Not able to receive signal on any of the National Weather broadcasting frequencies. The closed weather tower is around 36 miles or less from my home location. I'm in the city of Newnan, Coweta County and the closed tower in La Grange, GA. Coordinates 33.0412, -85.01807 Station ID KXI76 on freq. 162.450 SAME 013077. I set my range from 20, 30 and 50 miles but hear nothing but static. Could someone please create me a favorite that works for you that I can import into my Sentinel program? I've wasted 3 days trouble shooting and searching Google with no luck. Thank you in advance.
Check your Service Types. When shipped, as well as when Sentinel is first installed, the only service types that are enabled are Custom 1 (the default for manually entered channels or talkgroups), as well as Dispatch call types for Public Safety: Law Dispatch, Fire Dispatch, EMS Dispatch, and Multi-Dispatch. Each of these categories also have associated
Tac and
Talk service types, i.e. Law Talk, Fire Tac, etc. Those should also be enabled.
Now, specifically related to your issues with the National Weather Service radio frequencies, those are tagged with a Service Type of
Other.
Enable that service type & then see if you now can receive NOAA Weather Radio.
As
Dave has already mentioned, those frequencies are in the Sentinel database and should be accessible with your correct location & range settings when you are using either the main database along with your location, or if you import the file he provided into a Favorites list that is set to use location control. Note that if you import that file, the National Weather Service system is set as 'Avoid'. Be sure to enable it.
However, the NOAA weather channels can be accessed without being in a Favorites list. You can access them through the scanner's menu even when not specifically programmed. either to scan the channels for any of the frequencies that are in range. or to activate Weather Priority. Weather Priority checks the channels periodically, looking for 1050Hz alert tone transmitted before a warning is announced. This mode can be used for monitoring in the background, even while your other systems of interest are being scanned.
You can also choose the Weather Alert mode which alerts only for those counties where you have entered their specific
SAME codes. However, this mode cannot be used along with normal scanning. For the SAME codes to be recognized, the scanner has to be focused on only those codes.
More on Weather options can be found here: