Thursday, September 20, 2007

Mooresville, NC

New station in Iredell County:
KJY85, 162.525 MHz, Mooresville

Programming is provided by the National Weather Service office in Greer, SC.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Alaska stations update

Three sites will be removed from the Alaska expansion list: Mud Bay, Site Summit, and Valdez Spit are no longer planned USCG/NWS cooperative weather radio sites.

The Nenana station is still in progress and a new transmitter is now broadcasting to the Glennallen area.

New station in the Alaska interior

Glennallen (transmitting from a site west of Glennallen)

KPS503, 162.550 MHz, NWS Anchorage

The signal coverage area appears to be upwards of 80 miles from the transmitter site.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Washington, DC update

The station is on the air although is in a test phase (not yet commissioned). The NWS in Sterling, VA recommends that listeners continue to use either the Manassas or Baltimore stations for receiving urgent weather warnings.