PLAYDX - Canadian Travel 2003

THE CANADIAN TRAVEL 2003 BILINGUAL VERSION
by DARIO MONFERINI & ROBERTO PAVANELLO

First Chapter : CANADA 2003 TRAVEL 1-25 August 2003

London Stop

My story will be in Monferinglish....

Greetings from Toronto, today after an Odisseya travel we arrived

here in Toronto sky city with only 3,40 hours delay...

Our fligh from Milano Malpensa on 1st august to London H. was perfect

one, and we arrived on friday at 1850 hours , my place was near

window , north view, so the Alpi mountains was a great show...but no snow at all!

From London H. Airport by Metro line Piccadilly we arrived in 50

minutes directly to Piccadilly Circus, in the subway we looked at the "show" done by a

local "Latinos" ganggroup drinking Gin and Koke... and dancing & looking at tourist bags...hi

We crossed the dirty square of Piccadilly Circus full of strange "dark" people...

and we saw new London Riscio (like in Japan) cost 3 pounds a ride for

2 people....may be we will test it next time.

We had time to try a short visit to Virgin Radio London ... but sorry too late....

the offices was closed... however my eagle view eyes... seen 2 "VIP Pass

Virgin Radio sticker round"(they geave them only to visitors) on an steel

street info parking traffic and so we had this sticker for our collections.

The Italian restaurant "IL CUCCIOLO" located very close to Piccadilly

Circus, was still open and so we eat Spaghetti allo Scoglio (me) and

Tortelloni burro e salvia( Roberto).... both very good ...

Our Hotel in Victoria area , St.George Hotel in St.George street was

met at 1100 hours pm... 75 pounds one night....but only one soap found to

wash our hands.........

But before to close the day ...we had time to do an FM Bandscan of

London... and great surprise to log 46 FM pirates and 8 with RDS....

87,6 FLAVA FM; 87,9 SHINE FM ; 88,4 VISION fm (GREAT RAGGAE SOUND!);

88,6 HOUSE FM (GREAT JINGLES WITH TUBE EFFECT); 89,60 FLARE FM

(BOOMING SIGNALS); 89,80 STATION FM (ALSO HEARD IN 1997 VISIT TO

LONDON); CHILL FM (VERY "TOSTA" STATION); 90,4 YIPER FM; 90,60 Y.2 K.;

90,8 LIGHTNING FM (RASTA MUSIC); 92,30 DEJA VU FM; 92,70 FREEZE FM

(WITH LIVE ! PHONECALLS); 93,80 VIBES FM (NOTHING TO DO WITH VIBE FM) GREAT

RAGGAE MIX; 94,00 PURE FM; 94,20 BLUES FM; 94,40 STREET FM LONDON; 95,20

ORIGIN FM ; 95,40 ROOTS FM LONDON (RASTA MIX); 96,6 BEAT 966 ; 97,10 UNKNOWN

FM (INCREDIBLE DJ WITH BEAR VOICE); 97,60 BOUNCE FM; 97,90 BASSLINE FM (A

B0MB...RDS BASSLINE); 98,10 RAMPAGE FM; 99,30

FLASHBACK (NEGRON SOUNDS); 101,1 UNIQUE FM LONDON; 101,7 XETREME FM; 102,0

THE BEAT FM; 102,5 GALAXY FM (POLITICAL MESSAGES AGAINST

MULTINATIONALS IN AFRICA); 102,70 (new?) STATION NATURY FM ; 102,80 WBLS

(NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GREAT NEW YORK BRONX STATION...THIS FEATURING A

DRUNKED DJ WITH KOKA AND GIN; 103,00 DELIGHT FM; 103,60 FLEX FM (GREAT

RAGGAE SOUNDS); 103,80 AFRICAN COMMUNITY RADIO (PIRATE STATION ...GREAT REAL

AFRO MUSIC );104,7 TIME FM (rds SUB-JAM); 105,60 HAZARD FM (GREAT TECNO

MIX); 106,60 HOT 97; 107,0 RAINBOW FM ; 107,40 CUCH FM (TERRIBLE AUDIO

MUFFLED); 107,70 SWEET FM ; 108,00

AFRIC-FM (NO MUSIC AFRO...BUT house TERRIC NOISE...HI)...may be more over

108 MHz ??? Hi ! References : http://www.dxradio.co.uk/scanpirate.html

WELL This LONDON pirate bandscan was only made possible thanks to Mark

Hattam pirate London list and to my ATS 909 sangean.... with 2 filters FM 80

kHz MURATA... and naturally thanks to the cooperation of Roberto Pavanello....

Well we let London the saturday by subway and we arrived at 105o hours in

the Airport.... soon something strange : Thousands of people at British

Air....ceak in.... and so we had the impression( correct) something of

very unexpected arrived.... our flight was first delayed and after 2

hours united to another FINNAIR flight to Toronto.... and we boarded

at 1500 hours.... but some people was sent to another British Air

flight scheduled to Toronto at... 1505.... we started to roll on the

departing area only at 1545..... the other flight I don't know...

My seat again looking at window and looking to north... so this offered the

chanche to see the Groenland mountains full of snow...great

panorama... but neverthless my attemps no FM reception during the flight !

We arrived with 3,4o hours of laterness ... and more depressing our

baggages lost.....somethere over the Atlantic Ocean .... hi

By taxi private cab we arrived to the hotel really stressed and

destroyed....at 2ooo hours !!!!!!! 5 hours total delay.....

Glen Grove Suite are good apartments 55 Euro per day.... very good

price....it's 3 rooms apartment.... quite far from centertown but near

Subway Yellow line. WEB offer a good view of the building.

http://www.number1hotels.com/discount-hotels-cheap/Glen-Grove-Suites-Toronto-ON.htm

Roberto ... was only able to open the door ...303...after to try 5

minutes the 302...by mistake...ha ha ha.... and he went soon to sleep....

I took a taxy and after a 15 minutes ride I arrived to Insomnia cafe

in Bloor street...563.... but surprise they have no more internet...

now is Taiwanese group CYBER SPACE next door at 559 same street to carry

internet service for 24 hours.... so I got the right place for my worldwide contacts....

Weather was cloudy...smokey... with warm night 22� C....but quite

humid....and even foggy !!! and the Skyscrapers was all in the fogs....

Bye bye

Versione Italiana by Roberto Pavanello :

Dopo tanto peregrinare per l'Europa, a parte le due brevi escursioni a Ceuta

e Tangeri del 1998, � finalmente giunto, in questo 2003, il primo tour

radiofonico extraeuropeo, fatto, come sempre, con Dario Monferini, del Play

DX. La destinazione? Il Canada.

La partenza � avvenuta in treno dalla stazione di Vercelli alle 13.45 di

venerd� 1 agosto. Arrivato alla stazione di Milano Centrale incontravo il

Monfa e in pullmann ci si trasferiva all'aeroporto di Milano Malpensa ove

alle 18.30 si partiva a destinazione di Londra.

Giunti all'aeroporto, dato che i nostri bagagli avrebbero direttamente

proseguito per Toronto, prendevamo l'underground per raggiungere il

Ristorante "Il Cucciolo", nostra scoperta dell' English Tour 1997. Il

ristorante, posto nella prima parallela di Piccadilly Circus, produce dei

ravioli burro e salvia che neanche in Italia si trovano e poi � posto a 200

metri da Virgin Radio, l'emittente di musica attiva su 1215 KHz per cui

decidevamo di andare a dare un'occhiata. La reception era chiusa ma su di un

palo a fianco vi erano due adesivi a noi mancanti. Sarebbero stati i primi

di una lunga serie. Nottata al nostro solito St. George's Hotel, ove il

Monferini, con l'aiuto della lista redatta da Mark Mattan si divertiva a

sintonizzare 42 pirate londinesi in FM ed io ad ascoltare la nuova emittente

attiva sulle onde medie al posto di Liberty Radio sui 963 e 972 KHz, Asia Club Radio.

Nella mattinata del giorno succcessivo, anzi nel pomeriggio dato un

colossale a misterioso ritardo di 4 ore, del nostro aereo a destinazione di

Toronto, l'unica ex SARS City del mondo occidentale. Bin Laden decideva di

non vendicare su di noi i massacri crociati di 800 anni fa e quindi sani e

salvi giungevamo nella prima serata in Toronto.

Superate le non eccessive formalit� burocratiche di ingresso (anche perch� i

nostri bagagli erano probabilmente il volo sulla Groenlandia con il volo

successivo) subito ci si trasferiva all' Hotel Glen Grove Suite e si dava

inizio allo smaltimento del cambio di fuso orario approfittando del week-end

di quasi inattivit�. Le uniche cose che avremmo infatti fatto domenica 3

agosto sarebbero state delle passeggiate nella Downtown (il centro) e in

Little Italy, il quartiere popolato dalla gente di origine italiana (circa

750.000 persone in tutto l'Ontario). Si raggiungeva anche la sede della CBC

ma la reception era priva di materiali ed il museo era chiuso (lo sarebbe

stato anche il luned� festivo). Se volete farvi una visita virtuale la web �

http://www.cbc.ca/museum.

Second Chapter : CANADA 2003 TRAVEL 1-25 August 2003

Toronto arrival

Hallo to everybody !

here in Toronto is still sunday 3 August.... We have spent the

day "travelling" in the city with : Metro lines, Bus lines, Tram

lines..... with a daily ticket 4 Can $ ....valid 24 hours for 2

peoples.... Hey boys 2,30 Euros !!!valid for two people.... incredible

cheap price !

We have been at the Central bus station to vidimate our Canadian Pass

Greyhound valid 21 days, to travel in all areas of Canada.

The central bus station is on 3 levels and very well organized, at

the information service we get also a good map of Toronto public

transportations services. (Very important !!)

After this we went to see CN tower....but surprise ..the clouds was

so low ...the tower was half in the clouds... so we preferred to

let this visit for monday 4 august...in Canada is a Civic holiday...

so almost all the radiostations office are closed.... and we hope the

clouds will be also in holidays.... may be.

It cost 39 Can $ to go to the top of the tower..... about 22 Euros...

I guess a bit costing....to see ABSOLUTELY nothing.... hi...

So we went to see Little Italy in College street area.... great fun

to see the Shops.... the most "amazing"..... FRATELLI PORCO "best

shop in town" they advertise.... You may guess what kind of shop ???

SALUMERIA ITALIANA......

We stopped to BAR DIPLOMATICO Clinton street corner College, and so

we had time to look at our plan for tuesday to visit the Toronto

Radio stations.....this took quite time.... but on the other hand it

started to rain around 1500 hours.... a real strange rain...thin like

"merdinha" you get usually in Sao Paulo and in Barcelona .....

The humidity was 99%.... and a real FOG covered the bay area and

central skyscrapers .... quite impressive weather... however Toronto

is at the same latitude of Firenze....

Tram line 506 is passing all along College street and the head line

start in Subway Yellow line stop College. Unfortunatly a funeral

service stopped the TRAM service for 50 minutes.... it was a special

one... Paghi 2 per 3 funerali.... so 3 funerals runned today in

College street..... followed by many inhabitants...and even by 3

trams !!!!!

Finally we also done some photos at CHIN building in College street

the station owned by Lombardi family and in full Italian on FM band

100,7 MHz.....a giant wall photo of Padre Pio is standing in the hall.... we

will try to visit them on monday .... they said

they are open for us..... (may be a Caribena ciste ???)

We find "Giovanna Italian Restaurant"....in College street and we

wanted test it... but no one was speaking Italian and the test

resulted negative....hi... Cannelloni Ripieni di Spinaci....but

covered by Pommarola tomatos.... a disaster.... Risotto con Funghi

(cultivated in a CAMPOSANTO) ..... same desaster.... like dessert

they listed "La Strega nera".... but she remained a mistery cause

they said not avaible today.... may be she was in holidays in Italy ....???

After that Roberto went back to Glen Grove Suite Apartment and I

arrived in Cyber Pub in Bloor street 559.... near Bathurst Subway

green line.... Metro lines works till 0200 AM local time.

So today no stickers.... but lot of city sightseen.

We saw at Television the British Columbia is burning and the Highway

Edmonton-Vancouver is blocked to the traffic.... cause the forest

fires....40000 people living in the area has been evacuated...terrific news

for us.

Currently, there are 33 radio stations in Toronto; 12 AM and 21 FM. Of these

33 stations, 6 are ethnic. (CJMR-AM, CIAO-AM, CHKT-AM, CHIN-AM, CHIN-FM,

CIRV-FM.) The 3 community-based campus radio stations, (CIUT-FM, U of T;

CHRY-FM, York and CKLN-FM, Ryerson) also offer some ethnic programming

Preferred FM station in Toronto 106,50 CILQ Aboriginal Voices Radio

they play popular indian ethmic music .... GREAT TRUE SOUNDS !!!!.

Till tomorrow....

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Toronto sighseen

Hallo !

Monday 04 August is gone also in the new continent, a civic holiday

in most parts of Canada.... but you know we never respect the

holidays of the others.... so this morning we arrived at 11oo hours

at the reception of CHIN Radio Toronto in Little Italy area, in

College street , and we met Paolo Canciani the news speaker of the

Italian service... after to have heard very interesting Italian news

from Italy.... they take from RAI International service, CHIN has the

exclusive for Canada...and relay it to many stations FM or Cable to

the whole Canada. We went to the Bar Azzurra for a real Italian

espresso cafe.....where we heard a barzelletta about Bossi and

Berlusconi (very unpopular also in Little Italy...not just in

Italy) ..... and went back to studio to meet the Director.

The meeting with the Director Umberto Manca has been very friendly

and has talked to us for almost 90 minutes.... he was in the station

to meet us ....even if the Civic holiday.

Almost 700000 Italians living in the Toronto greater area listen to

the programs. The station has been the first to broadcast Italian on

MW 1540 kHz (50 kW daylight and low power at night to protect the

WPRT Albany US border station)in Canada, and now they have 2 channels

on FM

100,7 & 101,3 MHz.... Mr. Umberto Manca told us in September CHIN

will open also a new FM frequency in Ottawa area....on 91,90 MHz !!!

WEB : http://www.chinradio.com if you want listen and know more about

this historical station.

I went after that to my usual internet place CYBER PUB ... 2 $ can ( 1,20

Euro!!)

per hour...... to look at messages and WEB pages of the stations me

and Roberto will visit in Ottawa and in Montreal in coming days....

The price of the Cyber Pub is very low...and it is open 24

hours......other internet shops in Toronto costs 7-9 $ can per hour !

But...but... unfortunatly... you must accept to stay with local

youngers who play nintendo idiotic plays..... a white boy of 13 years

for example stay 3 hours ...killing arabs in a nintendo PLAY....

don't know the total killed.... the next one was a NEGRON

young ..killing Texas rangers... with cars or motocross ..... quite

unusual indeed ...but the noise was Horrible.... and last one a

Vietnamite young... killing Monsters attack to old Chinese empire...

I remained 7 hours...and believe my head was looklike a football ball.

BBBOOOOMMMBOOOMMKKRRAAKKKKPPOOOOPPPPP.....

Around 1900 hours Roberto arrived (he preferred to do a sighseen

touristic of the Bay area of the city....) and together we went to

the great CN TOWER !!!! We utilized the Subway line green and yellow

... the ticket for 24 hours transports cost for 2 people one day(if it is

holiday or sunday)

5 Can $ only !!!!

The reservation I done by Internet was confirmed at reception ... so

by elevator with a group of many tourists coming from Madrid

Spain .... (I naturally said soon "FORCA BARCA !!!!" ) hi !!! in 58 seconds

we arrived on the Top floor...there is the phantastic restaurant

called 360 degree..... the food is stardard but the view is unicum...

The restaurant turn completly in 1 hour and 10 minutes... so we done

3 tours.... the glittering skyline view at night was perfect....

difficult to describe.... the highways with yellow lights full of the

cars coming back from south and lake area and Quebec .... after 4

days bridge holiday..... no fogs ..so was possible to see the Air flights

coming and departing from Toronto ...great !!!! the airport at the west

of the city.... some far away stormy lightning in Montreal direction....

and many lights of the skyscrapers...almost all the offices remain with

office lights

switch on at night.....don' t know why but....probably ...the multinational

selling lamps

are surely happy....... we get some free souvenirs by a very kind

Korean camerero..... sugar little containers and the bachelite "bacchetta"

for turning cocktails (both sponsoring the CN tower).... you can not miss

both them in the SOUVENIR PACKAGE OF THE CANADA TRAVEL 2003 of

PLAYDX....contact PLAYDX headquarters for price (15 Euro) .....hi...end of

advertising...

Roberto took the <seasonal fresh soup> <grilled pugliese cicken honey

glazed boneless> , I preferred <Atlantic salmon with vegetals> and

same cicken.... all goodies even if the pepper was everywhere...hi..

surely a plate for LINO BANFI friends.... hi.

WEB : http://www.cntower.ca/

A great day naturally..... hope tomorrow will be good also for

our ...collections ...

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Lunedi 4 agosto avremmo dovuto iniziare il tour radiofonico di Toronto; ed

invece no! Il primo lunedi del mese di agosto in Ontario fanno festa, � il

Civic Day. Tutti al lago a fare il barbecue. Per fortuna che, preso da piet�

per due italiani "idioti" che manco conoscono il calendario delle festivit�

dell'Ontario, Umberto Manca, il direttore della CHIN, aveva deciso di

ugualmente riceverci (nonostante il negron receptionista portiere un po

scemo se ne fosse dimenticato.).

La CHIN, attiva sull'onda media di 1540 KHz e sui 100.7 e 91.9 MHz in FM, �

l'emittente della comunit� italiana di Toronto. Fondata 50 anni orsono da

Giovanni Lombardi, deceduto pochi anni fa e a cui oggi � dedicato il

marciapiede della College Str. su cui si affaccia l'emittente, la CHIN oggi

opera per 20 ore al giorno, alternativamente sull'onda media e sull'FM, in

italiano lasciando il rimanente tempo a disposizione di una quarantina di

programmi in varie lingue autonomamente prodotti dalle varie comunit�

nazionali di Toronto. Umberto Manca ci ha parlato dei primi duri tempi della

stazione e della comunit� italiana, quando, agli inizi degli anni '50, gli

italiani erano ancora considerati dai canadesi i fascisti contro cui per 5

anni si era combattuto e rivendicato all'emittente il merito di aver

contribuito all'integrazione della prima generazione di immigranti, una

massa di contadini che da un momento all'altro si � trovata catapultata in

una grande metropoli straniera con i problemi che tutti possiamo immaginare.

Ma non solo, a parere di Manca, la CHIN ha anche contribuito a cambiare la

mentalit� di questa generazione; negli anni '50 la donna italiana camminava

due passi dietro il marito, oggi no, la ragazza italiana aveva l'unica

ambizione di sposarsi, anzi "sistemarsi", oggi studia all'Universit�, si

laurea a lavora autonomamente. Oggi si � alla 3-4 generazione di italiani,

molti ragazzi di origine italiana non parlano pi� la nostra lingua ed il

pubblico italiano della CHIN cala sempre pi�, sostituito da quello dei nuovi

immigrati, asiatici ed africani, a cui anch'essi la CHIN dedica spazio con

programmi loro dedicati. Al termine della chiaccherata si scattavano un po'

di foto, si prendeva un caff� (italiano) si ascoltavano barzellette spinte

su Belusconi.. ma di adesivi e materiali vari neanche a parlarne. Il nulla.

Il resto della giornata veniva dedicata da Dario alla navigazione in

Internet a da me al turismo aeroportuale alla ricerca della mia valigia

ancora dispersa nei cieli sopra l'Oceano Atlantico ed alla sera si ceneva al

ristorante girevole posto sulla CN Tower, a 360 metri di altezza, la torre

di propriet� delle ferrovie canadesi ove sono sistemati i trasmettitori di

quasi tutte le radio e le tv della citt�.

Fourth Chapter 06 August 2003 : CANADA 2003 TRAVEL 1-25 August 2003

Toronto (30 stations)

Hi To all of you !

Our travel never stop ..... on 6 August we were still in Toronto,

sunny morning with usual humidity 99% but sunny day.... our visit to

stations started with a famous Dx catch of the 70's on MW 1010 kHz

CFRB Newstalk WEB : http://www.cfrb.com/ ..... at same place are also

located

EZ ROCK 97,3 WEB : http://www.ezrock.com/ & MIX 99,9 Toronto Best Variety

WEB : http://www.mix999.com/ However a thin woman buldog door controller at

reception... (a bit acid too) did not allowed to find anyone at station at

0915 hours to

show us the studios...too early Sir !!!!!.. so.... no photos, no

souvenirs....

We had same results at CHUM 1050 kHz http://www.1050chum.com

another hit DX station in the 70's..... in Italy.... I had 2 names but.....

both not yet in their

offices at 0945 hours..... so no photos, no souvenirs.....

By subway we arrived at a very far place the end of Dundas Street

West 5302 !!! that place is just 250 meters from Kipling Metro green

line final stop...... a more friendly station and nice looking

receptionist called Mary Ieraci make our smiles reappear after a bad

start.... Z 103,5 MHz Top 40 & Best Music WEB : http://www.z1035.com/

is quite brand new station with nice stickers.... they own also CIAO 530 kHz

....

http://www.radio530.com/ they plan to operate also in Italian !!

We jumped with Subway at ONE DUNDAS West street... the place of power money

station

Pure Rock Q-107 Toronto Best Rock , WEB : http://www.q107.com/ they have

studios at HARD ROCK CAFE in front of the headquarters WEB :

http://www.hardrock.com/279/ , Mojo 640 SPORTS , WEB :

http://www.mojoradio.com/ , The EDGE 102,1 MHz

http://www.edge.ca/home/index.cfm they have also at 228 Yonge street a

live shop studio ..... so cleary they are the most visible group in town for

live sessions !!!

the appointment at 1300 hours at 16 floor was okay but Darren

Wasylyk was iper busy ...so we started to run in

offices .....studios.... doors... meeting other people running in

opposite directions.... very funny indeed.... but we got T-shirts

and many stickers.... specially at the reception..... hi...after all

such streesss we opted to visit Classical FM 96,30 MHz the slogan of the

station is :

" Making life sound better " WEB : http://www.cfmx.com/ ... ohhh

boys... what difference !! Miss Louise Thomas the Office Manager met

us at the reception with a great smile and pure mineral fresh water

for us.... we stay almost one hour at this OASIS of good classic

music.... far away from EVERY kind of noise and Toronto Jam traffic.

