{"id":8344,"date":"2016-02-18T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/just-below-160-meters-travelers-information-service\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T13:40:00","slug":"just-below-160-meters-travelers-information-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/just-below-160-meters-travelers-information-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Below 160 Meters — “Travelers’ Information Service”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the course of working on my 160 meter AM station I came across a strong AM signal a bit below Top Band. Turns out it is part of something called the “Travelers” Information Service.” <\/b>

<\/b> T<\/b>he signal from this system on 1.670 MHz is very strong here. A Shortwave (Midwave!) Listener in Austria heard it too. Check out the confirmation letter from the Virginia Department of Transportation. Nice of them to do this. <\/b>
Here is the QSL letter sent to Austria: <\/b>
https:\/\/remotedx.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/01\/very-rare-reception-vdot-highway-advisory-radio-1680-khz\/<\/b><\/a>

<\/b> They are running 10 watts into a 49 foot tall vertical with 40 radials. They have a text-to-speech system that is constantly describing weather conditions. Quite useful actually. <\/b>

<\/b> I found a web site that lists all the stations of this kind in the US: <\/b> <\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/media\/radio\/travelers-information-stations-search<\/a><\/b>

<\/b> I can see that the station I am hearing is just 2 miles from my location. <\/b>

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More information on this system: <\/b>

<\/b> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Travelers%27_information_station<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the course of working on my 160 meter AM station I came across a strong AM signal a bit below Top Band. Turns out it is part of something called the “Travelers” Information Service.” The signal from this system on 1.670 MHz is very strong here. A Shortwave (Midwave!) Listener in Austria heard it … Continue reading “Just Below 160 Meters — “Travelers’ Information Service””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-160-meters","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}