[Scan-DC] NOAA

cohenner at gmail.com cohenner at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 08:39:39 EDT 2013


So, now that I was able to see SPC:

Slight risk of severe weather tonight

Moderate risk tomorrow (tornadoes also included)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: cohenner at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:34:25 
To: <wapak at aol.com>; <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Reply-To: cohenner at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] NOAA

Not a good day for an outage: Severe storms expected tonight which could rival the 2012 Derecho - and more expected tomorrow. 

If my stupid Verizon 3G iPad would actually work, I could get more details on the SPC web site. 
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: wapak at aol.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:31:46 
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Scan-DC] NOAA


Is it just the Washington, DC area that loses NOAA Weather Radio so often? 

They're gone again, as far as my scanners (with indoor antennas) can tell.

From the NOAA website, they appear to rely on listener reports to tell when 
they're off-air.  

A REAL radio system would have some kind of "the carrier disappeared!" 
alarm and maybe even a "hey, there's a carrier but no mod" alarm.  And maybe 
even a technician with a big red "RESET" button.  

But it's just a warning system.  Their S.A.M.E. system is supposed to warn us about 
any "hazardous              event (nuclear power plant problem, a chemical or biological 
accident,              etc.)" but ... oh well ...  If it's important, the Government will announce it
on MSNBC.

Yes, I might be a bit critical of folks who are probably trying to do a good job and 
hope for promotions, but I know that the system could be better.  NOAA could 
contract with a ham radio club (or MARS radio) to run the area transmission 
system and I'm sure it would be more reliable.  And probably a lot cheaper.  
And reliable.  In the Capital area, it seems like that would be considered an 
"important thing."



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