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> You can get an emergency radio capable of receiving VHF NOAA weather alerts. Apparently this was grandfathered in a long time ago. NOAA is only allowed to se
by yardie 8y ago
> You can get an emergency radio capable of receiving VHF NOAA weather alerts.
Apparently this was grandfathered in a long time ago. NOAA is only allowed to send weather reports by radio and on specific frequencies. Doing the same with the internet, why that would be communism!
- npo_ 8y agoAnd for the record, NOAA Weather Radio is pretty cool -- I like to get my weather from it when I'm at home. I'm right in Boston, and I can pickup transmissions from the Blue Hill Observatory with my cheap Baofeng.
- 8note 8y agoI imagine they'll lose that eventually, so that the radio band can be privatized