How Weather Radios Work, S.A.M.E. NWS Technology EAS Weather Alert
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In this video, I will be discussing some of the technology that goes with weather alert radios, and checking out a couple of options when buying a weather alert radio. There is no argument in this topic that EVERYONE in the U.S. should have an emergency alert radio in their home. It's not just for weather, and it WILL save your life. The links are in this description below.
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Visit www.weathershack.com , that's where I shop.
www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/
www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/nwrs...
I have a Radio Shack weather radio that has alerted us to severe weather that hit within half a mile of my house, and I knew to get into the "safe spot" in our house. They are truly life-savers!
Yup. Thanks for watching.
@Thomas Harris same thing I have 7 radios!
I haven’t used a NOAA radio for many years. SAME is new to me. Thank you for a fantastic explanation! I’ve never known what the signals were and appreciate leaning about them.
Thank NOAA/NWS and Storm Spotters for reporting tornado's and other severe weather. These radio's are life savers. Skywarn Storm Spotter here.
Very cool and informative. Thanks for posting!
Great video. Very informative.
These things are going to be even more important with the coming craziness in the next 10-15 years due to the planet heating up faster than everyone previously thought. Get 'em while you can!
GloBaL WaRmInG lol what a joke
@@JohnChrysostom101100% agree. The amount of idiots that still think it's hoax and still call it "Global Warming" is hilarious. I mean, I know they just do it to try and be trolls online and get people riled up or whatever, but there are actual dumb people in the real world who don't understand satire and think it's all a scam to control people. Crazy.
Watched your video today, I've felt like having a cell phone for alerts just wasn't cutting it-- sometimes I get them minutes late, sometimes not at all... After watching a couple videos, I decided it's time I got one for myself! Having a weather radio like this, I feel, is so important for those who live in regions prone to severe weather.
My region isn't too terrible, tornadoes aren't common, but we do get severe thunderstorms in the summer that can do damage. Strong winds and possible hail, lightning strikes, and flash flooding are the most common threats, but these are no less serious! Even if many folk have Cell phones these days, having more than one source of information, especially emergency information, can make a huge difference. Thank you for explaining how these radios work, and demonstrating their usefulness!
Thanks for this breakdown. I didn't realize how important these can be. Plan to pick one up tonight before bad weather roles in!
What was your old radio... I’m a EAS enthusiast I have many of these radios and I film them going off
Great! Very interesting. Thanks for this video
My same radio has saved my family multiple times. As well monitoring the skywarn station and local first responder channels
He did a very good job on the Weather radio. Very informative.
I have the handheld version. Exactly the same one you show. I have it set for 4 counties, since I live kinda in the corner of one county! I'm sure other viewers also would have to enter multiple S.A.M.E. codes to cover several counties. It does mean that I get woke up at night when a bad storm is hitting the other side of one of the counties, but it better than being woke up when the storm removes the roof of your house!
Great review!!!!!
Thanks for the great tutorial and explanation! I set up my Midland WR400 and an alert came through leaving the "advisory" light blinking. I could find no way to turn it off in the manual. Turning the radio off and on didn't remedy it. Might you have a suggestion? Thanks so much!
Really great video. I learned a lot! So now the question. I have a mobile home in northern WI. which is largely metal. My SAME station is in Crandon and serves Florence County. I can not receive this station inside. I'm using a Midland Weather Radio with an external antenna jack. Do you have a recommendation for an outside antenna that will work in this situation? I'm good with building one if need be. Thank you, Christine
Bet that iceberg alert will be useful in FL. Great info. I am taking SKYWARN webinar soon to become active participant on web in PA and 2 meter upon VE test for tech and gen coming soon.
mine is a realistic one which is basically RadioShack brand its called a realistic weather radio alert and its from the 80s and it still works!
I have the WR-300 it has been a life saver the WR-400 looks MUCH easier as you don't have to mess with digging out the county code. This is a good buy
Good Job! Great Info! My current WX radio gives me alerts for the whole south east. It is such a pain I leave it off. I'm getting one of the new radios.
NOAA Weather Radio stations only serve a few counties, so the entire southeast isn't going to be served by one station.
Hi there. Gord VA3WXA here and if you want to talk about WX radios, I have a few, in the form of standalone receivers , a Midland marine radio and a couple of scanners. Great video.
Thanks!
good step by step
i m in the netherlands so no weather stations
If you live in a TORNADO ALLY if you live in places like flordia or tropics where hurricanes or tropical storms or common or live in area prone to wildfires or forest fires it is VITAL TO HAVE A WEATHER RADIO if u live in a state where thing is calmer while it may not be as required i would still highly recommend that just because you never know these days if a local, state, or federal emergency can pop out outta nowhere and you may need alerts to be responded to in seconds.
The WXR doesn’t stand for “weather radios”, that’s the originator. So WXR is a weather related alert. CIV is Civil Authority, PEP is Primary Point entry system.
