So apparently 706 cleared sunfield. Between the bad radio on the lead unit and no defector readout on the Lake O detector I missed them somehow while traveling along M-43 tip intercept them.
Sorry for the late reply, if you were you using a hand held scanner having its own antenna & not a car roof top mag-stick antenna, the range is very limited for the Defect Detector radio calls. From what I had read, the DD site radios only have 1/10th the output power that the engine radios have (I had read those have from 45 to 50 Watts). In some places, the DD sites have even less power.
A couple of years ago, CSX had lowered the DD site's radio output power due to complaints from Chicago not wanting to hear them. I know this was done on the Grand Rapids sub-division & not sure if that was also done on the Plymouth sub, too. The DD at mp CH126.3 is in Clarksville, MI & the one at mp CH104.3 is Mulliken, MI.
So apparently 706 cleared sunfield. Between the bad radio on the lead unit and no defector readout on the Lake O detector I missed them somehow while traveling along M-43 tip intercept them.
Sorry for the late reply, if you were you using a hand held scanner having its own antenna & not a car roof top mag-stick antenna, the range is very limited for the Defect Detector radio calls. From what I had read, the DD site radios only have 1/10th the output power that the engine radios have (I had read those have from 45 to 50 Watts). In some places, the DD sites have even less power.
A couple of years ago, CSX had lowered the DD site's radio output power due to complaints from Chicago not wanting to hear them. I know this was done on the Grand Rapids sub-division & not sure if that was also done on the Plymouth sub, too. The DD at mp CH126.3 is in Clarksville, MI & the one at mp CH104.3 is Mulliken, MI.
I was using the Superscanner provided on the site... which I thought was very odd given that I didn't hear a readout at Mulliken. Said Lake Odessa earlier but I meant Mulliken. I was on my way back in the work truck and was hoping to intercept them.
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N800 @ 02:08:32 eastward Bangor’s Monroe St crossing mp CG60.72 with 2 BNSF engines & 130 loaded coal cars. He went into Grand Jct siding mp CG55.6 to tie down. No radio call made that had fully identified him (N800-what?) nor was the leading engine #. Usually, the St Joseph Bridge Tender will say the train's full i.d. but that didn't happen either.
So apparently 706 cleared sunfield. Between the bad radio on the lead unit and no defector readout on the Lake O detector I missed them somehow while traveling along M-43 tip intercept them.
Sorry for the late reply, if you were you using a hand held scanner having its own antenna & not a car roof top mag-stick antenna, the range is very limited for the Defect Detector radio calls. From what I had read, the DD site radios only have 1/10th the output power that the engine radios have (I had read those have from 45 to 50 Watts). In some places, the DD sites have even less power.
A couple of years ago, CSX had lowered the DD site's radio output power due to complaints from Chicago not wanting to hear them. I know this was done on the Grand Rapids sub-division & not sure if that was also done on the Plymouth sub, too. The DD at mp CH126.3 is in Clarksville, MI & the one at mp CH104.3 is Mulliken, MI.
I was using the Superscanner provided on the site... which I thought was very odd given that I didn't hear a readout at Mulliken. Said Lake Odessa earlier but I meant Mulliken. I was on my way back in the work truck and was hoping to intercept them.
Hi, on that day for D706-13 I had picked up his DD104.3 report on Broadcastify's CSX Plymouth and Canadian National Flint Subs, it was "ok" reception, not the best. Lately, we're lucky to hear that one reporting DD104.3 Checking thru the scanner archives, that DD report was not picked up by Broadcastify's CSX Michigan West scanner - sometimes late at night with little or no radio traffic it can be heard on that scanner.