[Scan-DC] New VA Weather stations to DX!

[Doug K.]

>From: "David L. Wilson" <dwilson314 at adelphia.net>
>To: "Dave" <afdltret at comcast.net>,"Doug K." 
><oldsdoug at hotmail.com>,<Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
>CC: <coxs_emoc at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] New VA Weather stations to DX!
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:04:36 -0400
>
>
>>>Also, interesting factoid... as near as my buddy and I can tell, the NOAA
>>>weather station callsigns are not listed in the FCC database!!
>
>Of course not.  They are US government stations and thus not under the FCC. 
>No federal governemnt stations are in the FCC database--Federal government 
>stations are authorized under NTIA and the FCC has nothing to do with them.
>
>http://www/ntia.doc.gov
>
>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/redbook/redbook.html

Thanks, will take a look... but didn't they _used_ to be there?  I could 
swear they did, sometime back.

I gotta read up on this NTIA also; the subject has come up here before... am 
curious about when it was started, and if it spun off from FCC... I've been 
interested in electronics and radio communications continually since the 
mid-1960s and for some reason, never heard of NTIA until maybe a year or two 
ago, via this list!  (Why wasn't I informed?  :) )


>As far as NOAA weather radio is concerned, see
>
>http://www.weather.gov/nwr/listcov.htm

Thanks, but no good... see previous message!

Regards,

Doug

Gaithersburg, Delaware

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