The City of Verona has partnered with Dane County Emergency Management in obtaining 250 NOAA Weather Alert Radios for citizens to take advantage of the National Weather Service's 24-hour weather broadcast system.
NOAA Weather Radio in Madison - available online at www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/ nwr.php - is broadcast on a frequency of 162.55 MHz. The National Weather Service broadcasts continuous weather information 24 hours per day. When conditions warrant, the Weather Service can interrupt programming to broadcast special weather statements and official severe weather "Watches" and "Warnings." The radios, available to Verona residents, are $25 each, including sales tax, and can be purchased at the Verona City Center, 111 Lincoln St., the Verona Public Library, 500 Silent St. or the Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St. The city encourages the use of Weather Alert Radios to receive warning information directly from the National Weather Service. It is the most timely, most reliable, and most credible source of weather warning information available. The radios are small and works a bit like a pager. Normally muted and quiet, they can be activated by a special code transmitted by the National Weather Service. Once activated, most weather radios will sound an alerting tone to get your attention and even wake you up if you are sleeping. You will then receive a message describing the situation, directly from the source of the warning. By special arrangement, NOAA Weather Radio in Dane County also broadcasts warnings for all types of hazards, both natural (such as severe weather) and man-made (such as an evacuation resulting from a toxic chemical release), making the weather radio a true, all-hazards warning device. A new Specific Area Message Encoding or "SAME" technology allows the radios to be programmed to receive and display alerts and warnings that apply only to Dane County. And most weather radios are equipped with battery backup, enabling you to receive warning information even if the power is out. Individuals with hearing impairment can also get these warnings by connecting a weather radio to other types of attention-getting devices such as strobe lights, pagers, bed-shakers, personal computers and text printers. The radios will be available until May 29 or all units are sold, whichever occurs first. Source: The Verona Press http://www.veronapress.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=1454&TM=25504.42 via Yimber Gaviria, http://yimber-gaviria.blogspot.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
