RD>    If I drive about 5 miles east of here, I can pick up not only
RD>    the weather radio from Kansas City (the transmitter is actually
RD>    Funny thing is, that night I could hear 5 different stations and we
RD>    got five different forecasts for this area -- none of them right
RD>    except for the one that called for a 30% chance of rain.  It didn't
RD>    rain at all, so they were the closest.  The others said it was
RD>    going to rain.
RD>    I thought they all used the same information.  Go figure.
Just as the weather on the TV will be different from one chanel to
another , so is the VHF weather.   Also the stations give the weather
for different areas.  I am not familiar as to where those stations are
in relation to each other, but it could be like it is near where I live.
I am about 30 miles from one station and about 40 from another.  The one
that is 30 miles away is not the one that gives the weather for me.  I
am out of their regon, but in the area covered by the one 40 miles away.
That 30% of rain only means that in the area covered by their area
30% of the area will get rain.  That is what the local weather man
said at a talk he was giving at a local ham radio club meeting.
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