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Waiting for it to dip a little more into Southern New England :)


IdleMonitor said:
Looks to be a good morning so far in Southern and Eastern Ontario.

I'm hearing VE3 MPC - Orleans 147.150 and VE2 CRO - Gatineau 146.745 from Renfrew. For me that's a good distance. Even though I regularly hear VE2 CRA 146.940 with no issues.

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I had really good RX from my area into Michigan this morning as well. With the warm weather coming it'll be nice to play again!
 
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These are the types of days where ya tend to unlock all your locked out channels just cause they're too far for regular listening just in case you may pick it up.

I've been able to hear a Bancroft repeater as well as another one down at Picton. I remember one day last summer I was picking up Zone 1 Fleetnet which was a surprise to me.

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I had really good RX from my area into Michigan this morning as well. With the warm weather coming it'll be nice to play again!
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The air mass is from the north and west and the jet stream is far north of us, this allows many signals to the north and east for me to come in.

FleetNet tower 38 is strong here in Hamilton, it's one of the towers IIRC that services northern Durham and North and east York Region.

Last summer we had the same situation, dry and hot air mass from the north allowed for great propagation hence I can snag Pontypool here over 100 km away.

Like last summers long and hot air mass signals from the North are strong enough.

It's supposed to be very warm for the remainder of the week and we might get signals we normally don't get until the airmass sags south over us Mmmmmm Mmmm

As we were able to snag these far away signals I forgot to mention that For whatever reason Mowat 142.905 isn't working.
Didn't hear Dispatch or the units being asked to switch to any SIM or provincial channels or frequencies.

The alternate CC was silent but 142. 905 had a sound as if someone was sitting on his or her transmit buttons.

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Outstanding conditions tonight from my balcony twenty-eight floors up in Hamilton lower city:.

All the usual towers like Charlton, Britannia, Woodlawn, Woodstock and Brantford are excellent. King City, and Fonthill have been great this week.
Niagara Falls and Cayuga are rare here for me to monitor, but they are just strong enough tonight.

Ballinnifad is coming in, rare, as is Simcoe in Norfolk and Pontypool. I've mentioned when we are in our current weather situation Pontypool comes in but not Simcoe or B-fad.

I should have monitored the low bands, might have had some action

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EJB said:
As we were able to snag these far away signals I forgot to mention that For whatever reason Mowat 142.905 isn't working.
Didn't hear Dispatch or the units being asked to switch to any SIM or provincial channels or frequencies.

The alternate CC was silent but 142. 905 had a sound as if someone was sitting on his or her transmit buttons.
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Mowat still seems to be dead. There's a signal but it's like a super-super faint control channel chug, and not quite chugging. Tried it a few times today.
 
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How has the VHF low band been lately? 30 - 54 MHz?

I know 10m HAM and 11m CB bands have been great. Last week I was able to hear a 10m repeater from NY State quite well. I'm quite pleased with the VHF conditions 140 MHz and above where I've been listening to most lately..

I come from the old days of 200 channels analog no tones radios and picking up the VHF lowband stuff back in the 90's. I've strayed away from that area in most recent years. I know a bunch of radio systems have changed greatly since then but is there still much happening in that area of the bands when the conditions allow? With RadioReference around these days like it is. It makes identifying the stuff ya hear a lot easier.

I'm using a Diamond D130J discone antenna about 30 ft up. Going to a BC436HP.
 
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Look for a similar setup this weekend as a heatwave moves across Canada from the west and south to us here in Ontario. The jetstream will move well north of us and it looks it will stick with us for awhile.
 
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Scan the weather bands. They are good for getting areas of propogation.
NOAA and EC, their broadcast is constant. Try other systems in the area of the WX transmitter.
 
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This morning about 6:30am ET there was a VHF opening to Missouri.
 
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Messing around with Air traffic this evening. I'm able to pick up a few of the YYZ ARR & DEP as well as the Simcoe air, both ATC and planes.
I normally can't monitor all on my FleetNet antenna.
 
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