Topband: Spurious transmissions on 1830 khz by CKTB (610 kHz), St. Catharines ON

[Rick ve3mm]

Hello fellow topbanders;

Today, I received notification from ISEC (the Canadian version of the FCC)
that radio station CKTB has made repairs to their transmitting system to
correct the source of the spurious emission on 1830 khz.

Hopefully this problem has been solved for good.

73 and stay safe;

Rick ve3mm



On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:04 PM Rick ve3mm <richardstasiak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My qth is St. Catharines ON.
>
> The spurious transmissions from CKTB have been occurring sporadically since
> the summer of 2019.   The spurious signal on 1830 khz seems to occur when
> it is windy in the area and appears to becoming more frequent.
>
> On Friday March 20 around 0100Z the spurious signal was S9 plus 20 on 1830
> khz and it wiped out the band from 1825 to 1835.  They were perfect copy on
> AM and I did hear the station callsign announcement as CKTB.
>
> In the last week I have complained to the station itself and to Industry
> Canada (our version of the FCC).  IC has acknowledged my complaint and said
> they would look into it.
>
> I recommend that if you are affected by this spurious signal that you
> register a complaint with the FCC and hopefully they will pressure Industry
> Canada to force the station to make repairs.
>
> 73
> Rick ve3mm
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