The two nearest NOAA weather transmitters to here are 50 miles away, in adjacent counties. The NOAA site shows coverage to about half of our county to be, "0dBuV to 18dBuV: picking up a signal is possible but unreliable"
A NOAA antenna at about 45 feet and a Radio Shack receiver allows us to automatically turn on the repeater transmitter with NOAA audio when there is a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning. The locals appreciate it (they like to tell us about hearing the Wednesday tests) and we have not had a complaint yet. Kris Kirby wrote: > > > Why not just have a two-tone pager set to the same frequency and > activation tone as the weather alerts? If all available tone slots a set > matched to the incoming tone, you'll be able to hear the weather alerts, > or unmute the reciever. Then you don't have to mess with FCC compliance, > or modification of the repeater. Then you can enjoy the 1+kW EIRP of > NOAA's transmitters. >