I’m pretty certain if you live in Florida, you don’t need to filter out blizzard or iceberg… in fact you probably have some other severe issues if those events pop up in Florida.
Good job👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Good topic. Thank you.
Could you play that alert from a headphone jack into the antenna port to test your radio?
Thanks for the video. I was wondering if that Midland has an external antenna (to run outside my home) option and if so; which antenna would you recommend? I'm also in Florida, Loxahatchee; and signal strength around here is spotty. Thanks again for the video
Yes. You can plug an external antenna into the back of a WR-400. You will however need an antenna that terminates in an RCA plug, as that's the type of antenna the WR-400 will accept. One example of such an antenna is the Midland 18-259W through-window antenna.
Where do you find the number for your county? Thank you
Is there a good same radio that has a crank and is portable
Do they make a SAME weather radio for motorhomes? I'm in need of something that automatically detects my location (gps?)
How do you make an antenna with rca and co ax
I have a Cobra handheld CB radio that has NOAA Weather Radio and my Motorola walkie-talkies have NOAA Weather Radio as well. However, they only have the channel number. That's all they have.
that concept is nice,I k iw how it work mostly, but we don't have anything like that
I own both of those radios! Nice video!
73rds de WA3AHC
You rock bro ! Hay wait I had a m is land cb my friend tried to. Install a mod and never worked again,!
HAHAHAHA, was it a roger beep mod in that midland CB?? HAHAHA
Are you going to do a video on the new firmware update on the X5105?
When they send me the appropriate cable to show it then I will, yes.
12:48 So every time a weather warning like for tornados occurs, anyone who owns the radio you are reviewing will hear the 3-tone alert before the radio's own alert alarm goes off?
Yes. That’s correct. The three tones you hear are the SAME header bursts that tells the radio to activate or not.
Did you ever find it?
I upgraded my radio a while back, setting it up, I was as confused as a fart in a fan factory.
WOW, hahaha, comment of the year. Permission to use that in future conversations??
Coincidentally, those in the broadcasting business like to refer to those SAME data bursts as "duck farts".
Now that is funny to a guy sitting up here on barstool mountain.
@@denelson83 duck farts lol! Hahahaha! 🦆💨💩📻
I like Midland and Radio Shack I have a lot of Weather radios
19:29 Actully, there is 122 NWS offices.
I woke up an hour after I went to sleep during isaias in 2020 with my stereo 😂, also my stereo was on low volume. I want to be a ham radio operater...
some counties dont send out certain alerts
I got woken up by my Midland WR 120 at 4:36 AM
My wr400 doesn’t have a micro usb for power
It's really sad that there is not an international unified alert system standard. Y'know, SAME is pretty much a good foundation for one...
Will one of those alarms work in canada
Yes, Environment Canada uses the same technology as the US National Weather Service
Just to compare SAME codes, Eric, yours is 012061, for Indian River County, Florida. Mine is 081300, for East Vancouver Island, British Columbia. SAME codes for areas in Canada can be found on Wikipedia, in the article "Forecast region".
The SAME codes you show at 12:30 are for Lincoln and McPherson Counties in Nebraska. KLBF/NWS is the National Weather Service office in North Platte, NE. The attention tone used on weather radio stations is 1050 Hz.
If you want to load a database of NOAA Weather Radio transmitter sites into a Garmin GPS, so you can have a reference of which station to tune your portable weather radio to while travelling or storm chasing, I have posted the database here. www.poi-factory.com/node/24380
_Edit:_ BTW, earlier today, 2019/11-20, I got my own WR-400.
73 VE7NDE
I’m probably going to get a Midland 74-200
My wr400 stopped working
sat uplink lw clear 43 to 49 cloudy ww 2mph
So it's similar to 2 tone motorola pagers
Half life symbol noted..... I used to live on DOD and DOD source, If you played those...
Nice channel SKYWARN Spotter up in SE Volusia here 73 KN4AQJ
Hi 5 buddy, I recently caught the weather bug too, fixin to build me a motorised sat tracker. M0RFR in the UK 73!
No nuclear explosion alter?!?
47 2m an hour sw 10 2 15 mph
the attention tone is now a 1050 Hertz tone
As it has always been on NOAA Weather Radio.
I need a radio right now but its so expsensive
7 channel digital weatheradio
Weather Radios are more reliable than WEA
i have a alert
I don't care about the weather alert radio. What matres do you have to sleep through all that weather?
HAHAHA, it's the most money I have EVER dropped on a mattress, and now my wife hates it....
The weather radio has saved me from potentially getting my radio fried from lightening. I don't always disconnect my antenna's when I go to bed, so if I get an alert that a sudden thunderstorm is moving into my area I am glad to get out of bed and disconnect antennas and wall warts!
You are leading into my future video about that HAHAHA
You seriously wouldn't want to sleep through a tornado warning, would you? 😳🌪️
Blah blah.just get on with it