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NOAA Weather Radio
Knightrider:
Not a current device here at the Knightmare, but the thought did come to me.
It's severe weather season again in my part of the planet, and was thinking of getting a cheap weather radio. Was also thinking of connecting it's audio output to a powerflash and having it trip the lights when a weather alert comes in at night to turn on a light or two. This is very similar to my storm siren setup except that the storm siren doesn't trigger the powerflash directly from the audio.
Now here's the hitch. Anyone who wants to attempt this mod themselves will gladly be given help and advice by both myself, and BVD. There are very many weather radios on the market, and I'm sure they are all slightly different.
Let me state again that this, or any other mod I've posted on the forum should not be counted on to save your life, but just to make life easier in the event of a severe weather alert.
The ball is now in your court. If you do attempt this mod, I'm asking that you post pictures and some instructions in this thread so that others may follow. Also, please tell us how hard or easy it was to do this.
I'm going to pick up one of these units myself and post. Hopefully, I'll be able to squeeze some bandwidth out of my slow dial-up connection and get some pics. Happy modding!!!!
As always, you can find me at KDR's Chat in the evenings.
dave w:
O-o-o-o-h-h good idea.
Since Power Flash will trigger on audio, it may be as simple as soldering a couple of wires on the radio speaker and connecting them to the power flash through a switch (so you could disable, if you wanted to listen to the regular update). I have a Midland NOAA that has an "Ext Alert" jack. Guess I need to find the instructions to see what is there during an alert.
Knight, this will be fun!
Knightrider:
--- Quote from: dave w on April 01, 2009, 07:48:59 PM ---O-o-o-o-h-h good idea.
Since Power Flash will trigger on audio, it may be as simple as soldering a couple of wires on the radio speaker and connecting them to the power flash through a switch (so you could disable, if you wanted to listen to the regular update). I have a Midland NOAA that has an "Ext Alert" jack. Guess I need to find the instructions to see what is there during an alert.
Knight, this will be fun!
--- End quote ---
Dave,
Glad you approve. The wires to the speaker was what I was thinking. I never thought of the switch, but that's a
Great Idea!
Thanks!
JMac:
I'm interested in this also. Some time back I tried to use the Power Flash on the Midland radio and I could never get it to work. The external alert jack never seemed to activate the power flash with a NOAA warning for some reason. The Midland instructions are very vague concerning its use.
BVD:
Knightrider,
Here is a link to the NOAA Radio NWR & SAME codes folks need to program into their weather radio assure folks get the proper alerts for their States and Counties in the United States.
http://www.weather.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm
I thought this might help especially the one who posted they could not get anything on their Weather Radio.
Till Later,
Bob
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