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In the market for a new wx radio
carterlake:
--- Quote from: "capeweather" ---Larry, I run the Reecom R1630 and think its a pretty good piece of equipment. I like it because it has an audio output jack that I use to connect to my soundcard for streaming. The only downfall that I've seen is after several days of being on it will just shut itself off and I have to turn it back on for the livefeed. Also, when the audio output has a plug in it it disables the speaker so I really don't even hear it unless I'm on my own site. Don't know if you ever listened to it but I have it going on live now since TS Chris is approaching. I also added the antenna to help improve reception so you may hear a little buzzing going on because its getting emi from my UPS. Need to move it somewhere else but for now I guess it will do.
http://www.capeweather.com/noaa-weather-radio.html
http://www.reecominc.com/r1630.htm
Chris
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Hey Chris,
If I could ask... what are the exact steps to get this streaming?
You run a jack between the radio and the mic port on the PC sound card... and then?
capeweather:
Hi Tom,
I actually use a little program called Simplecast. Along with Simplecast I use Shoutcast which acts as the server for the audio out. They both work together to allow me to stream. Below is the link to the Simplecast product so you can read up on how it works. It's very cool because it gives you statistics on how many current listeners are on. Also you can set the bandwidth to allow more users. (I currently have mine set to 8kbps which is plenty for audio). This will give me about 6 listeners at one time without loading down my bandwidth.
http://www.spacialaudio.com/products/simplecast/ - Simplecast
http://www.shoutcast.com/ - Shoutcast (Acts as server from local machine)
Chris
capeweather:
--- Quote from: "wuhu_software" ---Chris,
Another user reported that their audio was shutting off automatically. Apparently if one or more SAME codes are entered, the radio will shut off after an alert is active the goes inactive. This may include the weekly tests.
If you disable the SAME codes for streaming, the auto-shut off problem may go away.
--- Quote from: "capeweather" ---Larry, I run the Reecom R1630 and think its a pretty good piece of equipment. I like it because it has an audio output jack that I use to connect to my soundcard for streaming. The only downfall that I've seen is after several days of being on it will just shut itself off and I have to turn it back on for the livefeed. Also, when the audio output has a plug in it it disables the speaker so I really don't even hear it unless I'm on my own site. Don't know if you ever listened to it but I have it going on live now since TS Chris is approaching. I also added the antenna to help improve reception so you may hear a little buzzing going on because its getting emi from my UPS. Need to move it somewhere else but for now I guess it will do.
http://www.capeweather.com/noaa-weather-radio.html
http://www.reecominc.com/r1630.htm
Chris
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Thanks for that information! I went through the manual and disabled the alerts hoping this will correct the problem. I'm sure that's what it was because it did seem to just shut off from time to time. By disabling the alert does this also disable the S.A.M.E.? I will see if this helps. Right now I have my radio back up, could somebody tell me if the quality sounds ok? It's been offline for almost 2 weeks and I did some tweaking. Thanks.
http://www.capeweather.com/noaa-weather-radio.html
wuhu_software:
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--- Quote from: "wuhu_software" ---Chris,
Another user reported that their audio was shutting off automatically. Apparently if one or more SAME codes are entered, the radio will shut off after an alert is active the goes inactive. This may include the weekly tests.
If you disable the SAME codes for streaming, the auto-shut off problem may go away.
--- Quote from: "capeweather" ---Larry, I run the Reecom R1630 and think its a pretty good piece of equipment. I like it because it has an audio output jack that I use to connect to my soundcard for streaming. The only downfall that I've seen is after several days of being on it will just shut itself off and I have to turn it back on for the livefeed. Also, when the audio output has a plug in it it disables the speaker so I really don't even hear it unless I'm on my own site. Don't know if you ever listened to it but I have it going on live now since TS Chris is approaching. I also added the antenna to help improve reception so you may hear a little buzzing going on because its getting emi from my UPS. Need to move it somewhere else but for now I guess it will do.
http://www.capeweather.com/noaa-weather-radio.html
http://www.reecominc.com/r1630.htm
Chris
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Thanks for that information! I went through the manual and disabled the alerts hoping this will correct the problem. I'm sure that's what it was because it did seem to just shut off from time to time. By disabling the alert does this also disable the S.A.M.E.? I will see if this helps. Right now I have my radio back up, could somebody tell me if the quality sounds ok? It's been offline for almost 2 weeks and I did some tweaking. Thanks.
http://www.capeweather.com/noaa-weather-radio.html
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Chris,
I am not familiar with the radio operation myself. I believe the user had to disable the SAME codes altogether so that the radio did not turn off the audio after the alert. Let me know what you find out.
The stream sounds clean to me. Volume is good.
I do hear a little sound that resembles a small horn. It beeps every few seconds. Not sure if that is from the NWS stream or the audio card?
capeweather:
Yes, the small horn sound you are hearing is something I'm going to have to look into. It's not coming from the radio so its probably has something to do with my soundcard. It's an older SB16 card and I probably should update it with something newer. A few other people have pointed that out to me as well. Thanks for the update. :D
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