Hi Group,

I live near Buffalo, NY which is right on the Canadian border.  I hear 2 
strong Ontario weather stations on 161.65 and 161.775 MHz from Colberg 
and Toronto.  In the 163 range, I hear nothing American, but that US 
federal government frequency range is jam full of Canadian business 
traffic.  I hear several taxi cab stations on those frequencies.  In the 
good old days before proprietary encryption, these business 
transmissions interfered quite regularly with FBI, FCC, DEA, and other 
federal government things of interest.  The Canadians were using a 
dissimilar frequency allotment--say 5 or 7.5 kHz different from the US 
traffic, but with those old wide selectivity scanners, this did cause 
problems for me--probably not for the thousand dollar and above 
government hardware.


On 11/21/2015 4:18 PM, Danny Dyer wrote:
> I've heard activity on the 161&163MHZ NOAA, WX channels only once,
> over one week-end, when in the early 90s, on a new to me handheld
> scanner with all ten wx channels; while I lived in Asheville NC, and
> the skip from coastal NC, SC, and GA, was really pouring into that
> area:  I realize that may be a stretch, but it did happen, although I
> think it's the only time I've ever heard those channels active.
>
>
> On 11/21/15, Mike Duke, K5XU <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> This "Inquiring mind" is curious.
>>
>> Is there a particular reason why the  NOAA WX Radio channel group in
>> Kenwood radios is programmed in what appears to me to be a random order?
>>
>> For instance, by default, 162.550 is in channel 1, and then it kind of
>> goes crazy with no apparent logical ordering sequence for the other 9
>> channels.
>>
>> In my area, even during band openings, I have never heard a signal on
>> the 161.x and 163.x channels, which were the last ones added for that
>> service several years ago.
>>
>> --
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>