NOAA Weather/Environment Canada Broadcast Channels

[Buckeyes2001]

Which of the NOAA Weather/Environment Canada Broadcast stations can you get? If you're outside of the US or Canada, which weather broadcast stations do you get? Have you ever gotten any via e-skip?

For me in Vermilion, OH, I get the following:

162.400 MHz - KHB97 from Castalia, OH (with KDO94 from Akron, OH underneath)
162.475 MHz - Environment Canada from Windsor (Weak to strong)
162.500 MHz - WNG698 from Grafton, OH
162.525 MHz - KZZ47 from Carey, OH (very weak)
162.550 MHz - KHB59 from Chesterland, OH


I've gotten stations such as WXJ47 from High Hill, OH during tropo but haven't caught them in e-skip yet.

 

[KR4BD]

In Lexington, KY I can hear several NOAA signals on my ancient scanner (Uniden BC-200). Those in BOLD are VERY STRONG. Others are weaker with other, non-listed ones sometimes coming in. There are many NOAA stations in KY and they often interfere with one another.

162.400 KIH 41 Lexington
162.425 WWG70 Mt. Vernon, KY and WWG26 Jackson, KY
162.450 WWG64 McKee, KY and KZZ48 Owenton, KY
162.475 WNG727 Irvine, KY
162.500 WZ2523 Frankfort, KY
162.525 Rebroadcast of KIH41 (Lex) Richmond, KY
162.550 KIH44 Somerset, KY

If I use my 2-meter ham antenna (up 60 ft) and rotate it in various directions, I can hear many, many others all interfering with each other....

 

[crainbebo]

From my old house in Bothell, WA

.400-something was here very weakly but I could never ID it
.425-WWG24 Port Angeles Marine, WA (fair)
.450-
.475-WXM62 Olympia, WA (poor-fair)
.500-
.525-sometimes KHB60 bleed
.550-KHB60 Seattle, WA (excellent)

-crainbebo

 

[tomservo]

When I lived in Central Mississippi, NOAA radio was good for assessing DX conditions. I could often hear the transmitter in Star City, AR which was a good 75-100 miles away and when conditions were good it would be very strong. There, I was between two strong transmitters, both covering my county, both on the same frequency. For years, we couldn't get weather alerts because of the interference. I complained to the local NWS office and after several months the conditions improved. It was still tricky, but reception of my designated station became possible. I guess they do pay attention to such things at the NWS!

Here in Foley, AL, is what I get on most days. Bolded stations are strong enough to be received on my weather radio, the rest are via my 2m ham transceiver:

.400 - KEC86 Pensacola, FL
.425 - WNG640 Leakesville, MS
.475 - WNG646 Brewton, AL
.475 - WXL41 Buras, LA // often overrides the Brewton station - mostly a flat saltwater path to me from the TX site
.500 - WWF55 Jackson, AL // low power, hardest to receive except during tropo season
.550 - KEC51 Mobile, AL // county primary

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

An Australian manufacturer has a V-Log for Channels 7-69 US called the HPV345HV. This would be a good design to also cover the weather band well, if properly designed, although the weather band stations are generally vertically polarized. It uses 1/2 wave V shaped elements at VHF, which are 3/2 wave at UHF. The V shape improves the pattern so that there is a single major lobe at the 3X frequency range, as it does for high low VHF models.

http://manlyelectronics.com.au/products/av/antennas.html

Anyone ever try putting a rotator on an antenna to change from horizontal to vertical polarization, and or orient for maximum signal or nulling cochannels? The problems are obviously trying to rotate the azimuth too, and of course, weight.