Update on programming from Pop Shop Radio

 

In the wake of Channel 292 being off the air as Rainer, the guy who runs the station, having broken his leg, I have arranged for an alternative. Beginning on Sunday 21 January we will be heard at 2000 UT on 15770 courtesy WRMI. This is only a short-term adjust for four weeks. This is in addition to our regular slot on WRMI at 0200 UT Monday (Sun 9 PM ET) on 5950 kHz.

As always, reception reports welcome

Tony Pavick

Pop Shop Radio

CBC Radio changes program schedule in 2024

 CBC Radio's program schedule is changing in 2024. Here's when to catch your favorite shows

New times for Unreserved, The Debaters, White Coat, Black Art and more go into effect Jan. 1

With the start of 2024 there are a few tweaks to the schedule here at CBC Radio. 

Here are the changes that came into effect on Jan. 1. If you're in Newfoundland and Labrador, please add 30 minutes to everything noted here.

With Mary Hynes' retirement, Tapestry is winding down after a 29-year run.

As a result, Unreserved is moving into Tapestry's former time slot Sundays at 2 p.m. from its

Full story at: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/cbc-radio-scheduling-changes-2024-1.7068339

The silence of Radio Canada International

 

For a country that once regarded itself as one of the world’s leading middle powers, Canada’s voice on the international scene is a strikingly quiet one these days. It reminds me of the line from that famous “dead parrot” sketch in Monty Python: “bereft of life, it rests in peace.”

The latest sign of this is the decision by CBC/Radio-Canada to implement changes that have effectively smothered Radio Canada International (RCI), its fabled global audio and online service that has helped serve as “Canada’s Voice to the World” for more than a half century.

In a December announcement replete with CBC doublespeak, the CBC unveiled a “major transformation” of RCI that, it claimed, would ensure RCI remains “a strong and relevant voice” in this century’s media landscape. Not surprisingly, the practical impact of these changes is precisely the opposite.

Flipping RCI’s historic mission on its head, the service will now focus more on ethnic minorities within Canada rather than on continuing to produce programs tailored uniquely for international audiences. More than half of RCI’s beleaguered staff have been laid off.

Additional story at: https://opencanada.org/the-silence-of-radio-canada-international/

Pop Shop Radio, Canada's International Voice of Shortwave

 

From the Town of Hope in super, natural

British Columbia in Canada:

We are Pop Shop Radio!

Canada's International Voice on Shortwave

Pop Shop Radio goes around the world to bring you great stuff from all over. We play a whole variety of pop music, such as records from the 1960s and 1970s that were played on Top-40 radio stations not only in North America but also on offshore radio and stations like Radio Luxembourg. To make it fun, we also include stuff that didn't make the Top 10 and even reach back into the 1930s to the 1950s to dig up great sounds at 45 and 78 RPM. We like to show that music doesn't have to be in English to be great. Stopping off in places like Sweden, Finland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Germany, France, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand we find cool records for you to groove to! We mix it all in the style of Top-40 radio of the 1960s and 1970s with jingles and real records played by a real DJ. We are everything that the boring FM corporate stations that have no personality and say they play the best variety are not. Last, but not least, Pop Shop Radio is made in the town of Hope in (super, natural) British Columbia in Canada.

Check out our menu to find out how and when to listen to us on shortwave, an archive of our past shows, a map of where our listeners live and our newsletter.

We are Canada's international voice to the world.

Be a Cool Kid! Get a Pop Shop Radio QSL card!

Want to be a cool kid around the lunch table at school? Get a Pop Shop Radio QSL card and and EXCLUSIVE Pop Shop radio sticker! You'll be the envy of all the other kids.

Not only will we eQSL but we'll send a real QSL card, a sticker, and from time to time other goodies to you. Email reception Reports to: radiopopshop@gmail.com

 For additional informatin and links, go to http://www.popshopradio.ca/

All India Radio to expand services to cover Canada, Germany and Japan

The AIR is planning to launch new services for several countries, including Japan, Germany and some in the Commonwealth of Independent States, with an aim to supplement the government's diplomatic efforts and outreach programs to the Indian diaspora, an official said.

