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Title: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: MchWxEnthusiast on August 31, 2020, 11:28:17 AM

Why can't I Find anyone talking about Environment Canada shutting down their weather radio services. This is a REALLY Important topic right now! They are going to shutdown 48 transmitters!! They want people to rely on their app and not everyone has a phone or the app so people have no other way to get alerts about potential severe weather or tornados. They said that they will be shutting down their services 6 months from now! I Don't live in Canada but this is still a big issue.

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: saratogaWX on August 31, 2020, 11:51:29 AM

Where did you see that news?

Looking at https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio.html doesn't show that announcement...

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: Otis on August 31, 2020, 01:13:00 PM

Yes where did you see this information?

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: davidmc36 on August 31, 2020, 09:24:20 PM

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5699566

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: saratogaWX on August 31, 2020, 11:44:12 PM

Ahh, so they're talking about discontinuing up to 48 of the 240 EC transmitters, and not the whole network (at this time).  Looks like they're open to comments before the EC decides, so Canadians (esp Nova Scotians) should let the EC know they want it to remain.

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: DW7240 on September 01, 2020, 07:53:52 AM

This information on shutting down services is being broadcast along with the normal broadcast via a female voice.  I'm not sure what transmitters are possibly going, but the one I rebroadcast - XMJ225 based in Toronto Canada is one of them.

Thanks.

Nick.

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: Jasiu on September 01, 2020, 08:27:00 AM

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/feds-consider-shutting-down-vhf-radio-weather-in-cape-breton-1.5699566 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/feds-consider-shutting-down-vhf-radio-weather-in-cape-breton-1.5699566)

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: PaulMy on September 01, 2020, 09:53:53 AM

I've sent my voice to EC,
but I have my own... [size=78%]http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/meteo_audio.html (http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/meteo_audio.html)[/size] as a standby \:D/


Enjoy,
Paul

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: mcrossley on September 01, 2020, 11:46:07 AM

Quote from: PaulMy on September 01, 2020, 09:53:53 AM

I've sent my voice to EC,
but I have my own... [size=78%]http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/meteo_audio.html (http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/meteo_audio.html)[/size] as a standby \:D/

That does not work for me Paul. Getting an error: "403 This action is unauthorized" on code.responsivevoive.com/getVoice.php

Followed by an error on another URL of "invalid API key"

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: PaulMy on September 01, 2020, 02:35:40 PM

 #-o
It speaks for me on my computers :?  including by clicking on the URL in this thread.  Maybe I should add the British voice back in!


Does it work for you from here  http://komokaweather.com/cumulusutils/index.html  and selecting Audio from the UserMenu?  again it does for me.
Not sure about the API key issue as not aware anything like that is involved in the script.


Enjoy,
Paul

Title: Re: Why is no one talking about Weather Radio Canada Services being Shutdown
Post by: mcrossley on September 01, 2020, 03:00:54 PM

Quote from: PaulMy on September 01, 2020, 02:35:40 PM

Does it work for you from here  http://komokaweather.com/cumulusutils/index.html  and selecting Audio from the UserMenu?  again it does for me.

Nope - after I'd translated the Dutch to English! Same error...
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