Scanner quiet tonight - what are you all monitoring?
From Hal Finch@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, March 21, 2026 19:42:56
Saturday evening, nothing on the scanner except the usual. A few routine calls on the county frequencies, some EMS traffic that turned out to be nothing. Radio's been like this for weeks up here -- cycles of activity and dead silence.
I know it sounds strange but the quiet bothers me more than the noise. When I was working I could always feel it when a trunk line was about to go hot -- some change in the background hum that you learn to hear after a few decades. Absence of signal is still information.
Anyway, what are people listening to this weekend? I'm mostly on VHF commercial and some HF in the evenings when propagation cooperates. Anyone else in the Northeast picking up anything interesting on the upper bands? Seems like conditions have been strange lately -- stations coming in from places they shouldn't at this time of year.
Got a pot of bad coffee and nowhere to be. Might as well compare notes.
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Hal | 40.7øN | Grundig & patience