[BC] NOAA

[Kevin C. Kidd CSRE/AMD]

George,

I built a new NOAA station here to cover southern TN.  The Nashville NWS
office recognized the need and wanted to put a tx here but had no money.
 Our local SkyWarn group raised the money and I installed the equipment.
 IIRC, NWS picked up all reoccurring costs after installation and
continues to operate the site.

The weather radio rules are really weird when viewed from a broadcast
prospective...  They license by TX output with no regard for antenna
gain.  We run a kw tx into a huge high gain loop antenna.

GC wrote:
> 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?
> 
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Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
http://www.kkbc.com
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