House Committee Passes NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Proposal. Yeah, RW rip.

[ThaDood]

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/proposed-noaa-weather-modernization-act-passes-house-markup    Well, at least we are keeping our NOAA Weather Radio, unlike Canada, which plans to shut theirs down. I don't mind my tax $$$$'s paying for VHF High Band propagational beacons. (Hi-hi...)

[BoomboxDX]

Looks like the bill got bipartisan support, which is always a good thing.

I still can't wrap my head around the reason Canada junked their Weather radio service.

But what's done is done.

[Dude111]

The noaa weather service has become a joke with thier stupid computer talking!!

I thought it was BETTER when people did it!!!

[ThaDood]

Ya know, that most likely would not work today? Why??? Well, when they did it with meteorologists, recorded via land line phone, you could clearly hear and understand the recordings and updated alerts. Try doing that from cell phones today. Cell phones / smart phones can do just about everything except act & sound like a real phone. Not to mention, trying to record with possible constant drop-outs. I fully agree with the late Art Bell, when on a re-aired C2C AM 2002 show, he expressed his frustration on cell phone quality tech by saying, "We've really gone backwards in this.". (There, I went on yet another tangent.)