Hi folks. It is May 15 and two more days before the long weekend in Ontario. It will feel like May throughout Canada and hopefully, extreme warmth will come and heat things up before my birthday in June. However, there is that price to be payed with the potential smoke from wild fires from Alberta and British Columbia and I say this, knowing I have family in one of the two provinces I had mentioned, who are here in Ontario visiting. They are set to be departing this evening westward by plain and I hope that the weather doesn’t cause any havoc, with them leaving Toronto and flying west bound.

Speaking of June, I will be doing another post on iNotify and the anniversary and I hope to have something new to talk about, when it comes to any changes in the software upgrade and maybe, the voices and language cadences, such as various words spoken in French. Hopefully this will be addressed throughout Canada and not just in Ontario before long. Let’s find out what our radios are telling us and… what we all have to say about the same weekly alert tests.

From The Author:

Buffalo KEB98 (162.550 MHz) (RWT) 11:03 AM EDT. Toronto (XMJ225 162.400 MHz.) (RWT) 12:02 PM EDT. Niagara VAD 320 (162.475 MHz) (RWT) 12:02 PM EDT.

Bill Curry:

Required Weekly SAME test received

XLW573 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 162.475

12:05 PM – 15 May 2024

Jacques Pannetier:

Weekly Test Report! – Once again, it is a severely truncated report.

KIG60 162.400MHz Mt. Mansfield, VT: 11:30AM

(Eastern time)

Notes:
-XLM300 Montréal was fully functional a few days ago, but once again at the time of the weekly test, it is again in “watchdog mode”.

-XLR412 Sherbrooke continues to be in “watchdog mode”. It should be fully functional hopefully in time for the next weekly test.

-1050Hz test: Passed (from KIG60)

-Observations from Montréal: Signal strength is fair to good from KIG60 Mt. Mansfield VT (1 to 2 bars on the Midland WR400) while extremely weak and at times inaudible from XLR412 Sherbrooke QC.

Voilà!