The station is 20 years old and has many listeners of voluntary support the

station.

We got lot of CD music with classic music and I may say Miss Louise

is a real gentlewoman !! most surprising item got ...a CANDLE at

Vanilla flavor... in a glass container with Classical FM logo...

Next was a suddenly soft shower ...imagine the humidity to the

stars.... WOOOW that to do for become a star of the Radio travels..hi

Next to see the Rogers stations see WEB for history of the group

http://www.rogers.com/english/aboutrogers/historyofrogers/index.html

are located in a mega building located at Jarvis street 777.... but was

not

so easy to enter.... my "bronze face" assured to the woman guard (more kind

and comprensive) to have a contact by e-mail with the reception to get

souvenirs items,

this give the possibility for us to go up ... and at reception desk at 25th

floor.... to get some stickers...but no photos... the BIG BOSS Mr. Ted

Rogers Jr. doesn't want photographers in the studios....

Radio FAN 590 Toronto Sports Radio WEB :

http://www.fan590.com/eprise/main/fan/index.html

Radio 680 NEWS WEB : http://www.680news.com/home.html

THE JACK 92,50 new station ... (Ex Kiss FM) Slogan is "Playing what we

want!" WEB:

http://www.kiss925.fm/eprise/main/925jackfm however to be true they play

only what THEY want !!!! hi ; 98,1 SOFT

ROCK CHFI WEB : http://www.chfi.com/chfi/content/home.html ..... you add 2

TV stations.... many cable tv ... CYBER TV ....

The owner is look like the Berluscao of Canada.....

Next we stopped at Jazz FM 91,1 MHz... naturally playing only

JAZZ music... WEB : http://www.jazz.fm/ The PRESIDENT ! Chuck Camroux...

tried to make us Jazz listeners ...but my preferences are for Good old

Rock'n'roll...hi... Coffee Mug got and T-shirt XXXXLLL for me.... hi

Last was a flop... FLOW 93 is urban radio hip hop station music WEB :

http://www.flow935.com/home.htm ...the dirty

enter...the "comic" receptionist.... "really do you collect speakers...????"

I said "No I collect STICKERS !!!" ohh sorry we don't

have... speakers...

But time was running out and the 1730 hours make us in the meaddle

of the "gold rush" to the homes by all the Toronto workers... making

everythng a real inferno... The Subway (pls don't say Metro line)

becomed a box for fish..... the street full of people prisoner of

cars... a clacson music everythere.... a real normal late summer

afternoon in downtown Toronto central area... So at 1800 hours we

pick up our baggages and arrived at the Greyhound Central Bus station near

Yonge corner Bay street... our Taxi driver was a real formula 1

driver...like Pedro Montoya specialized ...to destroy cars... and

just few inches and another car should have crashed us.... hi...

We exchanged our travel pass Canadian valid 21 days... and the young

worker... said... "but this is valid for 2004'''''....." I said yes

but we prefere to use today...." luckly a more aged man explained the

limit is 2004 for that pass....

We boarded at 1830 as per schedule ... our bagages was ..sent in to

the bus Greyhound... by an energumic giant NEGRON man... surely champion of

baggages sent like an hammer into the bus.... new olimpic speciality

from Athens 2004 Olympic games.....may be....imagine the coffee mugs and the

candle

glass .... in our baggages....

After 4 hours drive and one stop at NORTH CHINA fast food.... (the

land of Gabrielli ancestral people???) we arrived in a rainy steamy

Toronto ...humid, foggy... but warm as 25�C at midday..but it was midnight

!!!

Our place the CHIMO hotel is well known by taxists so no problems to

arrive quickly at the hotel.

http://www.faresrus.com/hotels/canada/on/ottawa/chimohotel.htm

We got a supert SUITE at last floor 10th with a very long range

view...to south... (the town center is to north...hi)

Just some thrilling to use the elevator.... to arrive at our floor

you need to use the room plastic card.... or the elevator does't

move... after 5 minutes tentatives and some ... irripetible

sentenses by Roberto in perfect dialect Vercellese... we finally

found the way to go up....

WooW a real great day....

Versione Italiana by Roberto

Martedi 5 agosto era il giorno dell'inizio dei "lavori", ma prima un breve

accenno al sistema radiofonico canadese.

Esso ricalca a grande linee quello inglese; ad un ente pubblico esteso a

livello nazionale, la C.B.C. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, si

affiancano emittenti private sia su onde medie (e qualcuna anche sulle onde

corte) che in FM.

La C.B.C. � attiva con 4 servizi nazionali, CBC Radio One in inglese,

essenzialmente di notizie, CBC Radio 2 in inglese di musica, Premiere Chaine

in francese di notizie e Chaine culturelle in francese. Esiste inoltre un

terzo canale di sola musica diffuso via cavo. CBC Radio 1 e Premiere Chaine

per 6-7 ore al giorno interrompono la programmazione nazionale per

diffondere quella provinciale e locale realizzata da 38 differenti sedi

dislocate in tutto il paese. Normalmente i programmi locali hanno durata di

2-3 ore nella prima mattinata, 2 ore nel primo pomeriggio e 2 ore nella

prima serata. Esiste inoltre un servizio sulle onde corte per lo sterminato

nord del Quebec e un servizio per l'estero, Radio Canada International. Le

emittenti private operano sulle onde medie e l'FM e quasi tutte sono

specialistiche, pochissime le generaliste. In onde medie vanno in onda talk

show, news, sport e musica oldies, in FM i programmi musicali, di rock,

classic rock, country, etc. Notevole la presenza di radio sia per le

minoranze immigrate, specialmente cinesi ed italiane, che per i nativi

nordamericani (Aborigenal Network) e la presenza di radio universitarie sia

nelle universit� pubbliche che private, WEB :

http://www.cleverjoe.com/radio.html

Detto ci� partiamo con la cronaca dei nostri "lavori".

Mai inizio fu peggiore. Si iniziava dall'unica sede di 4 emittenti: CFRB di

news su 1010 KHz, CFRX sull'onda corta di 6070 KHz inattivo durante la

nostra visita (canale bloccato in Europa) con ritrasmissione dei programmi

della CFRX, Mix 99.9 (in Canada non a pi� obbligatorio l'utilizzo del solo

call letter in 3 o 4 lettere

iniziante per C) di disco dance e EZ Rock. Il nulla pi� assoluto, tutti

ancora in ferie! Lo stesso avveniva anche alla vicina sede della mitica

CHUM, la stazione operante su 1050 KHz che qualche fortunato mortale ha

avuto la fortuna e l'abilit� di sintonizzare anche in Italia... anche Dario

tra di loro...

In metro (pardon subway) prima e taxi(150 metri dalla subway.)dopo si

raggiungeva una casettina alla periferia della citt� ove hanno sede altre

tre stazioni. La CIAO di news sull'onda media di 530 KHz, Z 103,5 di rock

music a FOXY di country su 88.8 MHz. Qui le cose andavano decisamente

meglio. Eravamo infatti accompagnati ad una visita di tutte le installazioni

a finalmente si raccoglievano i primi adesivi canadesi, quelli di Z 103.5 e

FOXY. Il ghiaccio era stato rotto!

Dopo una visita puramente turistica all'University of York (situata a 40 Km

dal centro.)si tornava in centro ove si aveva un appuntamento in uno dei pi�

imponenti grattacieli di Toronto per una visita ad un'altra concentrazione

di 3 emittenti: Mojo su 640 KHz, Q107 e The Edge su 102.5 MHz. Anche qui

visita delle installazioni ed adesivi.

Un errore nel salire su di un tram ci portava casualmente alle sede di City

TV, la stazione televisiva locale (dislocata nei vecchi studi della CHUM,l'

ingresso � ancora identico!), che gestisce anche un museo della televisione

ed uno shop. Il tempo di visitare il museo non c'era ma quello di acquistare

qualche adesivo delle varie tv via cavo gestite dall'emittente si!

Si andava quindi a Classical FM, stazione di sola musica classica attiva sui

96.3 MHz, finanziata dalla municipalit� ove la florida responsabile dei

programmi, Louise Thomas, ci accompagnava in una visita completa degli ampi

studi e ci omaggiava di vari CD a di una candela mangiafumo all'aroma di

vaniglia con un'etichetta autoadesiva col simbolo della stazione (peccato

che durante il viaggio l'etichetta realizzata con una stampante a colori si

sia completamente deteriorata). Si proseguiva con le emittenti del gruppo

Rogers (Rogers l'inventore delle valvole Rogers!!). Rogers 6, la Mediaset

canadese: proprietaria di varie stazioni televisive via cavo a di varie

stazioni provinciali in tutto il paese (la legge canadese sulle

telecomunicazioni impedisce ai privati la creazione di network radiofonici a

copertura nazionale riservando il monopolio alla CBC). In Toronto Rogers

gestisce 4 stazioni: 680 News e The Fan 590 di sport sulle onde medie, CHFI

di soft rock su 98,1 MHz e Jack FM su 92,5 MHz. Niente visita agli studi ma

lavorandoci un po' la receptionista poliziotta, compilando un paio di moduli

e mostrando i documenti i piu sudati adesivi del viaggio riuscivamo ad

ottenerli!

Era poi la volta di Jazz FM, stazione di sola musica Jazz sui 91 MHz. Bench�

fosse a loro totalmente sconosciuto il nostro Franco Cerri erano ugualmente

simpatici e non solo ottenevamo i loro adesivi ma anche la prima T-shirt del

viaggio, senza dubbio molto utile se la vostra valigia � sempre

desaparecida.

Toccava quindi a Flow FM, scalcinata emittente di musica rap che ci faceva

concludere la giornata nello stesso modo con cui era iniziata! Mitica la

receptionista che capiva che "we collect speakers"..Non erano certamente

terminate la emittenti di Toronto, ma il tempo a nostra disposizione si.

Tornavamo in albergo a prendere i bagagli e quindi un taxista latino,

che considerando come guidava oggi sar� gi� in compagnia del suo mitico

connazionale Juan Pablo Montoya (famoso sfasciamacchine F1..) , facendoci

portare alla stazione degli autobus per partire alla volta di Ottawa.

Eravamo dotati del Canadian Pass della Greyhound, la pia importante rete di

pullmann canadesi, che permette l'utilizzo di ogni suo mezzo per un periodo

di 21 giorni al modico prezzzo di 435,28 $ canadesi (circa 270 Euro) e che

potete acquistare, tramite carta di credito, direttamente in Internet

all'indirizzo http://www.Greyhound.ca. Vi giungera direttamente a casa nel

giro di una decina di giorni. Il viaggio di circa 400 Kilometri durava

l'intera serata ma gia verso la mezzanotte, eravamo al Chimo Hotel, ove

avremmo fatto una megadormita di una diecina di ore.

Fifth Chapter 07 August 2003 : CANADA 2003 TRAVELLING 1-25 August 2003

Ottawa (25 stations)

Ciaoooo !

We have also positively survived the Ottawa tour of the local FM-AM

stations, we had a ... later wake up... surely necessarily to

equilibrate our loss of spleeping hours after a running of 3 days in

Toronto quite stressing.... so we wake up at 1000 hours... cause the

door was opened by a negron woman asking "Clean up the room?" ...

translated "Bosso fare la camera?" ,,,we replied ..thanks not now...

But at 1100 we were yet standimg in front of the building were are

located the stations of Mr.Rogers (alias the Beluscao of Canada)...

the stations are located outside the central area... in a very quiet

place with lot of green grass (but now no more caws or buffalos..nor

Indians .... unfortunatly)

My new tactic ..to say we have no appointment but we should like to

do a visit to your studios worked... so we done photos at CHEZ 106 Ottawa

Classic Rock WEB : http://www.chez106.com/home.html,

Oldies 1310 kHz BIG COUNTRY Radio WEB : http://www.oldies1310.com/

101,1 X FM new rock music http://www.101xfm.ca/home.html , and Y-

105 CKBY http://www.y105.fm/home.html (just for curiosity but all the WEB

offers travels in nice places around the world...to the listeners...hi) &

Country 92 FM WEB :

http://www.country92.ca/

.... we got many souvenirs and so we started in the best

way the day.... just 500 meters far from we found the christian

station CHRI 99,1 MHz WEB : http://www.chri.ca/default.php

.... they have stickers... and big van car all painted.

To arrive to both stations you may use the bus 84 line bus

stop St.Laurent corner Thurnston Drive. Back to center town to see

the other big group station... at 87 George street... but again I

had problems with the woman police guard... she gave me the phone to

call for an appointment to visit the studios... we tryed to call

but.. the authomatic secretary ... said the man you call is is

holidays... try again after 13 august.... we promptly come back to

bulldog woman guard... explaining but we leave Ottawa tomorrow...

the reply was ... sorry but you are not allowed to enter today....

After some ... moments of high voltage electric air... finally we

get 2 stickers of BOB 93,90 MHz... "one of each to you is more than

sufficent" the bulldog guard sentenced.... "I replied Hija de

puta..." but luckly she doesn't know Spanish.....

BOB FM 93,9 WEB : http://www.939bobfm.com/home/index.asp

CFRA 580 kHz WEB : http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp

Majic 100 FM, Ottawa Best Music, WEB : http://www.majic100.fm/home/index.asp

CFGO The Team Sports 1200 kHz WEB : http://www.team1200.com/home/index.asp

We changed target area visiting CBC Canada... well the address is 1

Rideau steet... and we arrived at 1400 hours in front of the

building just 300 meters from Parliament House .... but we found

only a giant Hotel called Fairmont Hotel "THE CASTLE".... super luxury

hotel... SIX stars !!!! WEB :

http://www.ottawa--hotels.com/Fairmont/fairmont.html

So with some exitation we entered and we took the elevator till the last

floor

in reality it is true... can you imagine the RAI italy in Roma

allocated in the Grand Hotel Michelangelo in Roma ??? I can't ..hi

At 7th floor there is the reception.... but NO ONE attending for more

than 20 minutes.... so we had sufficent time to take everything was avaible

and to do photos... visit some office with live programs... no one

asking...what are you

doing ??? Simply INCREDIBLE.....

Finally a guard arrived.... after his lunch time ? may be.. making

a "soft" BBBUUUUURRRPPPP ... and Hallo can you help you ??? We

said thanks we just miss some bumper stickers.. (he probably did

not understood the humor) he replied...sorry I have only a fridge

magnet..... of CBC Radio One 91,50 MHz... I said thanks very good

item. WEB : http://www.ottawa.cbc.ca/

Cause outside was still running a big shower fall and even

thunderstorm lighting... we stopped in the luxury hall of the

Hotel... where other tourists were doing a picnic ... on the satin sofa

chairs..... probably this hall is famous for this possibility...

during snowfalls in wintertime... ans showers in summertime...

At 1600 we went to see Standard Radio Group WEB :

http://www.standardradio.com/contact/contact_sta.html

The Bear 106,9 Rock Mix WEB : http://www.thebear.fm/

and New Hot FM 89,9 MHz WEB : http://www.hot899.com/

in 1504 Merivale Road, to south west area.... at same place also CTV

Television ... well the receptionist Miss Sharon Barnard with big blu eyes

resulted really friendly and even Roberto becomed for just a few seconds a

star going live over the AIR of THE BEAR ...sending greetings in

Italian to all Italian language listeners of THE BEAR !!! This made

really euforic Roberto ..... Many souvenirs ...also 2 key chain

rings ... 2 t-shirts XXXLLL and another surprise 2 bottles of pure

water in a plastic container... with logo of HOT MIX 89,9 MHz....

But our day was not yet ended... we arrived with a taxist of French

colonial Martinique area.... (sentencing after we were

arrived "Siciliano from Italy ???" but I replied no "Padano from

Padania" ..but probably he doesn't know Mr.Bossi) .. to CHUO the

University Campus free radio 89,10 Mhz of University of Ottawa... 85

building university , suite 229 2nd floor ... WEB : http://www.chuo.fm/

The station is totally volunteer operated and totally free programs.... a

dream for us in Italy to have such quality radio for students.... We got the

stickers and I covered many scaffals with the stickers from Italian

FM stations I always carry with me like souvenirs to the stations I visit...

Great tour almost 90 % positive....

I was even able to stay 2 hours (price 4 Can.$ per hour) at a Cyber point,

WEB : http://www.aemicro.net located at 288 Banks street found thanks to :

WEB : http://www.netcafeguide.com/countries/canada2.html

So after this Roberto arrived and we opted to go to eat... we choose on

Yellow pages phone book... IL MANGIA...Pasta fatta in casa.... in Dalhousie

street.... cause my hungry level was over RED LINE LIMIT..the taxy driver

was....Lebanese talking at cellular phone about AL QUEHIDA ..BIN

LADEN...SADDAM HUSSEIN...DOLLARS......He was so busy on line...even

not to stop at right place ...We did not see soon in front of IL

MANGIA another restaurant..at 297 of the street......called CAFE BACI....

So after a first horrible plate of green pasta mixed with all kind

of vegetals.... like to eat insalata boiled with tagliatelle not boiled....

transferred ( under the eyes of the "ALLIBITI" owners of IL MANGIA) to

CAFE BACI... what difference.... they have also a nice WEB :

http://www.tordine.com/ontheroad/ontario/ottawa/cafebaci.html

SPAGHETTINI ALLA PUTANESCA.... SPAGHETTINI alla SICILIANA with

MANDORLE !!!! Antony Morello the chief cooker is really an artist of

PASTA !!!

So this made really perfect the day also for our...estomac !

Versione Italiana by Roberto:

Ottawa � la capitale in quanto sede della residenza del Governatore di Sua

Maest� la Regina Elisabetta II, non certo perch� sia la citta pi� grande del

paese a quindi � molto pi� vivibile e tranquilla della caotica Toronto,

percui anche il tour radiofonico del mercoledi 6 agosto � risultato

facilitato. Si iniziava dal gruppo di emittenti pi� lontane dall'albergo e

dalla citt�..infatti era a 20 Km a Sud owest; quelle del gruppo Rogers che

in Ottawa sono ben 5: Country 92 di musica country, Y105, CHEZ 106.1 di

classic rock, X FM 101.1 di modern rock, CIWW di oldiees su 1310 KHz. Questa

volta eravamo pi� fortunati che in Toronto: non solo nuovi adesivi e T-shirt

si aggiungevano al nostro bottino ma anche, caso raro con le Rogers

stations, visita e fotografie degli studi. A piedi ci spostavamo alla

vicinissima CHRI, emittente cattolica attiva sui 99.1 MHz, ove raccoglievamo

altri adesivi, e poi in taxi tornavamo in centro per una visita al gruppo

CHUM che in Ottawa � attiva con 4 emittenti. Bob FM 93,90 MHz, CFRA su 580

KHz, Majic su 100 MHz e CFGO di talk e sport su 1200 KHz.

Purtroppo sulla nostra strada trovavamo alcuni poliziotti (1 donna e 2

uomini). una massa di "stronzi": degli adesivi di Bob, gli unici presenti in

reception, abbiamo dovuto insistere per averne 2 in quanto erano a

disposizione unicamente degli ascoltatori locali perch� servivano per un

concorso radiofonico in atto, per visitare gli studi ci hanno dato un numero

di telefono da chiamare da una cabina telefonica fuori dalla stazione,

telefoniamo e ci dicono che il tizio era in ferie. Stufi di essere presi per

i fondelli siam tornati indietro ad abbiamo omaggiato la receptionista

poliziotta di uno dei vecchi adesivi preparati dal CO.RAD. per Cobisi in

occasione dell'EDXC Conference di Firenze, quelli con un buono per un

vaffanculo gratis!

Andavamo quindi, mentre su Ottawa si aprivano le cataratte del cielo,

all'indirizzo a nostra disposizione della CBC, a 25 km a nord della citt�.

Li giunti venivamo a scoprire che nel megapalazzone vi erano soltanto gli

studi televisivi e gli uffici amministrativi e che la radio era invece

ospitata al 7mo piano dell'Hotel Fairmont Chateau Laurier, il pi� importante

hotel

della capitale, posto proprio a fianco del Parlamento Federale. Ottenevamo

per� un adesivo di servizio con simbolo della CBC a la scritta VISITOR,

probabilmente il pi� raro adesivo raccolto in tutto il viaggio! Ed anche il

pi� costoso !!!! Si tornava quindi in centro, entravamo all'Hotel Chateau

Laurier, nulla indicava ne fuori, ne all'interno la presenza di CBC Radio.

Prendevamo ugualmente un ascensore (senza che nessuno ci chiedesse chi

fossimo, chi cercavamo, cosa volessimo) e salivamo al settimo piano.

Incredibile ma vero: le porte dell'ascensore si aprivano sulla reception

degli studi radiofonici della CBC! La reception era completamente

abbandonata a se stessa: ci fornivamo di bellissime cartoline locali, liste

di frequenze e

quant'altro a disposizione e poi ci sedevamo in attesa di qualcuno. Dopo una

ventina di minuti lo stanco poliziotto receptionista faceva la sua comparsa,

ci chiedeva cosa volevamo.e gli spiegavamo che ci eravamo gi� serviti. Ci

facevamo omaggiare un paio di biro (non avevano adesivi) e ridiscendavamo

nella lodge dell'Hotel in attesa della fine dell'uragano ancora in corso.

Perche i cittadini canadesi paghino l'affitto di un intero piano del pi�

lussuoso albergo di Ottawa quando nella stessa citta la CBC dispone di un

palazzo di una ventina di piani, lo sa solo il Padreterno.invero poi

scoprivamo leggendo un libro sulla storia dell'emittenza in Canada, che nell

'Hotel nel 1921 ci fu la prima trasmissione dal vivo organizzata da Marconi

con un concerto sinfonico.dunque L'Hotel Chateaux Laurier � un museo vivente

per la storia della CBC Canadese..Comunque ci viene il dubbio che anche in

Canada circolino mazzette? Cessato l'uragano ci trasferivamo in due altre

stazioni operanti dalla stessa sede; The Bear di rock music su 106.9 MHz a

Hot 89.9. Mentre visitavamo gli studi di The Bear una connazionale di Reggio

Calabria residente in Ottawa telefonava alla stazione e subito la dj mi

invitava a salutarla. Andavo cos� in onda in diretta da The Bear! Altri

adesivi ed una bella T-shirt di Hot 89.9 si aggiungeva al nostro bottino.

