Technical Nuts and Bolts of UnattendedWeather.com Bulletins

Our savvy technicians will work closely with you to ensure your weather bulletin installation happens quickly and smoothly. There are two methods. Which we suggest depends upon the station's automation. For that, we usually want to chat by phone with your station operations manager or engineer. Then we'll detail what needs to be done. An easier method for some stations is to change your log during the hours you want UnattendedWeather to insert bulletins. You schedule our magic bulletin event every 3-10 minutes in your automation in place of a rotation of normal station call letter liners or jingles. Our UnattendedWeather.com software changes that special cut number to a weather bulletin if appropriate. If you want bulletins faster than 3-10 minute intervals, we have other technologies. One is to schedule our special cut number between every event during your unattended hours. That cut will not exist when weather is normal. (Most automation systems have special protections to instantly jump by empty events with no audible delay.) When severe weather warnings are issued by the National Weather Service, our software automatically replaces the blank cut with a bulletin. Then our software automatically erases that after a time period you specify or when the National Weather Service cancels the alert or lets it expire. Another method does not require changes in your routine programming but requires that you buy our $100 USB contact closure adapter and change the setup of your automation or EAS unit. When our UnattendedWeather.com software receives any National Weather Service severe weather bulletin for your area, we create the bulletin recording as above and give a contact closure. You connect that contact to the General Purpose Interface of your automation, which can either step now to the special event or change the schedule to insert the weather bulletin at the end of the current event on the air. This contact closure method does involve a small change to the station's automation or EAS setup, but most systems already have capabilities for this function as part of EAS bulletins and tests. We do provide telephone assistance for the wiring but do not pay for the station engineer.

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