Band Sweep Report

I have not been listening to the radios as much as i usually. I have been drawn a way a bit listening to podcasts and getting drawn away by the hockey season. Propagation has not been helping either but it has shown a few signs of improving. Hopefully scheduling and the propagation gods will smile and that will be rectified. I know this sounds like the same old complaints I usually give but there it is.

I have been listening to the police scanner a bit more religiously lately. It is spring storm and flooding season in my area and I like to try to keep on what is going on out there. It is this time of year that I start sticking to the more main roads and the higher ground just so I don't swamp the car in water in the lower areas of the road. I know from experience where those spots are but listening in helps me know about the truly more weird stuff that goes on. Information is power.

Band sweep

I was in southern Canada last weekend.

I did a little medium wave dxing but that is about it.

I was South of Windsor Ontario and picked up WRVA 1140 out of Richmond and I also picked up AM 40 out of Toronto. Thanks to not being able to sleep well one night, I found out that CKlW AM 800 out of Windsor caries an extended broadcast of Am Coast to Coast. The things you find out just by carrying a radio with you on vacation.

Band Sweep Bear Lake Michigan Edition

I got to enjoy being in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan over the holidays. I did take parts of my radio shack with me so I could do some radio listening. I did not do much but did get some in. One thing I got reminded of is that WOWO (1190 AM) out of Fort Wayne goes get up that far at night but not always that great. Since the weather was a mixed bag of good and not so good weather, I also was listening to the NOAA weather station out of Traverse City (KIH22 162.4 or channel one on your weather radio). I also got to listen to Interlochen Public Radio which I think is a better than average NPR station. Their website is here.

That is about it for the holidays. LIke I said , I did not get to listen much.

Band Sweep- Weather Edition

This band sweep is more focused than most because of horrid weather we are getting in the Midwest. I have been listening to my weather radio a lot more this weekend. The Website for NOAA is here. The two weather radio stations I here most are WXJ58 out of Fort Wayne which is channle 7 on a weather radio or a frequency of 162.55 and the other is KXI94 out of Angola which is on weather channel 2 or a frequency of 162.425. I bounce between these two a lot because we are just about in the middle of these two stations and depending on how the weather is tracking, one station may be more accurate for us than the other. This is especially true when storms and bad weather is coming through. Five or ten miles can make a big difference in the weather you get sometimes. It was true this weeekend when you look at how the damage was done from the ice storm. From what little I saw, Fort Wayne and Allen County was hit harder than Garrett and DeKalb County.

Sorry if I have been sounding like a PSA and trying to sell weather radios. Weather Radios are safety equipment that I find is a neccessary thing. The State of Indiana seams to agree with me. Check this link out. I am not one for a lot of regulation but this one makes sense to me and I don't live in a mobile home. That's my soapbox for the day and take it for what it is.

Band Sweep

I have been doing some radio listening lately. Here is a list.


Radio Japan on 6145 KHZ at midnight UTC.
1380 ESPN Radio Fort Wayne. It is one of two stations they carry Komet hockey. Link.
KXI94 on 62.425 or channel 2 on weather radio from Angola Indiana. Link


Yes it is a short list but hopefully more will come.

Band Sweep

I have been do a little listening over the last week. Mostly WAWK and WOWO. Over the past weekend I was listening to WOWO to get the Komets hockey game and I was also listening to my police scanner. You would not beleive all the accidents due to the snow. It was not a horrid snow but still hard enough that I would not blame people for wanting to stay home. People were getting into accidents that you could tell were caused by the fact that people had forgotten how to drive in snow and were driving as if the roads were dry and fine. I would laugh if it were not so serious. Do me and yourself a favor. Drive careful out there. I don't want to think you are a dumb donkey for forgetting how to drive in snow and I don't want to hear about it on the scanner so stay safe and slow down.

Band Sweep

This is not going to much of a band sweep but at least I am getting one out.Below are the station I have heard in the last couple of days.

CFZO or 740 KHZ out of Toronto. In fact , I am listening to it as I am typing up this post. It is still hard for me to get use to the new call letters. I think it will take me a while to quit calling it CHWO.

WAWK out of Kendalville, Indiana. It is on 1140 KHZ and is a daytime only station on the medium wave band.

I finally got to hear WBCQ for the first time in a while. I am glad they are still broadcasting. They have been losing suctomers to buy airtime and between that and the high price of energy, it has been hurting them big time.

I have also been listening to WOWO. I especially like listening to Komet hockey and AM coast to coast. I love listening to the tin hat crowd. I was going to put a link to WOWO's website but it is hanging something awful.

That's the band sweep for this time. Hopefully I will being sweeping the bands a bit more often and making sure I check in.

Band Sweep

I have been thinking about an idea for a while and don't have it totally gelled in my mind yet. I was thinking about reporting into the blog with the stations and programs I have been hearing. I have been doing this sort of for a while but I was thinking of making it more a feature. I do not know what form it will be in or how regular but I will see how it will unfold. If anyone reading this has any ideas of what would be interesting or helpful, please leave a comment on the blog. Yes, I moderate the comments on this blog but I have not turned down a comment yet but I reserve the right to. I won't make any promises about using any suggestions other than I will think them over.

So far I was thinking of making this feature an online log of all the shows and station I have heard with all the times and frequencies I can get. I will get websites if I can. It probably wqon't be weekly be hopefully more than monthly. We shall see what comes of this.