The AIR is planning to launch new services for several countries, including Japan, Germany and some in the Commonwealth of Independent States, with an aim to supplement the government’s diplomatic efforts and outreach programmes to the Indian diaspora, an official said. Canada, South Africa and Maldives are also among the countries the All India Radio (AIR) plans to reach to, ESD Director Amlanjyoti Mazumdar told PTI.



Additional story at:
http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/all-india-radio-to-expand-global-services-to-cover-japan-germany-canada/877501/

Forgotten Wireless Station on a Forgotten Canadian Island in the Pacific

Triangle Island Lighthouse (unc.edu)

The small Canadian island known as Triangle Island is located on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, some 30 miles northwest of the much larger Vancouver Island.  This rugged little island, just three miles in circumference, is a jagged cone-shaped peak rising some 700 feet above sea level. 

            Triangle Island is a lonely windswept place that was named after the jagged reefs, with their  three-sided geometric form, that  surround the island.  No trees grow on the island, and there is minimal vegetation.

            The winds blowing across this island are so strong that it was necessary to attach steel cables to the roofing on buildings and to anchor the cables in the ground.  Ropes were attached between the buildings so that staff would not be blown away; and even then for safety, at times the staff found it necessary to crawl across the ground on their stomachs.  Staff sequestered inside their homes because of inclement weather have been known to become sea sick when the winds violently rocked the houses on their foundations.

            During the year 1908, officials from mainland Canada visited Triangle Island to evaluate the possibility of establishing a lighthouse and a wireless station on the top of the main peak.  Soon afterwards, prefabricated buildings and other equipment were shipped to the island, and a steep tramway was installed from the waterline up the steep incline to the top of the island.

            Original planning for the maritime wireless station called for a 3 kW spark transmitter, and interestingly, a commercial wireless company also requested a license for their own station on the island as part of a projected Trans-Pacific network.  However, as subsequent events inform us, the only wireless station ever installed on this isolated island was the Canadian government station which began test transmissions on February 17, 1910, under the callsign TLD.  That event was right on 106 years ago.

            Two or three weeks later, station TLD was taken into regular service for communication with shipping into and out of the Inside Passage which separates the Canadian mainland from their island of Vancouver.  Unfortunately though, because of the high winds, and the often stormy low cloud formations, the wireless station was unable to communicate adequately with passing ships, and the ships were unable to discern clearly the light from the lighthouse. 

            Two years after the Triangle Island wireless station was commissioned, the roof of the transmitter building was blown off.  That was in 1912; and then during the following year 1913, the callsign was regularized to VAG. 

            However at this stage, another coastal wireless station was installed at Alert Bay on nearby Cormorant Island, and initially this new station identified with the callsign CFD, though soon afterwards this too was changed, to VAF.  When station VAF at Alert Bay was taken into regular service, station VAG on Triangle acted merely as a wireless relay station.

            During World War 1, the Triangle station was guarded by military troops; and give half a dozen more years, and both the lighthouse and the wireless station were closed.  Inefficiency of operation due to adverse weather conditions, the cost of operating these services at a difficult and isolated location, and harsh living circumstances for the operating personnel were cited as the major reasons for closing the Triangle service and transferring its activities to a more amenable locality.

            The wireless station on Triangle Island was closed in 1921, and this maritime service was transferred to a new wireless station at Bull Harbour on nearby Hope Island.  The callsign VAG was also transferred from Triangle Island to Bull Harbour. 

            Then a score of years later, and this second VAG station was moved and rebuilt half a mile down the same road, but it did not survive there either.  In 1990 VAG was sold off, and the maritime wireless service was transferred to the Alert Bay station VAF.  But that didn’t survive for long either.  Four years later (and that was in 1994) station VAF was closed, and all of the maritime communication services for the whole area were transferred to Comox Radio down the coast on Vancouver Island.    

            These days, Triangle Island may be visited as an inhospitable tourist attraction; and some of the artifacts from its earlier history are now on display in a local museum on Vancouver Island.

