WSW for that radio: So the station crashed, right? Maybe it crashed right in the middle of the tones for the test on that one. But it has to activate a message for it. So while the tone was going, it may have crashed in the middle of it. This would mean that the tone would be confused for that radio, and it would display the WSW instead of the RWT. tl;dr Tone mixup. Also, maybe they repeated the message from Feb. 1st on the 12-521.
MidiMaze178 or the radio decoded static. This once happened with my Midland WR100. I was trying to go to sleep, and it went off for a Radiological Hazard Warning, and none of my radios said so.
@Luna’s Retro Tech this makes the most sense, you’re probably right. i commented that when i was 12 and wanted to look like i knew things, sorry about that :D
My hypothesis: You remember the double header weekly test that crashed my station a while ago? I think something happened similar to that. Maybe the station was only able to send out one header burst, or only a partial one before it went dark, which was only picked up on the 12-521, and showed up as a WSW because of noise on air. That's what I can think of.
I know this video is 8 years old, but let me explain what I think happened. I think the radio (12-996) misdecoded the event as a 6 hour event (as you said). But for the 12-521, it likely "ghost activated" (which more commonly occurs on 1050 hertz activated radios, but can still occur on S.A.M.E radios).
The winter storm warning on the radio shack could be explanatory because like 99 6 it could have gotten an alert but misshurd the tones and thought it was a winter storm warning but it was actually required weekly test like when a radio says unrecognized warning and recognized watch and so forth it could have misheard and instead of putting unrecognized warning or unrecognized statement or etc it put a winter storm warning
For the random RWT on the one, sometimes the purge can be set to a really long time (sometimes >6hrs!) and I think that's what happened there. But idfk about the winter storm warning.
I’m really late here but I think they probably sent out like 1 tone of a winter storm warning and that is probably why only the 12-521 activated because it only needs one tone to activate I might be wrong but I’m not sure
I wonder if KWO35 malfunctioned and sent out the first part of the header for a WSW. The RadioShack radios go off on the first blast but the other radios go off on the third blast, so that might be why the RadioShack is the only one that got it.
It was probably like that because sometimes my WR120 goes out and turns back on and then I have to setup everything all over again. I think that happened because yours probably went out too and it set itself to a different State/County and there was a winter storm warning for that state or county. Try going to the menu to set channel and see if it was on the right channel. It probably set to a different station mine is Upton witch is channel 4. then when I went to turn it on It was set to a Connecticut station
That’s strange I don’t know why it would show a winter storm warning when there are no winter storm warnings in effect that’s really weird in my opinion
The header malfunction hypothesis makes sense to me, though that should mean that your EAR-10 would have it as well. No idea on why there was no RWT, though my WFO has done that once too for no reason.
The winter storm warning was probably a glitch with the radio itself. I had a weather radio glitch by permanently having an avalanche warning and i live in Ohio... there was no avalanche warning
if you think that's weird then listen to this... so i was on the nws website and a tornado warning had popped up on the map and i had been listening to noaa weather radio for probably 5 minutes before the warning came up on the map and i listened for about 15 minutes and there were no warnings at all
I think kwo35 tried to send out an RWT but phone line went out witch caused the same codes to send a winter storm warning and the radio shack went off due to the same codes
I got the same problem you had when I was first setting up my Radio Shack 12 - 991 weather radio. W X L 31 in Syracuse went off the air for a couple of days but when they came back they had the brand new voices so I'm thinking you might be getting an upgrade to your Weather Radio and they shut down the station to upgrade it. As for the winter weather warning you might just have a glitch on your radio maybe they were testing the radio since it is test day like you said and I could be testing out the radio who knows
I have some answers for you listed below. 1. For the Weekly Test Scroll: The reason the Weekly Test scroll is up on KZZ31 for 6 Hours is that it can sometimes read it as that either due to static, or sometimes they send it out in general. I've had that happen to me so many times before. 2. For the Radios not leaving a trace of Weekly Test, I did not leave anything recording in my room that day, however I was told that some radios started ringing around 11:00 AM, but strangely enough, the WR-301 didn't leave a trace, probably due to static. This I'm not sure about. I can't explain the WSW scroll on the Radio Shack 12-521. I'm baffled too by the way! The one week I don't tape the Weekly Test is the week something mysterious happens!! Also, the NYC transmitter is down due to that telephone line issue. I hope they get it back up soon because there is a possible wintry event on the way, if you heard about it.
maybe your weather has not got new information from your last winter storm. some weather radio's are like that. that they have not fully been updated. for the next information.
There's 2 possibilities, one, the radio activated really late for the WSW or it decoded the static as a EAS alert.
WSW for that radio:
So the station crashed, right? Maybe it crashed right in the middle of the tones for the test on that one. But it has to activate a message for it. So while the tone was going, it may have crashed in the middle of it. This would mean that the tone would be confused for that radio, and it would display the WSW instead of the RWT.
tl;dr Tone mixup.
