@KanawhaCountyWX@mastodon.social
21 y/o blind nerd from Charleston WV. Tech/music/EAS/radio geek, licensed HAM, o&o of knamedia.net. Also on YouTube, X and Discord (@KanawhaCountyWX on all)
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@DFW_EAS Yeah it was, I heard it say "WXJ85 on 162.550," looked at my scanner and it was indeed on 162.400. Sadly there's not any recordings of the switchover, I was too young and terrified to have recorded it. At the time the EAS still scared me, and I was just hoping our house wouldn't take damage (thankfully it didn.t) Worst thing that happened that day was I knocked my phone out a second story window.
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@DFW_EAS So the reaosn I remember the exact date, we had catastrophic flash flooding that day with multiple flash flood emergencies being issued and some towns being completely washed away. There's a video of a home in Clendinnen floating off its foundation down an overflowing creek while engulfed in flames. For an hour, WXJ85's programming was airing on WXJ84, these are stations 120 miles aparr and on diferent frequencies. I had some sort of an app on my iPad, when I went to my
Yeah crazy to believe it's already been a decade. My office transitioned on 06/23/2016 during a historic flooding event... not the best timing there Charleston. One slight point of correction, the modern voices are from VoiceText, not NeoSpeech. They're very similar, but VoiceText is more distinct in its intunation.
Alex Krier@AlexSpectrum93@dragonscave.spaceI can't believe its been 10 years since NOAA Weather Radio transitioned from the Console Replacement System (CRS) which used NWS DECtalk, AT&T Mike (later replaced with Speechify Tom), and AT&T Crystal (later replaced with Speechify Mara) for English, and Speechify Javiar for Spanish, to the Broadcast Message Handler (BMH) which uses NeoSpeech Paul for English and NeoSpeech Violeta for Spanish. Personally, I would've chose James instead of Paul, since I think James has that more formal professional intonation perfect for weather related events, Paul sometimes sounds a little bit high pitched.
@datajake1999 DECtalk question: this is a recording of the ATIS broadcast from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. A lot of airports still use DECtalk for their ATIS broadcasts, but some airports have this version of DECtalk, it's weirdly stressing the consinants. Do you know what version of DECtalk this could be, and also if the consinant stressing is something with that version or a config tweak?