SKYWARN Web Radio

[blackjack52]

Seems like it would be more advantageous to have piped SKYWARN reporting vice waiting for a 5-10min update through normal wx radio. Anyone using this on their site?

[W3DRM]

Lee,

Pardon my ignorance but I'm not sure what you are talking about. Does SKYWARN have some kind of "piped" broadcast already or are you suggesting there needs to be something like that?

[skysummit]

I have seen a few weather websites which have NOAA's weather radio live streamed into them.  Is this what you're referring to?

[blackjack52]

Let me re-phrase.
Is there capability to pipe to a website, SKYWARN reporting, just like how the NWS broadcast is? Using a scanner.

[W3DRM]

I think I know what the SKYWARN frequencies reference is. Someone mentioned the freqs being in the 140MHz range. That would be amateur radio and thus come under ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services). However, since amateur radion frequencies are NOT dedicated to just SKYWARN or any other activity other than licensed amateur radio operations, listening to a given frequency or set of frequencies for a given area would result in your hearing normal ham radio traffic on that frequency. Then, when a SKYWARN activation takes place you would hear a mixture of both SKYWARN and regular radio chatter with neither, technically, having priority over the other.

Unfortunately, not many of the SKYWARN repeaters are listed as such across the country. There are a few but not many. You will have to find a local ham or amateur radio club in your area and ask them for specific frequencies being used for SKYWARN operations.

[blackjack52]

I found the setup!

A BC346XT from scanmaster.com and to broadcast what I want to my site, http://www.proscan.org/index.htm. I can have SAME for area and SKYWARN, or police, tower, etc bentpipe to the site. Even allow listeners to change channels.
SKY freqs http://www.caps.ou.edu/~kbrews/spotfreq/al.html.