[BC] BUSH ORDERS UPDATE OF EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM

[Glen Kippel]

On 6/28/06, Bill Croghan <loteng at lvradio.com> wrote:
>
> About 10-12 year as ago there was a plan in progress to put the eastern
> half
> of both counties into one or more AZ ops area.  I guess that fizzled.
>        In any event if a local plan covers to much area, CHANGE THE PLAN.
> We spun off the northern part of Inyo county from the Southern NV plan
> since
> that part of CA couldn't really listen to Southern NV any way.
>        Eastern San Bernardino county, i.e. Barstow, Baker, etc might be
> better off in our Southern Nevada (Includes Las Vegas)plan or the Mojave
> County AZ plan.  (I'm not trolling for more work and a new ops area would
> be
> better.)
>
>
> --------------------



Not quite.  Since Blythe and Needles are outside the reception area of any
California stations, Needles (unless they have gone dark by now) monitors
the LP1 in Kingman, and emergency messages from CA authorities that affect
that area are routed through the Mojave County EOC.  In Blythe, they monitor
the Yuma LP2 (since reception of the LP1, KBLU, is unreliable) and NWS, both
on Black Mountain.  All this was worked out years ago.

Now that you mention it, the area of San Bernardino County north of Highway
62 and east of Old Woman Springs Road is supposed to be serviced by NWS Las
Vegas.  However I know of no way to get LV NOAA radio anywhere in that
area.  If you have any ideas, please let me know and I'll try to bring them
up at our next LECC meeting.

Weather for Joshua Tree National Park is supposed to come from Phoenix, but
I don't know how any weather forecasts for that region would actually be
heard there, since the nearest NOAA transmitter is fed from San Diego..