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NOAA radio down

Wait it took them this long to figure out they had a interference issue? Or maybe something drifted out of spec and caused the drift into the USCG channels?

»www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/outages.php

To clarify for those who didn't click the link, this is for the NY area.

I had an email from one of their techs before they finally put the public notice up. No explanation what the problem is exactly but if it was a transmitter spur or frequency drift I am sure they could have replaced the hardware by now as this has been going on since mid-July or so. Perhaps they are going to have to move to a new frequency and abandon 162.55. The only frequency that I do not get at some reception on is 162.525MHz. All the other frequencies have activity on them and these are ones I receive all the time so an NYC transmitter dropped onto one of these frequencies would most likely cause interference:

162.40 Meriden, CT
162.425 Coatesville, PA
162.45 Spring Lake, NJ
162.475 Riverhead, NY
162.50 Hardyston, NJ

If not 162.525 then 162.425 would be the next logical choice as it is the most distant.
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It does very well for the distance at my location on Long Island. I have it on right now as I am writing this. KWO-35 was on again this afternoon and I thought "finally, they fixed it". Nope. It is off again and KHB-47 from New London is coming in. Back on the 16th it was WXL-40 from Harrisburg coming in on 162.55.

Earlier today WXM-95 from Towanda, PA on 162.525 was coming in. Back on the 19th KHC-49 from Norwich, NY was coming in on 162.525. Definitely some interesting propagation today. Must be the humidity and some enhanced tropospheric propagation. These were the conditions that made analog UHF-TV DX'ing fun!
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I have a hard time getting all the NOAA stations indoors

this is odd, since the frequencies the coast guard uses is far away from the NOAA frequencies. »www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=mtvhf also, NOAA is a very important, life saving service, disabling that is very extreme.