[Scan-DC] DC area NOAA stations "temporarily off the air"?

[dewey3 at gmail.com]

Maybe it was a weather system "Fail Safe"   😊

Dewey

-----Original Message-----
From: binstockj at comcast.net <binstockj at comcast.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 15:53
To: dewey3 at gmail.com
Cc: SCAN-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC area NOAA stations "temporarily off the air"?

Working fine now.  162.55, 162.40, 162.500, 162.45, Etc.

Jon
NK3D 

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> On Feb 8, 2022, at 3:44 PM, dewey3 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Yea... what 's really crazy is that they are NOT "off-the-air", just not
> broadcasting weather information (yet the same robotic voice as mentioned
> before).  While I doubt it, what are the chances of a hack???
> 
> Dewey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Katz
> Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 15:36
> To: Scott KB3JQQ <kb3jqq at yahoo.com>
> Cc: SCAN-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC area NOAA stations "temporarily off the air"?
> 
> I'm not seeing anything mentioned for the DC area on this status page...
> 
> https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages
> 
> - Lawrence
> 
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 3:26 PM Scott KB3JQQ via Scan-DC <
> scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
>> Same for KEC-83 (162.400)
>> Went outside with my WX radio
>> and Sudlersville is up. (CH 5)
>> 
>>> On 2022-02-08 15:11, Lawrence Katz wrote:
>>> I just tuned to 162.550MHz to test a SDR and I'm hearing "This NOAA
>> weather
>>> radio station is temporarily off the air...".  I'm hearing the same
>> message
>>> on 162.450MHz.
>>> 
>>> Maybe they're doing maintenance?
>>> 
>>> - Lawrence