Been messing around with Fleetnet while mobile here in Burlington this past week. Here is my reports.
Scanner: 396XT using a Larsen 1/4 whip cut for VHF-Hi, mounted on my trunk.
1) : Burl/Oak + Lakeshore. 1AM Wed night
Charlton-excellent
Brantford-good
Fonthill and Skylon-excellant
Cayuga-good, scratchy
B-fad-decent, in and out
King City-Very good
Woodlawn (Guelph)-decent
Mowat and Brittania-Very good.
Aside from King City, no real surprises above. King City has exceptional coverage I feel anyways.
2) Cityview Park Dundas and Kerns Road, high up on the escarpment/mountain, same scanner, same antenna. 3-5 PM Thursday
All of the above as expected but B-fad and Woodlawn were scratchy. Surprising to me cause I really wasn't all that far from Guelph and B-fad.
What 'blew' me away was Whitby. I don't normally even monitor Whitby. No need to but when I re-programmed my scanner I put Whitby in, I have a meeting next week in Scarborough and don't want to lose coverage on my way there.
What really really blew me away was a strong signal on 142.590. I was mobile but I looked up the frequency on this site and was very surprised that the above frequency was the control channel for Pontypool. I was able to hear some activity on it, the Whitby/Toronto patch, and some MTOE but for the most part it was just a bit noisy for the scanner to do 'trunking.'
I haven't been any further north than Guelph for the last few years, we used to have a family cottage in Lions Head and I am very familiar with Durham in Grey County and its excellant coverage from as far south as Fergus up to Owen Sound, for a minute I thought that I was 'hearing this tower' but I would have seen London CACC and the Grey/Bruce Pen/South Bruce patch and I already figured that conditions were not favourable to the WNW of me.
I noticed that there was reports of Northern Lights being very bright all the way south, hard for me to tell if the lights I saw towards the 416 from Aldershot were city lights or what. I guess then that this event with the sun, the cold weather flow of air from the North and my height created the perfect conditions to 'score' a tower that I would normally ever monitor all the way here in the West End.
Always fun to scan things from a distance, sorta like Dxing,
Anyone else here besides Bob (ATC) that has monitored stuff to the east and north?
Scanner: 396XT using a Larsen 1/4 whip cut for VHF-Hi, mounted on my trunk.
1) : Burl/Oak + Lakeshore. 1AM Wed night
Charlton-excellent
Brantford-good
Fonthill and Skylon-excellant
Cayuga-good, scratchy
B-fad-decent, in and out
King City-Very good
Woodlawn (Guelph)-decent
Mowat and Brittania-Very good.
Aside from King City, no real surprises above. King City has exceptional coverage I feel anyways.
2) Cityview Park Dundas and Kerns Road, high up on the escarpment/mountain, same scanner, same antenna. 3-5 PM Thursday
All of the above as expected but B-fad and Woodlawn were scratchy. Surprising to me cause I really wasn't all that far from Guelph and B-fad.
What 'blew' me away was Whitby. I don't normally even monitor Whitby. No need to but when I re-programmed my scanner I put Whitby in, I have a meeting next week in Scarborough and don't want to lose coverage on my way there.
What really really blew me away was a strong signal on 142.590. I was mobile but I looked up the frequency on this site and was very surprised that the above frequency was the control channel for Pontypool. I was able to hear some activity on it, the Whitby/Toronto patch, and some MTOE but for the most part it was just a bit noisy for the scanner to do 'trunking.'
I haven't been any further north than Guelph for the last few years, we used to have a family cottage in Lions Head and I am very familiar with Durham in Grey County and its excellant coverage from as far south as Fergus up to Owen Sound, for a minute I thought that I was 'hearing this tower' but I would have seen London CACC and the Grey/Bruce Pen/South Bruce patch and I already figured that conditions were not favourable to the WNW of me.
I noticed that there was reports of Northern Lights being very bright all the way south, hard for me to tell if the lights I saw towards the 416 from Aldershot were city lights or what. I guess then that this event with the sun, the cold weather flow of air from the North and my height created the perfect conditions to 'score' a tower that I would normally ever monitor all the way here in the West End.
Always fun to scan things from a distance, sorta like Dxing,
Anyone else here besides Bob (ATC) that has monitored stuff to the east and north?
Interesting coverage on Fleetnet
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