Hi folks. It is May 29 and it has cooled down somewhat in Ontario this week. However, it should start to recover starting tomorrow and by the time of my birthday on Sunday, it should be nice and warm and getting even warmer by next week. Not a whole lot to say this week, but I do have an announcement about a new NWR station coming next month, thanks to Ron Wilbanks from the NOAA Weather Radio and Weatheradio Canada Facebook group. If only Weatheradio Canada had continued the original plan of expanding, rather than contraction!

“Effective June 21, 2024, NWR service will begin from a new transmitter located in Providence Forge, Virginia. Station KAE42, operating on a frequency of 162.500 Megaherz and served by the Wakefield, Virginia Weather Forecast Office, will begin a 24-hr broadcast of weather forecasts and weather warnings to better serve the residents of East Central Virginia, including western portions of the Peninsula and Middle
Peninsula.” https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2023_24/scn24-57_providence_forge_nwr_transmitter_service.pdf

For the next few weeks throughout the summer I will be inserting links to videos like I did last week, relating mostly to weather and some silly stuff to take our minds off how the world is going crazy for a few minutes or so. I will be giving you all sorts of things, from Youtube videos by us regular folk, to maybe even a TV show for preschoolers. Also because on Thursday there was a CANWARN training session over Zoom, I thought it would be appropriate to provide something related to thunderstorms and how kids get easily scared when they happen. Even I as a 50 something adult is a big chicken, when it comes to thunder and lightning unless I’m safe inside. Why shouldn’t I be? I am also CANWARN trained and fortunately, I haven’t had to use any of what I had learned and relearned each year, from the training sessions face to face, as apposed to over a phone and a bunch of other computers and all the distractions that life can bring. Anyway, let’s distract ourselves with the RWTs this week. By the way, if you live in Canada you may recognize the voice of the narrator and the show itself. https://youtu.be/nZu2DPn5WDU?si=HAkmSn2XTOwT8E5z

From The Author:

Buffalo KEB98 (162.550 MHz) (RWT) 11:00 AM EDT. Toronto (XMJ225 162.400 MHz.) (RWT) 12:01 PM EDT. Niagara VAD 320 (162.475 MHz) (RWT) 12:01 PM EDT.

Jacques Pannetier:

Weekly Test Report!

KIG60 162.400MHz Mt. Mansfield, 11:34AM

XLR412 162.475MHz Sherbrooke, QC: 12:02PM

XLM300 162.550MHz Montréal, QC: 12:06PM*

(Eastern time)

Notes:

-Finally, a full round-up! All 3 transmitters, reporting!

-XLM300 Montréal: More problems? At noon, the transmitter was broadcasting silence. Programming went back at 12:06PM and started immediately with the Required Weekly Test and then resumed normal programming. As of 12:20PM, it seems it is holding on.

-1050Hz test passed. (KIG60)

Voilà!