[robmusial]

I hate to see this. I bought a Sangean AM/FM/Weather radio with NOAA All Hazards alerting a little while back (I've been extremely happy with it) and as I was programming it wondered how long until either a group like DOGE, or private interest who wanted to repurpose these radio bands would cause such a wonderful service to go away. Maybe I'm naive but I'm surprised it happened in Canada before it happened here in the U.S.

[autoexec]

They already went at NOAA with cuts and firings. If there's no national weather service there'll be nothing to broadcast (and less data on climate change)

[palmotea]

> or private interest who wanted to repurpose these radio bands would cause such a wonderful service to go away

IIRC, the radio bands are some marine VHF channels. I'm not sure if those can be repurposed.

[amatecha]

Yeah, super disappointing. Not only do many of my amateur radio transceivers tune to the weather FM frequencies, I just picked up a cheap low-power receiver for the purpose of having something that can last a long time during extended power outages, if necessary -- with the idea of being able to keep up with local radio and weather radio during those times. I assumed Canada of all places will keep these kind of services going indefinitely, because they are pretty important when all else fails.