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A friend of mine told me that I could get a few Nova Scotia FM's along the downeast Maine coast. Obviously I can't just drive there to find out,but does anyone know off the top of their head?
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New Brunswick, yes -- Nova Scotia, not that I ever remember. All of the Saint John, NB stations come in down to the Machias area in a car.
Actually, here on Mount Desert Island CBC Radio 1 from Halifax comes in fairly well from Yarmouth NS on 92.1; Unfortunately there is a translator on 92.1 in Ellsworth relaying WHMX (?) 105.7 from Lincoln, and they interfere on the north side of MDI.
Also 93.5 from Yarmouth makes it quite often here along the shoreline with just the slightest bit of skip., It's 120 miles straight across the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine from Seawall Point on MDI to Yarmouth.
I agree with Adam, most of the Saint John FMs make it to Machias and even Jonesport, in Eastern Maine. CBC Radio 1 on 91.3 from Mount Champlain, NB used to come in all the time here, but with a "Satellator" gospel on 91.3 here in SW Harbor, it doesn't any more.
Of course if you drive up to the top of 1500 foot Cadillac Mountain you can get FM from Nova Scotia to Boston, without any skip or tropo!!!! The road is open until the first snow...so hurry up!!!
Also 93.5 from Yarmouth makes it quite often here along the shoreline with just the slightest bit of skip., It's 120 miles straight across the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine from Seawall Point on MDI to Yarmouth.
I agree with Adam, most of the Saint John FMs make it to Machias and even Jonesport, in Eastern Maine. CBC Radio 1 on 91.3 from Mount Champlain, NB used to come in all the time here, but with a "Satellator" gospel on 91.3 here in SW Harbor, it doesn't any more.
Of course if you drive up to the top of 1500 foot Cadillac Mountain you can get FM from Nova Scotia to Boston, without any skip or tropo!!!! The road is open until the first snow...so hurry up!!!
That would be interesting to find out! I hope the weather cooperates!
Ok...here ya go...I drove up to the Top of Cadillac Mountain Sunday afternoon, Nov. 1st and did most monitoring at the main parking lot at the summit, (elevation 1520 feet) with a clear overlook to the east, north and west. Some monitoring was done at a smaller turnoff, about 100 feet below the summit with a clear view to the south and west, and enough of a shadow from the summit to block out stronger singals from Bangor area.
A couple notes: all listings with a # are within direct line-of-sight to the top of Cadillac, meaning I can actually see the mountain or location they are transmitting from.
All entries (( in parentheses )) are stations I could only get at the south turn-off, one hundred feet below the summit.
87.7 .. just intermod hash/overload from WNSX 97.7 and WBQI 107.7 I was hoping to pick up Channel 6 audio from CBC-TV Bon Accord, NB (just northeast of Presque Isle, ME). I always USED to get WCSH Channel 6 audio from Portland
88.1 Espace Musique/French from St. John NB (separate from CBC French on 102.3 from St.John)
88.5 WHCF Bangor #
88.9 CHNI Sports Radio from St. John NB
89.3 WHSN Husson College Bangor. they recently increased power to 3kw, but could always get them when they were at 250w.
89.7 WMED Calais Maine Public Radio (( At south turnoff I was getting WGBH Boston ))
89.9 WERU Blue Hill #
90.1 WMEA Portland Maine Public Radio
90.5 WMEP Camden Maine Public Radio #
90.9 WMEH Bangor Maine Public Radio #
91.3 CBA St.John CBC Radio 1
91.7 Nothing! WUMM Machias must have been off air.
91.9 WMEB Orono Univ. Of Maine Campus Station (( WMSJ Freeport ))
92.1 WHMX Lincoln Translator from Ellsworth "Solution-FM" # ((CBC radio 1 Yarmouth NS ))
92.3 WMME Augusta "Moose FM"
92.7 WQDY Calais
92.9 WEZQ Bangor#
93.3 "K-Love" Believed to be from new Orono translator ((WRFP Rockland Community Radio ))
93.5 WCTB Fairfield
93.7 WRMO Milbridge#
93.9 WARX Lewiston "Air-One"
94.1 CHSJ St. John NB "Country 94"
94.5 WKSQ Ellsworth "Kiss-94.5"#
94.9 WHOM Mount Washington (Used to get WSYY Millinocket when they were at higher power, but they have dropped power substantially and/or moved their site within past year or so) And, subject to debate, you can't see Mount Washington from the top of Cadillac, although, I believe I did once many years ago)
95.3 WALZ Machias, simulcast of WQDY 92.7 #
95.7 WWMJ Ellsworth "I-95" #
96.1 WQHR Presque Isle (( WSRS Worcester ))
96.3 WJJB Portland Talk
96.5 UnID talker
96.7 WTQX Boothbay Harbor
96.9 (( WTKK Boston from south turnoff only, less splatter from WAEI ))
97.1 WAEI Bangor WEEI Sports Radio Network #
97.3 CHWV St. John NB
97.5 WIGY Madison/Skowhegan
97.7 WNSX Winter Harbor#
(( 97.9 WJBQ Portland, only on south turnoff ))
