On Tue, 8 Jul 2025, 'Doug Elrod' via World News Now Discussion List wrote:
But I haven't seen anyone mentioning NOAA Weather Radio yet. Is it still around? Last time I looked into it, they had ways to configure them to alert you to pretty sophisticated conditions (location, threat level, etc.)
<raising hands!> a: yes, it's still around b: it's an afterthought and lots of the trasnmitters are dysfunctional. I've had _huge_ battles with them when the NYC one was offline, literally, for years. The less I say about NOAA's non response and the USELESSNESS of local, and US Senator/Reps, the better. https://www.weather.gov/nwr/ which also, convenitenly, includes a partial list of outages... note, for example: "WWF37 Carlsbad, NM is out of service (2/11/2022)" oh, double side note: In some areas the Local Authorities Having Jurisdiction (sorry, I just love that phrase..) have "translators" (aka "repeaters") which take the local NOAA transmission, which is in the 162.xxx MCS range and rebiracast it on one of the low power, 1600 or so KCS, frequencies. The local folk will break in a couple of times/hour with regional items of interest such as road traffice adviseries. These stations are often referred to as "Travelers' Information Stations" (a subset...) https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/travelers-information-stations-search
