NOAA weather radio, at least in DC, seems to be dying of accelerated neglect.
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NOAA weather radio, at least in DC, seems to be dying of accelerated neglect. It’s never been especially well funded or maintained, but it’s gotten to the point of being useless for emergency alerts.
The DC transmitter on 162.45 lost its site in NW a few months ago and relocated to Silver Spring, with a much worse signal in the District.
They seem to have given up on sending encoded alerts; I didn’t see a single one for the recent storms or extreme cold warnings.
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NOAA weather radio, at least in DC, seems to be dying of accelerated neglect. It’s never been especially well funded or maintained, but it’s gotten to the point of being useless for emergency alerts.
The DC transmitter on 162.45 lost its site in NW a few months ago and relocated to Silver Spring, with a much worse signal in the District.
They seem to have given up on sending encoded alerts; I didn’t see a single one for the recent storms or extreme cold warnings.
@mattblaze It's Government Efficiency. You're supposed to get weather alerts on X now.
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NOAA weather radio, at least in DC, seems to be dying of accelerated neglect. It’s never been especially well funded or maintained, but it’s gotten to the point of being useless for emergency alerts.
The DC transmitter on 162.45 lost its site in NW a few months ago and relocated to Silver Spring, with a much worse signal in the District.
They seem to have given up on sending encoded alerts; I didn’t see a single one for the recent storms or extreme cold warnings.
While smartphones and the Internet have largely supplanted NOAA radio for routine local weather information, it fills an important niche for emergency alerts: it’s the only alarm system for sending emergency alerts directly to affected residents that doesn’t depend on the Internet or cellular infrastructure.
I hope it hangs on.
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While smartphones and the Internet have largely supplanted NOAA radio for routine local weather information, it fills an important niche for emergency alerts: it’s the only alarm system for sending emergency alerts directly to affected residents that doesn’t depend on the Internet or cellular infrastructure.
I hope it hangs on.
@mattblaze what you might call redundancy some government slasher calls unnecessary and wasteful duplication of service.
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While smartphones and the Internet have largely supplanted NOAA radio for routine local weather information, it fills an important niche for emergency alerts: it’s the only alarm system for sending emergency alerts directly to affected residents that doesn’t depend on the Internet or cellular infrastructure.
I hope it hangs on.
@mattblaze It's funny NOAA weather radio never "meshed" with the low-power AM Highway emergency (or even real-estate information!) broadcasts even the way Emergency Management could provide NOAA alerting hardware for ham repeaters.
