WNG575

WNG575 - Pack Monadnock

City of license	Peterborough, New Hampshire
Broadcast area	Southern New Hampshire, Windham County, Vermont, and North Central Massachusetts
Branding	NOAA All Hazards Radio
Slogan	The Voice Of The National Weather Service
Frequency	162.525 MHz
Format	Weather/Civil Emergency
Language(s)	English
Power	300 Watts
Owner	NOAA/National Weather Service
Website	http://www.weather.gov/boston

WNG575 is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves Southern New Hampshire, Windham County, Vermont, and North Central Massachusetts. Some cities served include Manchester, Nashua, Keene, and Lowell. However, the station can be received in parts of Central and Western Massachusetts as well as a portion of Vermont. The station is programmed by the National Weather Service office in Taunton, Massachusetts.^[1][2] On the evening of Friday, October 28, 2011, during a Winter Storm Warning and Winter Storm Watch, numerous outages occurred to the station, along with all other NWS Taunton stations. The issue persisted and was fixed on October 29 after 4 outages. However, the station went out once again, this time due to heavy snow, from early morning on October 30 until after daybreak on October 31.

Station info and service area

Coverage map of WNG575

WNG575 is programmed by the National Weather Service office in Taunton, Massachusetts^[1] and provides watches, warnings, and advisories for the following counties:^[2]

The following are some station specifications:^[2]

Hourly conditions are reported for the following cities, in the order in which they are reported: Manchester, New Hampshireˈ, Jaffrey, New Hampshireˈ, "Elsewhere around the region": Keene, New Hampshireˈˈ, Nashua, New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Lebanon, New Hampshire, Laconia, New Hampshire, Rochester, New Hampshire, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Beverly, Massachusetts, Bedford, Massachusetts, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Orange, Massachusetts, North Adams, Massachusetts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, Vermont, Bennington, Vermont, "Other nearby locations": Boston, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, Hartford, Connecticut, Worcester, Massachusetts, Hyannis, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine, Montpelier, Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Mount Washington Observatory, New Hampshireˈˈˈ, Albany, New York, and New York City.

ˈ Full weather conditions (skies, temperature, dew point, relative humidity, wind speed, and barometric pressure) are reported for Manchester and Jaffrey. Additionally, skies, wind and temperature are reported at Mt. Washington.

Here is a listing of how reports are aired based on location:

The station is transmitting atop Pack Monadnock near Peterborough, New Hampshire on a frequency of 162.525 megahertz.

Weekly Test Signal

Every Wednesday morning between 10 a.m. and noon Eastern time, the forecast office in Taunton sends out the weekly test signal to all weather radio stations operated by their office, including WNG575. The test script is as follows:

This has been a test of the NOAA Weather Radio tone and SAME alert systems. This test is conducted each Wednesday between 10 a.m. and noon. Specially programmed receivers are alerted for specific watches, warnings and advisories. In the event that severe weather is expected on Wednesday or there is inclement weather, the test is postponed to the next fair weather day. This concludes this test of the NOAA Weather Radio tone and SAME alert systems.^[3]

History

WNG575 was created in 2002 when the National Weather Service office in Taunton realized that weather radio users in Northern Middlesex County and Southern New Hampshire were having reception problems with the stations already in place.

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