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KGG68: Where Are You?

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purpledevil

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Don't know how many have noticed this, but as I type this, Harris County is under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Went to turn on my WX radio and KGG68 162.40 MHz is off the air. The storms up here on the north side are dropping light rain, but looking outside the clouds are low, the lighting strikes are frequent, and there appears to be some rotation to the storms. Has something catastrophic happened to our NOAA weather station? During the last storm event we had earlier this week, KGG68 was there and constantly updating the latest warning information and reports, but today it's completely MIA.

Where's our usually trusty NOAA Weather Radio station?
 
Well, I have sent an email reporting the outage, however the NOAA shows no current outage of KGG68 online. Checked my receiver by tuning up to 162.50 for WWG55 La Grange and it is operating, although from here at this QSL it is laden with heavy static. Not sure there will be a response to the notification on a Saturday evening. Sure hope that it gets fixed quickly. It's my go to station when the weather turns rough, and not up in Bellville.
 
To update, I just received an email from Catherine Williams at the NOAA offices in Silver Springs, Maryland. The outage has been quickly reported back to the League City offices for investigation. Very timely response, and a big kudos to Ms. Williams for the expedition of my outage report. Immediate attention and response given to my concern. Now that's spectacular service. Well done, Catherine!
 
purpledevil said:
To update, I just received an email from Catherine Williams at the NOAA offices in Silver Springs, Maryland. The outage has been quickly reported back to the League City offices for investigation. Very timely response, and a big kudos to Ms. Williams for the expedition of my outage report. Immediate attention and response given to my concern. Now that's spectacular service. Well done, Catherine!
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I think they were gone for quite a while - I didn't get a single warning the night of the tax day flood.
 
Welcome to the site, Cordell. You are correct, KGG68 is still down, and now marked "out of service" on the NOAA site. Thought it had returned last night, as I have been checking its status nightly to see if it has returned to air. Lo and behold, 162.40 yielded WXK34 instead here in Houston, with a nice, steady signal. First time I have ever heard Victoria's All Hazards up here. I assume that some catastrophic failure has occurred at the KGG68 site, as it is going on a week with no service, and that's unheard of for the Harris County All Hazards station. Will keep up to date with it, and report here when KGG68 returns to normal. If we get to next week, after Memorial Day, without KGG68's return, I'll send Catherine another email for follow up. She was very cordial, informative and helpful with her responses to my alert. I was quite pleased with her professional approach and invitation to follow up as needed.
 
Had a problem like that with KXI56. Gonzales. I listen to that one to monitor both of my places with weather. They were down for weeks, I finally reported it and they promptly fixed the problem. Do a lot of people use weather radios any more? I think it should be in every house hold like smoke detectors.
 
jras20 said:
Had a problem like that with KXI56. Gonzales. I listen to that one to monitor both of my places with weather. They were down for weeks, I finally reported it and they promptly fixed the problem. Do a lot of people use weather radios any more? I think it should be in every house hold like smoke detectors.
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We have a problem in Harris County. The county is so large that KGG68 broadcasts a lot of dire warnings that simply do not apply to the whole county. I have my radio set to filter our irrelevant warning - a volcano is not likely, I don't care about other counties - but I remember a night not too long ago when I got wakened out of a sound sleep for a warning that applied to an area 60 miles away. I wish they would subdivide Harris County warnings into different zones or something.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
We have a problem in Harris County. The county is so large that KGG68 broadcasts a lot of dire warnings that simply do not apply to the whole county. I have my radio set to filter our irrelevant warning - a volcano is not likely, I don't care about other counties - but I remember a night not too long ago when I got wakened out of a sound sleep for a warning that applied to an area 60 miles away. I wish they would subdivide Harris County warnings into different zones or something.
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Mine I can filter out alerts also I like that a lot. Thinking of getting the same radio for Lavaca county.
 
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