Li a fianco vi era anche la sede di CJOH TV, facevamo un tentativo e l'esito

era positivo, altri stickers! L'unico positivo con la CTV..in tutto il

viaggio.

Si chiudeva con CHUG, l'emittente universitaria attiva su 89 MHz. In tutte

le universita canadesi, sia pubbliche che private, � attiva una radio FM

gestita direttamente dall'Union Students, l'unione degli studenti, e

finanziata dall'Universita. Tutte si basano sul lavoro di volontari e

certamente rappresentano una bella scuola di radio per chi magari proseguir�

poi il lavoro in pi� importanti stazioni. Tutte sono sempre state molto

gentili nei nostri confronti e con gli adesivi e la T-shirt di CHUO

concludevamo il nostro "lavoro" in Ottawa.

Sixth Chapter 08/09 August 2003 : CANADA 2003 TRAVEL 1-25 August 2003

Montreal (30 stations)

Hi from old good modern Montreal metropolis...

In past 2 days we have been in Montreal visiting the 30 radio

stations, a great fun indeed, the only problem it has been the very

warm humid weather... like to be in a giant sauna....

We started our travel from Ottawa at 0800 hours with good quiet

Greyhound bus ...just 15 passengers in the bus 2445... and in the

highway not so much traffic ... the bus had some problems to go in

first run...but survived to the trip...hi...

I listened to the FM band.... in just 2 hours we were in Montreal...

oh boy... the center is full of skyscrapers really impressive...but

no radio tower .... just the olimpic "bent" tower in the northwest.

The travel Lodge Hotel given us the room 323 at 1130 !!! hours....

usually they gives at 1500 hours... So we had time to acclimate to

the air conditioned... the only way to survive to steamy Montreal

air..

We listened to CFMB 1280 in Italian, a nice program of live battle of

ships you know the play you must devine were are placed war ships by

numered positions...a to z and 1 to 10... but imagine some true

Italian wifes to do it.... the speaker trying his best to help ...but

with very poor results... the quality of the program was look like to

listen to Radio Canicatti International .... more or less.

The advertising captured our attention...Mr. Benito offered live some

of his products of his shop .... quite anusual way to advertise...

CAPRETTI SCORTICATI VIVI..... for exemple...

We went after this rustic listening..making however our spirit at

good levels... to a visit to some stations... all 3 located at same address

211 Gordon in Verdun area.

CKOI 96.9 in French WEB : http://www.ckoi.com/ckoi2/indexckoi_800.htm

New Q-92 in English WEB : http://www.q92fm.com/

Cool FM 98.5 in French WEB : http://www.coolfm.ca/ecouter.html

with poor results...in fact no stickers was found.

At around 163o hours we arrived by BUS 150 under the big building of

Radio City & Radio Energie 94.3 FM located in Boulevard Levesque 1717.

WEB : http://www.radioenergie.com they cover Quebec & a part of Ontario

However Radio Cit� was changing address to Levesque right that period... so

nothing

yet in the new building ... and only 2 stickers from Energie FM .....

So we were in time at 17oo hours for the meeting with the spanish section of

Radio Canada International located at Boulevard Rene Levesque 1400 ...

around

1 mile from our hotel .... the smoky weather conditions did not

permitted to see the building top seeming to disappear into the sky...hi

The spanish section of Radio Canada International, is located at

underground level of the building... were are 16 differents radio

stations... of the national service. WEB : http://www.rcinet.ca/

Cesar Guerra the speaker welcomed us, he is from Lima,Peru, so we had

lot of talks about radio stations of Peru... at 1800 hours we went at

the studio to record the program dedicated to the listeners of the

Spanish service .... on the air next sunday.... many arguments was

the topics in the interview... and also Roberto shown a good spanish

knowing... this surprised me and Cesar indeed.

We got some stickers new model of RCI and we said hallo to Cesar.

Our evening was spent at Tour de la Ville attic restaurant atop the Delta

Hotel,

http://www.bar-resto.com/delta/tourdeville/ at 777 University Street

at 29 floor... a round system permitted to see Montreal Lights

at night, impressive cause a providential wind from west put clear

the visibility.... lights of highways coming to Montreal...the bent

stadium tower, the many skyscrapers... but most important the BUFFET

of the restaurant made the night unforgottable for us... I eat 25

plates.... 7 fish plates, 1 second pasta ravioli with panna and

parmigiano...5 second plates, 6!!! sweets, 4 fruits plates....

Guess if total calories was above the normal level good for 12

people.... in Torino they were used to say some years ago "...ma che

bestia...ma che bestia..questo Monferini.."....probably it's true....... hi

The night was spent by me at Cyber point located in red light street

St.Catherine Blvrd 289..... 24 hours open... with Sauna massage

optional (not used however...), cost 4 $ Can per hour...

http://www.highwayhome.com/travel/tourismbycity/montreal/montrealnightspots.

html

Roberto preferred to look at the human fauna in the street... all the

Montreal human trash was possible to located on the street .... hi.

Friday we had to be at 9 hours at RCI again to met Bill Westenhaver

the Audience Relations of Radio Canada International English

section... very friendly and he give to us all kind of informations

about the station.... with a round trip in the building...and also

with lot of nice presents for our collections.... he said "quite rare

to see visitors from Europe here" We are really thanksfull to Bill for his

great

kindness and for the many presents he kindly give to us.

At 1230 in a sunny day we started our running visit to the Montreal radio

stations,

we utilized metro lines and taxis, this cause the traffic jam in some areas

of Montreal is very high....being friday...

First to see CITE 107,3 Rue Peel 1410 ... moving next monday to new office

at Boulevard Rene Levesque 1717 East (together with Radio Energie yet

located there .... both

stations has 8 frequencies covering almost all Quebec province)

WEB : http://www.rockdetente.com/bienvenue.asp

So in Rue Peel 1410 is now located only the historical CKAC 730 kHz WEB :

http://www.ckac.com/ so we got absolutely nothing at all....hi.

We visited CINQ 102,3 MHz quite far from the center city... WEB :

http://www.radiocentreville.com/ multilanguage station, operating also in

Spanish & Creol

Mrs. Suzanne Charland the coordinator really esquisite

talked a lot about how the station is able to serve many communities

living in the city...not yet in Italian however... got some "macilenti"

paper stickers.

CKUT radio Mc Gill University with 100 collaborators all free

lancer students... WEB : http://www.ckut.ca/ got stix and T-shirts !

CIBL 101,5 MHz... the most free station in Montreal... belonging to

AMARC association ... they advertised free smoke of Cannabis... hi !

WEB: http://www.cibl.cam.org no stix but ..captured 5 years old stix from a

meuble.

Time was running and dramatically making our running look like in the

moovie...LAST

48 hours.... by metro ! (yes sir in Montreal they call it again

METRO !! there are 4 lines we utilized all them more than 20 times

the cost is 1 day ticket just 7 can $)......busses.....and even we took

Taxis connections....

Last visit at 1411 Front Street resulted pantagruelic at CHOM the spirit of

rock 97.7 Skip

Snair the Promotion Director... show to us the studios also of sister

stations THE MIX 96 and CJAD 800 kHzews radio. Skip has worked for

THE STONES for more than 12 years.... he has an incredible collection

of souvenirs from THE STONES...the Jacket of Mike Jagger and the play guitar

with

signature and dedication.... the CHOM play only real good old

rock'n'roll and I really love to listen to it here in Montreal...and from

Italy in real audio !

WEB : http://www.chom.com/

The MIX 96 WEB : http://www.themix.com/www/

CJAD 800 Khz WEB : http://www.cjad.com/

We get many t-Shirts...key rings...cloth patch.... more and more....

you can't believe.... don't know how Roberto was able to carry these items,

to the Hotel ONLY with his giant plastic bag and two additionals ... at our

back arrival to hotel at 1830 hours the receptionists looked at us look like

some clandestine coming from Albania...hi

So really satifeated we went back to our air conditioned hotel room ....

Unfortunatly no possible to visit the CFMB Italian Radio, too far from and

too late

http://www.cfmb.ca/ .... but you may listen to them in real audio...if you

wish .....

I had a long phone call to my local area Dx friend Bogdan ...we

talked for 50 minutes about differents topics like MW DXing in Canada and in

Europe.... receivers, antennas... this cause Bogdan had no

possibility to meet us ...he live outside Montreal at Pierrefonds and

the bus service stops quite early as 2200 hours...a real pity not having had

chanche to meet him.....hope next time will be better chanche.

So we cocluded the exaustive day again at"Tour de la ville" Buffet

Restaurant DELTA TOWER for 140 Can. $ in TWO !!!! you may eat for 20

people..if your estomac

is sufficent large... as mine...hi... I will never forget the cakes with

chocolate, cacao creeme.(I was able to eat 16 of them.....) the only problem

has been to "BBBUUUURRPPP" them...... don't ask me more...please... hi !!!

So that's was our 2 days in Montreal....tomorrow back to Toronto ...

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Il giorno successivo ancora in

viaggio, questa volta a destinazione di Montreal, la piu grande citta

francofona al mondo dopo Parigi.

Non attendetevi per� un'altra Parigi: le atmosfere parigine, i suoi

boulevard, le brasserie, i bistr�, purtroppo, non hanno copia in Montreal.

Montreal, come tutte le citt� canadesi, � una citt� americana, vale a dire

con un centro finanziario pieno di grattacieli ad uso uffici, parchi attorno

ad esso e poi una sterminata periferia con casette ad uno o due piani con un

pezzo di giardino con erba rasata, tipo old England, ove la gente vive (e

passa I weekends a rasarla). Montreal � pero l'unica citta canadese con una

vera vita notturna: la Rue Sainte Catherine, proprio la prima parallela a

quella del nostro albergo, � la fotocopia della parigina Rue Saint Denis

(chi ben conosce Parigi sa cosa voglio intendere!). Il nostro hotel, il

Travel Lodge era posto in pieno centro e quindi gi� nel pomeriggio potevamo

darci da fare con le varie emittenti ma prima ci dilettavamo all'ascolto

della CFMB sui 1280 KHz, l'emittente in lingua italiana. Una cosa

obbrobriosa: ricordate i programmi delle emittenti di paese della seconda

meta degli anni '70, quelle che poi sono fallite tutte? Ecco, proprio gli

stessi programmi, per 40 minuti � andata in onda una battaglia navale che

dalle chiamate delle ascoltatrici ci ha fatto pensare che il livello

intellettivo medio delle massaie italiane viventi in Montreal sia 27, a

questa battaglia navale � seguito un notiziario con aggiornamenti sulla

situazione del traffico sul grande raccordo anulare di Roma e, dulcis in

fundo, un programma pubblicitario di 25 minuti della Macelleria Benito, 25

minuti con l'elenco dei prezzi di tutti i possibili tagli di carne e

l'invito ad andare al assistere allo "scorticamento" dal vivo! del capretto

acquistato, il tutto intervallato dal meraviglioso slogam "MACELLERIA

BENITO, BUON APPETITO ". Decidevamo che l'emittente non era degna di una

nostra visita! dalla loro WEB : http://www.cfmb.ca/

IL MATTINIERE

L'animatore Nick Di Vincenzo tra una canzone e l'altra propone in blocchi di

mezz'ore programmi di giochi e svaghi: Indovina Indovinello programma a

premi con indovinelli per gli ascoltatori, Hit Parade la classifica locale

basata sulle preferenze d'ascolto del pubblico, Ricordidel cuore, cosa pu�

ricordare una canzone? molto e le lettere che arrivano lo rivelano. Solo per

bambini un programma vietato ai maggiorenni, e asecondo della stagione Ieri

o Domani Sposi ovvero i racconti delle coppie dopo il loro 25.mo

anniversario di matrimonio o la voce tremante degli sposi il giorno prima di

andare all'altare

Dopo tanto disgusto, uscivamo dall'hotel ed in subway (pardon metro)

raggiungevamo la sede di tre stazioni locali: CKOI in lingua francese sui

96.9 MHz, CFQR Q92 in lingua inglese e COOL sui 98.5 ancora in francese. Si,

perche Montreal � l'unica vera citta bilingue del Canada percui i vari

broadcaster attivano, in molti casi, stazioni sia in lingua francese che

inglese. Non vi erano adesivi (erano sul furgone..che era sparito.) ma una

visita completa degli studi premiava il nostro sforzo per raggiungerla. In

metro e bus ci trasferivamo ad altre due stazioni Cite e Energie.

La prima di musica rock opera sui 107.3 MHz, la seconda sui 94.3 MHz. Questa

volta vi erano un paio di adesivi di Energie,(grazie all'email inviato da

Dario prima di partire per il Canada, dato che la receptionista molto scema

ci aveva detto,l'emittente non ha mai fatto adesivi..) ma niente visita. Non

si puo mai avere tutto! Di fronte vi era la sede della CFCF TV, la City TV

di Montreal ma "les autocollants" erano merce sconosciuta.a Toronto li

vendevano a 0,5 $ Canadesi l'uno.Era ora di raggiungere la sede centrale

della CBC ove avevamo un appuntamento con il servizio spagnolo di Radio

Canada International per registrare un'intervista per la rubrica della posta

che sarebbe andata in onda la successiva domenica 10 agosto. Eravamo un po'

in anticipo e quindi abbiamo deciso di tentare un'incursione all'interno per

conto nostro. La tecnica adottata � stata la stessa gia attuata, con

successo, in Bruxelles sia da me che dal Monferini: chiedere al

receptionista se all'interno vi � una boutique ove comprare souvenirs

dell'emittente. La risposta � stata che una vera boutique non esisteva ma

che dentro vi era un negozietto ove qualcosa vendevano, se volevamo andarci,

prego, passate pure. E' incredibile come la sicurezza in queste grandi

emittenti statali sia un puro optional! Il negozietto era niente piu di un

edicola di giornali, ma una passeggiata la facevamo vedendo gli studi delle

radio nazionali sia francesi che inglesi, la sala stampa per le dirette dgi

notiziari tv e pure staccavamo un paio di adesivi di CBC SPORT appiccicati

su degli armadietti metallici dei dipendenti.

All'ora fissata per l'appuntamento tornavamo alla reception e dopo un po'

di peripezie (dovute ad un receptionista di 92 anni.) in

quanto la persona che ci aveva fissato l'appuntamento alla fine scoprivamo

che

era in ferie .....venivamo raggiunti da Cesar Guerra, il giornalista del

servizio spagnolo che quel giorno avrebbe realizzato la rubrica della posta.

Venivamo quindi condotti nello studio di registrazione e qui passavamo

ad un'intervista di 26 minuti sul tema del radioascolto, del futuro

dell'onda corta, sulle nuove tecnologie, sull'importanza del servizio

radiofonioco pubblico, sul futuro dell'Unione Europea..con messaggio

finale di Dario che salutava gli amici del gruppo Argentino Conexion

Digital.

Il tutto naturalmente in spagnolo.

Mia seconda intervista in spagnolo dopo quella a Radio Ceuta nel 1998!.

Al termine Cesar ci accompagnava a visitare la sala stampa di Radio Canada

International, posta ance lei nel sottosuolo del palazzo e un centinaio dei

nuovi

adesivi di RCI finivano nella mia capiente borsa gialla. A sera si cenava

nel ristorante panoramico girevole posto in cima al grattacielo dell'Hotel

Delta. Il ristorante era a buffet per cui la mangiata � stata pantagruelica,

specialmente quella del Dario..25 portate...

Il giorno seguente, venerdi 8, era ancora dedicato alle radio di Montreal.

Si tornava a Radio Canada International, ove avevamo un secondo

appuntamento, questa volta con Mr. Bill Westenhaver dell'Audience Relations,

l'equivalente del Sig. Papi della Radio Vaticana tanto per intenderci. Bill

era veramente cordiale, non solo ci riconduceva ad un'altra visita di tutte

le installazioni, ma pure ci omaggiava di un altro centinaio di adesivi,

dell'ultima bandierina e ci accompagnava al Northen Service, il servizio

sulle onde Corte per il Nord Canada, dove una gentile "nonnina" ci omaggiava

di 2 medagliette della CBC north service (le QSLcards le hanno finite nel

1993). Congedatici da Bill incontravamo nella grande hall-reception Daniel;

collezionista di carte telefoniche con cui Dario aveva fissato un

appuntamento. Daniel era accompagnato dalla sorella Sophie, la quale per

alcuni anni aveva lavorato alla CBC e quindi non solo era in grado di andare

a cercarci gli adesivi di CBC Sport visti il giorno prima ma anche di

trovarcene un altro gigante per noi assolutamente inedito. Un colpetto

niente male!Grazie al loro aiuto ed ad una dettagliata mappa di Montreal

predisponevamo il giro da fare alle altre emittenti della citt�....

Congedatici da Daniel e Sophie lasciavamo la CBC e ci recavamo alla CKAC, la

radio operante sull'onda media di 730 KHz. Mai visita fu pi� inutile e

inconcludente, ci spostavamo quindi nel quartiere olimpico ove ha

sede la CIBL, emittente multietnica legata all'ultrasinistra canadese attiva

sui 101.5 MHz. Di adesivi non ve ne erano ma tutti erano molto gentili,

tanto

che ci permettevano anche di staccare alcuni dei loro vecchi appiccicati

sugli armadi da almeno 5 anni! e pure ci omaggiavano di un CD. Una

curiosit�: per la prima volta ho visto in una emittente dell'ultrasinistra,

un manifesto denunciante la mancanza di libert� di espressione per i

giornalisti nella Cuba castrista..i tempi cambiano..

Altro trasferimento ed altra emittente multietnica, questa volta la pi�

"centrista" Radio Centre Ville, radio comunitaria finanziata dalla

municipalit� di Montreal. Avevamo un appuntamento con Suzanne, la quale ci

accompagnava a visitare i piccoli e disagiati studi posti in cima ad una

scalinata a dir poco terribile ..per Dario ormai allo stremo delle forze e

ci omaggiava di alcuni adesivi alquanto bruttini. Suzanne voleva pure che

tornassimno verso le 21 per un'intervista in diretta per il programma in

spagnolo, ma fra un'intervista a Radio Centre Ville e una cena alla Delta

Tower non avevamo dubbi su cosa scegliere. La tappa successiva era alla

nostra seconda stazione universitaria, la CKUT, l'emittente della Mc Gill

University attiva sui 90.3 MHz. Altra visita agli studi, altri adesivi,

altra T-shirt. Si chiudeva con un gruppo di tre emittenti, CJAD 800 KHz, Mix

96 a CHOM 97.7 MHz. Dario aveva fissato con vari messaggi e-mail (tale

tecnica si � dimostrata preziosissima e la consiglio a tutti i nostri

eventuali emuli) un appuntamento con Skip Snair, responsabile dei programmi

e quindi non vi erano problemi ad entrare e a visitare tutte le

installazioni di queste emittenti che senza dubbio sono le pi� professionali

esistenti in Montreal. Tutte in lingua inglese emettono il miglior rock che

sia possibile ascoltare nell'intero Quebec, grazie alla grande esperienza

musicale di Skip che per anni ha lavorato nello staff dei Rolling Stones e

che nel proprio ufficio conserva una chitarra ed un giubbotto da scena

utilizzato da Mick Jagger con dedica. Una quintalata di materiali ci veniva

consegnata al momento del congedo, degna conclusione della nostra visita in

Montreal. A sera si tornava al Ristorante della Delta Tower e qui il DM

rischiava veramente di lasciarci le penne dopo il sedicesimo!!! dolce al

cioccolato trangugiato... e corretto al Gran Margner..hi!

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Back to Toronto

Hi to all the readers !

We are now in peaceful Thunder Bay...however no clouds ..so no

thunders sounds has been heard !

10 August we had the great pleasure to take part to a friendly get

together organized by Brian Smith of the Ontario Dx Association, he

pick up us at Glen Grove Apartments at 9.30 AM and we went directly

to the meeting point in a big park on the south shore seaside on the

lake, a surprising sunny day assisted us. We started soon to listen

with portable receivers, and many FM stations from Buffalo and

Rochester in US was a good catch, in total almost 40 differents

signals.

Around mid day more ODXA members arrived and so we started to share

the materials we had with us, stickers , old Canadian QSLs, 1950

stamps of CKY CBC Manitoba .... old QSLs issued by CBC in the

1933,1950,1963,1975.... Saul Chernos helped me to ID many FM

stations, he is a real FM-TV Dxer, the ODXA Gen Mgr. Harold Sellers

kindly geave me some copies of the bulletins edited in past months.

A special "visitor" Wayne Plunkett he is collector of Automobile

license plates, he has from Canada stations too, he is writing a book

about the story of the broadcasting in Canada... I surely will buy it.

Saul asked to me about the "Bellabarbas way to do his hobby" and I

explained my view point... and got the view point of Saul.....

but surely not as "predicted" by someone living in Brasil....

At 1600 hours we started back with Brian car to Central Bus station

in Toronto....the sky suddenly becomed black and a storm started then

we were yet in our bus.... the time to say a big thank you to Brian

for the very pleasant day spent together and we let Toronto under a

massive rain...

Greyhound bus are good, but you must learn the temperature in

summertime in the bus is 24 hours around 8-9 degrees....so to wear a

t-shirt at night may be ...dangerous.... hi!

The air conditioned is running automatically and where isn't no way

to stop it.... Our travel was, however a bit warmed by a young guy going to

Winnipeg ...specialized in to break the ball to all passengers.... crying

all the time

"FREE FOR PETER" (Peter was the bus driver first name.....)

every driver has a plate with his names and the plate is put in way

all the passenger may see it.

Stop after stop the bus gradually resulted totally empty of

voyagers.... and so Roberto met Seline Manitou.... yes a real

original redskin aborigenal.... she kindly given to Roberto an indian

towel..against the freeze air in the bus.... and during the night

travel she also given lot of....human warmess.... don't ask me more

please.....but read the Italian text...and buy a vocabulary..... hi !!!!

Well I was a bit more fortunate cause at 2330 hours I get as

companion in my nearer seat.... a fisher man dressed look like to be going

to fish

in winter time.... he ...disappeared suddenly at a stop at 0330... no

ideas of what happened to him...but I was very happy cause I had again 2

seats for me....hi.

