Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Update on weather radios not receiving tone alerts

We've received a few questions in regards to the weather radios, Midland included, not going off during Sunday's severe weather. 

It appears that the NWS NOAA radio system in Rockford has a transmission problem that resulted in a failure of yesterdays storm announcement on most modern Weather Radios (including the Midland WR100 models that your folks were helping to get out into the public through the Logli stores). The problem appears to be in the transmitter, not the radio receivers, since all six of our company’s (as well as home units) failed to announce the tornado warning. I understand from emergency personnel that NWS is aware of the problem. Our warning came through the TV broadcasts, Weather.com alerts, and county siren.


Regards and keep up the good work.
I J "Hank" Terhorst

I did speak with someone at the Chicago NWS and they said that a tech was sent out yesterday, Monday, to look at the transmitter.  It appeared as if something was off balance and because of that it wasn't sending out the SAME codes correctly.  The problem should be fixed, but we won't know for sure until the weekly test is sent out tomorrow.

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