Virtually every comment or complaint in the preceding few posts is referenced in some fashion in the following
information links on NOAAWeatherRadio ORG... including the 'quality' flagging... especially including the 'provider's responsibility'
http://noaaweatherradio.org/howto.htmlhttp://noaaweatherradio.org/quality/http://noaaweatherradio.org/quality/monitor.htmlI don't know how we can be more explicit..,. there will be some updating to those pages..
and yes, there is ALWAYS one reference 'music' stream in position one, for provider volume reference.
Yes, there may be a 'music stream' at the end which is activated when some parameters are being looked at.
Yes, there are test sweeps turned on at times, again at the end.
and currently the music stream is on, and probably will be through out the weekend.
...and this is 2017, not 2007... and this is NOT weather Underground where we ignore you.
And NO we don't send notifications... many of you we don't even have a valid email address for.
Regardless, the promises we made to NOAA and the US department of Commerce explicitly implied
we would provide qood quality, good reliability,. especially in light of the lack of discrimination
WeatherUnderground began to display, and currently present on other 'streaming NWR' websites,
especially the commercial sites. We wanted their sanction, for the promotion of Public Safety, Citizen Science and Personal Weather Station Operators.
They don't give permission to use the "NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO" logo to just anyone. Most
uses are illegal, not so on NOAAWEATHERRADIO.ORG.
And once in awhile, we may upset someone. Too Bad. But by golly we'll fix it if we can, if
folks will just use the contact form on the site... and help prevent errors by watching out for their own stream.
That's it until we announce the QRA system, initial release, hopefully soon.
Testing our own version of QRA gold stars... some bugs in it, but it's live currently,...
it's a difficult thing to automate, and may not prove feasible, but if it ibecomes a permanent feature, it will be 'objective' based on parameters and numbers,
and will never likely be 'perfect',...