The Highway Toronto-Thunder bay (Hw17) is a normal 2 way street in the

middle of thousands green trees and litte lakes and seems look like

the Sweden highway ...... and another thing in commun is.... the

mosquitos.... I met them at the 23oo hours bus stop of 30 minutes....

really a continuos fight against hundreds of Tigre Mosquitos...hi

We arrived in perfect time 125o hours at Thunder Bay bus station.

Tomorrow we will visit the 3 local area FM stations.

The only internet point I have been able to find is located at 1100

Memorial Drive.... not so far from Magic FM at 998 same avenue... but quite

far from our Hotel Prince Arthur... we got there a room with view on

the lake area and we may see also the SLEEPING GIANT lighthouse...

Very nice place to be....

Versione Italiana by Roberto:

Sabato 9 agosto era dedicato al trasferimento da Montreal a Toronto.

Un viaggio nel Canada che tutti immaginiamo, un'unica successione di

laghetti, torrenti e foreste di abeti. Tornati in Toronto (e finalmente

ritrovati i miei vestiti nella valigia mancante...anche semi distrutta)

dopo le 1700 si faceva ancora una minivisita alla receptio della CHIN

ove il gentile Manca ci aveva promesso una busta con vari materiali

informativi e si mangiava una discreta pizza in una delle tante pizzerie

della College Street nella Little Italy. Capitol 597 College street. Poi ci

si fermava al Caff� Diplomatico per qualche "dolcetto" e il caff�.

WEB : http://www.collegestreet.ca/CL/CollegeStreet/CS.nsf/web/home

Domenica 10 agosto era la giornata dell'incontro con gli amici dell'Ontario

DX Association. Ci si ritrovava in un bel parco sulle rive del Lago Ontario

(solo un severo divieto di balneazione mi ha impedito un bagno nelle sue

calde acque) ove ci si scambiava vari materiali, fra cui copie del loro

bollettino LISTENING IN, (se siete interessati a conoscerlo meglio

l'indirizzo da contattare � Box 161 - Willowdale Station A - Toronto ONT M2N

5S8 - Canada, web http://www.odxa.cn.ca), si parlava di ascolti in FM e

sulle onde corte, di Bellabarba (su insistenza di Saul Chernos grande Dxer

dell'Ontario), si ascoltavano radio USA in FM dallo stato di New York e una

canadese in lingua italiana sulla frequenza di 1220 KHz, la CHSC Radio da

St. Catharines, WEB info :

http://www.hhpl.on.ca/Niagara/details.asp?RSN=4499

si sgranocchiavano panini e si bevevano bottigliette di

birra e sprite. Grazie a Brian Smith l'organizzatore della bella giornata

allietata anche da un bel sole caldo. A sera si partiva in pullmann per un

lungo viaggio da Toronto a Thunder Bay, localit� turistica sul Lago

Superiore.

Bench� lungo, il viaggio era tutt'altro che spiacevole. Facevo infatti il

mio primo incontro coi nativi nordamericani (i pellerossa tanto per usare un

pi� noto termine se pur politicamente scorretto) nella persona di Celine,

una squaw di imprecisata et� fra i 25 e i 40 anni che mi dimostrava che:

a) se pur rare le ninfomani esistono realmente

b) anche i maschietti, sotto una coperta indiana a due piazze, possono

subire molestie sessuali nell'ultima fila dei sedili di un pullmann

Greyhounds (a sua scusante devo per� precisare che nulla ho fatto per

respingere le sue molestie, anzi!!!). Mi ero sistemato li per allontanarmi

dal Monferini che di notte ronfa come un treno a vapore in folle..hi.

Arrivati in Thunder Ray nel primo pomeriggio del giorno seguente mi facevo

una sana dormita e poi cenavamo nel primo vero ottimo ristorante italiano

del nostro viaggio; "DA ARMANDO", posto proprio di fronte al nostro Prince

Arthur Hotel, bellissimo hotel con vista lago. Il giorno seguente, marted�

12 era quello del giro delle radio di Thunder Bay.

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Thunder Bay ( 12 stations)

Ciao!

ebbene si abbiamo avuto un CULO formidabile.... infatti abbiamo

lasciato la zona dell'Ontario qualche giorno prima della colossale

panne elettrica che ha colpito il nord anerica nella sua

storia ...50 milioni di persone in una zona grande come l'Europa

senza luce per 2 giorni...

We restart the day after day story of our travel...

After the red light night on the Greyhound Bus of Roberto with

Seline Manitou of the Tribu Black Feet..... we arrived in Thunder

Bay at midday of monday 11 August.

The Prince Arthur hotel is in a real good position and from our 3rd

floor room we had the panoramic view of the entire Bay with the

famous sleeping giant lighthouse..... simply great !

WEB : http://www.princearthur.on.ca/fend/main.asp

Weather was sunny and finally fresh & nice with a good breaze from south.

I went to look at my e-mail at MAIL BOXES service shop...the only

place in Thunder Bay open ... (there is naturally also the public

library...but with too many people waiting....) the cost of the Taxi

and the cost of the internet 10 Can $ one hour !!! did not permitted

to me to send a message ...just looking at e-mails and send some e-

mails to next radio stations to visit in coming days... I also had the

opportunity to visit a Mega store center near MAIL BOX offices to buy a

second travelling bag cause too much empty my giant one, the Mega store so

big you need 30 minutes to go out !!

While I was there Roberto done a good sleeping afternoon after

the ...very hot ... quite exausted of his .... night

ride...on the green prearies...... hi !!!

We went to eat later to a real nearer restaurant Italian called

ARMANDO (in front of the Prince Arthur Hotel) located in 28 North

Cumberland street. This resulted to be the best Italian restaurant

in 12 days of travel in Canada...his SPAGHETTI ALLA PUTTANNESCA are

really phantastics.... Armando is in Canada from 1972 and is

originarily from Pozzuoli Naples area....

WEB : http://www.goldenfork.com/armandos.htm

12th August tuesday we spent our morning hours to visit the local

stations in Thunder Bay ...the weather was splendido and blue sky on

the bay.... At CBC House we had the pleasure to see at the desk

kilos of stickers (2 models 88.3 MHz and 1240 kHz ) and tons of post

cards featuring the differents programs speakers.... CBC Thunder Bay

is quite local station but it is incredible how many souvenirs they

given to us..... so much I was forced to buy a new BAG !!! hi!

Well .... it must admit which is always very dangerous to let a

front desk uncontrolled if two guys from Italy namely Dario and

Roberto are visiting the radio..... hi...everything will disappear

in few seconds !!!!! ha ha ha....

Mr. Rob kindly shown the studios and they have 7 hours of local

informations !!! in Italy RAI carry 30 minutes of local service over

AM & FM per day.... ohhh boys it is a big different public service !

We get many presents , but most surprising of all : a fish stainless bolt

to go to fishing !!! with a logo of CBC Radio.....

absolutely a first timer in my collection !!

WEB : http://nwo.cbc.ca/about.html

After this good start we visited MAGIC 999 on FM 99.9 ... they are a

quite new station but they are very friendly Miss Lynda Ahtila at the

reception offered lot of souvenirs again , a we also done some photos of

studios

indoor and outdoor house, they are located at 995 Memorial Drive ,

the WEB is www.magic999.fm

Next the most important private group in the city operated by DOUG

MEDIA Group in a large building at 87 Hill Street North, they

operate also a local area television. the station Rock 94 FM on 94,3

MHz with good old rock hits of the 60's and 70's.... and HOT 105 Hit Music

105.3 and CKPR 580 kHz Classic Country the MW talks news station.

Rock 94 WEB : http://www.rock94.com/index.asp

HOT 105 WEB : http://www.hot105.fm/index.asp

CKPR 580 WEB : http://www.ckpr.com/

Patty Rozakos with Greek origins was really kind to spend with us 45

minutes visiting the radios and we done photos and we get many

items..... I may say: please go to Thunder Bay you will find friendly

stations, beautiful sightseen and great restaurant Armando.

The afternoon of 12th August we went to public park on sealake area

not far front the Hotel Prince Arthur and we Dxed with my ATS 909

receiver and the Sony 7600 of Roberto.... about 5 hours session...

Well I may say I have been really surprised to log many many US

stations coming from Michigan,Minnesota and may be even more far

from... 600-1000 Km distances

FM Dx session with my ATS 909 with two FM filters 80

kHz wide , we had some US FM stations.... wonder if some of you

experts

may help me to ID them ?

Here the list :

87,7 with US weather forecast no id

89,9 US just music

90,1 NPR news & gospel talks

90,5 WPFF ? News weather forecast Michigan & come to the Bible

90,7 North Shore Radio with BBC news relay

91,3 KWS ???? mentioning Detroit area YL Dj oldies

91,7 Public Radio News US ?

92,3 WJPB Big country 92

93,5 53degrees in Hanckok (?) WKNJ ?

95,7 RBC ministries program

96,7 J 96 the best classic rock

97.7 channel 97 point 7 Hanckok THE WOLF

98,3 2 TXs rock'n roll & Great Lake Radio News WCSC 98 point 3

guess who was the first rocking 98 point 3 ??

98,7 THE NEW 98 ! rock music no stop +IDs

99,1 Canadian UNID with oldies like Beatles

99,5 Great oldies 99 point 5 Michigan US area

100,5 weak US station

101,1 Abc news Country music 101 radio Duluth Advertisements

102,3 Unid station US ?

104,3 Religious classic music WDCA ? Bellerica ??

105,1 105 Best country adv in Minnesota

105,7 Magic 105 point 7 Country Music US ?

105,9 your choise is Christ US ??

106,9 WUPM ?? 106 point 9

107,7 Q 107 point 7 WMQT ???? Big sound Q 107 ?

This the list I compiled and I e-mailed

to Ontario Dx Association Yahoo Group....

and Morris Sorensen living in Winnipeg kindly helped us to identify

some of them :

It looks like you guys had some good tropo in Thunder Bay. Here are

my guesses and suggestions re some of your loggings there.

90.7 North Shore radio is definitely WTIP Grand Marais MN. See their

website at www.wtip.org

92.3 WJFB Ishpeming-Marquette MI

93.5 WKMJ-FM Hancock MI

96.7 WJJH Ashland WI J-96

97.7 WOLV Houghton MI The Wolf

99.1 possibly CKFW Sorrel Lake ON listed as 5 watts but not far from

Thunder Bay!

100.5 possibly WSCN Cloquet MN

105.1 possibly KKCB Duluth MN which is country

106.9 WUPM Ironwiood MI

107.7 WMQT Ishpeming MI Q-107

Some very fine DX there guys!

Morris Sorensen

Winnipeg MB

Well really a kind way to show how is important to share the knowing

everyone of us has and may offer to others friends in our beautiful

hobby !!!

Around 2000 hours we naturally went to Armando restaurant... how to

miss another phantastic SPAGHETTI ALLA PUTANNESCA ????

So at 2230 we were ready to leave from Thunder Bay to go to Winnipeg

by Greyhound bus.... the Bus station in Thunder Bay is a bit little

and also the operators that late evening resulted a bit ....

confusionals... and was look like to bring the DILIGENZA in the XIX

century.... imagine 85 people trying to pass a streat passage....

well finally we understood the system... the passegers first to

abord the DILIGENZA ...sorry BUS.... was the one coming from

Toronto.... after the ones from SUDBURY... and finally ... they said

another bus for Winnipeg will leave in 30 minutes for the one not

able to take the first one.... all right ??? no SIRS... cause the

bus resulted to have the air conditioned broken.... so up 30 degrees

temperature..... and a terrific taste of Candeggina...coming up the

WC door.... naturally our place was near the WC .... for about 10 hours....

This time Roberto had no RED LIGHT meeting... but he was not able to

sleep... the travel was interrupted many times cause many stops.....

So I guess DON'T travel at night with Greyhound if you can..... you

earn money cause you don't neeed Hotel...but you surely meet very

strange FAUNA !!!!! abord the busses..... (hhhmmmm may be some one

said the same after having looked me ??? ha ha ha )

Well this cause I was able to make my preferred hobby at night

during my sleeping.... SNORING so strong !!! Russare come un treno a

vapore delle ferrovie Inglesi.... ha ha ha .....

Well ..... next coming soon !!

Dario MonferEnglish & Roberto Rapanello (as they said in NHK Italian

Service)

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Iniziavamo dalla locale sede della CBC.

La porta era chiusa, scampanellavamo, una misteriosa mano da qualche

misteriosa stanza ci apriva ed entravamo in una reception ricchissima di

adesivi e di materiali vari completamente abbandonata a se stessa. Inutile

dire che il peso della mia borsa gialla � subito aumentato in

modo..esagerato. Dopo una ventina di minuti (ed una sigaretta rigorosamente

fumata fuori dall'edificio) qualcuno si ricordava di noi e veniva a

prenderci per accompagnarci ad una visita di tutte le installazioni fra cui

una fantastica sala controllo che permette di seguire tutti i trasmettitori

della CBC nell'Ontario Nord Occidentale, un territorio di 1500x2000

Kilometri! Al momento del congedo ci venivano consegnati ulteriori

adesivi..ed a Dario un AMO per pescare con il simbolo della CBC Thunder Bay.

Ci si muoveva poi in taxi verso Magic 99.9, una piccola emittente

commerciale (loro si vantano di essere il secondo gruppo commerciale della

citt�, vero anche se purtroppo per loro in Thunder Bay vi sono solo 2 gruppi

di emittenti commerciali) e anche li visita degli studi e adesivi vari. Lo

stesso avveniva anche nell'altro gruppo commerciale, quello che gestisce tre

emittenti, la CKPR di news su 580 KHz, Rock 94 e Hot 105. Fra i vari

materiali raccolti vi � da segnalare un cappello da pescatore coi simboli

delle tre stazioni.

Senza risultati, entrambe chiuse, le visite alle altre due emittenti

cittadine, la Tourist Radio di informazioni turistiche sui 97.1 MHz

(effective radiated power of 1.3 watts!!!!) e la

cristiana CJOA operante dall'interno di un ricovero per anziani sulle

frequenze di 95.1 e 93.1 MHz WEB : http://www.cjoa.org/

Il resto della giornata veniva passata in un bel parco in riva al lago ad

ascoltare stazioni U.S.A. in FM,dal Michigan (700-1200 Km di distanza).

Dopo un'altra cena dal "partenopeo" Armando dove gustavamo i famosi

"spaghetti

alla puttanesca Pozzuolani" si ripartiva a destinazione di Winnipeg, la

capitale del Manitoba. Qui il panorama cambiava: lasciata la regione dei

laghi iniziava quella delle praterie che, se negli USA sono la spelacchiata

distesa di terreno vista in tanti film western, in Canada sono un'enorme

estensione di campi di grano e pascoli.

9th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Roberto Rapanello

Winnipeg (20 stations)

13 August

Ciao !

Here again our story .... the arrival in Winnipeg was in time....

and another hot sunny day in the city said hallo to us....

our Howard Johnson Hotel in Ellice Avenue 1740 was quite far from

the city ...but this cause the other Hotels I contacted had price

too much high for our possibilities.... up to 290 Can $ for one

night.... we paid just 79 $ Can ....and perfect hotel ...they even

geave us the room at 0830 hours !!!!!!!!!!!! and at the office desk

they offered to me 50 minutes free of internet !!!!!!! where to find

so good service ??? So if you will visit Winnipeg you know the best

Hotel now ! http://www.hojo-canada.com/

However as usually not everything is going in perfect way.... we

started to meet TAXI operated by exclusively people coming from ...

Thamil,Urdu,Indian,Bengali,Bangladeshi, Srilankesi.... people...

well I must say I have nothing against these ethnics cultures but

the way they manages the TAXis in Winnipeg is really terrific...

First in Winnipeg is no possible to pick up a Taxi on the

street...if you do it...you will get replies like... " il mio

Badrone non vuole che si brenda gente senza aver faddo chiamata ber

ordinare il Taxi"...... "my BADRONE doesn't want I pick up people on

the streets cause he think I will take part of money for me and my

family of 25 peoples....." Well I understand the problem but this

do not authorize the drivers to do round trips or to make every time

you pick up a taxi the price around 10 Can $.....

We visited in ONE day 12 places on the 16 planned.... the missing

only cause we lost 90 minutes total on the streets to wait taxis or

to call even 3 (three times !!!) per one taxi..... horrible service.

It is a pity cause most of the radio stations we visited resulted

extremely friendly (apart 3 ).......

Informations about Manitoba Radio stations WEB :

http://www.mikesradioworld.com/ca_mb.html

We started with Power 97 Winnipeg Best Rock & CJOB 680 Manitoba

informations Superstation all news, located at 930 Portage Avenue.

Power 97 WEB : http://www.power97.com/

CJOB 680 WEB : http://www.cjob.com/

Miss Lindsay Filbey the kind receptionist offered 2 georgeos coffee mugs

and some items for free.

Next the CBC Winnipeg CBW 98.3 located in 541 Portage Avenue.

WEB : http://www.winnipeg.cbc.ca/ (don't forget in each town they operates

French and English service and relay Classic FM channel...)

Mrs Janice Moeller (surely with relatives from Germany ...and long

blonde hairs) really was able to astonish both of us.... in 5

minutes we.... went LIVE over the medium wave regional station 50 kW on 540

kHz

covering the entire Manitoba..... sending greetings to the listeners

(may be too astonished to listen to two guys coming from Italy to

visit Winnipeg) However in the town lives more than 30000 Italians...

and the Italian Community ran on 810 kHz Radio Winnipeg they call it

Radio Italia 810 kHz. We got again many nice souvenirs... t-shirts

..pens....krings...pins.... transfer stickers tattoos (this seems the new

hit

of the moment in Canada) ....and surely never got before a Hornet to

kill mosquitos and flies.... surely useful also at next AIR Meeting....

Woooww 90 miuntes of great time at the CBC building.

We visited next Freq 107 WEB : http://www.freq107.com/

....over the air they say "FREAK 107" .... hi , they play

Christian Rock Music and Tom Hiebert Gen Mgr. in person was pleased

to meet us (I e-mailed to him 10 messages in 3 days.... hi) they are

located in OSBORNE street 738 .... this street becomed a real

calvary for us.... we lost 20 minutes for going to Osborne 166 cause

some works on the street.... at CITI 92 rock classic station we...

get 2 nice t-shirts ...... free.... but nothing more.... the station

is also owner of 580 kHz CKY ...this year 80ty years old.... so I

given to the lady of the prom.office a photocopy of the station stamps

issued in 1950.... but apart a "cold" "... ohhhhhh nice souvenir of

the past.... I did not know...." She cleary was totally uninterested to such

document,

cause in reality CKY 580 kHz will soon move

to FM band and will change format.... CKY was one of the first 2

stations started in Canada 80ty years ago operated by privated

companies in the 1940's it was bought by Radio Canada.... and more

recently sold to privates again..... a sad end of a legendary

station..... AMEN.

CITI 92 WEB : http://www.92citifm.ca/home.html

CKY 580 WEB : http://www.cky.com

Well the next was the lost of 45 minutes to find a taxi... in bloody

Osborne street..... I become still red hot pepper thinking to those

Sub...normal Asian sub...continental drivers....

Next we arrived at 201 Portage Avenue... a giant skyscraper with at

30th floor...with a view glitterin skyline...really great..... New

Cool FM... CJZZ JAZZ music only station 99.1 MHz..... in 5 seconds we

becomed even more COOL than their Jazz music... "we don't have

promotional items.... we don't permit visit to our listeners"...

Woooww a real Cool FM station .... I mentally said... "ma va a fare

in CUUL ...." don't translate please....

Cool FM CJZZ WEB : http://www.canada.com/entertainment/features/cooljazz/

Well the square was the convergence of 5 streeets... imagine how to find

the taxi we called ?? we opted to go to near Sheraton Hotel... and

we get a taxi... managed by a real Indian (from India...not from a local

area

"lager reserve")..... with big Turbant on head... we went to Lombard

166 Avenue.... Ohhhh boy a real surprise it was the next street back

to Sheraton.... ha ha ha.... At 3rd luxury floor we had another

unpleasant meeting....with a very steaky receptionist (over 70's I

guess) I asked for Miss Jaret Sereda.... the receptionist said she

is no more working for us..... I kept the name & e-mail from their

WEB one week before.... I said Mr. Tom Beau... the sosia of Lady

Tatcher said... He is in holidays will be back in 1 week.....

So we let the reception.... of Hot 103 Today's Hit Music and QX 104.1

Winnipeg Country Music Station......... with quite black-hot humor...

but tis is the normal level of Rogers radio group

Standard quality.... for them the visitors are less than shit.....

HOT 103 WEB : http://www.hot103live.com/main/main.asp

QX 104 WEB : http://www.qx104fm.com/main/main.asp

Next after another desaster to find the Taxi.....my God....

we wanted to see the other most important stations group in Winnipeg

the one of CHUM Radio group......BOB FM 99.9 and Q-94 Today best

music (not today however we said) .... and CFRW 1290 big country

oldies..... we arrived after a foolish round trip by taxi.. at 1445

PEMBINA road..... and we discovered they were ermetically closed ...

no door to enter.... cause they were doing some works... so no

public visit admitted till 21 august next..... lets say in Italian

"Madonna mia che sfiga!!!!"

BOB FM 99.9 WEB : http://www.999bobfm.com/ the Web is still not operative,

there is a man hydraulic with a pomp to open a water close empty of.....???

Q-94 WEB : http://www.q94fm.com/q94fm.pnm

CFRW 1290 kHz WEB :

http://www.chumlimited.com/radio/stationpage.asp?stationID=73

A terrific dry cold wind and the high pression opted us to avoid the

street research of a may be taxist Belucistani driver.... we kept a Bus and

arrived again in central Winnipeg.... we took another taxi at Sheraton to go

CKJS Radio Italia 810 kHz..located in Corydon avenue 520 ... finally

a good idea... Mr. Tony Carta the President !!!! (Mr Coppola the

director was in holidays in Italy) make us smile again and we stay 2

hours to talk with him about topics related to the broadcasting....

Tony geave to us some rarity stickers of CKJS with a relay of Voice

of America program..... during Clinton govern.... now NO ONE in

CANADA will relay Voice of America after the bloody war to Iraqi

petroldollars...