Also, maybe they repeated the message from Feb. 1st on the 12-521.
MidiMaze178 or the radio decoded static. This once happened with my Midland WR100. I was trying to go to sleep, and it went off for a Radiological Hazard Warning, and none of my radios said so.
@Luna’s Retro Tech this makes the most sense, you’re probably right. i commented that when i was 12 and wanted to look like i knew things, sorry about that :D
7:20 snow man warning!
what da hell
My hypothesis: You remember the double header weekly test that crashed my station a while ago? I think something happened similar to that. Maybe the station was only able to send out one header burst, or only a partial one before it went dark, which was only picked up on the 12-521, and showed up as a WSW because of noise on air. That's what I can think of.
Interesting hypothesis!
@@SPCcranford1056 2:43 wr100 glitch
@@ashtonbrown3827 No it is not, that is the radio channel list.
@@RobertsExtras it has PM at the end
@@SPCcranford1056 What’s the name of the strobe light in your room and it’s orange? What’s the name of it?
7:20 Lol you renamed WSWs to “Snowman Warning”
Lmao
How do you even do that lol
RWT
Location: All of New Jersey
Effective Time: [Error 404: file not found, defaulting to 6 hours.]
I know this video is 8 years old, but let me explain what I think happened.
I think the radio (12-996) misdecoded the event as a 6 hour event (as you said).
But for the 12-521, it likely "ghost activated" (which more commonly occurs on 1050 hertz activated radios, but can still occur on S.A.M.E radios).
Hahaha snowman warning
SPCpenrose3419 why is snowman warning a alert
Andy Hinkson im dying
Snow man warning is funny
@@SPClilyfoote He added it the alert by himself by replacing the Winter Storm Warning.
I know, that doesn’t make sense. That’s weird!
At 1:43 video progress time, i heard what i recognized as a pre-DECT6.0 panasonic WIRELESS phone those are the only phones that offer that ringtone
When you realize your weather radios are on lean
Holy shit how many radios does it take to get a warning lol
Ya man
IT'S OVER 9000!!! (I'm joking. LOL)
One.
Yes. At least one.
374
What's that clock you have up there?
The winter storm warning on the radio shack could be explanatory because like 99 6 it could have gotten an alert but misshurd the tones and thought it was a winter storm warning but it was actually required weekly test like when a radio says unrecognized warning and recognized watch and so forth it could have misheard and instead of putting unrecognized warning or unrecognized statement or etc it put a winter storm warning
This has happened to me a lot! Sometimes because of cloudy conditions or not getting a good signal or it just did it randomly
I read this in NOAA. Apparently, The station was offline and alerts were sent off.
For the random RWT on the one, sometimes the purge can be set to a really long time (sometimes >6hrs!) and I think that's what happened there. But idfk about the winter storm warning.
I’m really late here but I think they probably sent out like 1 tone of a winter storm warning and that is probably why only the 12-521 activated because it only needs one tone to activate I might be wrong but I’m not sure
It might have misread the RWT as a winter storm warning?
That's possible, but keep in mind no other radios activated for the RWT.
Maybe it mistaken that EAS tone to be a Winter storm warning Instead of a require weekly test
Did they send winter storm warning out by mistake?
I am thinking a misread, or the radio somehow picked up a header from an overlapped station
I wonder if KWO35 malfunctioned and sent out the first part of the header for a WSW. The RadioShack radios go off on the first blast but the other radios go off on the third blast, so that might be why the RadioShack is the only one that got it.
That is possible... KWO-35 has messed up in the past!
That is likely what happened.
I'm late, but wouldn't that mean that the EAR-10 would have to have the WSW scroll?
+NWSRuskin329 Doesn't the EAR-10 go off on the 3rd header too?
+Pyrodron Productions EAR-10 goes off for the first header
It was probably like that because sometimes my WR120 goes out and turns back on and then I have to setup everything all over again. I think that happened because yours probably went out too and it set itself to a different
State/County and there was a winter storm warning for that state or county. Try going to the menu to set channel and see if it was on the right channel. It probably set to a different station mine is Upton witch is channel 4. then when I went to turn it on
It was set to a Connecticut station
Interesting!
TrainsCars&WRs it's is actually a glitch in the weather radio
SPCcranford1056 sup
LISirenfan1003 my wr100 does that a lot every time I plop it on my bed, and then it shuts off, and turns back on again.
Channel 4 was set to a CT station? Most likely WXJ41
The station probably had an issue and went off.
Lance Stinson probably
It also reminds me of when the station was off the air a long time ago, and only your WR-100 triggered an "immediate evacuation."
Oh yes, I remember that! Scary as anything waking up to that in the middle of the night!
The reason KWO35 went out is because it's KWO35.
