So if you here 3M60
first digit is district 3
letters are type of unit
M units are maint
B is bridge crew
S is sign
60 series is area in this case 60 is Santiam Junction
Lower numbers are usually district engineers not sure if they are using A or X for them
12-37 weather reports such as 32 65 3 35 condition c
first group is temp 32
next group first digit is actual weather from clear to snowing hard to blizzard 6 or 7 is blizzard?
second digit is road surface condition 5 or 6 snow packed on road hard. lower numbers snow and slush to bare pavement
third group of numbers is amount of new snow since last report
fourth group is total roadside snow
condition A , B or C is chain requirements
A trucks over 10k traction ok on under 10k
B requires trucks and more smaller vehicles and trailers have chains and
C everything must have chains even with traction tires
Used to have book years ago that had the codes but some have changed.
They give reports several times a day as long as it is snow season, pretty much the same as studded tire season dates but have heard them go longer with late snows.
From my location here in Foster I can usually here Bend North a lot of the time on 156.060 , Santiam Junction 156.135, Sweet Home 151.025 and Eugene 158.745.
David