Tony also invited to go later at Folklorama Italia the fest of the

Italian community of Winnipeg....starting at 1745 ....

CKJS 810 kHz WEB : http://www.ckjs.com/Ethnic_First_Page.html

Tony is pleased to have e-mail contacts to carta@ckjs.com

So we had time to visit CHVN Christian Radio operated by Family

Radio Group US, Mr.Wade Kehler and the kind receptionist,they had

for us many souvenirs ....very friendly

indeed not all US people are look like President Dabliu....luckly.

CHVN 95.1 WEB : http://www.chvnradio.com

They are located at 1111 Chevrier Road (I was thinking to kill a

TUGS Taxi driver cause he was able to missunderstanding the

address ...AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH.......)

We arrived after that to CAMPUS RADIO CJUM or UMFM located at

the University of Winnipeg in Portage street 515... to find the correct

room was this time the Roberto eye .... may be I was a bit "cooked" by

the

fights with the Taxi drivers...ha ha ha...

Campus Radio WEB : http://www.umfm.com/

Well the station is managed in a very free way and more than 300

students cooperate to make the programs usefuls and interesting...

the station is at 3rd floor exatly over the restaurant of the

University..... not easy to find the place....if are coming from

Italy..hi However Miss Liz Clayton the Station Mgr. was very kind to tell us

all the informations you may find visiting their very good Web page.

We went back to Radio Italia and with Tony Carta car we arrived

quite far from the city to the place of the Italian fiesta....

So we had an interview in Italian ... the ones preferred by

Roberto.... we shared lot of friendship and geave stickers of Radio

Italia from Italy to many of the visitors.... almost 700 people

arrived from all areas of Winnipeg....

Thanks to the technical operator & Producer of the daily portuguese

program, a portuguese living in Winnipeg from 1968 Sr. Cezilio de

Almeida ... we had a providential passage to our hotel ... missing may be

another

nightmare Cingalese Taxi driver from ?? southern Sri Lanka forests.....

At 1930 at the Hotel desk reception arrived local area Dxer Morris

Sorensen....

he kindly accepted to be our guest for that evening, geaving to us

some interesting AM-FM listings of Manitoba radio stations and

copies of his fanzine sent via e-mail compiled with Shawn another FM &

TV Dxer living in Winnipeg (but outside the city during our stay).

So all 3 together we enjoyed our meal at the Royal Crown Revolving

Restaurant high over Winnipeg as the sun set and the moon rose over

the River City, and a giant full moon...moon rise... atop the 31

floor...dominating the Winnipeg city.... a great place.... the food

was quite good.... but most important Morris talked to us about what

to see from the restaurant tower.....

http://www.rcrown.mb.ca/

Another great day also thanks to many friendly people we met in

Winnipeg...making our visit valuable... apart the ....TAXITS...hi

13 August we leave the Hotel ...naturally I had another 50 minutes

free session at internet in the administration of the Hotel....

Next chapter will come sooner...

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Nella mattinata del mercoledi 13 agosto si arrivava a Winnipeg.

Depositati i bagagli all'Hotel Howard Johnson si attaccava subito col duro

"lavoro" di collezionisti di adesivi. Per prima cosa svegliavamo il taxista

hindu che dormiva nel taxi davanti all'albergo e ci facevamo portare alla

sede di due stazioni commerciali: la CJOB attiva sui 680 KHz di sole news e

Power 97 di musica rock. Non avevano adesivi ma ci omaggiavano di una coffee

mug, la tazza ove tutti gli anglosassoni bevono il loro quotidiano litro di

caff�, pardon acqua sporca. Ci si spostava quindi con un altro TAXI

scalcagnato condotto da un Belicistano alla sede locale della CBC; li Dario

aveva fissato un appuntamento con la responsabile delle pubbliche relazioni,

Janice Moeller, e quindi non vi erano problemi a visitare gli impianti. La

sorpresa arrivava al termine della visita quando la speaker in quel momento

in onda per il programma regionale ci faceva un'intervista in diretta sui

motivi del nostro viaggio. Mio secondo intervento radiofonico in lingua

inglese dopo l'intervista rilasciata ad Anker Petersen per l'AWR Europe un

po' di anni fa! La consegna di due capienti borse con materiali vari fra cui

un acchiappamosche con i simboli dell'emittente (che Dario promette di

utilizzare alla prossima riunione AIR) chiudeva questo simpatico momento.

Altro taxi condotto da un Indiano con turbante gigante cremiso, ed altro

ingorgo e raggiungevamo Freq 107, emittente di heavy rock. la stazione �

alquanto piccolina, ma il responsabile era alquanto gentile e non solo ci

accompagnava a visitare gli studi, ma ci omaggiava anche di alcuni adesivi,

senz'altro alquanto rari. Era poi la volta di Citi 92 a CKY, storica

emittente di news operante sull'onda media di 580 KHz (compie 80 anni di

vita quest'anno!). Li le cose andavano un po' peggio, niente visita ma un

omaggio alquanto insolito: una borraccia di Citi 92 che gi� utilizzo nei

miei giri in bicicletta. Assolutamente negativa la successiva visita a Cool

FM, emittente di solamusica jazz, un accidenti di niente!. famoso poi il

saluto di Dario alla austera receptionista (tipo Tatcher): "MA VA FA IN

KUUUUUUUUULLL !!"

Un po' meglio alle altre due emittenti del centro cittadino, Hot 103 e QX

104 di musica country. Una T-Shirt di Hot 103 finiva nelle nostre borse.

Nuovo taxi e nuova escursione in periferia: Bob FM. Il nulla: la stazione

era chiusa per restauri. Avremmo poi avuto modo di constatare che mandava in

onda solo dei nastri preregistrati. Era giunta la volta di CKJS,

l'emittente multietnica operante su 810 Khz e di propriet� del sardo Tony

Carta, attiva in una trentina di lingue fra cui l'italiano, ogni giorno

dalle 18 alle 19. L'accoglienza era veramente calorosa: non solo venivamo

omaggiati di vari adesivi ed accompagnati ad una visita dell'emittente, ma

venivamo invitati anche a tornare verso le 17 per essere accompagnati al

Centro Italiano di Winnipeg per partecipare a FOLKLORAMA ITALIANO

da dove sarebbe andato in onda in diretta il programma italiano ed essere li

intervistati. Momentaneamente congedatici da Tony raggiungevamo con un

taxista Bramino la CHVN, stazione religiosa affiliata alla Trinity

Broadcasting, quei matti che possiamo seguire in televisione anche qui in

Italia. Tutti erano molto simpatici e con nostra sorpresa il loro argomento

di conversazione preferito erano le "canadian girls", ci facevano vedere gli

impianti e ci omaggiavano di vari adesivi alquanto bellini. Si chiudeva con

la CJUM, l'emittente dell'University of Winnipeg. Altro pieno successo.

Tornavamo quindi con un taxista Libanese alla CKJS e Tony ci portava al

Centro Italiano. E' questo un grosso complesso costruito dai nostri

connazionali nel Manitoba (circa 300.000) che ospita un bar, un ristorante,

un teatro, sale di esposizione, la Camera di Commercio italo-canadese, il

Vice Consolato d'Italia e aule per corsi di italiano per canadesi

organizzati in collaborazione con la Societ� Dante Alighieri. In quei giorni

la CKJS operava dal Centro Italiano in quanto la nostra comunit� aveva

organizzato una serie di spettacoli folkloristici che stavano attirando un

grandissimo pubblico canadese. Li venivamo presentati a tutti i

mammasantissima della comunita e poi ben volentieri ci sottoponevamo al

rito, dell'intervista. Piccola nota curiosa: l'intervistatrice ha una zia

che vive a Vercelli. Al termine rifiutavamo il gentile invito a cena

(dato che avevamo gi� preso un altro precedente impegno) ed il

tecnico della CKJS, nonche responsabile del programma in portoghese, ci

salvava da un taxista Turkmenistano disperso nella periferia ventosa e

polverosa di

Winnipeg e ci riportava in albergo ove avevamo appuntamento con Morris

Sorensen un Dxer locale che ascolta da oltre 40 anni, per una cena sul

ristorante panoramico della citt�..e per parlare del nostro hobby preferito.

10th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob.Rapanello

14-15 August

(Brandon 4 stations & Regina 20 stations)

Tutto bene ???

Qui in Canada nella zona centrale tutto okay... sono all'internet

point ULTIMATE Cyber cafe un ottimo posto per fare Internet... dopo

le 2ooo ci sono "live sessions" di gruppi e cantanti country music del

posto.... situato al 1852 Scarth Street, nel centro di Cornwall Shopping

Center

(area pedonale angolo 11th Corner street).... con aria condizionata

ovviamente mentre fuori ci sono 40 gradi all'ombra .....

We are now in Regina ..... (they prononce please REGIAINA !!) the

town was founded 100 years ago by Queen Victoria...but cause yet founded

Victoria town in British Columbia....they opted to call this one Regina.

The town is modern and there is a giant garden public .... 20 Kmq of

space of green river, trees,peace..... Roberto has gone to explore

the park ...today there is a folk country music festival starting in

the center of the park....with live exibitions and free real country

food...

We let 14 August the Winnipeg city in the morning , the bus station

of Greyhound Winnipeg is comfortable they have big troilers for

baggages.... my total weight is yet over 50 kilos (2 bags)..... woow.

The bus driver Randy resulted the most friendly and the drive of 8

hours was very nice...with perfect air conditioned level.... the

area in the country is cultivated to rice,mais,corn..... you can't

believe kilometers of cultivations..... not so much caws has been

seen from N 1 Hyghway we utilized to arrive to Regina....

But at 1230 we stopped 55 minutes in Brandon .... so thanks the

precious help of Morris seen the precedent evening I got via e-mail after

our meeting, the address of the 2 group stations operating in Brandon.....

Hot

101 located at 624 14th St. East .... and Star 94.7 located at 2940

Victoria....

HOT 101(CKXA) Today Hit Music WEB : http://www.hot101.ca/jt.asp

KX 96 (CKX)Best Rock WEB : http://www.kx96online.com/main.asp

Star FM 94.7 (CKLF) WEB : http://www.starfmradio.com/ nice WEB ..try it !!

hi !

CKLQ 880 kHz Wild Country WEB :

http://www.mymanitoba.com/CKLQ/index2.html

so I runned to keep a taxi ... and met a friendly taxi driver.... white

skin !!!

(no more asian mobbers in Manitoba) hi! in 25 minutes I was able to

see both stations groups and to get many stickers from STAR 94.7

.....and ONE !! sticker from HOT 101 the other local station in Brandon

.... thanks the good cooperation work of Morris !!!

We earned one hour cause the time here in Saskatchewan (I have

copied it from a depliant this time...hi) is one hour before respect

Winnipeg.....

Another Howard Johnson Hotel with 400 rooms on 2 floors.... very

very large...and like a labyrint ...hi

So we relaxed a little at the hotel and we went to eat at TONY's

ROMA beef grill house WEB : http://www.ribs.ca/info.htm ....

General Manager Shawn Swicheniuk (ukrainian ?) WOOW..

look like to be in an old saloon with ...nice Camereras with hot pants....hi

missing only Buffalo Bill Cody ..... and naturally true original

Indians..... we eat giant grill beef....called RIBS... very well cooked like

they

do in Argentina... (Pero...no se puedes olvidar tu ASADO ...Nicolas...hi...)

However we had problems to drink...all the drinks we tested had the

same unpleasant taste CANDEGIAINA of water of REGIAINA.....

yes probably they wash the drink containers & glasses with water to

avoid problems of SARS & insects.... with some lotion to kill insects..

the taste is like to...... drink the water of a swimming pool.....

GGGHHHHAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

While we were eating this Country food stile our attention was

keep out by a big wall television carrying CNN news.... and what

news.... half US and CANADA eastern part was with no energy...for a

big problem to 25 super power Hydroelectrics services in the area of

NIAGARA FALLS.... so it was surprising for us to imagine if this

desaster should have been happened JUST ONE WEEK before.... we were

in Toronto and Ottawa area.... we used many times the Subway.....

I can't imagine how this should have changed our travel.....

The cases of the life are always a misterious plane.... so probably

we were permitted to make our historical travel of more than 200

radio stations visited in 25 days...... thanks GOD !!!!!

We naturally went back to the hotel and we looked at Televisions (66

channels in the television set of our hotel...not RAI international)

We also listened to the radio dial on Medium wave.... we will do it

again tonight..... 15 august here .... yet 16 august in Italy.

We noted 850 KOA Denver, 1120 KMOX St.Louis with very good signal...

KJR 950 Detroit...with live report of the black out....

So a real night of impressive listenings.... on FM only the 16 local

area stations..... nothing from Winnipeg nothing from Calgary both

too far away....to arrive here in Regina...

We were ready at 0900 hours on 15 august....a normal working day

here in Canada...not the same in many countries of Europe....hi

We visited first ROCK 94 ...another ROCK but on 94,3 MHz with great

music.... same owner of Z 99 on 98,9 Easy listening music.....

Z 99 WEB : http://www.z99.com/ Rawlco radio station, the brand new

CKCK 94,3 MHz purchased recently (ex CKCK 620 kHz

operated for more than 75 years on MW band....) called Rock 94

(how many in Canada with same slogan...boys ???) and CJME on 980 kHz

(ex 1300 kHz from 2001) ..... a great hall ....but did not get anything

...

just a perentorial request to call again from a........ "boy" called Natham

the station after 2 pm cause the board !!! should have decided if it

was allowed to 2 Italians to see the studios.....(we do it at 2 pm and

receptionist said, sorry it's luch time....)... incredible.... worse in all

our travel.

Guess if Rawlco group is doing this with all potential costumers visiting

their office

in few weeks they will surely close down their activities in whole

Canada......

Next going better the visit to the Harvard Broadcasting Group located at

2060 Halifax street , good thanks to reply I got via e-mail from Daryl

Holien the Progr.Dir. who ordered to Rob Pettigrew to assist us in the tour

of CKRM 620 news talks , Lite 92 goldies hits, The Wolf 104,9 Rock station.

They are offering a very good service to the people living in

Regina who wish differents good music and informations.

Lite 92 CHMX WEB : http://www.lite92fm.com/hc/lite92fm/index.html

The Wolf 104.9 CFWF WEB :

http://www.thewolfrocks.com/hc/thewolfrocks/index.html

CKRM 620 kHz Country Sport Radio WEB :

http://www.620ckrm.com/hc/ckrm/index.html

We got some good items.... no stickers only tattoos ... seems they are

not printing them in Regina...in this moment... hi...sorrrryyyyyyy...

So we arrived at 2440 Broad Street of CBC Regina.... a great great

building...

a young girl in uniform at the front desk said "HI" may I help you.... well

in fact she

helped us really a lot !!!! ... for 20 minutes he tryed to find

a...volunteer to

show us the facilities of CBC Radio & Television in Regina.... and

finally she found the.... right people ..Mr. Luc Archambault Chief of CBC

French

Communications... cleary of French origins.... so we suddenly started to

speak in

French and this helped very much to make our visit really pleasant...

So we visited a little museum at desk with many souvenirs of the

past.... also a giant paper water sticker (I have one little with same logo

from

CHNS Halifax) of the 60's.... I also seen the book with 50 years

of story of Radio Canada in Regina ..... anyone in Ontario Dx

Association knows about this ?? We visited all the sections ...even

the central desk room connected to Montreal .... with computers

equipments.... and we met M.me Anne Brochu chief redacteur of news

at regional level.... so she wanted to record an interview with

us... but the man to interview us was in another town( CBC Saskatchewan !!)

.... a real unusual experience for us.... hi.... the interview in French

was

surely a new one for me.... so I started to speak in MonFrench !!!!..ha ha

ha.

Thanks to Luc we had the street address of CJTR 91,3 Community Radio

located in Regina.

We really remained at CBC Regina for 3 hours !!!!! and I may say CBC

workers are really friendly..... another good reason to see the CBC Radio

broadcasting stations in Canada.... "MERCI Luc !! Tres aimable !!!!"

WEB : http://radio-canada.ca/regions/saskatchewan/

So we arrived at CJRT 91.3 located at : 301-1102 8th Avenue,

and we met Keith Colhoun the young but very active Operations

Manager of the station, which is operated thanks the

help and money of volunteers and people who believe in the power of

the broadcasting media ! this is a very good matter.... to do a

station not for money but for help the others living in a community

and who needs informations and alternatives news.... web:

http://www.cjtr.ca if you want to know more or to cooperate with

them... the e-mail radius@cjtr.ca . We got also the stickers.... free ..

from a real free speach station.......

The station has also a program in Italian on Sunday 2 times per month

we had another short but very funny interview live.... Roberto very pleased

to have 3 in one day ... new record for him !!!

So this concluded in the best way our visit in Regina....

Next coming quite soon is the big Calgary.... see ya later !!!

Dario Monferinglish & Rob. Rapanello

PS : the mistakes are copyrighted !!!!!!!!!

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

La tappa successiva era la citta di Regina, capitale della provincia del

Saskatchewan, ove giungevamo nella serata di giovedi 14 agosto. Dopo una

sana dormita all'Howard Johson Inn Hotel, dedicavamo alle radio cittadine la

giornata di Ferragosto che i canadesi da bravi sudditi del Capo della Chiesa

Anglicana non festeggiano. Iniziavamo dal gruppo Rawlco che in Regina attiva

CJME di news su 980 KHz, Z99 di hit e Rock 94. Uno schifo! Il capoccione non

c'era, la receptionista trovava solo un ragazzotto sbarbatello che senza

l'autorizzazione del capoccione non si prendeva alcuna iniziativa, bisognava

telefonargli pi� tardi, l'avremmo richiamato alle 12 ma era ancora troppo

presto, alle 14 aveva dovuto uscire un attimo, bisognava richiamare alle

15... e alla

fine capivamo che NON ERAVAMO GRADITI !!

Decidevamo di mandarlo a fare in KUUUUUUULLL pure lui e le sue tre radio di

m.... Pi� fortunata la visita ad un altro gruppo di tre stazioni, CKRM di

musica country sui 620 KHz, Lite 92 FM e The Wolf 104.9 MHz di musica rock.

Li il capoccione (allertato con 4 messaggi e-mail da Dario), bench� in

Shorts

Bermuda, ci stava ed era pure alquanto gentile per cui la visita delle

installazioni era assicurata. Fra i souvenirs finali molto originale il

portatarga automobilistica coi simboli delle 3 emittenti.

Toccava poi alla CBC. Non avevamo appuntamenti ma la receptionista

giovanissima poliziotta ( tipo la Arcuri...) era veramente OK (in tutti i

sensi..)

e si attaccava al telefono finch� (dopo 20 minuti di ricerche!!!) non

trovava

qualcuno disposto a riceverci. Questi era addirittura il responsabile dei

programmi

locali in francese, Luc Archambault, persona veramente grande che ci

dedicava pi� di due ore mostrandoci tutto quanto c'era da vedere e pure ci

collegava con gli studi di Saskatchewan per la registrazione di

un'intervista che sarebbe andata in onda il luned� successivo nel programma

regionale in francese. Mia prima intervista in lingua francese! Ma non solo

al momento del congedo, oltre che con un bellissimo orologio a forma di

radio per i 50 anni di trasmissioni in francese nel Saskatchewan, ci

omaggiava con la promessa, effettivamente mantenuta, di contattare il suo

omologo in Edmonton per una analoga visita agli studi della CBC Alberta.

Ultima tappa alla CJTR, piccola emittente comunitaria attiva sui 91,3 MHz

dell'FM. Altri adesivi a altra intervista, questa volta in inglese. Battuto

ogni record in fatto di interviste!

Erano appena le 13oo, Dario decideva dl raggiungere un internet point ed io,

che riconosco la supremazia del Vescovo di Roma a quindi la festivit�, del

giorno 15 agosto, mi dedicavo ad un po' di turismo (Regina � la citt� col

pi� grande parco cittadino al mondo) e poi mi godevo la piscina del nostro

hotel ed il suo meraviglioso gigantesco scivolo, 15'' di pura adrenalina!

Piccola nota: anche in Canada questa � stata l'estate pi� calda degli ultimi

secoli.

11th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

16 August saturday

Regina - Calgary travel

Hi .... ciao!....

dove eravamo rimasti ??? al nostro arrivo a Calgary dopo la

strabiliante giornata a Regina....

We started saturday morning the transfer travel with Greyhound bus.

with Mrs. Bonnie the woman driver (125 kilos of Hambourgers...and beer)

....the line Regina to Calgary is crossing first SALT lakes areas and after

kilometers of crops cultivations and also thousants of Caws said hallommuu

uuuuuuuuhhhh........................

to our passage,we stopped at famous place Medicine Hat.... but being

saturday no possible to do a visit to 2 locals stations...and no

Taxi seen outside bus stastion....and a hot dry wind was all over the

city....(look like in the Spaghetti Westerns movies) we arrived in Calgary

around 18oo hours and our Hotel was another good

Bestern Western at 1330 - 8th street.... I soon noticed in the lobby an

internet office, and in fact it was for the visitors. But to my

surprise it doesn't worked for TIN it and Infinito.it.... so I did

not payed, the cost is 10 Can $ for 30 minutes !!!!

WEB : http://www.bestwesternsuitescalgary.com

I phoned to Joe Talbot living in Red Deer (120 km north to Calgary)

and so the meeting for the following day sunday was positively confirmed.

We ended the day at 402 - 8th street at Ristorante Abruzzo, we found it

thanks

local yellow pages book .........were Nicola and Paula the owner offered

to us Spaghetti alla Puttanesca alla Lancianese.....

very great plate to eat after a day of a real COUNTRY CAVALCADE !

Our on the road story will continue sooner .....

Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

12th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

17 August

Regina on Sunday

Here again....the server often cut the connection....so more

chapters.... sorry

The sunday meeting with Joe Talbot at 10oo hours at Hotel was

perfect and naturally it becomed historical after the arrival of mitic

Ed Kusalik driving for more than 200 km from south to meet us.

He took to show to us some of his great selections of verifications

from exotics countries in Asia,Pacif Ocean, Papua New

Guinea....Africa....Indonesia..... from the mid 60's up till now.

We discussed lot about Dx listenings, fake QSLs, fake Dx groups of

the past like Numero Uno..... and naturally also about bloody fake

reporter Carlo Goodbarbe..... around 13oo hours we searched for a

restourant but being sundays almost all good ones was closed so we

recovered in a normal food store .... but quality was below zero...

The omelette was not cooked.... and the first taste of liquid 7up

sprite was ....with CANDEGIAINA.......................................

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Luckly Ed suggested to take MILK for me....this saved me...

Around 3 pm Ed went back to his home, his QSL collection is really a

great one, and 242 BC countries verified make him at top leader

position for active Dxers in North America.

Thanks to Joe we found the only internet shop open in Calgary on

sunday, Mired ..owned by Korean ..very iper clean, iper

confortable...but quite high cost 10 Can $ per 1 hour.... located at

1032 - 17th avenue SW.

All the others internet points in Calgary are closed.

So we say see tomorrow to Joe who went back to Red Deer.

We had yet done a reservation at Panorama Restaurant atop the Calgary tower,

WEB : http://www.calgarytower.com/ 190 meters over the city level....

for that night, surely a good looking but not so good (for us

Europeans) food taste.....but hopefully the grilled Salmon was still

available for me.... I drinked Milk...naturally ! hi

The camerero was a friendly Portorican so we spoken a little in

Spanish for a while... and we got informations about ....

Portorico.. may be the travel in 2007 will be done by us in

Portorico...

The panorama from the restaurant was really nice and thousands of

lights was shining from the Highways....but also some ...smokes from

the west .... a signal the Rocky Fire Mountains was still burning... so

absolutely no traces of mountains .... covered by smokes fires...

A real good sunday indeed.... spent with two great Dxers and in a

modern city.

See you later.....

Dario MonferEnglish & Rob Rapanello

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Era giunto il momento di avvicinarsi alle Montagne Rocciose e raggiungere la

citt� di Calgary, la sede olimpica che nel 1988 ha visto i pi� straordinari

trionfi del grande Alberto Tomba. Sabato sera trovavamo un altro fantastico

ristorante Italiano "Abruzzo" il proprietario originario di Lanciano

ci ..offriva un altra versione dei famosi "tagliolini alla puttannesca

Lancianesi" .. Indimenticabili. WEB :

http://www.wineanddineonline.com/WDO/res/info.jsp?id=15

La nostra base era all'Hotel Best Western Suites Downtown Inn, domenica 17

abbiamo incontrato I due tra i migliori Dxer canadesi, Joe Talbot ed Ed

Kusalik, 242 paesi confermati, naturalmente

contati con il sistema americano secondo il quale la Sicilia � un country,

la Sardegna idem ed il resto dell'Italia un terzo ancora. Avevamo cos� modo

di vedere un incredibile raccolta di QSL indonesiane a papuase che in

Italia, anche per i "faiallari" resteranno sempre e solo un sogno. Dopo un

frugale spuntino lasciavamo i nostri colleghi Dxer e mentre il Monfa si

rinchiudeva nel solito Internet point io mi dedicavo alla visita della

downtown cittadina. Purtroppo la vista delle Montagne Rocciose era preclusa

dalla spessa coltre di fumo generatasi dagli incendi che da pi� di cinque

settimane stavano bruciando ettari ed ettari di boschi provocando anche non

pochi disagi alle popolazioni. A sera si cenava alla Calgary Tower nel

solito ristorante girevole. Molto simpatico il cameriere portoricano che ci

permetteva di riutilizzare l'idioma castellano.

13th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

18 August monday

Regina 20 stations

details stations info : WEB : http://www.pugetsoundradio.com/calrad.html

Monday morning we met again Joe Talbot who kindly offered to drive

us to visit the radio stations, this surely has been very

appreciated cause we had in this way the possibility to see all !!! the

existing

radio. We started with Standard Radio group located at 1110 Centre street

with THE VIBE 98.5 Hip Hop sounds and CJAY 92 Calgary Classic Best Rock,

Mr. Ben Jeffery Music Director assisted us with stickers and t-shirts.....

we also

visted CKMX AM 1060 kHz Great Songs & Great Memories, Don Sade was at

mike,

this station also operates on 6030 kHz on shortwave as CFVP with 100 watts

.....it seems strange but really they don't know about 6030 kHz bloody

Radio Marti operations....may be now

after our alert they will send an official protest to the US govern !! Hi

!!!.

The Vibe (CIBK) WEB : http://www.vibe985.com/

CJAY 92 WEB : http://www.cjay92.com/

CKMX 1060 kHz WEB : http://www.ckmx.com/

At same place (1110 Centre street NE)we also found at ground floor

THE BREEZE 103.1 MHz....a Jazz music station the Marketing Director Michael

Godfrey and kind Traffic Manager Jacklyn kindly showed us the station

studios. They also has

no recording of Maestro Franco Cerri of Italy.... but the Dj Sue Deyell

wanted to do a photo with us ...and may be even more with Roberto...hi

No stix but many post cards ! and lot of kindness !!

WEB : http://www.thebreeze103.com/

Next SHINE 88,9 MHz Contemporary Christian Music station they

offered many stickers, Director Allan Hunsperger really friendly geave us

good information about the station, located at 1121 Centre street N

..... exactly in front of the precedents radio station seen.....

WEB : http://www.shinefm.com/

We arrived at CBC Calgary 50 kw on 1010 kHz at 1724 Westmount Blvdr NW,

but did not get much souvenirs as in other places..... but we visited all 6

stations

in the large building and we took nice photos too.

WEB : http://www.calgary.cbc.ca/

After a short but productive tentive with Channel A television we arrived at

the

Radio Rogers Group located at 2723 37th Av. NE (4 radio stations at 2nd

floor))

as usually we had some difficulties to be admitted to the offices,

but almost in this case we get some..........souvenirs,

and I was able with the complicity of Roberto to "bring" 3 big

books featuring the life of Ted Rogers Sr. the founder of the

Radio Group, each book is sold for 50 Can.$ ..... not in this special

occation....hi !!

Lite 96 CHFM WEB : http://www.lite96.ca/home.html

Jack FM (Ex CKLG KISS FM ) 96.9 WEB :

http://www.jackfm.ca/eprise/main/jack/cindex.html still WEB under

construction...

CFAC 960 kHz All Sports THE FAN (81 anni a maggio 2003!!) See story at WEB :

http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/CCF_Listings_and_Histories/Radio/Ab/south/CFAC

_Calgary_History.html

66 CFR 660 kHz (CFFR) no WEB sorry .... hi

At same address but at ground floor we wanted to see the

Chinese owned group called Fairchild Radio 94,7MHz

but may be we arrived at wrong moment, cause the manager remained

shoched to see 3 white men asking for stickers.... and one even

asking to do a photo in the office.... so we were ordered to go out

soon or ..... he should have phoned to the Police.... incredible and hard

to believe.

Surely a missunderstanding....of the owner of ..... "Fuckchild"...radio....

HI !!

CHKF 94,7 MHz WEB : http://www.fm947.com/en/index.php

To make the day a bit more "quiet" we visited the University Station Campus

Radio

located at - room 127 - Mc Ewan Hall - University of Calgary, not so easy

to find

the room as usually... but "detective" Joe found it in the underground

level. We got

friendship as usually, and stickers.

CJSW 90.9 MHz WEB : http://www.cjsw.com/default.html Miss Jane McCullough

the Program Director was able to find some "knife stickers" and also took us

to see

the even more underground NUTV the University Television operating on

channel 78 UHF .... ohhh boy .... Kevin Allen the Executive Director of

NUTV

in charge .... said I have still only 6 fridge magnets on the freezer

(empty) ...

and started to care them with his hands.... never saw in my life a so

strong love

for some ....fridges magnets ........ hi !! WEB : http://www.nutv.ca

So I only got the last normal existing sticker of NUTV ( in our planet

called earth)

but sorry no NUTV fridge magnet.... and Roberto started to say something in

strict Vercellese dialect.... look like "porcu sciampin..... ma l'� propi

n'ciulon" !!!!! hi !!

Well naturally this is really true and surely Joe will remember all these

funny

moments... he never saw before two guy from Italy searching "dead or alive"

stixs !

We closed the tour with 2 FM & 1 MW stations all located at: Shaw Court,

room 105,

630 - 3rd Avenue SW.

The Peak 107.3 MHz ;Country 105 & CHQR 770 kHz

The Peak 107.3(CKIK) WEB : http://www.thepeak107.com/

Country 105 CKRY WEB : http://www.country105.com/

CHQR 77 on 770 kHz WEB : http://www.qr77.com/

Mrs Tracy Pound the active Promotion Manager tried her best to geave us all

the souvenirs of the stations... so we ended really in the best way....

So at 17oo hours we were at Ristorante Abruzzo for another big dinner ...a

giant Spaghetti alla putannesca Lancianesi..... enjoyed also by Joe our

guest for that evening dinner..... time running out so we said bye bye to

Joe and our bus for Edmonton departed at 20oo hours..... to arrive

at Edmonton around midnight....... Thanks Joe !!! Your help was GREATTT !!!!

To all of us readers see you sooner !

Dario MonferEnglish & Rob Rapanello

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Il giorno successivo Joe ci riraggiungeva per accompagnarci

con la sua Jeep Toyota ad un giro delle emittenti cittadine.

Veramente gentile ed un servizio perfetto!

Iniziavamo da un gruppo di tre emittenti: Vibe 98.5 Mhz , CKMX 1060 KHz a

CJAY 92 MHz. Visita degli studi e vari materiali fra cui un altro cappellino

da pescatore erano il risultato finale. Al piano terra dello stesso palazzo

ha sede Breeze FM, stazione di musica jazz attiva sui 103.1 MHz. Niente

materiali ma ugualmente visita delle installazioni e foto con la dj,

quarantenne, a parer mio, ..."gran porcona" (don't translate please).

Si attraversava la strada dopo un giro di circa 2 chilometri..... e si

raggiungeva l'emittente cristiana della citt�, Shine 88,9 MHz. Al momento

del nostro arrivo la reception era deserta percui il numero di adesivi in

nostro possesso subito significativamente aumentava. Poi visitavamo gli

studi e venivano congedati con un ulteriore adesivo a testa! Altra grossa

concentrazione di emittenti � quella che raggruppa The Peak 107.5 MHz ;

Country 105 e CHQR 730 KHz. Studi veramentre all'avanguardia, addetta alle

pubbliche relazioni e receptioniste incredibilmente gentili ed ecco che

ancora il peso delle nostre borse aumentava. Una breve sosta alla sede di "A

Channel" e MTV, due emittenti televisive, incrementava ancora il nostro

bottino e poi si raggiungeva il gruppo Rogers, che in Calgary attiva Lite

96, CFAC 960 KHz; CFR 660 KHz, Jack FM 96,9 MHz.

Come quasi sempre accaduto con il gruppo Rogers anche

in Calgary la nostra media � calata, anche se una

T-shirt di Jack ci � state omaggiata. Gli occhi di falco del Monferini

vedevano, inoltre, su di un tavolo, alcune copie del libro con la storia del

mitico gruppo Rogers. Subito tre copie finivano nella mia borsa gialla. La

giusta ricompensa per i materiali che non ci hanno voluto dare durante

tutto il viaggio. Anche qui al piano terra vi era un'altra stazione, la

Fairchild Radio, la radio multietnica dei cinesi in Calgary sui 94.7 KHz. Un

direttore "cinese-stlonzo" ci sottoponeva ad un interrogatorio tipo

"vietcong" sul perch� della nostra visita e poi ci diceva che tutte le

informazioni sulla loro emittente potevamo trovarle in Internet. Ora, a

parte il fatto che se ci fossimo accontentati di guardare un po' di web non

saremmo certi andati fino in Canada, la loro web � in cinese e l'indirizzo

di web che ci ha dato era pure in cinese. Ma non solo, alla richiesta di Joe

di poter fotografare il loro gigantesco logo riprodotto nella reception ha

risposto di no. Gli ho gia spedito una cartolina dall'Italia con la

scritta .." FUCK YOU STLONZO ! ".

Si chiudeva con l' University of Calgary ove operano una stazione

radiofonica sui 90.9 MHz, la CJSW e una televisiva sul canale 78 la NUTV.

Molto gentili e T-shirt e adesivi della CJSW chiudevano il nostro tour

radiofonico di Calgary. Si cenava di nuovo nell'ottimo ristorante italiano,

Abruzzo, e poi Joe ci accompagnava alla stazione della Greyhound da dove noi

partivamo a destinazione di Edmonton, la capitale della provincia

dell'Alberta e dell'Hotel Best Western West Wood Inn.

14th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

19 August

Edmonton (15 stations)

Hi here we are again !

The Bestern Western Wood inn....Hotel in Edmonton is located at

18035 Stony plain Road...... you guess where...well it's the last

block before the city limits ends...hi.... the Hotel however had a

nice surprise for me...Internet access from the TV set in our room

13 Can $ per 24 hours......so I experienced the first time to look

at internet with a TV Set..... naturally they offer the mouse and

the console at the front desk of the lobby..... I tryed to use it

without the console... hi....but it doesn't worked ! Hi !

In Edmonton in the FM band you may hear only the local stations area

plus the 3 from Red Deer .... 120 km northern...... so really a

quite place for the FM band.

Wednesday we done the visit to the stations, weather still sunny but

gradually going with clouds.

The visit to CBC Edmonton, resulted really great !!! We arrived at

the Television building asking for Pierre Noel, Chief of

Communications in Alberta..... so he arrived by car to the TV building,

cause he works in the Radio building of Radio Canada in the French

section .... you must know the 2 colors of the radio Blu and Red

stands for English & French sections........so blu is more large

cause English section is more large. After an incredible quantity of

souvenirs got from Pierre we transferred to the other building.... of

Radio CBC Edmonton, and we visited also this one..... with more

souvenirs....also a winter t-shirt of CBC Alberta with old fashion

logo....really beautiful !!!.... finally Pierre wanted to show us the

new future studios in the center of the city at 100th street..... in

a complex of magazines..... still hard working.... the 2 studios

will be at ground floor with direct view on the street ....really

unusual for a CBC Radio station.

http://edmonton.cbc.ca/ very full complete detailled informations.

Really satisfeat to know everything about CBC Edmonton after 3 hours

of visiting we let Pierre Noel really a kind people ..... and we

visited the other radio stations....we had a good precious

promemoria compiled by Joe Talbot, and so we did not loose our time.

We visited CHED & CHQT both AM and CISN & CKNG FM located at 5204

84th street getting stickers and other souvenirs.

CHED 630 kHz News Talks Sports WEB : http://www.630ched.com/

(CHQT) Cool 880 kHz SuperHits 70's & 80's WEB : http://www.cool880.com/

CISN 103.9 Best Country Radio WEB : http://www.cisnfm.com/

CKNG New Power 92 on 92.5 WEB : http://www.power92.com/

Next CKUA Radio Network 580 kHz & 94,90 MHz..... folk,jazz,pop !!!

with many FM frequencies covering almost all Alberta ! located in an

old building at Jasper Avenue NW 10526..... in fact resulted very very

friendly...

after we broke the "ice" buying the T-shirt of the 75 anniversary

Yes the station was active from 1928 and its specialized in good old

music and jazz contemporary.... they have a foundation and a club of

listeners.... I also bought a nice book large with the story of CKUA... a

great book with many many photos ! , cost 30 Can $

..... see WEB : http://www.ckua.com

Brian Dunsmore show us the studios located on 3 floors...and offered

also many souvenirs..... a real friendly popular radio station.

Mext to be seen CJSR FM 88 the University of Alberta campus

radio, located in the Union building operating on 88,50 MHz as you

imagine lot of fun, lot of stickers...lot of freedom .... but this

time not so much stickers....in fact I kept 3 from glass door...and

one from the outdoor desk of the room number.....hi.

This cause the advertising manager was out of office.....

WEB : http://www.cjsr.ualberta.ca/ the logo is in an OAK .

The last one to be seen was 3 stations 100.3 MHz THE BEAR

(but their jingles sounds more a tiger than a bear...) EZ Rock 104.9 MHz

and The Team 1260 kHz Sports. We let them last cause they were

at just 500 meters from our Hotel.....at #100 - 18520 Stony Plain Road...

a road which end to the Rocky Mountains.... hi!

but sorrry too late (1645 hours!!!) ...a real "Bear" guard man with

yellow

hairs.... said...so and we just got 4 stickers of THE BEAR 100,3

MHz....well better few than nothing.... hi !

The Bear 100.3 Edmonton Best Rock ,WEB : http://www.thebearrocks.com/

EZ Rock 104.9 WEB : http://www.ezrock1049.com/

The Team Sports Radio 1260 kHz (CFRN),WEB : http://www.cfrn.com/

The dinner was that time at super restaurant atop the Crowne Plaza

Hotel , at La Ronde restaurant.... not so high 25 floors...but

surely top quality...however they had yet finished the smokey

salmon..... so I opted for a dead rabbit.... in reality I guess it

was another kind of ...animal....MIAOOOORabbit.....ha ha ha.

http://www.edmontonplus.ca/feature/85/ guess rating 9 mind (below zero?)

The view was surely impressive also cause a lighting storm was

approaching from south east to Edmonton.... so we arrived at the

Hotel just before a light rain started to follow....

I restarted the internet trial from the room Tv set..... with the problem

every 3 minutes the connection salty .... really a pity... hi

.....will follow sooner... or later ...hi

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Martedi 19 agosto passavamo al setaccio le stazioni radiofoniche di

Edmonton. Iniziavamo dalla CBC andando al numero 8861 della 75th. Str.

chiedendo di Pierre Noel, il responsabile dei programmi francese, il nostro

contatto fornitoci in Regina. La attempata receptionista ci diceva che

quello era il

palazzo della TV della CBC, che Pierre lavorava nel palazzo della radio a

qualche Kilometro da li, ma non dovevamo preoccuparci, avrebbe provveduto

lei a chiamarlo affinche venisse a prenderci. Nel frattempo se volevamo

prendere un po' dei materiali, prego, erano a nostra disposizione.una

quintalata di roba spariva nella vorace sacca gialla.. Pierre compariva dopo

pochi minuti, ci faceva fare una visita delle installazioni televisive e poi

chiamava un taxi a cui forniva un coupon della CBC affinch� ci portasse

gratuitamente alla sede della radio. Avrebbe anche potuto portarci con la

sua auto ma cosi saremmo stati pi� comodi! Assolutamente incredibile! Appena

giunti alla reception della radio incontravamo un receptionista rumeno che

parlava un ottimo italiano e dopo qualche minuto eravamo nuovamente

raggiunti da Pierre che per prima cosa ci portava al deposito dei souvenirs,

per noi collezionisti "la stanza del tesoro" ove venivamo forniti di due

borsone che iniziava a riempire di T-shirt, adesivi, biro, pastelli

colorati,

caramelle, cartoline, orologi da tavolo, un libro sulla radio francese in

Alberta,

e gran finale con una felpa adatta al grande Nord Canadese.

Insomma neanche nei nostri sogni migliori avevamo mai visto una cosa

del genere, quasi da pizzicarsi per vedere se stavamo sognando o eravamo

veramente svegli!

Cosi carico... di una diecina di kili di materiali vari iniziavamo la visita

degli studi

iniziando da una cosa molto particolare esposta nella reception, uno studio

radiofonico degli anni '50, che non ha mai funzionato in quanto era

sistemato come studio di emergenza all'interno di un rifugio antiatomico

quando anche in Canada ci si attendeva da un momento all'altro un attacco

nucleare sovietico(in risposta ad un attacco nucleare USA). Al termine

della

visita degli studi francesi ed inglesi Pierre ci diceva che a fine settembre

sia la TV che la radio si sarebbero trasferiti in pieno centro all'interno

del City Center, il pi� importante centro commerciale della citta e che se

volevamo ci accompagnava a vederli. Ben volentieri coglievamo l'occasione di

poter comodamente tornare in centro e quindi altro taxi a spese dei

contribuenti canadesi! Avevamo cos� occasione di vedere, crediamo gli unici

appasionati di radioascolto ad averlo mai fatto, nascere un centro

radiotelevisivo! L'indirizzo riportato al termine dell'articolo � quello che

sara effetivo da fine settembre. Congedatici da Pierre raggiungevamo la sede

della CKUA, storica emittente di Edmonton, operante sia sull'onda media di

580 KHz che sui 94.9 MHz dell'FM con programmi di musica jazz. Anche qui

visita degli studi e consegna di vari materiali in parte gratuiti in parte a

pagamento.

(Dario comprava un libro con la storia della CKUA 75� anniversario !! per 30

$ Canadesi) Seguiva una visita all'Universita dell'Alberta a alla sua

emittente studentesca CJSR operante in FM, 88 MHz. Gli adesivi erano merce

terminata ma ci pensavamo noi a recuperare quelli dispersi su un paio di

armadietti metallici. (Dario esagerava fregando l'adesivo posto ad

identificare la esistenza dell'emittente.all'entrata) Seguiva un gruppo di 4

stazioni; CHED 630 KHz di news, CISN 103.9 MHz di country music, Power 92

Hit e COOL 880 KHz di oldiees. Era troppo tardi per poter visitare gli studi

ma un paio di mazzette di adesivi finivano nelle nostre borse ormai pi� che

stracolme al limite dell'esplosione) Si terminava con un ultimo gruppo di

emittenti poste a 300 metri dal nostro albergo ed a . 20 Km dal centro citt�

:The Bear 100,3 MHz, EZ Rock 104.9 MHz e The Team di sport su 1260 KHz. Gli

ultimi adesivi dell'Alberta concludevano una giornata al di l� di ogni

immaginazione. La serata veniva trascorsa nel consueto ristorante

panoramico.....con mangiare da fast food cinese....

15th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Roberto Rapanello

Transfere Edmonton to Vancouver

20th August

WWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW....

We wake up at 0530 AM cause our bus

Greyhound should have leave from Edmonton at 0650... for the most

long and exiting moment of our travel ...crossing the Rocky "Fires"

Mountains WEB : http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/jasper/

to arrive till Vancouver area around 203o hours !!!

