• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

NBC deploys 3 mobile radars to owned stations

Randy Jennings

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Stormtrack Facebook broke the news that NBC 5 in DFW now has a mobile dual-pol X band radar, but there is more to the story. NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, a division of NBCUniversal that owns 28 NBC and Telemundo local television stations, actually bought 3 of them.

The first was deployed to KACU NBC 10 in Philly: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...to-Severe-Weather_Philadelphia-388816301.html

The second was deployed to KXAS NBC 5 in DFW: http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/video...orm-Tracking_Dallas-Fort-Worth-389117851.html

It sounds like the third is being deployed to KNBC in LA. It sounds like these will be driven over wide areas (the DFW one sounds like it will also show up in Chicago. Here are two other stories with more info:
http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?threads/nbcs-storm-rangers.15586/
http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/nbc-owned-stations-unveil-stormranger-mobile-radar-trucks/175419

There are a lot of tech details here: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/mobile/index/article/id/96728

While I sure the "why" is for ratings, this is going to be interesting to see the "how" and how other networks/stations react.
 
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Very interesting. I'm curious to see if more of these show up. It would be really cool if while chasing, you could switch your radar source on your GR product over to one of these local products....but that'll probably never happen.
 
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