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Skip Voros <svoros@EXECPC.COM> wrote...

>In addition to putting your Skywarn nets on the internet,
>why not also do a deal with your local cable TV community
>access guy----put a rotating graphic on one of their access
>channels, and couple the TV channels audio to your repeater
>frequency.

I believe putting ham traffic over local cable might be a
violation of FCC rebroadcast rules (not on the part of the
hams but on the part of the cable operator).

If it were legal to encrypt ham-based SKYWARN nets I'd do it.
The general public should be listening to NOAA Weather Radio
and *official* outlets like broadcast TV/radio and CATV override.
Traffic on SKYWARN nets, IMHO, whether ham or public safety
(police/fire/CD), is *not* intended for direct public consumption.
These nets are designed for inter-agency and intra-agency communication
and coordination.  The information contained within them is raw, tentative,
and often highly inaccurate.  While one could argue that the public might
gain valuable lead time by listening to local nets my feeling is that
the average scanner listener does not have enough knowledge to sort the
facts from the garbage.  A better solution would be to have your
local cable TV company NOAA pipe weather radio though a designated
channel and continuously run the latest radar loop/warnings from the
TWC WeatherStar box.  Spotter radio networks (even those run by the
local emergency management agency) do not represent the "official" word.
We should encourage people to get their info through proper, designated,
channels.

My opinion only.

I do believe that making live (or better yet, delayed) Internet broadcasts
of the nets available would serve an educational purpose.  Many net control
operators could learn from listening to how professional, tactical, nets
are operated.

..Chris..
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