So we were in time and the bus was new one.... with good freeze air

conditioned. Many km to arrive at Jasper city , yet in the mountain

area, the Amtrak Train to Vancouver was in the railstation but we did

not took it....it cost very high.... so we stay at the open desk of

the grill of the rail station, I eat 2 glace ice creams.... nevertless the

low temperature ...around 10 degrees.... and many $$$ tourists took a

photo of a "mad man" eating icecreams in a so freeze area.

Mountains all around with glacers for the next 3 hours travel ....

Finally we started to see the THOMPSON river.... and also many clouds

reds.....???? ohhh boys.... but not real clouds... SMOKES of the

fires still running in the area.... we did not see fires but many

many big clouds of fires ... the situation was not dramatic but even

over the 1 Highway the fire has been just 3 days before our crossing 20 km

before Kamloops city.... the panorama was really terrific ...all was

touched by fire.... kilometers of green trees disappeared....

A real desaster of the nature.... and still running in the nearer

valley of the area... http://www.city.kamloops.bc.ca/ if you wish to

know more about the situation.

After 300 km more to south with a shining brighting sun we arrived at

the Langley bus stop were we met our friend Dan Sys who recovered us

at his home where we met Linda his wife.

We had sufficent time to eat icecream and drink San Pellegrino

mineral water.... and to become friend of the 3 multicolors cats of

Dan's Home.... a good way to fest my 53th birthday....with nice friends

talking about stickers and hobby radio.

So we also listened a little from FM stations signals coming from US

border and from Seattle (50 km south).

At 113o PM we were kindly took by Dan to our place in Vancouver for

next 4 days : APRICOT DOG & CAT bad and breakfast.... Miss Kaito was kindly

waiting for our arrival, and we stand up first floor in the LEMON Room

for more details of this quiet,clean,comfortable and cheap place in the

center of

Vancouver look at the WEB is http://www.apricotcat.com

We say to Dan ...thanks and see you tomorrow evening.

More soon right here...please stand by

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Mercoled� 20 agosto l'ultimo viaggio in pullmann, da Edmonton a Vancouver,

attraverso un paesaggio da fiaba, quello del Parco Nazionale di Jasper, uno

dei piu bei parchi nazionali del pianeta Terra. Peccato per gli incendi che

da tre settimane devastavano le Montagne Rocciose e che anche noi avevamo

modo di osservare, anche se, fortunatamente, da lontano. Due fermate prima

di Vancouver scendevamo dal pullmann in quanto li ci attendeva Dan Sys, il

miglior collezionista di adesivi radiofonici canadese. Dan ci accompagnava

dapprima a casa sua, ove subito facevamo un primo scambio di materiali e poi

ci accompagnava in auto fino a Vancouver, all'Apricot Cat and Black Dog Bed

and Breakfast ove avremmo passato le nostre ultime 4 notti canadesi.

16th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Roberto Rapanello

21 August

Vancouver 25 stations

21 August tuesday we done our radio stations tour with the good

database and a map of the town with marked the radio stations to be

seen all kindly organized by Dan Sys who is also very active

decalcomaniac of stickers, and one of the compilers of the monthly

bulletin of Decalcomania club, if you want to know more see pls :

http://www.anarc.org/decal/

First to be seen Cfox 99,3 THE FOX & CFMI 101.1 ROCK 101 & CHMJ 730

MOJO RADIO SPORT & CKMW 980

.....all at 700 West Georgia street , 20th floor!!

CFOX THE FOX Rocks 99.3, WEB : http://www.cfox.com/

CFMI Rock 101 on 101.1 MHz , WEB : http://www.rock101.com/

CHMJ MOJO Radio Sports 730 kHz , WEB : http://www.mojoradio.ca/

CKNW 98 News Talks Radio 980 kHz , WEB : http://www.cknw.com/

We got many stickers and a quick tour of the studios with quick photos

Second we went to CBC 690 kHz Vancouver at 700 Hamilton street, a great

building with lot of glasses outside.... but at the reception we met

the most ever seen aged receptionist(surely 92 years old)....

who unfortunatly did not understood our wish to see Madame Brigitte

Tesniere chief des communications CBC French Vancouver....

and we decided to come back later .....

http://www.vancouver.cbc.ca/

Next CFBT 94.5 THE BEAT , at room A301 - 770 Pacific Blvd.

Plaza of Nations ...were we got many stickers. WEB : http://www.thebeat.com/

Following always in the central area, CFRO 102,7 ....Co-op Radio but with

our surprise they have open office only on wednesday midday till 6 pm....in

August.

I wonder if they change day every day.... so no one will breaks the

balls of the 2 man in the studios (we saw them from the glass of the

enterdoor....playing poker cards....hhhmmmmmm)

WEB : http://www.vcn.bc.ca/cfro/

We arrived at the Rogers Radio Group, Jack FM 96.9 MHz, X-FM 104. 9 MHz

& CKWX 1130 KHz ... with precedents reminds, but almost in Vancouver they

resulted quite friendly.... even if with no so much items for European

visitors....

Jack FM 96.9 Vancouver classics hits. new station from 2003,

WEB : http://www.jackfm.com/eprise/main/jack/index2.html

X 104.9 Rock (CKVX) with a great WEB : http://www.1049xfm.com/home.html

CKWX 1130 kHz All News Radio, WEB : http://www.news1130.com/home.html

All located at 2440 Ash St.

Next a famous one CFUN 1410 kHz & CHQM 103.5 (QM FM) & CKST 1040 kHz

(THE TEAM SPORTS) .... but unfortunatly got NOTHING AT ALL....hi !!!

Located at : room 300 - 380 West 2nd Avenue

CFUN 1410 kHz , WEB : http://www.cfun.com

QM FM Soft Favourites (CHQM), WEB : http://www.qmfm.com/

(CKST) AM 1040 Vancouver Sports Talks , WEB : http://am1040.com/fm.asp

To make better the things arrived CJJR 93,7 (JR FM COUNTRY) & CKBD

600 kHz located at 1401 West 8th avenue.... many stickers, and a

quick tour of the studios.

JR FM New Country 93.7 MHz, WEB : http://www.jrfm.com/

(CKBD) 600 AM Unforgettable Music , WEB : http://www.600am.com/

We arrived after a very long long drive by Taxi in the Marina Steet

at the University of Vancouver....CITR 101.9 a free

radio with 400 volunteers operating in many languages and even

producing live sessions of music.... lot of stickers on the walls.... also

from Italy (wonder from whom ??) the station started in 1937 !!!!

WEB : http://www.citr.ca/

In their pamplet the story of the station starts in the 1066 year William

the

Conqueror defeats king Harold....precursor of imperialist western

expansionist swine....1492 year Columbus (original name?sic) invades

North America by mistake...University UBC is musqueam land...1886

Vancouver totally burnt down...but fortunatly UBC radio not yet existing...

Well a very funny depliant got from the ARTs director Vampyra

Draculea..... hhhmmmmmmmmmmm wonder if relatives comes from Rumania?

For more details look at WEB site.

Next one the multilanguage station operating also in Italian 0800

till 0900 one hour on sunday morning CHMB 1320 located at 1200 west

73rd Avenue....Mainstream Broadcasting Corp is a Chinese group

http://www.am1320.com/ they have a nice WEB.

The general manager was really happy to see 2 Italians and he geave

us the rare stickers....he even wrote a Chinese text to be helpful

with the following station ...CJVB 1470 kHz multilanguage Fuckchild

Radio operated by different Chinese people... they don't love to see

non Chinese people visiting their studios... even if the girl

receptionist resulted friendly.... but resoluted : WE DON'T HAVE

STICKERS, WE DON'T PLANE TO PRINT STICKERS FOR NEXT 150 YEARS....

so please .... go ..... out..... hi.... Really lovly ....fuck Chinese

people as they say in Red Deer.... ha ha ha.....

CJVB 1470 kHz & TV Fuckchild WEB : http://www.am1470.com/

However need to say they have a daily 60 minutes program in

ITALIAN !!!! at 2100-2200 hours .... Roberto listened to them and

said ...the most recent song was "Vola Colomba bianca vola"... 1951

Guess howmany years ago the programs in Italian are recorded ?? A

real Fuckchirld Italian service...

So we went again to CBC Radio.... the receptionist luckly was more

young and with good speed found IMMEDIATELY !!!!Mrs Brigitte....

very busy for the coming soon autumn season of the CBC in British

Columbia..... however she finally decided to dedicate us 20 minutes...

so we runned !!! in studios...corridos...elevators (more slowly) and

at last we get some items ....like fridge magnets ...taken from the

walls.... yes cause the station budget do not permit to print new

items for next coming 27 months... sorry.....

So we ended with some good hints ....but quite lot ...black holes....

At same time I was desperately looking for an internet point.... none

of the ones in my list was found by phone calls .....

Going to the Radio Tower ....Roberto (looking for something to drink)

found one...30 minutes 1 can $..... AL - MADINA general store....

516 WEST PENDER street..... so we entered and found every kind of

product.... and 8 !!! computers... really good... food, drinks, and ADSL

line....

I stay 4 hours !!!!! and costed 8 Can $..... imagine in Calgary I

paid 10 Can $ for 1 hour......and owner even geave me a Banana free !!!

Roberto done a sightseen tour in Central town... but found only shops

and fast food .... and lot of "strange tourists" beggings everywhere.....

At 2030 hours Dan Sys arrived at Apricot and we went to famous

restaurant CLOUD 9.... atop the Empire Landmark Hotel & Conference Centre,

1400 Robson St., Vancouver at 35 floor....

in the elevators we met some local area tourist of the hotel (450 Can

$ one suite room for one night...) at same price equivalent you may stay

5 five days at Apricot...with no idiots tourists)

The glitting view of skyline of Vancouver from the top floor of CLOUD

9 was really beautiful and the food ...even if not so great

was ...luckly forgotten by the panorama... and we talked lot with Dan about

our many hobbies. At 2230 we said to Dan see you saturday morning for

the meeting he organized for us....

No doubts restourants atop high towers or hotels are fashinating...

I wonder why in my Milano city there is no one ???

So I was back to AL - MADINA internet point .... till around 0200 AM....

instead Roberto gone soon to sleep.... better don't tell you... about

Taxists at

night in Vancouver.... a real NIGHTMARE....

Next one will be georgeous ....

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Il giorno dopo, giovedi 21 agosto era il giorno del "lavoro" delle

radio di Vancouver. Iniziavamo dalla CBC chiedendo di Madame Brigitte

Tesniere, l'omologa di Pierre Noel nella British Columbia. Un receptionista

alquanto bacucco sui 92 anni, dopo un paio di telefonate, ci diceva che non

era ancora arrivata. Decidevamo di tornare al pomeriggio.

Ci spostavamo alle vicine The Fox 99.3 Mhz, Rock 101, CKNW 980 KHz e CHMJ

730 Khz. I primi adesivi della British Columbia iniziavano a riempire le

nostre borse. Totalmente negativa la successiva visita alla comunitaria CFRO

"Co-op" operante sui 102.7 MHz. L'ufficio � aperto solo il mercoled�

pomeriggio. Comoda la vita dei suoi addetti! Un po' meglio la successiva

visita a CFBT, The Beat: un po' di adesivi venivano infatti raccolti.

Nuovamente negativa la nuova tappa del tragitto che ci portava a raggiungere

CHUM 103.5 MHz, CKBT 1040 KHz e CFUN 1410 (qualcuno ne ha segnalato l'

ascolto in Italia, non poniamo limiti alla..divina provvidenza ed

alla...propagazione, ma un po' dubbiosi restiamo).

Le cose miglioravamo alla sede di Vancouver del gruppo Rogers, vale a dire

alla sede di Jack FM 96.9 MHz, X-FM 104. 9 MHz e CKWX 1130 KHz. Un po' di

adesivi ed una t-shirt di X-FM. Ancora una tappa in centro per raggiungere

la sede di JR-FM 93.7 MHz e CKBD. L� un bel mazzetto di stickers premiava i

nostri sforzi. Una lunga corsa in taxi ci portava all'University of British

Columbia immersa in un bellissimo parco. Per nostra fortuna era presente il

responsabile dell'emittente che ci accompagnava ad una visita completa di

tutta l'emittente e ci omaggiava di un po' di adesivi. Piccolo spuntino

(sempre piacevoli queste soste alle caffetterie universitarie che mi

ricordavano il mio meraviglioso periodo universitario ormai, purtroppo,

vecchio di pi� di 20 anni) e poi trasferimento alla CHMB emittente posta nel

pi� esclusivo quartiere residenziale di Vancouver. La CHMB, operante su 1320

KHz, � una stazione multietnica a capitale cinese operante in varie lingue

fra cui ufficialmente anche l'italiano, ogni domenica dalle 8 alle 13 ora di

Vancouver. Ho scritto ufficialmente in quanto alla successiva domenica ne

abbiamo tentato l'ascolto e abbiamo ascoltato unicamente delle canzoni in

spagnolo! Il direttore, per essere un cinese, era veramente un

cinese-gentile, ci omaggiava di un po' di adesivi, dopo che Dario gli

regalava un Mega adesivo di 1 metro di Radio Italia solo Musica Italiana. Ci

scriveva un bigiietto in cinese con indicato come chiedere gli adesivi alla

loro concorrente cittadina, meta della nostra successiva visita, e ci

lasciava fotografare una loro vetrinetta piena di riconoscimenti vari

guadagnati dalla sua impresa. Dopo esserci da lui congedati andavamo

all'altra emittente cinese, la sorella degli "stlonzi" di Calgary, la

Fairchild Radio, operante su 1470 Khz e 96.1 MHz. Qui erano un po' meno

"stlonzi", gli adesivi non erano cosa conosciuta ma perlomeno ci davano

retta e ci consegnavano una scheda dei programmi da cui apprendevamo che

ogni sera, dal lunedi al venerdi, dalle 21 alle 22 va in onda un programma

in italiano. Concludevamo tornando alla CBC: la Brigitte, esemplare di

cinquantenne "stantia" mal conservata, era tornata(in realt� ogni giorno

compresa la domenica lavora dalle 0600 alle 2200 locali), ma era

impegnatissima

per cui la visita � stata brevissima. Comunque conquistavamo un autocollant

mai visto prima, quello di CBC Radio 3, il programma musicale emesso via

cavo. A sera si cenava al "Clouds 9 Restaurant", (non vale la

spesa,dimenticatelo) uno dei due ristoranti panoramici girevoli in compagnia

di Dan.

17th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Roberto Rapanello

22 August friday

Victoria Island 15 stations

Friday 22 August, I wake up suddenly at 083o and realized we lost our bus

PACIFIC COAST LINE at 0845....next one luckly at 0945... so we

crossed the UNION street where is located our Apricot cat and after

having seen "camping in the city" by some Zombies.... and seen a

terrific Hotel America with a giant negron playing boowling with giant

empty can of beer (wonder who may have drunked all them ??? ... one

of the mega cans was sent out so strong it crossed the street... I

said STRIKE 100 points.... ha ha ha....)

Finally we arrived at central rail & bus station... 1150 Station

street (the address in case you meet some idiot bengali taxist..)

Well to go by bus to Victoria island by bus and ferry cost 38 $ Can

with discount if you have Greyhound Canadian Pass of 49 $ Can if you

don't have it.

The sky was dark... with some kind of thin rain ... and we weared t-shirts

and hot pants... hi !! However gradually the sky becomed clear and with our

surprise at the ferry arrival in Victoria at 1245 it was sunny !!!!

At 1315 our friend Walter Salmaniw arrived and we had another great

help from an esquisite person sharing friendship and same hobby

interests Radio listenings ....

We visited under a windy but shining sunny afternoon the Victoria

radio stations.

CFUV Campus Radio 101.9 at University of Victoria.... no stickers

but some fridge magnets..... Randy Celling the friendly director.

CFUV Radio Free Victoria 101.9 WEB : http://cfuv.uvic.ca/

Second we saw 900 kHz THE VILLAGE.... a real mitic station for me cause I

have 900 kHz the RAI Milan 600 kw TX..... located at Camosun College,

the college activity was in holidays but Mr.Bruno a DJ with relatives coming

from Feltre (Valbelluna) kindly welcomed us... and beetwen records we

talked about his DJ activity....and we got the beautiful stickers !!!

(CKMO) The Village 900 kHz , WEB : http://www.village900.ca/about.htm

Next the 91,3 THE ZONE & 100.3 THE Q , at top floor, 2750 Quadra Street.

Al Ford Programm Director was very kind to show us the studios

offering good items, like the giant stickers of Q 100.3 and The Zone !!!!

The Zone 91.3 Modern Rock Radio, WEB : http://www.thezone.fm/

Q 100.3 The Island's Rock , WEB : http://www.theq.fm/

Next CBC Victoria 90,5 MHz the director was in a real MASE .... the

computers was out of service and he had to produce the local news at

05oo pm.... so he said..."please bring all you need..bye bye" you can

imagine what happened... Dario & Rob ... assaulting all the items

avaibles... fridge magnets,booksignals, beautiful post cards.... but

not found stickers... a real self service store ...in a CBC free radiostor

...ha ha ha.... need to say under the eyes of Walter...a bit surprised of

our ...way to do .... researches...hi

Located at : 1025 Pandora Avenue, with very nice building.

WEB : http://www.vancouver.cbc.ca/ontheisland/ you may look at the nice

post card they printed recently.

Next 98.5 THE OCEAN & HOT 103 .... we arrived just in time at 1555

cause on friday they close at 1600 hours.... (info in WEB site is

wrong) located at 817 Fort Street. At reception we found a giant pile

of HOT 103 stickers (no one from Ocean)....the receptionist however

assured they were just post card.... so we bring all them...

cause she said "you may bring all these post cards..." ... total score 155

!!!!!

indeed very kind station... we done also some nice photos....with Rick Lee

Dj HOT 103

(CIOC) The Ocean 98.5 MHz , great WEB : http://www.ocean985.com/home2.html

HOT 103 Today's Hit Music WEB : http://www.hot103.ca/home.html

Last to see CFAX 1070 kHz & B 107,3 ALL HITS located at 825 Broughton

street...... after a real insistent bagging (hi) we got the

permission of a 3 minutes tour in the studios and we got by the

Assistant Promotion items Miss Donella Prasad .... 2 stickers from both

stations....

CFAX 1070 kHz Victoria News, WEB : http://www.cfax1070.com/

B-107.3 MHz, WEB : http://www.b1073.ca/

This total Victoria Radio tour took just 3 hours... Walter knows

perfectly Victoria so hi was a perfect Taxi private driver..for us.

Thanks ! Walter !

So he took us at THE BEACON HILL on Victoria coast in front the

Pacific Ocean and the US coast.....

http://www.city.victoria.bc.ca/visitors/attractions_parksbcn.shtml

.....yes the listening point at the Beacon Hill with a

great ...absolutely great view of the Pacific Ocean and the white Mount

Olimpos in Washington state in US , 1890 meters high !!!

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Mt-Olympus.0to3mid.php

was something you can't be able

to describe.... too big...too natural....

http://www.friendsofbeaconhillpark.ca/

So I started my bandscan... following the info from a list got by Dan

Sys who also loves like me to do bandscans of FM bands.

Here the results :

88.1 k201fh translator Bellingham WA. Religion

88.3 k202ds " Port Angels WA. Religion

88.5 KPLU Tacoma (150 Km !!!!!) WA. Jazz NPR news

89.1 k205co translator Mont Vernon WA Religion

89.3 k215dp translator Port Angels WA Religion

89.5 KNHC Seattle (100 Km) WA TOP 40

89.9 k210cn Bellingham WA Religion

90.1 KNWP Port angeles WA Variety

90.7 KSER Everett WA Variety NPR news

90.9 KVTI Tacoma WA Progressive

91.1 k217av Mt.Vernon WA Jazz NPR

91.7 KZAZ Bellingham WA Variety

92.5 KLSY Bellevue WA AC Music

92.9 KISM Bellingham WA Classic Rock

93.3 KUBE Seattle WA Uban Hip Hop

94.1 KMPS Seattle WA Country Music

94,9 KUOW Seattle WA Variety NPR news

95,7 KJR Seattle WA Oldies

96,1 KXXO Olympia WA AC music

96,5 KYPT Seattle WA THE POINT ! 80's classics

97.3 KBSG Tacoma WA Oldies (with RDS !!!! KBSG)

98,1 KING Seattle WA Classic music

98,9 KWJZ Seattle WA Smooth Jazz

99,9 KISW Seattle WA Hard Rock

100.7 KQBZ Seattle WA Talks

101,5 KPLZ Seattle WA HOT AC

102.5 KZOK Seattle WA Classic Rock KeyZeeOK !

103,7 KMTT Tacoma WA Adult alternative

104,3 KAFE Bellingham Wa AC Music

105,3 KCMS Edmonds WA Contemporary Christian

106,1 KBKS Tacoma WA Top 40

106,5 KWPZ Lynden WA Contemporary Christian

106,9 KRWM Bremerton WA AC Music

107,7 KNDD Seattle WA THE END

....Yes what to add ???? just great and phantastic to listen to radio

stations like to be in US !!! but accross the ocean .... WWOOOW.

So at 1800 hours we went to the meeting dinner at Wharfside Eatery, 1208

Wharf Street

Located on Victoria's scenic Inner Harbour overlooking the Parliament

Buildings, the Wharfside specializes in an extensive array of fresh seafood

& wood oven cuisine. Featuring multiple level decks for panoramic waterfront

viewing and "rain or shine" outdoor dining, this award winning restaurant

prides itself in providing professional service in a family friendly

atmosphere, with other Victoria local

area Dx-friends..... here the OFFICIAL REPORT ! by Colin.

Victoria area DXers host PlayDX Travel Crew

Dario Monferini and Roberto Pavanello, of PlayDX Italy, have been

on a tour of Canada visiting with DX and SWL enthusiasts along the

way.

My lovely wife Andrea, Nick Hall-Patch, Dr. Walter Salmaniw

and I hosted them for dinner at the Victoria inner harbor

on Friday August 22, 2003.

Walt picked up the dynamic radio duo at the B.C. Ferry

terminal at noon and took them on a whirlwind

tour of the local media outlets, including virtually

all of our local radio and TV outlets.

Dario and Roberto brought several kilograms of

radio stickers and cards from Italy for general

distribution to the Canadian enthusiasts.

In one fell swoop Dario doubled or

tripled my collection of radio schwag in that one

simple gesture! Grazie Dario!

