Anyone know where the nonstop NOAA audio on 1650 is coming from? Tedious details:
1650 (LPR) unidentified, west central Florida; interesting is an unidentified nonstop NOAA Weather Radio here. First noted by the editor in early July, 213, barely audible on both the Courtney Campbell and Howard Frankland bridges (see WQQJ297 log), and weakly around Feather Sound and the High Point area of Pinellas. Unable to confirm which NOAA site is being relayed, but there was a mention of "seas 2-4 feet" and (presumably) state current temperature synopsis, with "Orlando, 89-degrees" heard, so certainly Florida. Not audible in west Tampa, so surely not one of the two FDOT I-275 transmitters. And, only barely audible along the north/central side near the water path Tampa Bay east side of Pinellas County. Thinking this would be one of the three Sunshine Skyway Bridge TIS’s recently listed as activated in the FCC dB, I drove to Ft. DeSoto mid local morning, July 6, 2013. At the east end, with the bridge in view to the SE, only a threshold trace of this. Pointing the Sony ICF-7600GR portable to the NE, a huge carrier was present, which is one of the new WQQJ297 transmitters on I-275, Tampa, the one that airs the quasi-malfunctioning default date and keypad entry instructions on programming access (female compu-voice that appears only every 20 minutes!) via whatever the phone number I could do so with if only I knew the number. So where is this from? Gerry Bishop, driving north on the Suncoast Parkway SR-589 toll just after noon local July 7, 2013, had this peaking around Mile Marker 7, roughly Zephyrhills area to the east if indeed located east of this point. The Suncoast Parkway FDOT transmitter on 1640, located a bit north of here, remains on and with the Turnpike DOT loop, so not that one re-purposed to 1650 with NOAA.
1650 (LPR) unidentified, west central Florida; interesting is an unidentified nonstop NOAA Weather Radio here. First noted by the editor in early July, 213, barely audible on both the Courtney Campbell and Howard Frankland bridges (see WQQJ297 log), and weakly around Feather Sound and the High Point area of Pinellas. Unable to confirm which NOAA site is being relayed, but there was a mention of "seas 2-4 feet" and (presumably) state current temperature synopsis, with "Orlando, 89-degrees" heard, so certainly Florida. Not audible in west Tampa, so surely not one of the two FDOT I-275 transmitters. And, only barely audible along the north/central side near the water path Tampa Bay east side of Pinellas County. Thinking this would be one of the three Sunshine Skyway Bridge TIS’s recently listed as activated in the FCC dB, I drove to Ft. DeSoto mid local morning, July 6, 2013. At the east end, with the bridge in view to the SE, only a threshold trace of this. Pointing the Sony ICF-7600GR portable to the NE, a huge carrier was present, which is one of the new WQQJ297 transmitters on I-275, Tampa, the one that airs the quasi-malfunctioning default date and keypad entry instructions on programming access (female compu-voice that appears only every 20 minutes!) via whatever the phone number I could do so with if only I knew the number. So where is this from? Gerry Bishop, driving north on the Suncoast Parkway SR-589 toll just after noon local July 7, 2013, had this peaking around Mile Marker 7, roughly Zephyrhills area to the east if indeed located east of this point. The Suncoast Parkway FDOT transmitter on 1640, located a bit north of here, remains on and with the Turnpike DOT loop, so not that one re-purposed to 1650 with NOAA.