Originally Posted By: KenK
Just to clarify ...

Martin wasn't proposing using the weather radio to generate alerts. He was only proposing using a PC, a USB connection, and an internet-based application to SETUP the radio (enter SAME codes, select options,...).

Once it was setup then it would operate independently of the internet as would any weather radio.


I understood the same; but I like the idea of a WR providing the communication and the PC providing the presentation. You would get data completely independently of internet systems that can be damaged by disasters, but the nearly-infinite customizing abilities presented by the PC.
Since NOAA is already sending signals over the air to tell SAME devices what is going on and where (to avoid extraneous alerts) it would in theory be easy to pass this data from the radio to a PC, which would be much easier to program as desired with a simple GUI.