BossRadio wrote::lol: In 76/77 I would spin the dial to a Spokane AM top 40 station after CJAT Trail went black at midnite each nite.
jon wrote:Although we should let BossRadio clarify, I should mention that I interpreted him to mean that he listened to CJAT until they signed off, then habitually switched to a Spokane station after that.
jon wrote:I was at CJAT in 1972, just before CKEK Cranbrook bought them, and they ran from 5:30 a.m. to 1:05 a.m. daily, seven days a week. And they were one great sounding Top 40 station. Except when I was on the air. I turned the mic. to the right so that I spoke across the front of it to put more bass in my voice, not realizing that, on CJAT, I was causing severe overmodulation whenenver I spoke, because the peak limiter sampled higher frequencies and I was fooling it into overmodulating. I only discovered this a few years back when I listened more closely to a short aircheck a friend in Seattle made of me amid the interference from CHNL Kamloops and KFRC San Francisco, both on the same frequency.
jon wrote:Obviously, I wasn't still there then, but a second way they may have done that was to use the cable FM feed of CJAT-FM. Most Canadian cable companies that carried Spokane TV stations, also carried CJAT-FM on cable FM, as it was fed along with the Spokane TV stations on the microwave network that cable companies shared from the head end on Red Mountain near Trail. What I don't know, of course, is whether Cranbrook's cable company did a cable FM feed.
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