NOAA Weather Radio

[Martin]

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> wrote:

> i'm pondering the easiest, cheapest, and smallest way
> to receive NOAA Weather Radio and get it into UDP packets.
>
> the canonical picture is:
>
> off-the-shelf-NWR -> audio cable -> sound card on PC
>
> but I want to make it very small, very cheap, and completely
> turnkey, as in:
>          take brick out of box
>          pull out whip antenna
>          install wall-wart PS
>          insert DC connector
>          joy
>
> Posit using a Raspberry B+ as the computes.
> I know how to do the inevitable user config pretty painlessly
> via a web browser. That's messy but not hard. biggest
> questions are configuring wifi or wired ethernet, and
> picking which of possibly several NWR channels is "the one".
> looking at the RSSI, the "local" NWR is probably the strongest.
> or just send the audio out the web page and let the UI change
> the channel. seems awfully brute force.
>
> does anyone know of a componentized NWR module? i've looked
> some but not found anything.
>
> i've thought about doing it SDR with one of the USB TV tuner
> dongles, but that's problematic for several reasons.
> (1) it's not selective so local overloading is likely
> to be a problem and (2) form factor is really crap.
>
> ideas appreciated.
>
> Whassiz for?
>
> There are many more NWR channels out there than are currently
> available on the web. NWS did have a bunch more of them online
> but that seems to have gotten the budget axe. the way they are
> done now is by the first picture up above. i'd like to
> make a small box that could be lobbed out of a passing car
> at someone who just has to take it in, plug in the wall-wart
> and then forget about it. this would make it easy to get all
> those stations available over the web.
>
>       -mo
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