HAMMOND LOUISIANA STREAMER HOME PAGE- CN channel 72 at Hammond, Louisiana. We are enabled for IPAD's and other mobile devices now. If you have had any trouble with this in the past, please try it again. Let us know if you still experience any difficulty starting the stream.
- This line is dispatched by RTC Desk 5 out of Homewood, Illinois. You are hearing the Hammond, LaPlace, Manchac, and Kentwood towers. The fact that the audio quality of the dispatcher transmissions is often distorted is a function of the CN's fibre-connected radio system. They sound tinny and off freuqncy like this now across the entire system.
- Mileposts are numbered southward out of Chicago, our milepost range is between 840-875 on the McComb Subdivision. We are also at the eastern end of the Hammond Subdivision, milepost 33-35.
- The most interesting time to listen is in the early afternoon when the Amtrak City of New Orleans come through, trains 58 and 59 often meet here.
- A detector is at mile post 855.2 on the McComb Subdivision and will alert you to trains passing between Jackson, Mississippi and Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Above: The black widow Illinois Central units are almost a thing of the past as CN further tightens its grip here. When the IC units do run, they are often in trail. Below: A rail flaw detector truck turned up here one day. 
 INDIANA WEST CENTRALTHERE IS NOW A SEPARATE RAILROAD RADIO HOME PAGE FOR THIS STREAM THIS AREA IS RESERVED FOR ANOTHER POSSIBLE LOUISIANA CHANNEL IN THE FUTURE YOU CAN STILL GET TO INDIANA FROM HERE THOUGH NS (former Wabash) between Logansport and Lafayette, Indiana. Dispatched from Decatur on Channel 22. CSX (former Monon) between Lafayette and Rensselaer. Dispatched from Calumet City on Channel 12. LISTEN to RECEIVER #2 - WinAmp, iTunes, XMMS
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STREAM OPERATIONAL NOTES: The CN dispatcher may sound garbled This is because of the poor quality of the CN system. When they transitioned from their old microwave based system to a fibre-optic system, the audio quality suffered. It has still not been fixed, and seems to be a systemwide problem with CN.
TROPOSPHERIC ENHANCEMENT SUMMER ESPECIALLY Things sometimes go nuts on the VHF radio due to weather conditions. Stuff that is nor normally heard on the radio may show up (DX in ham-speak). For a discussion of tropospheric activity along the coast and over big water bodies suxh as Lake Ponchartrain, check out the links povided in the forum pages. Temperature inversions and frontal systems can act as reflectors of radio waves. If you are interested in that sort of thing, as we are, I'm sure you will find the links and discussion of interest. One of the links we have is to the tropospheric activity maps generated from amateur radio packet transmission paths. This is relatively real-time, and shows the reception paths of various stations, which can routinely reach several hundred miles at this time of the year. While the maps and charts show 144 mhz hops, which are below the rail radio band at 161 mhz, it is relevent, as when there is an event that affects 144, it often spreads to and from other frequencies as well. Here is a link for almost real time maps. http://tiny.cc/tropo217 |