 (AWR-Wavescan/NWS 364 via Adrian Peterson)

BVB - B11 Winter Schedule

Canada, Bible Voice Broadcasting - B11 Multilingual Schedules

Effective: 30 October 2011 - 25 March 2012

All times UTC

Amharic
1630-1700 Sat/Sun 13810af
1700-1800 st 13810af
1730-1800 mwh 13810af

Amharic Music
1700-1730 f 13810af
1730-1800 f 13810af

Arabic
0300-0330 7325me
0500-0515 f 7410me
0500-0530 h 7410me
0500-0530 6100af
0900-1000 f 17545af
1655-1700 mtwhf 11915me
1700-1715 mthf 11915me
1700-1730 9440me
1700-1730 w 11915me
1715-1800 mwf 7355me
1900-1930 9715af

Cantonese
1405-1420 twhfa 9390as

Dinka
1700-1730 11875af

English
0030-0100 fsa 7395as
0100-0115 Sat 7395as
0800-0830 Sun 7250eu
0800-0845 Sat 7220eu
1400-1500 Sun 15470as
1405-1435 Sun 9390as
1430-1500 Sat 15470af
1500-1515 Sun 13740as
1515-1530 Sat 13670as
1530-1600 h 13670as
1630-1700 Sun 9460me
1645-1700 mtwfa 9460me
1700-1715 f 9460me
1700-1720 th 9460me
1700-1800 Sat/Sun 9460me
1730-1745 h 9460me
1745-1800 Sat 13810af
1800-1815 Sat 7365as
1800-1830 t 9460me
1800-1900 Sun 6110me 9460me
1800-1900 Sat 6110me
1900-1915 Sun 9460me
1900-2000 Sat 9470me
1900-2000 SUn 6030eu
1915-1945 Sat 6030eu
1915-1945 Sun 9470me

Farsi
0400-0430 twhf 5950as
1530-1545 Sun 11965as
1630-1700 9925as
1700-1800 9925as
1800-1830 9925as
1800-1830 mwf 7365as
1800-1900 th 7365as
1830-1900 Sun 7365as

Hebrew
1830-1900 t 9460me

Hindi
0030-0100 mtwh 7395as

Israeli Music
1720-1730 h 9460me

Japanese
1230-1300 Sun 9870as

Luri
0400-0430 asm 5950as

Mandarin
1405-1435 m 9390as

Nuer
1630-1700 11875af

Oromo
1600-1630 smhf 13810af

Punjabi
1515-1530 f 13670as

Russian
1900-1915 f 6030eu
1900-1930 t 6030eu

Somali
1800-1830 sfa 13810af

Tigringa
1700-1730 mw 13810af

Ukranian
1900-1915 h 6030eu

Urdu
1530-1600 wf 13670as
(BVB)

Radio Canada International revises summer schedule

Arabic
0200-0300 5950 SMG 100 kW 114 deg to NE/ME
0300-0400 7230 SMG 100 kW 114 deg to NE/ME
1900-2000 15180 RMP 500 kW 115 deg to NE/ME
1900-2000 15235 SAC 250 kW 073 deg to NoCeAF

Chinese
0000-0100 9690 KIM 100 kW 225 deg to EaAS
0000-0100 12015 PHT 250 kW 349 deg to EaAS
1100-1200 9490 PHT 250 kW 332 deg to EaAS
1100-1200 9570 KIM 100 kW 225 deg to EaAS
1500-1600 6110 YAM 300 kW 290 deg to EaAS
1500-1600 11730 YAM 250 kW 240 deg to EaAS
2200-2300 9525 KIM 100 kW 225 deg to EaAS
2200-2300 9870 KIM 100 kW 305 deg to EaAS

English
0000-0100 11700 KUN 150 kW 177 deg to SoEaAS
1500-1600 11675 KUN 500 kW 283 deg to SoAF
1500-1600 15125 URU 500 kW 212 deg to SoAF
1800-1900 9530 KAS 100 kW 239 deg to EaAF
1800-1900 11765 SKN 300 kW 160 deg to EaAF
1800-1900 17810 SKN 250 kW 175 deg to NoCeAF
2000-2100 15235 SAC 250 kW 073 deg to CeAF
2000-2100 15330 SAC 250 kW 073 deg to CeAF
2000-2100 17735 SAC 250 kW 105 deg to NEAf
2100-2200 9800 SAC 070 kW 268 deg to NoAm DRM

French
1900-2000 11765 KAS 100 kW 239 deg to EaAF
1900-2000 13730 SMG 250 kW 199 deg to CeAF
1900-2000 15320 SKN 250 kW 175 deg to NWAf
1900-2000 17735 SAC 250 kW 105 deg to NWAf
2100-2200 9525 SMG 100 kW 184 deg to CeAF
2100-2200 15235 SAC 250 kW 073 deg to NoCeAF
2100-2200 15330 SAC 250 kW 105 deg to CeAF
2100-2200 17735 SAC 250 kW 105 deg to CeAF
2300-2330 9525 KIM 100 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS

