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In 1950, an order was received for a TT5A standard 5 k\v transmitter, the maximum power available at that time, and for a three section siiperturnstile antenna designed for Channel 2. For approximately a year the CBC was negotiating with the city of Montreal to secure a transmitter site on the moimtain top. When these negotiations were successfully completed, the transmitter was brought to Montreal and instructions were received to go ahead with the necessary engineering plans and drawings for installation. Meanwhile, CBC proceeded with construction of its building, allowing space for a 20-kw amplifier and an additional transmitter which will be installed later when French and English programs are telecast simultaneously on different channels. As the work proceeded, public interest increased and CBC, which was more or less committed to go on the air by the fall of 1952, was anxious to be telecasting experimentally before that. Then the steel shortage intervened and it appeared that completion of the tower in time might be impossible. RCA Victor engineers were informed of CBC's problem and offered their assistance in overcoming it. A temporary antenna seemed to be the only solution. Our engineers told CBC: "We will design one for you from scratch and have it ready in time". The offer was accepted. An order for the temporary antenna was received on February 21; on May 29 it was completed and on June 3 it was installed, tested and was operating under its full power. Installation of the transmitter commenced April 7 and was completed on June 19. After going through its performance test and following minor adjustments which are always necessary on new installations, it was ac- cepted by CBC on June 23. RCA Victor engineers in the Montreal plant designed the complete transmitter installation and supervised all preliminary telecasts. Bruce MacKimmie, antenna specialist; Bob Nonon, transmitter engineer, and John Jackson, supervisor, all of the Montreal RCA Victor plant, handled the installa- tion under the direction of H. B. Seabrook, chief of the Engineering Products division of the Canadian com- pany. For the final check on performance, Ray Colvin. service engineer, was brought from Camden in order that CBC might have the advantage of his experience on many similar jobs in the United States. Full cooperation from the CBC technical staff, thoroughly designed equipment from RCA Victor's plant, and competent engineering combined to make possible Canada's first telecasting well ahead of schediJe. A three-section superturnstile antenna and two FM antennae are still to go up and, eventually, that second TV transmitter to take care of the second language programs. In the meantime CBFT is on the air and is being received in points as far away as eighty miles, with clear reproduction. Station CBFT's antenna on Mount Royal looks down on this view of Montreal's business section. mr--* '''^^ ^* >:Wi