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12-28-2015, 03:35 PM
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Senior Member
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You can also set up your smart phone to receive advisories for your location.
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12-28-2015, 03:47 PM
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HikerBob
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Cedar City, Utah
Posts: 229
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Originally Posted by Bluepill
A hint on using NOAA weather radio when traveling: The notifications often refer to counties, and if you are not really familiar with the areas you will travel through, you need a map with good county info. to find out if an alert pertains to your location or route. Something like this PDF file is good because it can scale up for detail:
http://www.county.org/about-texas-co.../countymap.pdf
You can then compare with a normal atlas view to locate your position in relation to cities and roads.
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Here's the link to NOAA's listing by state and city.
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12-28-2015, 03:48 PM
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HikerBob
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Cedar City, Utah
Posts: 229
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NOAA has a website with all the states listed, and all the xmitter sites by city once you click on the state. All the frequencies and power I watts.
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12-28-2015, 03:50 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 643
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harkerr
You can also set up your smart phone to receive advisories for your location.
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This is what we do although it doesn't work if we are in a cellular dead spot but we have yet for that to occur when stopped for the night. It has worked well so far as we've been woken up a couple of times for severe weather warnings from the National Weather Service.
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12-28-2015, 04:00 PM
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Always Learning
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Four Corners, FL
Posts: 21,891
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Originally Posted by keith_h
This is what we do although it doesn't work if we are in a cellular dead spot but we have yet for that to occur when stopped for the night. It has worked well so far as we've been woken up a couple of times for severe weather warnings from the National Weather Service.
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I think the built-in weather alerts don't use cell technology. I think it's radio based in some way. There was a govt page on it that described it.
I'd still like a hard radio in addition to my phone.
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12-28-2015, 05:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Mount Laurel, New Jersey
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Don't go to Cass, West Virginia. No cell service and 2 pay phones in the town. Also no TV and 1 am radio station , also was told most GPS doesn't work.
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12-28-2015, 06:37 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Southern, IL
Posts: 3,272
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A32Deuce
Don't go to Cass, West Virginia. No cell service and 2 pay phones in the town. Also no TV and 1 am radio station , also was told most GPS doesn't work.
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Kind'a down on that town are ya? I guess you found the end of the earth.
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12-28-2015, 06:39 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 10,907
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A32Deuce
Don't go to Cass, West Virginia. No cell service and 2 pay phones in the town. Also no TV and 1 am radio station , also was told most GPS doesn't work.
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That's because Cass is right next to Green Bank, WV, the country's "quietest town," where this stuff is banned. The telescope in Green Bank is listening to galaxies.
America's quietest town: Where cell phones are banned
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12-28-2015, 09:36 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: West Virginia
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I have two each of the Eton Axis and the Eton Rover. They have the best hand cranks I have ever used, but do charge via USB as well.
The Rover a bit more space saving and more ergo-dynamic to crank. http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/Eton...FYQ6aQodyvcHYw
The Rover does not have an alert and is analog tuning. I always toss it in a suitcase when traveling, and keep the second one in my office.
The Axis has the alert and digital tuning. It takes regular batteries, too, and also uses a rechargeable battery like a cordless phone. One is by my bed and one is in the TT http://www.amazon.com/American-Self-...t_sims?ie=UTF8
(I am at the opposite end of the state from Cass. The railroad is pretty, though.)
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12-29-2015, 07:44 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: SouthWest Michigan
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We have 2,,, a small portable we used to use when we were in the North in our old TT,,, I do like that one because it shows the temp,,, and we have a small Jensen that we use @ home,,, both can be set to Alerts !!!
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12-29-2015, 08:26 AM
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