Site visit to CBC Monitoring Station, Carp.

Date/Time:

Wed 18 June, 2 – 3.30 pm – with pub socializing afterwards

Location:

2415 Richardson’s Side Road, Carp

Parking:

Park beside station, Handicap spots available

Registration:

Email to h.reekie@ieee.org stating numbers etc – spouses welcome

Registration cut-off 14 June. space limited to 18 persons

Organizer:

Hugh Reekie –613-728-5343

Organizer e-mail:

h.reekie@ieee.org

Organized by:

AESS Ottawa Chapter

Url:

http://www3.bell.net/max-com/ottawa.AESS.html

Abstract:

In order to maintain good transmit signals, a monitoring station was required. CBC set up a monitoring station on the Richardson Sideroad in 1968 to monitor broadcasts from Sackville, NB, expanding to monitor other CBC transmit locations in 2003, when the site became the National Alarm Centre. There are more than 900 transmitters to monitor. The site is also the maintenance centre for the Ottawa area – for transmitters at Barry’s Bay, Chapleau, Kingston and Cornwall. Twenty-three people are employed on site; the site is active 24 hours per day, 7 days a week .

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