Sunday morning. Sister stations CKPE-FM in Sydney, CFQM-FM in Moncton and CJYC-FM in Saint John also do this. Shortwave relay CHNS programming was also heard on shortwave radio. It first simulcast on 6.110 MHz beginning in 1931 on experimental shortwave relay station VE9HX. The station was listened to around the world when it carried live coverage of the Moose River mine disaster in 1936. Five-minute long hourly updates by CHNS reporter J. Frank Willis were relayed over CHNX for five days and were listened to worldwide and simulcast over 650 radio stations in North America. The broadcasts were carried across Canada over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as well as stations across the United States and the BBC. It was the first live 24-hour radio coverage of a breaking news story in Canada. In 1937, the shortwave station was assigned the call letters CHNX. By the mid-1990s, due to problems with the aging shortwave transmitter, power had been reduced from 500 watts to 40 to 70 watts. The station went off the air in 2000 due to transmitter failure, but returned following repairs. It went off the air permanently in 2001 as station owner Maritime Broadcasting was unwilling to invest in a new transmitter. References External links 89.9 The Wave HNS HNS HNS Radio stations established in 1926 1926 establishments in Nova Scotia HNS CNR Radio Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission