[EAS] NWS - not useful if they don't get the funding they need to stay on

[Dale Lamm]

The commercial provider WeatherUSA.net offers live audio streaming of selected NOAA transmitters. Visit weatherusa.net/radio.

In my state, there are maybe a dozen NOAA weather VHF stations, but this company lists only three in their offerings. None for Alaska.

No idea if they obtain feeds from OTA receivers, which would be a problem if/when there's NOAA transmitter trouble.

It would seem the direction NOAA is going is to make use of WEA.

At our LP-1 station, most of the EAS traffic that we relay comes from the local NOAA transmitter (exclusive of RWTs). There were two short outages of that NOAA transmitter so far in 2023. We can easily receive a different NOAA station which sends alerts for our county and it would seem like a no-brainer to put a second NOAA receiver into a spare decoder input. But all six available inputs are committed. I'm considering a second receiver that gets switched in to the current NOAA receiver's input, but only when squelch drops on the primary NOAA station.

Dale Lamm
WHBC