Weatherband receiver suggestions?

[rleone@hotmail.com]

Hiya:
Monday's commute to work was just as http://www.noaa.gov advertised,
cloudy. Coming home FROM work, though, I rolled through an unadvertised
(as of that AM) thunderstorm. Does anyone here have any suggestions
for a lightweight, effective weatherband radio receiver I can take on
rides? Not for constant listening, but for checkups on the weather
during rest stops? Come to think of it, "constant listening" might be
important too -- even in Southern California.
Thanks in advance.

Robert Leone Only You Can Prevent Long Sig Files

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wrote:
> Hiya:
> Monday's commute to work was just as http://www.noaa.gov advertised,
> cloudy. Coming home FROM work, though, I rolled through an unadvertised
> (as of that AM) thunderstorm. Does anyone here have any suggestions
> for a lightweight, effective weatherband radio receiver I can take on
> rides? Not for constant listening, but for checkups on the weather
> during rest stops? Come to think of it, "constant listening" might be
> important too -- even in Southern California.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Robert Leone Only You Can Prevent Long Sig Files

Many of the GMRS/FRS radios include the NOAA weather channels.

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[Art Harris]

wrote:

> Does anyone here have any suggestions for a lightweight, effective weatherband radio receiver I can take on rides?

See:
http://tinyurl.com/2n5mh

and

http://weatherradios.com/


Art Harris

[Dave Vandervies]

In article om>,
> wrote:

> Does anyone here have any suggestions
>for a lightweight, effective weatherband radio receiver I can take on
>rides? Not for constant listening, but for checkups on the weather
>during rest stops? Come to think of it, "constant listening" might be
>important too -- even in Southern California.

I'd recommend a FRS radio with a weatheradio receiver. Most of them
know how to handle the weatheradio alert feature[1], so you can leave
the radio on (I recommend using a headset as well) and listen to the
FRS chatter and catch any important weather updates at the same time.
(Or if you prefer to ride in silence, find a channel that nobody's using
and listen to the absence of FRS chatter.)


dave

[1] When a severe weather warning or whatever is issued, the weatheradio
system broadcasts an alert tone and then the warning, so a receiver
can continuously monitor the channel and only activate the speaker
when there's an alert broadcast.

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[andy gee]

wrote in
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> Hiya:
> Monday's commute to work was just as http://www.noaa.gov
> advertised,
> cloudy. Coming home FROM work, though, I rolled through an
> unadvertised (as of that AM) thunderstorm. Does anyone here have any
> suggestions for a lightweight, effective weatherband radio receiver I
> can take on rides? Not for constant listening, but for checkups on the
> weather during rest stops? Come to think of it, "constant listening"
> might be important too -- even in Southern California.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Robert Leone Only You Can Prevent Long Sig Files
>

I use wunderground.com on my PDA. Has really good "right now" and hour
by hour forecasting. Wind vector info is very accurate. The PDA also
has all of my maps & databeses of bikeshops and stuff. Unfortunately,
Delorme GPS and PocketPC Phone Edition didn't play well together on my
existing equipment, and I never felt like spending _more_ money on stuff
that should work, so I don't have the GPS hooked up with all the other
stuff. By the time my contract expires, I hope to have phone, camera,
gps, pda, MP3, etc, all together, mounted on the bike, with a generator
and charging cable.

By that time, we'll probably just be able to beam ourselves places.

--ag

[Tom Keats]

In article om>,
writes:
> Hiya:
> Monday's commute to work was just as http://www.noaa.gov advertised,
> cloudy. Coming home FROM work, though, I rolled through an unadvertised
> (as of that AM) thunderstorm. Does anyone here have any suggestions
> for a lightweight, effective weatherband radio receiver I can take on
> rides? Not for constant listening, but for checkups on the weather
> during rest stops? Come to think of it, "constant listening" might be
> important too -- even in Southern California.
> Thanks in advance.

Sometimes I take a cheap little AM portable with me
and tune into the local all-news radio station, which
gives not only weather but also traffic updates every
10 minutes. Actually, I use it more for the traffic
updates than the weather forecasts.


cheers,
Tom


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