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Re: [IRCA] 1630 TIS UnID
On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:08, Barry McLarnon wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009 03:28, Mike Hardester wrote:
> > Barry,
> >
> > It could well be a NOAA rebroadcast which can be ideal for
> > local listeners and TIS/HAR operators. However, for DXers, it may
> > well be the pits! When visiting family in the College Station
> > area of Pennsylvania, there was a TIS/HAR on 1630 that was,
> > seemingly, non-stop with a NOAA rebroadcast. When Penn State
> > Football was being played at home, the station reverted to a true
> > HAR with IDs. Here in Eastern North Carolina, there are a couple
> > of HARs along the coast that do the same, but with an ID every 30
> > or 60 minutes. I don't think that's legal, but after a while, you
> > get to know which is which. Local military HAR on 1640 has never
> > IDd as far as I can recall.
> >
> > All this said, can you get a NOAA ID or any of the TIS ID,
> > etc?
>
> No luck with that - the station was only audible for half a minute
> or so, so the only clue is the "Northwest Ohio" reference. In my
> experience, the stations that broadcast non-stop weather in ex-band
> seldom give IDs. I still wonder, though, whether the Ohio DOT HAR
> stations insert NOAA weather at times. Maybe I can find out if I
> can find a suitable contact there. In the meantime, I'll keep
> watching for this one...
Just to close this one off... I heard back from someone at Ohio DOT,
who confirmed that they do indeed rebroadcast NOAA weather on their
Toledo-area HAR stations when they aren't broadcasting traffic info.
The calls for the HAR stations (3 sites) are WQEU865, and the local
NOAA station is WXL51 (162.5 MHz). Saul Chernos has also heard this
one on 1630 - he sent me an audio clip that includes the WXL51 ID.
First new one here on 1630 since KKGM in 2002!
Barry
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Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON
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