Originally Posted By: airballrad
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.



OK. here's where I am with this.

I saw that www.emergencyalertradio.com has something close to what I want, but it appears that the device software is stuck in 2002 on a windows-only platform. EarWatch is a software product - close - but not quite right.

I think that we're getting to a device that is:

- a standalone WX radio with SAME alerting
- has a USB interface that shows up as a Mass Storage Device to pretty much any computer.
- Works in conjunction with a web site that allows you to build a configuration file for the device that allows you to set SAME alert codes and to manage the types of alerts (or suppression of alerts)
- has two audio outputs - one for an external speaker, one is a line-level audio, unsquelched, for audio decode on a PC as needed.

Anyway, the www.emergencyalertradio.com thing is very, very close to what we want.