[EAS] National Weather Service Message Flooding

[Mike McCarthy]

Richard,

I think you misread my post. I didn't say the content of a given NWS TX is
WFO exclusive. I did say any given county is served by only one WFO. With
that said, the same county can be covered/served by multiple overlapping
TX's, which may or may not be hosted/controlled by the same WFO.  Big
difference.

I said, and will repeat with some greater detail that the feed and control
originates from a single originating or "hosting" WFO. Typically, that WFO
is determined by the county which the TX is located in a given CWA.  Not
always, but most of the time. This is something which didn't exist before
the NWS modernization.

There are several TX's in this area which relay counties from adjoining
"non-hosted" WFO's. This is in fact now quite common. But hosting and
control for any given TX never the less resides within a single WFO. I
have specific experience in this as one site we share is hosted by
Romeoville/Chicago (LOT) WFO, but also also relays counties served by
Sullivan/Milwaukee(MKX) WFO.

This was a site I helped create in the late 90's when locals, including my
client broadcaster, asked about the NWS's "You build it, we'll take it
from there" program of private build-outs. My client supplied the site,
the rest of the funding came from various local/municipal grants. It
was/is a great example of public/public/private collaboration and serves
nearly a half million people.

MM

> Sorry, Mike.
>
> You are wrong.
>
> The NWS NWR transmitter for my client in the Inland Empire  gets weather
> warnings from more than one local NWS office.
>