[HCDX] City selling NOAA weather radios

[Yimber Gaviria <dxreport@xxxxxxxxx>]

The City of Verona
has partnered with Dane County Emergency Management in obtaining 250
NOAA Weather Alert Radios for citizens to take advantage of the
National Weather Service's 24-hour weather broadcast system. 

NOAA Weather Radio in Madison - available online at www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/

nwr.php
- is broadcast on a frequency of 162.55 MHz. The National Weather
Service broadcasts continuous weather information 24 hours per day.
When conditions warrant, the Weather Service can interrupt programming
to broadcast special weather statements and official severe weather
"Watches" and "Warnings." 

The radios, available to Verona
residents, are $25 each, including sales tax, and can be purchased at
the Verona City Center, 111 Lincoln St., the Verona Public Library, 500
Silent St. or the Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St.

The city
encourages the use of Weather Alert Radios to receive warning
information directly from the National Weather Service. It is the most
timely, most reliable, and most credible source of weather warning
information available. 

The radios are small and works a bit
like a pager. Normally muted and quiet, they can be activated by a
special code transmitted by the National Weather Service. Once
activated, most weather radios will sound an alerting tone to get your
attention and even wake you up if you are sleeping. You will then
receive a message describing the situation, directly from the source of
the warning. 

By special arrangement, NOAA Weather Radio in
Dane County also broadcasts warnings for all types of hazards, both
natural (such as severe weather) and man-made (such as an evacuation
resulting from a toxic chemical release), making the weather radio a
true, all-hazards warning device. 

A new Specific Area Message
Encoding or "SAME" technology allows the radios to be programmed to
receive and display alerts and warnings that apply only to Dane County.
And most weather radios are equipped with battery backup, enabling you
to receive warning information even if the power is out. 

Individuals
with hearing impairment can also get these warnings by connecting a
weather radio to other types of attention-getting devices such as
strobe lights, pagers, bed-shakers, personal computers and text
printers.

The radios will be available until May 29 or all units are sold, whichever occurs first.

Source: The Verona Press
http://www.veronapress.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=1454&TM=25504.42

via Yimber Gaviria, 
http://yimber-gaviria.blogspot.com




      
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