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So what
is this all about? This personal weather station and many more volunteers have
taken a NOAA Weather Alert radio and fed it into a computer. We then take that
feed and upload or "stream" it live to our partner Weather Underground. They
have graciously donated a server and large amounts of bandwidth to streaming
these broadcasts over the internet, so you the public can be kept better
informed in case of emergencies. How NOAA Alert actually works is better
described below from a reprint from their website.
 KZZ-81 Lockport, 162.425 MHz NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio station, KZZ-81 serves portions of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana including the Chicago Metropolitan Area, from a 1000 Watt transmitter in Lockport, IL. The nominal effective range of the transmitter is about 40 miles. Continuous 24 hour programming is provided from the National Weather Service Chicago Forecast Office, located in southwest suburban Romeoville. A map of the listening area is shown below, with Specific Area Message Encoder codes shown for each county. Severe weather watches and warnings are tone-alerted for all counties shaded in blue. Tone alarm tests for KZZ-81 occur each WEDNESDAY at approximately 11 AM.
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