Portuguese Fri-Sun
2100-2200 15455 SAC 250 kW 163 deg to SoEaAM
2100-2300 17860 SAC 250 kW 163 deg to SoEaAM
2300-2400 13760 SAC 250 kW 163 deg to SoEaAM

Russian
1500-1530 15325 RMP 250 kW 062 deg to EaEUR
1600-1630 15325 RMP 250 kW 062 deg to EaEUR

Spanish
2200-0100 11990 SAC 250 kW 176 deg to SoAM
2200-2400 15455 SAC 250 kW 176 deg to SoAM
0000-0100 13760 SAC 250 kW 240 deg to CeAM
0100-0200 11990 SAC 250 kW 212 deg to CeAM
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 23)
(DX Mix News 678via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)

Bible Voice Broadcasting updates summer schedule

Canada, Bible Voice Broadcasting - A11 update
Effective to: 30 October 2011

Revised April 13, 2011


Days: mtw (Mon-Wednesday) hf (Thursday/Friday)
Target Areas: af (Africa) as (Asia) eu (Europe) me (Middle East)
All Times UTC


Adja
1945-2000 Sat 9510af

Amharic
1630-1700 stwhfa 13810af
1700-1800 smhfa 13810af
1730-1800 tw 13810af

Arabic
0300-0330 7310me
0430-0500 th 9735me
0500-0515 f 9735me
0500-0530 Sun 11810af
0900-1000 f 17535af
1500-1530 mtwhfa 11810af
1615-1630 mwf 13600me
1655-1700 mtwhf 13580me
1700-1715 mthf 13580me
1700-1730 w 13580me
1700-1730 9440me
1900-1930 13640af

Cantonese
1405-1420 twh 9345as

Dinka
1700-1730 13720af

Dzongkha
1420-1435 w 9345as

English
0030-0100 sfa 7405as
0700-0730 Sun 5945eu
0700-0745 Sat 5945eu
1345-1400 Sun 17945as
1400-1500 Sat 17945as
1405-1435 Sat/Sun 9345as
1415-1500 Sun 17945as
1500-1515 Sun 12035as
1500-1530 Sun 17945as
1515-1545 Sat 13670as
1530-1600 Sun 13590me
1530-1600 h 13670as
1545-1600 mtwhfa 13590me
1600-1615 tf 13590me
1600-1645 h 13590me
1600-1700 Sat/Sun 13590me
1700-1800 Sun 13590me
1700-1720 t 13590me
1700-1730 Sat 13590me
1700-1800 Sat/Sun 11960me
1800-1815 Sun 13590me
1800-1815 Sat 11855as
1800-1845 Sun 9430me
1800-1900 Sat 9430me
1800-1900 Sun 6030eu
1815-1845 Sat 6030eu

Farsi
1530-1600 12140as
1530-1545 Sun 13630as
1600-1700 12140as
1700-1730 12140as
1800-1830 mwf 11855as
1800-1900 th 11855as
1830-1900 Sun 11855as

French
1930-1945 Sat 9510af

Fur
1730-1745 f 13720af

Hebrew
1730-1800 t 13590me

Hindi
0030-0100 mtwh 7405as

Israeli Music
1715-1730 t 13590me

Japanese
1230-1300 Sun 15500as

Korean
1300-1400 15500as

Mandarin
1405-1435 m 9345as

Nepali
1420-1435 h 9345as

Nuer
1630-1700 13720af

Oromo
1600-1630 smhf 13810af

Russian
1800-1815 f 6030eu
1800-1830 t 6030eu

Somali
1800-1830 Sat/Sun 13810af

Spanish
1800-1830 Sun 9435eu

Tigrinya
1700-1730 tw 13810af

Ukranian
1800-1815 h 6030eu

Urdu
1530-1600 wf 13670as
(BVB)

Bible Voice Broadcasting - A11 English schedule

Effective: 27 March - 30 October 2011

All times UTC
target areas: al (alternative) as (Asia) eu (Europe) me (Middle East)

