Welcome to the
Amateur Radio &
Scanner Radio page
for Kenora, Ontario (Grid EN29ss)
and the Lake of the Woods tourist area
by VE3NNM

• Amateur Radio Society of Dryden
  
  
• Lakehead Amateur Radio Club (Thunder Bay)
  
  
• Manitoba Repeater Society
  
  
• Manitoba Amateur Radio Emergency Service
  
  
• WARES - Winnipeg Amateur Radio Emergency Service
  
  
• MDECG - Manitoba Digital Emergency Communications Group
  
  
• VE4SSS club station & VE4MBR repeater - Selkirk, MB
  
  
• Winnipeg Senior Citizens Radio Club, VE4WSC
  
  
• EastMan Amateur Radio Club - Selkirk and Lockport, MB
  
  
• Dauphin Amateur Radio Club - Dauphin, MB
  
  
• VE4SVV - Sun Valley Venturers Scout Troup
  
  
• Peace Garden Hamfest
  
  
• L.O.W.R.A. - Lake Of The Woods Repeater Association Inc, Northern Minnesota
  
  

• HFRADIO.NET - Online Resource for Canadian Amateur Radio
  
  
• Industry Canada Spectrum Management - the "radio police"
  
  
• Industry Canada's Amateur Radio page
  
  
• RAC - Radio Amateurs of Canada
  
  
• IPARN - Inter-Provincial Amateur Radio Network (repeater networking)
  
  
• CFARS - Canadian Forces Affiliate Radio System
  
  
• CLARA - Canadian Ladies' Amateur Radio Association
  
  
• Canadian Amateur Radio Callsign Database
  
  
• Buckmaster's World Wide Hamcall Server - callsign database
  
  
• IARU - International Amateur Radio Union
  
  
• ITU - International Telecommunication Union
  
  
• ITU Amateur Radio Page
  
  
• ARES - Amateur Radio Emergency Services Organization
  
  
• Handi-Ham - Amateur Radio for persons with disabilities
  
  
• Amateur Radio Newsline - current events
  
  

Ambulance operations have primarily switched over to the Fleetnet radio trunking system. The old ambulance frequencies of 149.335 MHz and 149.245 MHz are no longer in operation. 149.830 MHz is still active on occasion with First Response teams (mostly volunteer fire departments) talking with ambulance dispatch. The helicopter ambulance communicates with dispatch via a repeater on 413.6875 MHz. Ambulance paging continues to operate as before on 149.440 MHz. Ambulances using the Fleetnet radio trunking system can continue to be monitored with conventional FM-mode scanners via the low-power in-ambulance repeaters operating in the 413 MHz band, usually 413.7625 MHz. For successful reception of these ambulance repeaters, the paramedics have to turn on their ambulance repeater and the low-power re-transmission from the ambulance has to be within the range of the scanner operator.

The OPP in this district have fully switched over to the Fleetnet radio trunking system as of February 2008. Their communications can continue to be monitored with conventional FM-mode scanners by tuning to the in-car repeater frequency of 410.8625 MHz.

The OPP and most provincial government agencies communicate using the province-wide Fleetnet trunking radio system operating primarily in the 142 MHz band. Fleetnet operates in both analog FM mode and in digital mode using a common digital control channel at each tower site. Ambulance and the highways department use FM mode, while law enforcement including the OPP, Treaty 3 Police and MNR and MTO officers operate in digital mode. The control channel at each tower site transmits 100% of the time and does not carry any voice transmissions. The actual communications take place on voice channels that the control channel assigns when needed.

• Canadian Aeronautical Communications
  
  
• Ontario DX Association
  
  
• Industry Canada's frequency database
  
  
• N2MCA's "strongsignals" home page
  
  
• N2VKG's scanning reference
  
  
• NF2G's "Scannist Pages"
  
  
• DXing.COM "The Web Resource for Radio Hobbyists"
  
  
• NOAA's marine radio resources
  
  

• Kenora Police Service
  
  
• Ontario Provincial Police - Kenora Detatchment
  
  
• Kenora Fire Department
  
  
• Lake of the Woods District Hospital
  
  
• Environment Canada's weather forecast for Kenora
  
  
• The Weather Network's forecast for Kenora
  
  
• The Open Directory Project - Kenora section
  
  
• Kenora municipal web site
  
  
• Sioux Narrows - Nestor Falls municipal web site
  
  
• Ontario's Sunset Country - tourist info
  
  
• Lake of the Woods Vacation Information Center
  
  
• Daily Miner and News - Kenora newspaper
  
  
• Lake of the Woods Enterprise - Kenora newspaper
  
  
• Norcom Lynx web cam in Kenora
  
  
• Flag Island, Minnesota - web cam