<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11129?_ga=1.19246010.344833788.1419046434">https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11129?_ga=1.19246010.344833788.1419046434</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mike O'Dell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mo@ccr.org" target="_blank">mo@ccr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i'm pondering the easiest, cheapest, and smallest way<br>
to receive NOAA Weather Radio and get it into UDP packets.<br>
<br>
the canonical picture is:<br>
<br>
off-the-shelf-NWR -> audio cable -> sound card on PC<br>
<br>
but I want to make it very small, very cheap, and completely<br>
turnkey, as in:<br>
take brick out of box<br>
pull out whip antenna<br>
install wall-wart PS<br>
insert DC connector<br>
joy<br>
<br>
Posit using a Raspberry B+ as the computes.<br>
I know how to do the inevitable user config pretty painlessly<br>
via a web browser. That's messy but not hard. biggest<br>
questions are configuring wifi or wired ethernet, and<br>
picking which of possibly several NWR channels is "the one".<br>
looking at the RSSI, the "local" NWR is probably the strongest.<br>
or just send the audio out the web page and let the UI change<br>
the channel. seems awfully brute force.<br>
<br>
does anyone know of a componentized NWR module? i've looked<br>
some but not found anything.<br>
<br>
i've thought about doing it SDR with one of the USB TV tuner<br>
dongles, but that's problematic for several reasons.<br>
(1) it's not selective so local overloading is likely<br>
to be a problem and (2) form factor is really crap.<br>
<br>
ideas appreciated.<br>
<br>
Whassiz for?<br>
<br>
There are many more NWR channels out there than are currently<br>
available on the web. NWS did have a bunch more of them online<br>
but that seems to have gotten the budget axe. the way they are<br>
done now is by the first picture up above. i'd like to<br>
make a small box that could be lobbed out of a passing car<br>
at someone who just has to take it in, plug in the wall-wart<br>
and then forget about it. this would make it easy to get all<br>
those stations available over the web.<br>
<br>
-mo<br>
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