That's nothing less than shocking...I can't think of too much that would get them to come find you more quickly than intentionally transmitting on weather frequencies.
I was thinking the same thing. I listen to NOAA weather radio regularly and I have never heard anything other than NOAA annoucements.
I'm wondering if maybe Deathwind has a two-way radio that also includes the weather channels? In that case, he might be listening in on the FRS/GMRS channels and hearing the chatter on those freqs? Just a thought.