Hey! That's environmentally unfriendly. We don't salt the roads out here
in winter as is done back East; it gets into the streams and zaps the
fish!

Mike Freeman

On Mon, 10 May 2004, shawn klein wrote:

> Well, I take them with a grain of salt, h i
>
> --- John Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Well, I don't believe in weather forecasts, but some
> > times I use them to set
> > the volume on my scanner when I first turn it on in
> > the morning and it's
> > synthesized here last I knew, but like I say I don't
> > believe in weather
> > forecasts so I really don't pay much attention.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: NOAA Weather voices in different parts
> > of the country
> >
> >
> > > Hi Jeff. I think it was in 2001 when they started
> > with
> > > the human voice, 2 actually, supposedly belonging
> > to 2
> > > anonymous NOAA employees, 1 male, 1 female. I
> > remember
> > > when I started hearing them, I would hear all the
> > > little flaws where phonemes changed, now I don't
> > > really notice them. Well they still use the male
> > > synthesized voice that they started using in late
> > 97
> > > or early 98, even though they had been saying they
> > > were fazing that out, so on most of the
> > transmitters I
> > > pick up here, which is quite a lot, I used to
> > avidly
> > > dx them, there is a mixture of all 3 voices
> > involved
> > > on any given day. They say that the only time
> > you'll
> > > hear a real live human on the air is when systems
> > > break down, but I don't think that's exactly
> > truthful,
> > > as when severe weather threatens, I'll often hear
> > a
> > > human on the Saint Joseph Missouri transmitter,
> > where
> > > I generally get my weather. The human will be
> > giving a
> > > current synopsis of what's going on with the
> > > atmosphere, what storms are moving where, then
> > you'll
> > > hear the mechanicals again giving warnings and
> > listing
> > > counties in Kansas and Missouri affected. I don't
> > know
> > > if they'll ever phaze out the old voice or not,
> > but I
> > > have found over the years, what ever voice is
> > used, I
> > > can still use sound quality, speed, and with these
> > new
> > > voices, dialect clues to discriminate between
> > > transmitters on the same frequency when ducting is
> > > running strong. A few days ago, I was able to pick
> > out
> > > the Blue Rapids Kansas, Sedalia Missouri, and
> > Cameron
> > > Missouri transmitters all on 162.425 just by
> > moving my
> > > indoor twin lead J-pole around at the base. Back
> > in
> > > 97, before they went synthesized, I picked up
> > > transmitters as far away as Alabama(near the
> > Florida
> > > border), and Nashville Tennessee, and as far west
> > as
> > > Goodland and Dodge City Kansas. North to Sioux
> > Falls
> > > South Dakota, with a pair of stacked 5 element
> > yagis
> > > for 2 meters. Got a tape full of recordings I made
> > of
> > > all the stations I heard during that period.
>
>
>
>
>
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