On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Dee D. Flint wrote:
"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote in message
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"D. Stussy" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Steve Robeson K4CAP wrote:
Subject: WX Receivers and Repeaters retransmitting non-weather
alerts.


If their transmitters fail, ANYWHERE! :-)

And when was the last time one failed and caused a problem?


Plus if their weather transmitters fail, how are you going to retransmit
that which isn't there.

One could retransmit from a neighboring area. (Certainly, that does meet the
"communications failure" part of .403 in the amateur rules. All one needs to
add is an actual emergency - beyond transmitter failure.)

Aside:
When was the last time you listened for NWS transmissions? In the past week, I
have, and I found signals on five of the seven assigned frequencies.

For me, in Los Angeles County:
162.400 KEC62 San Diego (Inland)
.425 WNG57 San Diego (Coastal)
.450 WWG21 Santa Ana
.525 WNG58 Catalina Island (LA Coastal)
.550 KWO37 Mount Wilson (LA Inland)

The two channels I could not hear originate from Santa Barbara and Victorville.
Some of the signals would not be heard under all conditions. Only three of
them are strong enough to be heard in bad weather (i.e. rain/snow).

The NWS has maps showing where their transmitters are. For example, in Kansas,
they are laid out in a repeating cellular pattern, so for those counties that
don't have a transmitter themselves, there are usually 2 or 3 signals from
neighboring counties that can be heard that will overlap the counties lacking
their own. The overlapping transmitters would probably ALL carry messages for
the overlapped counties, even if they only covered part of it, and especially
if one failed.
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Back to the topic:

Why is this in the rules if as K6YZ thinks, no retransmission is EVER
permitted?