That system operates on the same frequencies and manner as the NOAA All Hazards Radio system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It appears that the Canadian government is discontinuing service as of March 16, 2026 and replacing it with an app. That seems short sighted to me; I don’t know how many users of Weather Radio Canada there are, but I’d bet there are quite a few. It also assumes that everyone in Canada has a smart phone. Given the economy and the expense of a new iPhone (or Android), I think this is far from the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did get thinking about what would happen here if the NOAA system went away. Could the Emergency Alert System still get reliable local alerts out over the air? I know that most of the radio and TV stations in this area still monitor the NOAA frequencies as a third source for local activations. Over the years, EAS activation for things like Tornado Warnings has saved quite a few lives, especially out in the mid west. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully, our government officials are smarter….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOAA All Hazards Radio has been around since 1960. I have a Midland Weather Radio receiver in my house because we live in a rural area. We certainly do have weather events; Severe Thunderstorms being the most common. We have also had Tornados, Floods, Hurricanes, Winter Storms and Blizzards. It is useful to have, especially … Continue reading Do you use Weather Radio?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,57,137],"class_list":["post-14137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-eas","tag-emergency-info","tag-noaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14141,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions\/14141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nautel](\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Nautel-NG1000-637x600.jpg\")