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The FCC has actually weighed in on the subject of rebroadcasting NOAA weather in dealing with the Traveler Information Station proceedings. Several owners of TIS or Highway Advisory Radio stations. The Enforcement Division cited these station operators for transmitting information (routine weather) that was not within the allowed information classes. Routine weather does not fall within the boundary of information related to the protection of life or property. They did not state if alerts which were broadcast with the SAME tones were permissible. One has to remember that weather warnings expire 4 hours after being issued or cancelled with another SAME burst.

Not this Corey! Now that you have my attention you will get my Opinion. WX over GMRS, annoying to say the least. We have a garage repeater in my area that tells as the time, date, humidity, temp, ID and website every 30 min. As soon as a SAME WX alert comes thru it breaks in with the NWS for 2 full rotations of the message. To make matters worse it adds it to the end of the gibberish info it sends out every 30 min. Under a SAME alert this thing will spit out 5 min of worthless channel blocking information to nobody every 30 min. During this time the repeater is rendered useless and could hinder real emergency communications. In my opinion this is not what GMRS is intended for, if you have a need to monitor a WX radio buy a weather radio and leave GMRS out of it. Last thing we need on our very limited amount of spectrum is GMRS repeaters broadcasting something that is already broadcast to most of our population.