VHF Signals For Ant. Checking ?

[BOBRR]

Hello,

It's very nice to have WWV frequencies always available to
check things out on HF.

Might someone please suggest, if there are, any strong 24 hr/day broadcasts
on the vhf frequencies (perhaps around 100 MHz or so) that one can use
to check and verify their vhf ant. setup ?

I'm in the Boston area.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[AK9R]

NOAA Weather Radio. Transmitters all over the country that transmit continuously on frequencies ranging from 162.400 to 162.550 MHz.

NWR Stations

 

[BOBRR]

Hi,

Thank you very much.
Just what I was looking for.

Regards,
Bob

 

[vagrant]

You should also look up any nearby airports and their ATIS, D-ATIS, and or AWOS frequencies. They also broadcast 24/7. Their frequencies will be even closer to 100 MHz, but probably not as strong as a NOAA WX station. Still, a weaker signal can be a good thing for testing. As they transmit in the air band, it is a good way to also test an FM broadcast filter and figure out if it is attenuating too much into the VHF air freqs.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/weather/asos/?state=MA

 

[ladn]

Another source of continuous VHF (and UHF) broadcasts, depending on your local stations, are the remote broadcast IFB frequencies. These systems mirror the audio of radio and television stations and are used for cueing. Look for them in the 161 MHz (scattered among the railroad channels) and 450-451 / 455-456 MHz remote broadcast band.

 

[ecps92]

The only one around here for Bob is not even in the 450/455 band
Much of Boston has gone away from a 24/7 or even daily IFB keyed up

Try for UHF, but best to try the NWS and log each one to see what the signal is normally like, then you get an idea for/when there is a band openning.

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Another source of continuous VHF (and UHF) broadcasts, depending on your local stations, are the remote broadcast IFB frequencies. These systems mirror the audio of radio and television stations and are used for cueing. Look for them in the 161 MHz (scattered among the railroad channels) and 450-451 / 455-456 MHz remote broadcast band.