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NYC's NOAA All Hazards Radio KWO35 off the air

The most likely cause is RITOIE. The bulletin mentions a 168.3 MHz service. How long has that been there? They have some choices. Move the 168.3 MHz service, replace all the receivers with ones able to reject RITOIE, or put filters on all receivers to reject one or both frequencies. I say move the 168.3 MHz service to another frequency.
 
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Who actually listens to NOAA weather radio anymore? During the boating season it's too often filled with repetitive tips about staying hydrated and avoiding sunburn, so it takes too long to get the actual weather. I say leave it shut down. Smartphones and WCBS are better options.
 
It's definitely useful for the severe weather watches & warnings, especially if you use one of the S.A.M.E. radios programmed to sound alerts for your specific area. I know NOAA says they'll turn on the transmitter for severe weather alerts, but that's not helpful to someone who needs to program a radio now if there's no signal to use for the setup.

WCBS is great if you're listening, but it won't wake you up in the middle of the night with a warning if something is coming at you.

And smartphones are great under normal circumstances but as I'm sure you know they get slammed in an emergency. I remember having trouble even getting a call through during both 9/11 and the Northeast Blackout. Then our power was out after Sandy and we had no cell service for a week as all the towers around us failed. Everyone seems to think you can depend on your iPhone for everything these days but sometimes that's not true when you need it most.
 
Besides what ToMM said, not everyone has a smartphone and this is all weather all the time unlike WCBS (or any other station).
 
Not everyone has a Weather Radio! I'd guess far more people have AM radios and smartphones. In a severe weather emergency WCBS will be all weather all the time. Also KWO35 (Channel 7) isn't the only available weather channel in the NY area.
 
Out here in severe thunderstorm and flash flood country the SAME weather radio is a life saver. I can look out the window and see the dark clouds gathering but unless I consult the radar I have no real idea what is happening. And I am not looking out the window at 2:00 in the morning. I have mine in monitor mode with the volume turned up. When it goes off it gets everyone's attention, especially in the middle of the night.
 
During this disruption, KWO35 comes back on the air when there is severe weather predicted. All SAME messages get transmitted.
 
wadio said:
Not everyone has a Weather Radio! I'd guess far more people have AM radios and smartphones. In a severe weather emergency WCBS will be all weather all the time. Also KWO35 (Channel 7) isn't the only available weather channel in the NY area.
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Whether WCBS will go wall-to-wall with coverage depends on the severity and widespreadness of the event. There might be a severe thunderstorm going through Putnum County that would be of real interest to those residents, but the rest of the Tri-state Area won't care. They won't go all-weather for that.

Am radios and smartphones are certainly useful for weather. There's no denying that. But why not use a communication method that is specifically designed for that in addition to other outlets?
 
Then why not tune to a different NOAA weather channel? KWO35 isn't the only one.

One day this past summer I had outdoor plans for the evening and there was a local weather system headed through my area of CT. While the three NOAA channels I receive here were rotating through forecasts for the Cape May to Block Island and blathering about how to avoid heat stroke, etc., I tuned to WCBS where Craig Allen identified a specific path of heavy rain north of me but said that by the time it reached Long Island Sound it would probably dissipate. He turned out to be absolutely correct.

To each his own but I just don't find NOAA radio very helpful anymore. It's not the definitive source of information it once was. I can get a better handle on the weather by looking at a radar map, flipping between WCBS/WINS/WBBR, looking out the window and, certainly not least, listening for static on an AM radio!
 
There are certainly quicker and more convenient ways than NOAA Weather Radio to get day to day weather information. However, WCBS or WBBR won't alert you about severe weather. At this point, the SAME/EAS notifications are about the only "value add" to NOAA Weather Radio.
 
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Channels 5 and 6 out of New Jersey are both in range and both cover New York Harbor.
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Whatever channel numbers a particular radio has are arbitrary. On radios I've owned 162.55 has been C, 3 or 7 depending on the model. Can you be more specific?
 
162.45 and 162.50 should be listenable although fringe. It does seem surprising that NOAA would eliminate NYC from its weather broadcast sites but I still doubt that many people have even noticed.
 
On my radio, 162.55 is channel 1.
From my location, I can faintly pick up a few alternative stations -- albeit with hit or miss reliability.
 
This has turned the many AM TIS stations which simulcsast KWO35 into low-powered radio jammers with the unsquelched hiss, except once every few minutes when they cut in with an ID. One TIS here in central NJ has switched to the Allentown NOAA signal but it isn't coming in well and they are retransmitting it with lots of static. Another TIS simply removed the TIS simulcast and now runs their local announcements in a continuous loop.
 
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