[BC] NOAA

[towers at mre.com]

The NWS has a program which if a consortium of towns and counties get
together to fund the equipment purchase and installation, they'll then
operate and maintain the NWS transmitter.  I've done that in a couple
locations. The last one in one of the fastest growng counties in the USA.

It takes a while...a few years...for budgets to be established and funds
set aside.  But it can be done.

MM

> We have tried with no success to get NOAA weather radio in this area.
> Attemps to get the Amarillo WX office to let us put in a Barix type unit
> and feed directly to our studio and the answer is NO. We have been told
> "enough people have not died" We depend on unattended stations to get us
> alerts and there are times it does not happen. NOAA and EAS is BROKE. Now
> there a a station that makes a mistake and gets fined?
>
> I think every time I see a cloud I am going to turn off the transmitter,
> go home and hide under the covers.
>
> George Chambers
> KXIT
> kxit at xit.net
>