98.1 CHTD St. Andrews NB "The Tide" Jeff Foxworthy Program
98.5 WEBB Waterville
98.9 CJYC St. John NB
99.1 WLKE Bar Harbor "Lucky 99"#
99.3 WRFP-93.3 translator from Camden (Listed as 250w in FCC database!!!)
99.5 WJCX Pittsfield
99.9 WTHT Portland
100.3 WKIT Bangor (Stephen King's Station) #
100.7 Bangor Translator of WMDR 88.9 Oakland "God's Country"
(( 100.9 WYNZ Portland ))
101.1 Nothing! new CP for Gouldsboro not yet on air (( WGIR FM Manchester "Rock 101"))
101.3 WVQM Augusta TalkRadio repeating WVOM Howland
101.5 CBC Radio 2 St. John NB
101.7 WKVV Searsport Gospel//repeating 102.1 WKVZ Dexter
101.9 WPOR Portland
102.1 WKVZ Dexter Gospel
102.3 CBC French St.John NB
102.5 WQSS Camden #
102.9 WCRQ Dennysville/Calais "Border 102.9"
103.1 WZON-FM DoverFoxcroft repeating WZON-620 Sports Zone (Stephen King's other station)
103.3 WMCM Rockland #
103.7 WPKQ Mount Washington
103.9 WVOM Howland/Bangor NewsTalk #
(( 104.1 UnID CBC French ))
104.3 WABK Gardiner
104.7 WBFB Belfast#
105.1 WTOS Skowhegan/Sugarloaf Mtn # (Yes, you can see Sugarloaf from the top of Cadillac)
105.5 WBYA Islesboro "Frank" #
105.7 WHMX Lincoln Gospel "Solution FM"
105.9 WBCI Bath
106.1 CBC French unsure of location (Yarmouth NS???)
106.5 WQCB Brewer #
106.9 WBQX Thomaston/Rockland WBACH Maines Classical Network #
107.3 WBZN Old Town
107.5 WFNK Portland "Frank"
107.7 WBQI Bar Harbor WBACH repeating WBQX #
This was the first bandscan I have done this year from Cadiullac. I was rather disappointed I didn't get more southern New England stations; Before the dial became so clogged in the 90s, numerous Boston Providence, and Cape Cod stations used to come in. Now they do occasionally, but it takes tropo skip enhancement. Sunday there was absolutely none. It was clear, cool, and very dry.
So...any comments, ideas to UnIDs??
Remember Cadillac Mountian is located in Acadia Nationa Park and the summit is the highest point along the eastern Seaboard of the USA. The highway up is free, with ample parking at top, and suitable for RVs! However, keep in mind it is NOT open to traffic in winter and the Park Service shuts it down after the first fall snow. It usually doesn't re-open until early or Mid May after all the snow and ice melts.
for more info visit the National Park Website: www.nps.gov/acad
A couple notes: all listings with a # are within direct line-of-sight to the top of Cadillac, meaning I can actually see the mountain or location they are transmitting from.
All entries (( in parentheses )) are stations I could only get at the south turn-off, one hundred feet below the summit.
87.7 .. just intermod hash/overload from WNSX 97.7 and WBQI 107.7 I was hoping to pick up Channel 6 audio from CBC-TV Bon Accord, NB (just northeast of Presque Isle, ME). I always USED to get WCSH Channel 6 audio from Portland
