History of Weather Radio
The National Weather Service began its first weather Broadcast from Los Angeles on 162.400 in 1967. The observations were the Meteorologists on Duty recording it to tape, then broadcasting it over the air. This practice continued into the 1990s when the automated "Paul" made his debut, and into the early 2000s, when the current automated voices used today were introduced. The "Paul" voice and human voices are still used occasionally for weekly tests of the Specific Area Message Encoding and 1050 Hz tone systems, station IDs, and in the event of system failure or computer upgrades.
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