SDS Weather Alert

[Dewey]

Anyone have problems with the SDS weather alerting? The DC metropolitan area is in the tornado bullseye for the next few hours due to the remnants of Ida. I was running an alert for my county on the 536, and an alert for all FIPS on the SDS100. An alert for my county came through for the 536, but the SDS remained silent. I then swapped the 536 for all FIPS and the SDS100 for my county. Once again, another alert came though on the 536 and the SDS remained quiet. Both scanner have a very strong capture of the 162.55 weather frequency, and they are set to alert only... no scanning.

EDIT: I'm now running both in all FIPS mode, and the SDS continues to remain silent while the 536 continues to alert.

 

[u2brent]

Mine Just went off, SDS using these codes... IDK what DC's code is..

Never tried Search mode.. IDK about that.

Just went again 162.5

 

[Dewey]

Thanks. I have the code for my county, but for now, I'm running 436, 536, & SDS100 on all FIPS (everything). Once again since my original post, the 436 & 536 have sounded alerts while the SDS remained quiet. I'm currently running the Global Filter on "Normal." Maybe it's time to play with that, but I'm sure glad that I'm just playing with the weather alert for now instead of relying on it.

 

[u2brent]

every area is of course different but my filter is set to OFF.

 

[Dewey]

Well, after something like 6 or 7 missed alerts, it finally went off for a Flash Flood Warning. Of course neither the 436 & 536 haven't missed any.

 

[u2brent]

Hmm..