Mike - When did you you end up in Nebraska? I have a repeater in Sioux City and it has had a weather alert receiver tied into the controller for many years. It is cool because I can be connected to it in Oregon thru Echolink & hear the alert come thru!
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 31 May 2008 02:37:06 PM PDT From: Mike Morris WA6ILQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Weather Receivers - Our Experience > At 08:27 AM 05/31/08, you wrote: > >Being in Nebraska - near, if not in, tornado alley - weather events > >have had a high priority on our repeater. > > > >When our machine first went on the air 30 years ago it was a primary > >means to relay real-time spotter information from the field to our > >local National Weather Service (NWS). It was not uncommon for a > >spotter observation to be passed to NWS only then to hear a Tornado > >Warning broadcast on NOAA weather radio a few seconds later. In > >those days, it was crucial to pass the weather net traffic because > >that is what often times generated the NWS warnings. > > > >On the hardware side, when we rebuilt our repeater system a few > >years ago we added the WX-200 along with a LinkCom RLC Club Deluxe > >II and we've been extremely happy with the combo. The WX-200 is, of > >course, the full radio receiver and SAME decoder in a single > >rack-mount package priced at $399. CAT does offer the WD-100 SAME > >decoder (you supply the radio) at $159; a very reasonable way to get > >the features on a budget. > > Which is a good thing - at some radio sites the RF level is > high enough that the CAT receiver has problems. > > The option of putting the WD100 decoder behind a Micor > or MastrII receiver crystalled up on the weather channel > is A Good Thing. > > Mike WA6ILQ >