English
0030-0100 fas 7405as
0700-0730 Sun 5945eu
0700-0745 Sat 5945eu
1345-1400 Sun 17945as
1405-1435 Sat 9345as
1405-1435 Sun 9345as
1415-1500 Sun 17945as
1430-1500 Sat 17945af
1500-1515 Sun 12035as
1515-1545 Sat 13670as
1530-1600 sh 13590me 13670as
1545-1600 mtwhfa 13590me
1600-1615 f 13590me
1600-1620 t 13590me
1600-1645 h 13590me
1600-1700 Sat/Sun 13590me
1700-1715 t 13590me
1700-1730 Sat 13590me
1700-1800 Sat 11960me
1700-1800 Sun 11960me 13590me
1800-1815 Sun 13590me
1800-1900 Sat 11855as
1800-1900 Sun 6030eu 6130al
1800-1845 Sun 9430me
1800-1900 Sat 9430me
1815-1845 Sat 6030eu 6130al
(BVB/Alokesh Gupta)

Canada's CHU moving to 7850 kHz

After seventy years of broadcasting Canada’s official time, NRC’s shortwave station CHU will move the transmission frequency for the 7335 KHz transmitter to 7850 KHz. The change goes into effect on 01 January 2009 at 00:00 UTC.
CHU is a part of NRC’s system for disseminating official time throughout Canada, broadcasting 24 hours a day from a location approximately 15 km south-west of downtown Ottawa. Listeners hear tones to mark the seconds, voice to announce the time in French and English, and digital data to set computers.
The atomic clocks at CHU are part of the ensemble of clocks in the time and frequency research laboratories in Ottawa, at the National Research Council Canada. The NRC clocks are used in conjunction with clocks in the time laboratories of other countries to construct the internationally accepted scale of time, UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which is now the reference for official time used by all countries. UTC is the modern implementation of Greenwich Mean Time.
“Coincidentally, this frequency change comes at a time when NRC is investing resources to refurbish the aging transmitters at CHU in order to provide clear, dependable shortwave services as part of NRC’s mandate to disseminate time to all Canadians.” said Raymond Pelletier, Technical Officer at the NRC-Institute for National Measurement Standards, who oversees the CHU facility. “The shortwave time service is especially beneficial for those in remote locations where there is limited access to internet and telephone communication. CHU also provides a back up against failure of other services.”
In April 2007, the International Telecommunications Union re-allocated the 7300-7350 KHz band from a fixed service to a broadcasting service. Since then, interference on the 7335 KHz frequency has come from many information broadcasters around the world.
CHU listeners in Canada and around the world who have for so long considered the 7335 KHz frequency exclusively for time signals, are very vocal about this interference. We have heard from amateur radio operators, watchmakers, astronomers, and navigators who use the tones and voice signals. As well, comments were received from those who use the carrier as a calibration source at a distance for their equipment.
To give notice to users, CHU will broadcast an announcement in both English and French. More information about CHU can be found at:
http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/shortwave_broadcasts_e.html
Comments about the CHU change can be sent by e-mail to radio.chu@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca .
(Source: National Research Council Canada /Comminique 09 Dec. 2008)

Canada to increase postal rates

For our Canadian DXers, the following postal rate increase will effect your DX mail.

Stamp Increase Jan 14, 2008: http://www.canadapost.ca/rates/coming-e.asp
Jan 14 2008 From Canada to Canada 0-30 g... $0.52 30-50 g... $0.96
Jan 14 2008 From Canada to USA 0-30 g... $0.96 30-50 g... $1.15
Jan 14 2008 From Canada to DX 0-30 g... $1.60 30-50 g... $2.30

before Jan 14, 2008
http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/default-e.asp click rates and prices

From Canada to Canada 0-30 g... $0.52 30-50 g... $0.93
From Canada to USA 0-30 g... $0.93 30-50 g... $1.10 Minimum:
140mm x 90mm x .18mm Maximum: 245mm x 150mm x 5mm
From Canada to DX 0-30 g... $1.55 30-50 g... $2.20 Minimum:
140 x 90 x .18mm Maximum: Length+Width+Depth cannot exceed 90 cm (+ taxes if applicable)

no increase for Canada to Canada

73 de Pierre VE2PIJ
ve2pij@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/vhfdx2

via Larry Van Horn