Talk:NOAA Weather Radio/Archive 1

Houston, we have a problem - Trademark violation
Weatheradio is, as I'd rather suspected it was, a *trademark* of Tandy Corp for it's NWS receivers. We need to move the current contents of this page to something more appropriately named, and plug in a placemarker here to clarify, I would think. Opinions? --Baylink 01:04, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry; I checked that link and it worked, but apparently only because I "still had a session open". Nonetheless, it's been registered since 1968(!). --Baylink 01:06, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Would redirecting this article to NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (Or even NOAA All Hazards Radio) be a solution? From the press releases and information I have gathered, this appears to be the prefered name now. Here is a link: . Hope it will be enough clarification.. will wait for a community consensus (if only I could spell it!) --Aika 22:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, NOAA Weather Radio is now officially referred to as NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards because the network also alerts for non-weather related matters (homeland security, AMBER, etc.).  I nominate this page to be moved to said new name. --RyguyMN 05:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

What additional cleanup is needed?
Does the cleanup tag still need to remain with this article? What else is there left to cleanup? RyguyMN 05:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Relevant title?
Considering that the article covers three related services, surely naming the article after the largest one is incorrect? Perhaps the best solution is a large "weather radio" article, with three smaller articles for the individual services. matturn 13:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

SAME?
I am surprised that this article does not mention the SAME system (Specific Area Message Encoding) this allows for allerts for specific counties in a region where a radio is activated to alarm in the event that severe weather in the specific county is present. More info here http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrsame.htm Dreammaker182 (talk) 16:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Classified

 * "These non-weather emergency broadcasts are a crucial part of national security, and because of this, the precise coordinates of NWR's transmitter sites are classified."

Not saying they're NOT classified... But I just heard them tell me not only what frequency/power they broadcast on/at, and what city their programming originates (vague enough that it doesn't give "precise coordinates" so no complaint there); they also announced WHAT SPECIFIC BUILDING IT'S BROADCAST TOWER IS ON THE TOP OF here in Philadelphia!

I'm not going to name the building here, but I also found it pretty easily via The Google (6th link down)... 69.248.43.58 (talk) 19:58, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * That the sites are classified is complete and utter nonsense. It's as false of statement as I have heard in quite a long time. Ks0stm (T•C•G) 21:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Separate Articles and Infoboxes -- Please Reply ASAP!!!
Say what are the chances of the stations having their own articles and their own respective infoboxes??? --WIKISCRIPPS 07 TUE FEB 6 2007 11:28 PM EST

I edited the history relating to the frequency usage. How do I add this information to the reflist? USRoute66 (talk) 07:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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History Section
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 * Weatherwise magazine - Volume 22, 1969 - Issue 4
 * ESSA News November 11, 1970

If someone could add these to the Reference List, it would be very helpful. USRoute66 (talk) 19:35, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

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Individual WX stations
Heads up for people interested in WX. Please see WP:Articles for deletion/WNG560. It looks like we're heading towards deleting all of these individual WX stations. If you have an opinion on this, this would be the time to express it. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:37, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

"Official" Wx Channel Numbers vs. the more common Frequency Sequence labels
Although the table in the article calls them official the NOAA website and USCG website use phrases like "Channel numbers, e.g. (WX1, WX2) etc. have no special significance but are often designated this way in consumer equipment. Other channel numbering schemes are also prevalent." (ref 15) and "Channel numbers, e.g. (WX1, WX2) etc. have no special significance but are often designated this way in consumer equipment. Other channel numbering schemes are also prevalent. The order of channels shown is the order they were established and is slowly becoming less "popular" over time than a numerical ordering of channels." (Ref 16). In the various webpages of NOAA listing the transmitters they usually show frequencies only, and use neither the old or new channel numbering systems. In updated pages, such as the Boston Weather Radio page https://www.weather.gov/box/nwr they use the "frequency numerical sequence" numbering sequence that is most common in todays radios. This is the labels that should be emphasized in the table, not the old legacy "sequence of introduction" labels that are falling into disused.

I'm not familiar with how to edit Wiki pages, but would appreciate it if someone who agrees with me takes on the task of updating the articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:192:8701:E41:5C6D:2B17:BAE7:821 (talk) 16:20, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Any way to restore them?
I just tried checking the NYC area station, KWO35, and got redirected to this more general listing.

Is there any procedure to even begin suggesting that the individual ones be restored?

The NYC one in particular is pretty significant, because it's been off the air for a year now after having had five years or so of intermittent problems, and that history is well worth keeping at hand.

Thanks,

wiki-ny-2007 (talk) 03:37, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Random comment
Most discussion is now digital, not "human," in my experience.

Another random comment un related to the one above. It has been bugging me whose voice they roboticized for the EAS, EBS, and NOAA alerts. Seriously who is that guy?Billster156234781 (talk) 16:23, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

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