You may be hearing the next closest transmitter on 162.550 I believe it''s up in New London Connecticut. VHF signals can travel pretty far in the summer, especially when there's a warm humid air mass in place.
With KWO35 down for the interim. Tony has updated his KWO35 audio feed to cover the WXM60 NWR out of Southard, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
New York City Area NOAA Weather Radio KWO35
Thanks - Tony
Trying to fill the temporary coverage gap here in North Jersey, I just set up a NWR feed KZZ31 162.500 out of Hardyston,Sussex Co, NJ covering NW (North) Jersey, NE PA and S New York (Orange, Rockland & Sullivan Co's).
Here is the link:
Hardyston Area NOAA Weather Radio KZZ31 Thank you,
does anybody know when that is coming back on
I've been wondering what is going on with the relocation. KWO35 has been off the air a year now and we are entering yet another winter season where I have useless alert radios. I have been listening to the WXM80 stream from Riverhead when I want to get reports from the Upton NWS office. In fact it was quite helpful to have a stream available when we had a tornado warning for northwestern Nassau back on August 2, 2018. I was house/dog sitting near Port Washington and was in the predicted path. I only found out the details by listening to the WXM80 stream. I had a weather capable radio with me (Yaesu VX-7RB) but its rubber duck cannot pick up distant signals. Hopefully they will be back on the air again before 2019 rolls around.I was told last week that a lease was near completion in locating the transmitter to the Empire State Building. I was then told that if that lease comes through, to expect some time before they actually get on the air up there.
Does anybody know if KWO35 is still down, and if it will be coming back any time soon?
There was a tornado warning tonight, but I got nothing when I tried to tune in from upper Manhattan. The warning included Staten Island and possibly NYC, and there was damage due to a suspected tornado in Western NJ.
I tried all the other WX channels too, and nothing! Luckily NBC4 (for me, 4-3 is more stable than 4-1 on my old bunny ears...) was breaking into the program frequently (pretty much every commercial break, which is a lot), but no NOAA to be found. Your tax dollars at work...
If it's really a lease dispute, the landlord should be held for any and all storm related damages that occur during the outage...