Hey this was on my birthday!!! :>
Maybe Kwo35 has went off the air so the weekly was not issued but that 521 has ghost activated
That’s strange I don’t know why it would show a winter storm warning when there are no winter storm warnings in effect that’s really weird in my opinion
The Detroit/Pontiac office usually sends the RWT out as a 6 hour event every time
Normally on KJY93 Muncie, Indiana and WXM98 Marion, Indiana RWT and RMT's are 6 hours long like SVA's and TOA's
The header malfunction hypothesis makes sense to me, though that should mean that your EAR-10 would have it as well. No idea on why there was no RWT, though my WFO has done that once too for no reason.
Exactly! Very bizarre if you ask me.
Maybe it was on the wrong NOAA Weather Radio channel or the NWS in Upton, NY Might of fell asleep 😴 on the Winter Storm Warning button?
Doesn't your 521 select its channel for you?
That happened with WXL93 they went out when issuing a RWT and my wr-120 thought it was a tornado warning
r/facepalm
The winter storm warning was probably a glitch with the radio itself. I had a weather radio glitch by permanently having an avalanche warning and i live in Ohio... there was no avalanche warning
I think the radio tower went out and the one with the WSW was a glitch
if you think that's weird then listen to this... so i was on the nws website and a tornado warning had popped up on the map and i had been listening to noaa weather radio for probably 5 minutes before the warning came up on the map and i listened for about 15 minutes and there were no warnings at all
2:39 "Because none of the other radios show ir"
Except for the camo WR300 and the Reecom.
*I think its a lie*
He said those came in on the previous Sunday
I think kwo35 tried to send out an RWT but phone line went out witch caused the same codes to send a winter storm warning and the radio shack went off due to the same codes
I got the same problem you had when I was first setting up my Radio Shack 12 - 991 weather radio. W X L 31 in Syracuse went off the air for a couple of days but when they came back they had the brand new voices so I'm thinking you might be getting an upgrade to your Weather Radio and they shut down the station to upgrade it. As for the winter weather warning you might just have a glitch on your radio maybe they were testing the radio since it is test day like you said and I could be testing out the radio who knows
I have some answers for you listed below.
1. For the Weekly Test Scroll: The reason the Weekly Test scroll is up on KZZ31 for 6 Hours is that it can sometimes read it as that either due to static, or sometimes they send it out in general. I've had that happen to me so many times before.
2. For the Radios not leaving a trace of Weekly Test, I did not leave anything recording in my room that day, however I was told that some radios started ringing around 11:00 AM, but strangely enough, the WR-301 didn't leave a trace, probably due to static. This I'm not sure about.
I can't explain the WSW scroll on the Radio Shack 12-521.
I'm baffled too by the way! The one week I don't tape the Weekly Test is the week something mysterious happens!! Also, the NYC transmitter is down due to that telephone line issue. I hope they get it back up soon because there is a possible wintry event on the way, if you heard about it.
The good news is that KWO35 is back on the air! Bizarre day to say the least!!
***** Very true!
Bro how many alarms things do you have oh my god
*snowman warning*
DIES OF LAUGHTER
Its possible the WSW was dupposed to be the RWT, but someone hit the wrong button or those radios decoded it wrong!
he has the loudest weather radios next to his bed AND 2 OF THEM
why do you need two weather radios
Transmitter outage?
The storm warning looks like a malfunction.
o hi
maybe your weather has not got new information from your last winter storm. some weather radio's are like that. that they have not fully been updated. for the next information.
How dose he even know when a warning is ganna come and dose these videos he is a
Genius with these warnings
What's that car in your desk
Edit: all three
Your antenna is broke on the one that is messing up
It’s a glitch on the winter storm warning
I Am a BIG EAS Fan and I do not know why the hell u have a Winter Storm Warning on you're 12-521
What is a snowman warning
7:21 FROSTY THE SNOWMAN-
Well it’s Wensday so it’s a Required Weekly Test Day
Omg this happened to me with a fricking tornado
What the hell is a "Snow Man Warning"?
It’s a snowman warning lol!
And that's why bmh replaced the crs
*_maybe the radio is bad_*
4:57 I see you!!!
It might have been hacked
Moving the receiver maybe?
Odd..
4:56 female weather voice
The national weather service might did it on accident
Brandi Vannicola they can't do that if 521 shows the winter storm warning all the rest of the radios is supposed to show a winter storm warning
thats on feb6
that happen to me in utah
Interesting... doubt it was the Russians... but it seems to me like that was one messed up experience! Nice video. -Henry
it did that last time Because i put it on my radios and it did the same thing
I live in frickin new York
False alarm maybe????
LOL
Why do you have so many
Maybe a hacker did it.
for reals
I got the new voice of the nws
NONE😮
non of my business but how did u pay for so many radios do u have a job? jw
He buyed them over time.
No he works in the EMS/ambulance
waht the heck
FACE REVEAL
Tornado air con button midea aircon!!!
KWO35 IS OUT OF SERVICE
OK WE GET IT
My station is WXM42 Hagerstown, MD, Chamberburg, PA, And Martinsburg, West Virginia.
mine is also WXM42, and i live in Martinsburg, West Virginia
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