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Repeater for NOAA Weather Radio

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scadie:
Good afternoon everyone.

I have a Midland WR400 as i'm using as Alarm Clock and try to listen weather frequency 162.550MHZ, but because i'm inside, the signal is very bad.

I already know that if i'm outside, the signal is good.

I'm looking for a solution to install a External Antenna on the roof of my garden shed (who have electricity) with a repeater module to boost the frequency 162MHZ then I will get a good signal back in my house.

Anybody have a good idea as repeater what product to purchase as repeater?  I see on the web a lot of TV, cell repeater but nothing for the VHF Frequency the NOAA Radio or Canadian radio is using.

A help on this will be good.

Thank you.

NWROrg Team:
It doesn't take much, in MANY cases...
https://noaaweatherradio.org/howto.html#ant
Click on that image, and your should hear pure noise vanish after about 10 seconds, when the antenna is plugged into the aux ant jack,
and that booger is just quick stuck atop a pole lamp in the corner of the room....
Simple, works great, hide it in the garage, something...
If you're using the built in Rod, this little cobbed together jewel, or similar... be inventive, will blow your windows out...
Just stick somewhere close to the specs for element lengths, and bend angle, use 50 Ohm cable, doesn't have to be pretty.  Lot of us have these attached...
...

davidmc36:
I have made that and a more robust version. It works unbelievably well.

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