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KWO-35

T

The Youngest Oldie

Is some type of tropo going on lately or did KWO-35 upgrade their transmitter/antenna? I live in Trenton, NJ and for years haven't been able to receive the station. The last few weeks it comes in as clear as KIH-28 in Philadelphia.
 
I think something is up. Where I live on the MA/NH boarder, a station out of Portsmouth has been mixing with a station out of RI that's on the same frequency.
 
This was the status of KWO35 as of a year ago (sorry for the all caps -- NOAA hasn't discovered lowercase yet):

"THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO NYC KWO-35 INSTALLATION AND TESTING CONTINUES...

WORK CONTINUES ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION KWO-35, OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY OF 162.550 MHZ FROM THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY. ONE OF TWO NEW ANTENNAE HAS BEEN INSTALLED IN THIS NEW LOCATION. THE SECOND ANTENNAE IS SCHEDULED TO BE INSTALLED IN THE COMING WEEKS.

THE TRANSMITTER WILL CONTINUE OPERATING AT REDUCED POWER TO TEST INSTALLATION OF THESE ANTENNAE, SO AREAL COVERAGE OF BROADCASTS WILL STILL BE OPERATING IN A LIMITED CAPACITY. ONCE THESE TESTS ARE CONCLUDED AND DEEMED SUCCESSFUL, FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE TIME OF RETURN TO SERVICE WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH A PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT. WE CONTINUE TO GET CLOSER TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION KWO-35 BEING ABLE TO RETURN TO FULL OPERATION AT ITS NEW LOCATION."
 
kevtronics said:
This was the status of KWO35 as of a year ago (sorry for the all caps -- NOAA hasn't discovered lowercase yet):

"THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO NYC KWO-35 INSTALLATION AND TESTING CONTINUES...

WORK CONTINUES ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION KWO-35, OPERATING ON A FREQUENCY OF 162.550 MHZ FROM THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY. ONE OF TWO NEW ANTENNAE HAS BEEN INSTALLED IN THIS NEW LOCATION. THE SECOND ANTENNAE IS SCHEDULED TO BE INSTALLED IN THE COMING WEEKS.

THE TRANSMITTER WILL CONTINUE OPERATING AT REDUCED POWER TO TEST INSTALLATION OF THESE ANTENNAE, SO AREAL COVERAGE OF BROADCASTS WILL STILL BE OPERATING IN A LIMITED CAPACITY. ONCE THESE TESTS ARE CONCLUDED AND DEEMED SUCCESSFUL, FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE TIME OF RETURN TO SERVICE WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH A PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT. WE CONTINUE TO GET CLOSER TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO STATION KWO-35 BEING ABLE TO RETURN TO FULL OPERATION AT ITS NEW LOCATION."
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Clearly a clerk rather than a tech or scientist wrote this. In the field of electronics terminology, the word for antenna is, oddly enough, "antenna" (meaning a single antenna, or perhaps describing single array of several antennas). Plural for "antenna" is "antennas". The word "antennae" is what you find on many insects. It's a term used in the science of insects, Entomology.
 
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