88.1 Espace Musique/French from St. John NB (separate from CBC French on 102.3 from St.John)
88.5 WHCF Bangor #
88.9 CHNI Sports Radio from St. John NB
89.3 WHSN Husson College Bangor. they recently increased power to 3kw, but could always get them when they were at 250w.
89.7 WMED Calais Maine Public Radio (( At south turnoff I was getting WGBH Boston ))
89.9 WERU Blue Hill #
90.1 WMEA Portland Maine Public Radio
90.5 WMEP Camden Maine Public Radio #
90.9 WMEH Bangor Maine Public Radio #
91.3 CBA St.John CBC Radio 1
91.7 Nothing! WUMM Machias must have been off air.
91.9 WMEB Orono Univ. Of Maine Campus Station (( WMSJ Freeport ))
92.1 WHMX Lincoln Translator from Ellsworth "Solution-FM" # ((CBC radio 1 Yarmouth NS ))
92.3 WMME Augusta "Moose FM"
92.7 WQDY Calais
92.9 WEZQ Bangor#
93.3 "K-Love" Believed to be from new Orono translator ((WRFP Rockland Community Radio ))
93.5 WCTB Fairfield
93.7 WRMO Milbridge#
93.9 WARX Lewiston "Air-One"
94.1 CHSJ St. John NB "Country 94"
94.5 WKSQ Ellsworth "Kiss-94.5"#
94.9 WHOM Mount Washington (Used to get WSYY Millinocket when they were at higher power, but they have dropped power substantially and/or moved their site within past year or so) And, subject to debate, you can't see Mount Washington from the top of Cadillac, although, I believe I did once many years ago)
95.3 WALZ Machias, simulcast of WQDY 92.7 #
95.7 WWMJ Ellsworth "I-95" #
96.1 WQHR Presque Isle (( WSRS Worcester ))
96.3 WJJB Portland Talk
96.5 UnID talker
96.7 WTQX Boothbay Harbor
96.9 (( WTKK Boston from south turnoff only, less splatter from WAEI ))
97.1 WAEI Bangor WEEI Sports Radio Network #
97.3 CHWV St. John NB
97.5 WIGY Madison/Skowhegan
97.7 WNSX Winter Harbor#
(( 97.9 WJBQ Portland, only on south turnoff ))
98.1 CHTD St. Andrews NB "The Tide" Jeff Foxworthy Program
98.5 WEBB Waterville
98.9 CJYC St. John NB
99.1 WLKE Bar Harbor "Lucky 99"#
99.3 WRFP-93.3 translator from Camden (Listed as 250w in FCC database!!!)
99.5 WJCX Pittsfield
99.9 WTHT Portland
100.3 WKIT Bangor (Stephen King's Station) #
100.7 Bangor Translator of WMDR 88.9 Oakland "God's Country"
(( 100.9 WYNZ Portland ))
101.1 Nothing! new CP for Gouldsboro not yet on air (( WGIR FM Manchester "Rock 101"))
101.3 WVQM Augusta TalkRadio repeating WVOM Howland
101.5 CBC Radio 2 St. John NB
101.7 WKVV Searsport Gospel//repeating 102.1 WKVZ Dexter
101.9 WPOR Portland
102.1 WKVZ Dexter Gospel
102.3 CBC French St.John NB
102.5 WQSS Camden #
102.9 WCRQ Dennysville/Calais "Border 102.9"
103.1 WZON-FM DoverFoxcroft repeating WZON-620 Sports Zone (Stephen King's other station)
103.3 WMCM Rockland #
103.7 WPKQ Mount Washington
103.9 WVOM Howland/Bangor NewsTalk #
(( 104.1 UnID CBC French ))
104.3 WABK Gardiner
104.7 WBFB Belfast#
105.1 WTOS Skowhegan/Sugarloaf Mtn # (Yes, you can see Sugarloaf from the top of Cadillac)
105.5 WBYA Islesboro "Frank" #
105.7 WHMX Lincoln Gospel "Solution FM"
105.9 WBCI Bath
106.1 CBC French unsure of location (Yarmouth NS???)
106.5 WQCB Brewer #
106.9 WBQX Thomaston/Rockland WBACH Maines Classical Network #
107.3 WBZN Old Town
107.5 WFNK Portland "Frank"
107.7 WBQI Bar Harbor WBACH repeating WBQX #
This was the first bandscan I have done this year from Cadiullac. I was rather disappointed I didn't get more southern New England stations; Before the dial became so clogged in the 90s, numerous Boston Providence, and Cape Cod stations used to come in. Now they do occasionally, but it takes tropo skip enhancement. Sunday there was absolutely none. It was clear, cool, and very dry.
So...any comments, ideas to UnIDs??
Remember Cadillac Mountian is located in Acadia Nationa Park and the summit is the highest point along the eastern Seaboard of the USA. The highway up is free, with ample parking at top, and suitable for RVs! However, keep in mind it is NOT open to traffic in winter and the Park Service shuts it down after the first fall snow. It usually doesn't re-open until early or Mid May after all the snow and ice melts.
for more info visit the National Park Website: www.nps.gov/acad
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That 104.1 signal was CIFA 104.1 Yarmouth. It is an acadian station.
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An impressive list, rjoc. Basically what you're saying is that the top of Cadillac is radio heaven! (except in winter) 
I hope you took a little time to look around and enjoy the view while you were dial-flipping?
I hope you took a little time to look around and enjoy the view while you were dial-flipping?
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I also forgot to mention that the 106.1 freq. is in Yarmouth. It is actually within "sight" of Cadillac. The tower that 106.1 is on actually contains 92.1,104.1,106.1, and 107.3 FM I don't quite know where the four CJLS towers are, but I do know their frequencies: 93.5,94.7,95.5, and 96.3.
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