Re: CKFX

[salmaniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Walter Salmaniw)]

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>CKFX ran for years w/ ten watts  and I always wondered why ...
>
>Does anyone have a reasonable explanation why an AM station
>would have a QRP-flea power station on the air such as this ?
>

>From what I recall, I believe it was run as a service to fisherman along the
coast, but I must admit that the AM signals are well heard all the way to
the north coast, so maybe this explanation doesn't hold water.  By the way,
I remember CKFX being fairly easilly heard during the day, but impossible at
night, also here in Victoria.

>
  Volodya (Walter) Salmaniw, salmaniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    from beautiful Victoria, B.C., Canada.

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