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Houston's 1680am flipped.....or not?

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truthsayer

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I turned 1680 on today Memorial Day. I heard Noaa Weather Radio. I will say it would not be so good to hear but we were having very heavy rains and the warnings were flying. I found it interesting and great timing. Could this be the start of things to come. I listened for about 2 hours this was no EAS. I will listen on my way in to work Tuesday.
 
It has... if you notice on the freeways there are now signs to tune into 1680am for important information... usually traffic consturction and/or weather advisories. I think there is also a LP operating on 1680 for airport information at Hobby.
 
The 1680 signals have been on for several years now. I believe there are several transmitters in different parts of the city. One is near the Katy Freeway and Washington, presumably at the Transtar building on Old Katy Road.

The NOAA Weather Radio on Memorial Day might have been filler for the holiday. Usually has traffic advisories.

The 1680 signal at night is clobbered by all the X-band broadcasters on the frequency, so you have to be within a couple of miles of one of the transmitters to hear them clearly. The signals do much better in the daytime, heard throughout the metro area.

Supposedly 1710 is available as a TIS/HAR frequency, but no one is operating there yet, other than a few pirates. The FCC needs to start moving the TIS/HAR stations there; every modern radio is able to tune it.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Supposedly 1710 is available as a TIS/HAR frequency, but no one is operating there yet, other than a few pirates. The FCC needs to start moving the TIS/HAR stations there; every modern radio is able to tune it.
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Further down the road, though, how about using FM once when Channel 6 goes away? Since 87.7 and 87.9 are tunable on most car radios it looks like that might the way to go. It would solve the nighttime interference problem and be easily accessible, since there are many people who never leave the FM band. I'd also venture to say that some of them either have no idea what AM is or don't care to find out!
 
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