Re: [IRCA] WA HAR station

[Pete Taylor <ptdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nigel Pimblett wrote:

> Last night I was hearing a WA State HAR station on 1610.    I think the call was WPQV569, and the woman mentioned reporting weather information for I-82 between Yakima and Bellevue, and I heard a mention of  conditions at the summit of Snoqualmie Pass.
> 
> Obviously a single TIS cannot cover the area between Yakima and Bellevue, so does anyone know if  they run multiple transmitters with the same callsign, or perhaps with different callsigns?

Nigel, I don't know anything about I-82 but heading west on I-90 toward Snoqualmie Pass, I have heard a couple with the same message on 1610. WSDOT is known to do that, especially if there are delays. I-90 blockage is a big deal. Also, they have portable transmitters which sometimes usurp existing calls. The good news is that they have resumed giving local IDs. For a spell a couple of years ago, WSDOT discontinued this practice. Also, seemingly by popular demand or default, they brought back the same guy to do the IDs on virtually all of them. For a year a few years back, they had a lady doing them. She just didn't pierce her way through the airways as well.

Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
HQ180 & ICF2010
Kiwa aircore & Palomar loops
DX398, SRF-59 & M37V
Eton E100 + Tecsun PL-380

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