We had a great dinner with these guys and thank

them for coming out for dinner.

Colin Newell

VIDXC - http://espresso.ts.uvic.ca

We naturally want to thanks all the friends of the Vicoria Dx group

and we were really very much honored for the partecipation to the

meeting.

At 2000 hours we took the bus Pacific Coast Line from Victoria center

bus station.... a quiet back travel ...with arrival at 2245 at

central bus station in Vancouver full as usually of Zombies and dark

people...

but we escaped soon by taxi to our "LOVELY" bad and breakfast...

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Venerdi si effettuava una gita turistica-radiofonica a Vancouver Island,

l'isola che, posta di fronte alla citta di Vancouver, ha preso dapprima il

nome dal suo scopritore e poi l'ha dato alla citta e alla capitale della

British Columbia, Victoria splendida citta di circa 300.000 abitanti, un

pezzo di Inghilterra trasferito sull'Oceano Pacifico. Per andare dal nostro

bed and breakfast a Victoria non abbiamo avuto grossi problemi: ci � bastato

percorrere a piedi il kilometro che lo separa dalla stazione ferroviaria e

dei pullmann, facendo attenzione al negrone che dallo scantinato dell'Hotel

America giocava a birilli con le confezioni della birra alla spina, prendere

il pullmann che porta all'imbarcadero, imbarcarsi sul ferry che in un'ora e

45 percorre il tragitto regalando ai suoi passeggeri incredibili panorami di

quella meravigliosa isola. Degno da ricordare l'incontro qui avuto con un

membro dello staff di BBC Radio Nottingham che avendomi visto con addosso

una T-shirt di BBC Radio Scotland mi aveva scambiato per un suo collega!

Alla stazione dei ferry ci attendeva Walter, medico ucraino-canadese che ci

avrebbe accompagnato con la sua auto ad una visita dellle emittenti di

Victoria. Si iniziava dalla CFUV, l'emittente del campus dell'University of

Victoria. Subito nuovi adesivi entravano in nostro possesso. Si proseguiva

con un'altra stazione universitaria, quella dell'universita privata Camosun

College, la CKMO The Village, l'unica stazione universitaria da noi vista

operante in onde medie sulla frequenza di 900 KHz. Il dj, l'unico presente,

era molto gentile a fra una canzone greca a l'altra ci parlava dei rapporti

d'ascolto ricevuto dalla Scandinavia, ove evidentemente la RAI di Milano a

la COPE sono merce rara, e ci regalava un po' di adesivi. Lungo il percorso

verso il centro della citta ci fermavamo a The Zone 91.3 MHz e The Q 100.3

MHz. Altri adesivi e altra visita degli studi. Giunti in centro andavamo

alla CBC. Ci riceveva il responsabile che ci diceva essere impegnatissimo, i

materiali erano li nella reception che prendessimo quel che volevamo, lui

aveva da fare. Non ci facevamo ripetere l'invito due volte! Andavamo quindi

a Ocean 98.5 MHz e Hot 103. La receptionista ci diceva che mai avevano fatto

adesivi, alla nostra domanda su cosa fossero quelle cose colorate che

sembravano adesivi ci rispondeva che erano cartoline, se ci interessavano

potevamo prenderle anche tutte. Ne prendevo in mano una, mi accorgevo che se

era una cartolina era una cartolina molto strana in quanto il retro si

staccava a sotto era tutto pieno di colla! Come da lei dettoci non rimaneva

una sola "cartolina".

Si chiudeva con CFAX 1070 a B107.3. Visita della stazione e un paio di

stickers. Sarebbe stata questa l'ultima emittente radio da noi visitata. Non

erano neanche le 17 e Walter ci accompagnava al parco della "Beacon Hill"

all'estremita sud dell'isola, posto proprio di fronte alla costa

statunitense. Mentre Dario si dedicava all'ascolto di yankilandia in FM

(facendo indigestione di emittenti di Seattle) io percorrevo la scala che

scendeva la scogliera arrivando su di una minispiaggetta e alle 16.23 ora

della British Columbia di venerd� 22 agosto, le 23.23 UTC, le 01.23 ora

legale italiana, per la prima volta in vita mia toccavo con mano l'Oceano

Pacifico! Si cenava poi con altri DXer locali in un ristorantino

chiamato "Victoria Inner Harbour" di fronte al porticciolo e nel pieno

centro di Victoria, alle spalle dello splendido Parlamento regionale, in

perfetto stile vittoriano. Si tornava poi in Vancouver a sul ferry

sintonizzavo il programma italiano della Fairchild Radio: quasi a livello di

quello di Montreal, un po' di canzoni, la pi� recente "Cuccurucucu, paloma"

di Battiato ed un servizio sui diversi caratteri dei diversi segni

zodiacali.

18th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

23 August saturday

Decalcomaniacs meeting day

Even if the weather forecast was "showers" a nice SUNNY day said hallo to

me!

At 103o Dan arrived and he drove us to his home in Langley about 35 km east

from Vancouver. We had time to organize the meeting and at 113o Phil

Bytheway

from Seattle arrived with a car full of big cartoons boxes.... almost more

than

15000 differents stickers, from US and Canada... a LITTLE part of his

duplicated stock!

Here the report edited on Decalcomania bulletin by Dan Sys :

The GTG on August 23 (or NERDFEST 2003 as it became dubbed as) is just a

memory now, but I believe they are pleasant memories for everyone who

attended the event. I wouldn't be too far off the mark if I said that

probably 10,000 stickers traded hands that day. The non-collectors were in a

state of awe and disbelief at the magnitude of the sticker trading session.

Both Phil and Ted filled up their trunks (or hatchback, in Ted's case) with

an incredible amount of boxes containing traders, while Dario and Roberto

had a good selection of International stickers that were shipped here

several months ago in anticipation of the GTG. All the collectors present

greatly increased their sticker totals throughout the afternoon.

It wasn't all stickers though. Everyone had a great time socializing and

exchanging radio stories. There was even a feeble attempt at some FM DX'ing,

but we just couldn't get that darn antenna to work properly.

In the evening after most had left, Eldon, Jim, and Dave conducted a pretty

decent AM DX session. Some of the people present had not seen each other in

30 years, such as Brian and Theo who attended IRCA GTG's in the 60's. Theo

even brought a photo from 1969 of such a gathering which featured a group

shot. Many of those attending that event 34 years ago were at the current

GTG.

One of the more comical highlights occurred when Phil picked up an old

Vancouver Radio Digest from the stack of memorabilia that Eldon brought with

him. Almost by instinct Phil opened the book to a certain page and there was

a photo of Theo from 25 years ago when he was a newsman at CJVB-1470 (back

in the days when they were English during AMD). Everyone went into

hysterics.

I would also really like to thank Linda for her fantastic assistance with

the hosting of the event. She could have just taken off for the day shopping

or visiting, but instead chose to be a part of the festivities. I sure

noticed a lot of mouths watering when the snacks she prepared came out for

consumption.

Ted Wendland has posted 3 pages of great photos from the GTG on his Puget

Sound Radio Guide website. Check it out!

www.pugetsoundradio.com/gtgpics1.html

Those in attendance were:

DAVE BULL - VANCOUVER,BC (DX'er)

PHIL BYTHEWAY - SEATTLE,WA (Decalcomania, IRCA, et al)

ERLAND CARLSON - VANCOUVER,BC (ex-IRCA)

THEO DONNELY - BURNABY,BC (IRCA)

ERIC FLODEN - VANCOUVER,BC (IRCA)

JIM HAVEMAN - BURNABY,BC (DX'er)

LINDA KEATING - LANGLEY,BC (my partner)

GORD LANSDELL - NORTH VANCOUVER,BC (radio enthusiast)

ELDON LUOMA - LANGLEY,BC (ex-IRCA)

DARIO MONFERINI - MILAN, ITALY (Decalcomania, Play DX, et al)

ROBERTO PAVANELLO - VERCELLI, ITALY (Play DX)

DOUG PEARSON - VANCOUVER,BC (ex-IRCA)

TED WENDLAND - NEW WESTMINSTER,BC (ex-Decalcomania, ex-IRCA)

BRIAN WILLIAMS - NEW WESTMINSTER,BC (ex-IRCA)

Plus a phone call was received from Kenneth Hawkins in St. Louis wishing

everyone well. There was talk of a NERDFEST 2004. That sounds like a heck of

a good idea to me. I might even schedule it for the weekend (in August) that

coincides with the nearby Abbotsford Air Show, as we do see some activity in

the skies over Aldergrove.

Dan Sys

Well done Dan and Linda ! a great meeting also thanks Phil and Ted who

really pumped up our collections.... suddenly of more than 2000 units !!!

Rare 1970-1980 Stix circulated !!

Please look at the photos in the WEB page of Ted Wendland !! thanks Ted !!!

http://www.pugetsoundradio.com/gtgpics1.html

you may see ...true Dario "prottting!!" live !! eating stickers like

food.... hi!!

Versione Italiana by Roberto:

Sabato un Colle Val d'Elsa Meeting (il raduno degli adesivomani Italiani

organizzato ogni anno il primo weeken di Dicembre,quest'anno 06-07 Dicembre

2003 siete tutti invitati WEB : http://www.marcosalvi.it/ to see photos of

2002 meeting click to WEB : http://playdx.altervista.org/ ) moltiplicato

per 3!.

Dan, in nostro onore, ha infatti organizzato in quel giorno un meeting dei

collezionisti di adesivi della British Columbia e degli USA, cui hanno

partecipato, oltre a noi, 12 collezionisti fra cui Phil Bytheway, il

maggiore

collezionista di radio stickers negli USA, nonch� editor del bollettino

DecalcoMania, il bollettino che mensilmente

anzich� tips e QSL riporta l'elenco dei nuovi adesivi ricevuti dai suoi

membri, quello che in Italia, anche negli anni d'oro non siamo mai riusciti

fare. Se siete interessati ad esso gli indirizzi sono: DecalcoMania - Phil

Bytheway, 9705 Mary NW - Seattle WA 98117 -U.S.A. e-mail: byteway@atk.com

web www.anarc.org/decal/. Il mio risultato finale di questa incredibile

giornata? Per me 1446 nuovi adesivi raccolti!

19th Chapter visit to Canada by Dario MonferEnglish & Rob. Rapanello

24 August sunday

Sightseen in Vancouver Harbour

Quite early wake up for me.... to STORE all the materials souvenirs got

during the

travel.... visiting more than 222 stations (Radio-Tv-Cable) .... the two

bags

surely over 30 kilos each one.... and if you add the Decalcomaniacs

meeting....

But after all the two bags was closed ... and no more opened till my arrival

my home in Milano....

Dan and Linda took us to the Vancouver city to look at the most particulars

places in the old Vancouver, and in the sea port, where Ferries from Alaska

does

stops before to go or to come to the US.

We also visited the Stanley Park .... well I am not able to say how

beautiful is this

place, located in Vancouver !

You must look at WEB : http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/parks/3.htm

Sitting on the lake shore we were even photographed by tourists... no not

cause I

look like a Walrous.... but cause a "normal" CAT !! was searching for

food.... and

many tourists believed it was "a rare animal of the park" ha ha ha.....

At 1 pm we went to the Revolving Restaurant at Harbour Center. WEB :

http://www.vancouvertourist.com/page239.htm.

The buffet was really pantagruelic .... and the cost ONLY 40 Can. $ per

person...

I eat for 4 people.... and the Salmon was simply unforgottable...believe me

Kindly Dan and Linda around 16oo hours took us to the Airport and with some

.... emotion we said to them "hallo till the next meeting".....

No problems at the British Air chicking in ... our baggages disappeared in

the tunnel ..

We had to pay 15 $ Can each, for a TAX declared "to improuve the Vancouver

Airport"

something look like a BANDIDOS request... hi !! before to start our

flight.... hi!

Again I was near window and in a very good position... a wall in front of

us... I may

sit more well with lot of space... well may be too comfortable.... cause 20

minutes after

the departure I fall asleep... and after some SOFT BBBBUUUURRRPPPSS.....

I sleeped till our arrival in London Airport.... don't ask me what happened

during the

flight .... ha ha ha.... thanks to Vancouver Buffet on Revolving Restaurant

!! hi !

No problem to change the flight in London by bus from International arrivals

to European departures ...... and no problems at arrival Linate Milano

Airport with 29�C and usual hot warm air at our arrival around 1830

hours.... even our baggages arrived SOON ......and absolutely no control of

our baggages....incredible....

A good end for an historical travel.....see you in Summer 2005 in Mexico !!!

Dario Monferini & Roberto Pavanello.

Versione Italiana by Roberto :

Domenica 24 agosto Dan e sua moglie Linda verso le 11 ci raggiungevano al

nostro bed and breakfast e, caricate, le "pesantissime" valigie,

raggiungevamo dapprima lo Stanley Park, meraviglioso polmone verde della

citt� e poi l'Harbour Center, ove pranzavamo nell'altro ristorante

panoramico, con un buffet astronomico che permetteva a Dario di stabilire un

nuovo record del mondo di portate divorate . 42 !. Al termine del pranzo

venivamo accompagnati all'aeroporto e dopo i saluti alle ore 18.35 si

partiva a destinazione di Londra ove si arrivava alle 13.50 di luned� 25

agosto , altro aereo, alle 15.30, a destinazione di Milano Linate, ove si

giungeva alle 18.25. Pullmann e treno con arrivo a Vercelli alle 22.15.

Letto per una mega dormita e rimbambimento per 2 giorni per smaltire 9 ore

di fuso orario.

Il mio riassunto finale? Eccolo: 136 stazioni visitate contate col mio

criterio, con quello del DM sarebbero oltre 200!!), 714 adesivi di 129

differenti variet� (+ i 1446 raccolti durante il meeting a casa di Dan), 5

portachiavi, 14 biro, 2 pins, 2 caramelle, 1 bandierina, 3 badge, 2

segnalibri, 1 palloncino, 15 cartoline, 7 cappellini, 1 acchiappamosche, 7

CD, 3 libri, 1 borsa, 1 felpa, 18 T-shirt, 1 borraccia.

Prossimo tour radiofonico col Darione? Agosto 2005, MESSICO, ma prima il mio

solito tour turistico-radiofonico degli anni pari la cui organizzazione a

gia in atto a la cui meta � SPAGNA.

Roberto PAVANELLO

INDIRIZZI DELLE EMITTENTI VISITATE

Virgin R. - 1 Golden Square - London W1R 4DJ - Gran Bretagna

CBC - 250 Front Str. West - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

CBC Museum -25 John Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

CHIN - 622 College Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

CFRB - 2 St. Clair Av. West - Toronto -Ontario - Canada

CFRX - 2 St. Clair Av. West - Toronto - Ontario.- Canada

Mix 99.9 - 2 St. Clair Av. West - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Ez Rock - 2 St. Clair Av. West - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

CHUM - 1331 Yonge Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

CIAO - 5302 Dundas Str. West - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Z 103.5 - 5302 Dundas Str. West - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

FOXY - 5303 Dundas Str. West - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Mojo - 1 Dundas Str. - Toronto -Ontario - Canada

Q 107 - 1 Dundas Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

The Edge - 1 Dundas Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

City TV - 279 Queen Str. West - Toronto - Ontario-Canada (shop al 277)

Classical FM - 550 Queen Str. West - Ontario - Canada

CHFI - 777 Jarvis Str. -Toronto - Ontario - Canada

CFTR - 777 Jarvis Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

The FAN 590 - 777 Jarvis Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Jack FM - 777 Jarvis Str. - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Jazz FM - 150 Mutual Road - Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Flaw - 211 Yonge Str. -Toronto - Ontario - Canada

Country 92 - 2001 Thurson Drive - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

Y105 - 2001 Thurson Drive - Ottawa - Ontario -Canada

CHEZ - 2001 Thurson Drive - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

X-FM - 2001 Thurson Drive - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

CIWW - 2001 Thurson Drive - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

CHRI - 1010 Thomas Spratt P1. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

Bob - 87 George Str. - Ottawa -Ontario - Canada

CFRA - 87 George Str. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

Kool - 87 George Str. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

Majic - 87 George Str. - Ottawa - Ontario -Canada

CFGO - 87 George Str. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

CBC TV - 250 Lamark Av- - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

CBC Radio - c/o Hotel Chateau Laurier - 7th Floor - 1 Rideau St. Ottawa -

Ontario - Canada

The Bear - 1050 Merisvan Rd. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

HOT 89.9 - 1050 Merisvan Rd. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

CJOH TV - 1050 Merisvan Rd. - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

CHUG - University of Ottawa -Union Student Building - Suite 232 Ottawa -

Ontario - Canada

CKOI - 211 rue Gordon - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CFQR - 211 rue Gordon - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

COOL - 211 rue Gordon - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

Energie - 1717 rue Ren� Levesque - Montreal -Quebec - Canada

Cit� - 1717 rue Ren� Levesque - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CFCF Cit� TV - 1205 rue Papineau - Montreal - Quebec -Canada

CBC - 1400 rue Ren� Levesque - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CKAC - 1411 rue Peel - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CIHL - 1691 rue Pie IX - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

R. Centre Ville -5212 Bldv. Saint Laurant - Montreal -Quebec - Canada

CKUT - 3647 rue University - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CJAD - 1114 Av. du Fort - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CHOM - 1114 Av. du Fort - Montreal -Quebec - Canada

Mix 96 - 1114 Av. du Fort - Montreal - Quebec - Canada

CBC - 2130 Miles Str. East - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

Magic 99.9 - 995 Memorial Av. - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

CKPR - 87 Hill North Str. - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

Rock 94 - 87 Hill North Str. - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

Hot 105 - 87 Hill North Str. - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

Tourism R. - 170 Red River Rd. - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

CJOA - 63 Carrie Str. room 42 - Thunder Bay - Ontario - Canada

CJOB - 930 Portage Av. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

Power 97 - 930 Portage Av. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

CBC - 541 Portage Av. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

Freq 107 - 738 Osborne Str. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

Citi 92 - 166 Osborne Str. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

CKY - 166 Osborne Str. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

Cool FM - 201 Portage Av - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

Hot 103 - 177 Lombard Str. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

QX 104 - 177 Lombard Str. -Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

Bob FM - 1445 Pembina Highway - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

CKJS - 520 Corydon Av - Winnipeg -Manitoba - Canada

CHVN - 1111 Chevrier Bldv. - Winnipeg - Manitoba - Canada

CKUW - University of Winnipeg - Winnipeg - Manitoba -Canada

CJME - 2401 Saskatchewan Dr. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

Z99 - 2401 Saskatchewan Dr. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

Rock 94 - 2401 Saskatchewan Dr. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

CKRM - 2060 Halifax Str. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

Lite 92 -2060 Halifax Str. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

The Wolf - 2060 Halifax Str. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

CBC- 2440 Broad Str. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

CJTR - 1102 8th. Av. - Regina - Saskatchewan - Canada

CJAY - 1110 Centre Str. North - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

CKMX - 1110 Centre Str. North - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Vibe 98.5 - 1110 Centre Str. North - Calgary - Alberta -Canada

Breeze - 1110 Centre Str. North - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Shine 89.9 - 1110 Centre Str. North - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

CHAR - 430 3th Av SW - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Country 105 - 430 3th Av SW - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Peak 107.5 - 430 3th Av SW - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

A Channel - 535 7th Av. - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

MTV - 535 7th Av. - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

CFAC - 2723 37th Av. NE - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Lite 96 - 2723 37th Av. NE - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

CFFR - 2723 37th Av. NE -Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Jack FM - 2723 37th Av. NE - Calgary - Alberta - Canada

Fairchild R. - 2723 37th Av. NE - Calgary - Alberta -Canada

CJSW - room 127 - Mc Ewan Hall - University of Calgary Calgary - Alberta

NUTV - Mc Ewan Hall - University of Calgary - Calgary Alberta - Canada

CBC - City Center - 100 Str. East - Edmonton - Canada

CKUA - 10526 Jasper Av. NW - Edmonton -Canada

CJSR - 129 University Av. - Union Students Building - Room 0-09 Edmonton -

Alberta - Canada

CHED - 10550 102th Str. -Edmonton - Alberta - Canada

CISN - 10550 102th Str. - Edmonton - Alberta - Canada

COOL - 10550 102th Str. - Edmonton - Alberta -Canada

Power 92 - 10550 102th Str. - Edmonton - Alberta - Canada

The Beer - 18520 Stony Plain Rd. NW - Edmonton - Alberta -Canada

EZ Rock - 18520 Stony Plain Rd. NW - Edmonton - Alberta - Canada

The Team - 18520 Stony Plain Rd. NW - Edmonton -Alberta - Canada

CBC - 700 Hamilton Str. - Vancouver - British Columbia - Canada

The Fox - 700 West Georgia Str. - Vancouver - B. C. -Canada

Rock 101 - 700 West Georgia Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CKNW - 700 West Georgia Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CHMJ - 700 West Georgia Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CFRO - 360 Columbia Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CFBT - 770 Pacific Blvd. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CHQM - 380 2th Av. West - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CFUN - 380 2th Av. West - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CKST - 380 2th Av. West - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

Jack FM - 2440 Ash Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

X-FM - 2440 Ash Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CKWX - 2440 Ash Str. - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

JR-FM - 1401 8th Av. West - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CKBD -1401 8th Av. West - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

CITR - 6138 Sub Blvd. University of British Columbia - Vancouver B. C.

CHMB - 1200 73th Av. West - Vancouver - B. C. - Canada

Fairchild R. - 525 Broadway Av. - Vancouver -_B. C. - Canada

CFUV - University of Victoria - Victoria - B., C. - Canada

CKMO The Village - 3100 Foul Bay Rd. -Victoria - B. C. - Canada

The Zone - 2750 Quadra Str. - Victoria - B. C. - Canada

The Q - 2750 Quadra Str. - Victoria -B. C. - Canada

CBC - 1250 Pandora Av - Victoria - B. C. - Canada

Ocean - 817 Fort Str. - Victoria - B. C. - Canada

Hot 103 - 817 Fort Str. - Victoria - B. C. - Canada

CFAX - 825 Broughton Str. - Victoria - B. C. - Canada

B 107.3 - 825 Broughton Str. - Victoria - B. C. - Canada

no copyright of this on the road travel, you may reproduce it !!!

Dario MonferEnglish and Rob. Rapanello.

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