The Spencerport, NY NWR transmitter, WNG539 provides NO additional coverage above and beyond what the Rochester , NY NWR station, KHA53 provides. This is a fact. Yet most of the bordering county, Orleans and the virtually entire marine community along the Lake Ontario portion of the Niagara Frontier is poorly served, or dead zone. The NWS has been unable to address calls to move the Spencerport transmitter to to a strategic location along the Ontario shoreline, with a directional antenna (so as not to interfere with Canada), and serve the county of Orleans and the substantial Lake Ontario portion of the Niagara Frontier marine community. The NWR transmitter was bought by Monroe County with some special funds, but changes to the Rochester NWR transmitter mitigated the need to have that transmitter located in Spencerport before it was ever deployed. The deployment was delayed by "administrative innefffectivity" in the first place and took years to get on the air, but tyat doesn't change the need to redeploy the transmitter. Yet another reason why NWS regions cause ineffective operations and engineering in particular. Engineering should be done at a national level, and fort all offices and standardized, yet each region has their own little empires (SODs) that do little and what they do accomplish is usually counter-productive or takes forever.
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...... Here is an interesting story. I'll keep it short. It has become virtually impossible for the NWS to redeploy, or deploy NWR transmitters where they are needed. The infrastructure for dealing with the issues of NWR deployment has been delegated to regional SODs, who are obviously... (and the empirical and real proof is available if you'd like elaboration), ...unable to handle this. Canadian interests have to be taken into account and we are unable to deal with it effectively as an agency. It took 5 years to get "approval" from Canada for the license to transmit the Spencerport NWR signal. Of course, our people will blame Canada and I'm sure the Canadian people will blame our people, but nobody in our agency wants to deal with NWR deployments that involve Canada, at least in our "region". Employees such as myself, who actually care about our coverage, and might live within one of the dead zones, are "discouraged" from pressing the issue and there is also legal ramifications for the employee because it might mean getting a congressman involved who can deal with the particular interests of the counties. Hire me to take care of NWR deployments and redeployments and I guarantee it will get done when it should get done.