Expansion, Rifts and Competition The building is still there today housing a fashionable ladies clothing store. Dad remained at Great for seven years—the form¬ ative years of broadcasting on Prince Edward Island . In the meantime, Walter Burke was holding back on expansion. The new 100-watt transmitter that Tony Shelfoon had been working on was nearing completion. CFCY had become a well known station around the Maritimes—indeed for many places it was the only station. Dad tried to persuade Mr. Burke to move the old transmitter, the original 10AS, down to Great to incorporate it with the new 100-watt transmitter. But Mr. Burke would not budge. He felt it was his station and that it should stay exactly where it was. For the last three years, Dad had been paying for the licence under the name of the Island Radio Company . He did this with the full knowledge and agreement of Mr. Burke , because the licence was required to be displayed in the station beside the transmitter. And the station had received three official inspections from the Department of Marine, Radio Division, by the Government Inspector, Electrician H. A. Coade . My father was spending more and more time running the affairs of CFCY. Walter Burke was finding it difficult to do any radio work in the day time as he had a fulltime job at Carter and Company and a large family to support. He felt he could not take the risk of leaving his position. Furthermore, his ideas for building up the radio station differed from Dad 's. Walter wanted to have the transmitter at his home to use after work and for broadcasting the church services, but my father was contemplating a community radio station eventually broadcasting most of the daytime and evening hours. Relations became strained, and the two friends found they could no longer see eye to eye on even the most fundamental changes. The Department of Marine, Radio Division would not allow them to use two transmitters in different locations under the same call letters. In the daytime my father was using the call letters CFCY—call letters he had applied for, paid for, for three years, and received from the depart¬ ment. That meant that if Walter Burke wanted to use his transmitter on Hillsboro street, he would have to apply for a new licence with new call letters. For whatever reason, Mr. Burke neglected to apply for the new call letters. The dispute flared into anger. Mr. Burke felt that my father had been unfair to him, and he engaged a lawyer. In the lawyer's office both men sorted out their affairs. It was decided that because of the amount 59