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--MUNCIE, IN
Residents of east-central Indiana now have a much more reliable alternative for their NOAA All Hazards Radio receivers. This week, a new transmitter near Muncie has become fully operational.
This examiner in cooperation with a few local ham radio operators, Delaware County police officers and Emergency Management, Senator Richard Lugar, and the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, have worked since 2001 to obtain more reliable coverage for east-central Indiana. This became especially true once the new Indiana law requiring residents of mobile homes to own NOAA Weather Radio receivers with the alert feature was passed last year. This new transmitter, which according to a recent news release by the NWS in Indianapolis went online on October 22 and has been in testing phase since that time, is now fully oprational on tower facilities owned and donated by Ball State University near Muncie.
Residents of Delaware, Madison, Blackford, Randolph, Henry, and southern Jay counties should now tune their weather radio receivers to channel 2, 162.425 MHz. SAME code information is the same as other transmitters, so no change should be needed to those settings. Residents of Grant county, this transmitter also covers information for your area, however you have a closer transmitter at Grant County Memorial Hospital on 162.45 MHz. The new Muncie transmitter can however, be a reliable alternative in the event of a failure of the Grant County transmitter.
Further information is available here, or here.
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