Is NOAA Weather Radio down in your area?!

That’s a question that our Green Bay Mike and Key Club Memeber W9MWP asked us. The long and short of it is no, the area NOAA Alerter is operating. But wait, that doesn’t mean it will not be at some point as the NOAA performs upgrades to the system nationally.

NOAA is doing updates to their VHF weather broadcast system. The station in Green Bay 162.55 MHz. is currently still on the air, but if you notice some day it is off this may be why. I found this on the publication Amateur Radio Newsline.

After checking the NOAA website a list of stations can be seen on a nationwide map that are off the air temporarily. A link to that web page can be found here:

NOAA Weather Stations Off Air https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages. I realize not everyone cares or even knows about the stations but I believe many hams monitor our local outlet. The article explains the update plan well.

To my friends in Fort Walton Beach your station is KEC86 in Pensacola, on 162.4 MHz.

Michael W Pickett W9MWP