[BC] Point-to-Multipoint EMCOMM

[Blake Bowers]

NWS has backup genset at many of their sites.

Now, are they tested????


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald J. Dot'o Sr." <ron.doto at comcast.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Point-to-Multipoint EMCOMM


> Question:  Does the NWS have back up power for their transmitters, or will 
> they fail during an emergency too?
>
> I have a BayGen wind up radio, and a CC Radio w/ NWS as well as several 
> scanners and a NWS radio that get the NWS broadcasts.
>
> I agree that the SW feature is useless for local emergencies, but the 
> local NWS station may be too if it doesn't have a genny.  I can receive 
> the local Salem, OR. NWS station, Portland 50 miles to the north and 
> Eugene 60 miles to the south.
>
> I wonder if we had a wide spread power outage or other local "All Hazards" 
> emergency and lost the Salem NWS TX if any info concerning our local 
> situation would be on the PDX or EUG NWS stations.  I doubt it.
>
> If we had a regional power failure like back east a few years ago I think 
> our best bet around here (Salem) would be the PDX AM stations as none of 
> the Salem AM stations have a backup generator.  Only one AM station (KBZY) 
> is live with a traffic reporter on the streets who could report on a local 
> situation.  Other than that the automated stations couldn't respond to an 
> emergency even if they were on the air ("in the public interest").
>
> The local FM station has a genny @ the remote TX but if the studio here in 
> town loses power we're out of business there too.
>
> I don't know what the backup power situation for the EUG stations is but 
> their coverage, even from their 50Kw on 1120, is very poor in Salem, so 
> they're out of the game and seldom if ever report on anything going on in 
> Salem where as PDX does.
>
> I guess my best fallback position would be my scanner that has coverage 
> for the Ham and CAP 2 meter frequencies, although there isn't much 
> activity on either 2 meter band around here that I know of.  Note:  A lot 
> of scanners that get the Ham 2 meter band won't program the CAP 2 meter 
> frequencies on 143.9 or 148.15, so if you're interested in that coverage 
> make sure the scanner will handle it before you buy a new or used one.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Ron D
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 06:20
> Subject: Re: [BC] Point-to-Multipoint EMCOMM
>
>
>> ------ At 08:30 AM 4/29/2007, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote: -------
>>
>>>information. Now they also have those hand-crank genset radios and/or 
>>>solar powered
>>>sets for emergencies... but they're all analog!
>>
>> Just be careful which one you get. I get a kick out of the ones that have 
>> shortwave instead of NWS. I doubt the BBC is going to be much use in a 
>> disaster in CT.
>>
>> Rich
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