Hi Garry,
Yeah I worked in radio for a while myself as a broadcaster. It’s quite a shame that it isn’t like the good ol days when it comes to weather. You depend on the NWS and you might get a chance to say a few things. Thankfully, my experience was at a small station so we had mor liberation when it came to this if we thought it was important enough we could pull the satellite link and anoounce what we had too. This was about 8 years ago. I am not even sure the station still runs and if it does did it go to a big conglomerate now. Scott Berry Email: sberry at northlc.com Ham Call sign: N7ZIB _____ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Glaenzer Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:34 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Simulating a weather alert Ron and all; I wouldn't call it 'don't want the responsibility' so much as 'stretched so thin with limited personnel running multiple stations that it's not possible'. When we end up with 2-3 people running a 'cluster 'of anywhere from 4-7 stations, there simply is not enough time between recording commercials, entering new music into the systems, cutting 'voice tracks', answering the phone, and so on; to deal with what can become a very time-consuming problem. Most broadcasters that I know, especially those of us that started out back in the late 60's-early 70's, remember how important it was to our listeners to get emergency information on the air as quickly as possible back in 'the old days'. Most stations had a 'Weather Plan', stationing personnel in spots to look for approaching storms, and reporting back by land-line phone or Remote Pick-up frequencies. These days, Big Corporate Radio has consolidated studios and cut personnel to where that kind of committment is no longer possible. So we end up re-broadcasting what the NWS sends us and hope it is good enough. Just my $ 0.02, feel free to fire away. Regards, Gary in IL (62650) ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Wright <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Repeater-Builder@ <mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:11 AM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Simulating a weather alert Randy, I think this 1k tone is for the older receiver signaling. The alert message turn on the SAME and also old receivers that react to any alert from NWS. This unit you have you indicate it is for transmitting the SAME messaging. Is this one of the broadcast station type encoders allowing you to transmit messages to SAME receivers??? The gov did set up so broadcast stations could act as the alert stations. The stations took on a responsibility that required them to act if an alert was sent. Most stations do not want this responsibility. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM, wb0vhb wrote: I have a unit that has four push buttons. Each button is PC programmable to transmit any kind of event on any of the WX channels you program it to. It can be programmed for any SAME code. In place of the normal voice announcement, a 1K tone is played for about 10 seconds before the deactive code is sent to close the wx receiver speaker. We have installed a large number of wx receivers in businesses and factories connected to existing public address systems. This test unit is essential to test the receivers since some people don't want the weekly test going off. Randy --- In Repeater-Builder@ <mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups. com, "Robert Pease" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to simulate a weather alert for testing. I was thinking of recording one and playing it through my service monitor but there must be one recorded somewhere > > Any ideas > > Rob. KS4EC <mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com>
