"Frank Halaburak" wrote in message
news
This afternoon I happened to catch the last ever broadcast of Swiss
Radio
International.
Another one bites the dust ! We here in Canada are waiting for the end
of
Radio Canada
International. They have been cutting their budget for a few years now,
It
shouldn't be too
long now..................

In 1963, while on vacation with my parents, I visited the Sackville, NB, RCI
transmitter site. During the standard tour I mentioned that I was a ham, and
we were introduced to one of the engineers, whose call I believe was VE1KC.
Then we got the real tour, of the antenna-phasing room and the power supply
room, about the size of an olympic swimmng pool, big buss bars above huge
transformers, glowing mercury vapor rectifier tubes. And what an antenna
farm! I don't lust for the listening equipment of that era, but the
programming was a lot more diverse and interesting than the lame pirates,
religious zealots and anti-Castro propaganda I hear now.

"PM"