A 1940 RCA 50 kW shortwave transmitter, located at the decommissioned Radio
Canada International Site in Sackville, is up for sale.
The transmitter
is a small room, about five metres long by two-and-a-half metres wide, and it's
filled with lever, buttons, glass tubes and wires.
The property was
bought in February 2017 by Mi'gmawe'l Tplu'taqnn Incorporated (MTI), a group of
Mi'Kmaq First Nations. Jesse John Simon, the group's executive director, said
workers are still taking electronic components apart and removing old equipment
that won't be needed now that property is no longer a broadcast site.
The old transmitter doesn't work
anymore, said Marc Goldstein, an electrical engineer helping to take out
equipment no longer needed, adding it was decommissioned in the 1970s.
"It took three men to
operate this radio," he said.
"We're trying to find a home for
it."
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