 slow transformation By Marc Montgomery The former RCI transmitter site near Sackville New Brunswick, sold to a First Nations group, is now in the process\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RCI-and-road-Sackville-NB-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RCI-and-road-Sackville-NB-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/RCI-and-road-Sackville-NB-1024x683.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3817,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/cbc-news-rci-looking-for-sackville-transmitter-site-buyers\/","url_meta":{"origin":50205,"position":1},"title":"CBC News: RCI looking for Sackville transmitter site buyers","author":"Thomas","date":"June 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Just posted by CBC News: \u00a0a breaking news item which focuses on the\u00a0closure of the Sackville RCI transmitter site and reveals the fact that site owners are now looking for buyers. During my recent visit to the Sackville site, I spoke with their Transmission Operations Technologist, Marcel Cantin; we both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/1-IMG_1986-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3791,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/a-glimpse-of-radio-canada-internationals-sackville-new-brunswick-transmission-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":50205,"position":2},"title":"A glimpse of Radio Canada International’s Sackville, New Brunswick transmission site","author":"Thomas","date":"June 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Friday, I was fortunate enough to receive an extensive tour of the Radio Canada International transmitter site in Sackville, New Brunswick. Of course, in light of the\u00a0extensive cuts\u00a0looming over this facility, the visit was bittersweet. 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