Any good free weather service to play on our radio station??
The National Weather Service (NOAA) has VHF weather radio stations in every area of the U.S. and can legally be re-broadcast free according to FCC rules.
These weather radio stations computerized voice is so outdated they need to updated them and also drop the monatone sound to. I am looking for something other than a weather radio station fron Noaa any thing else??
I can not find a working stream link for the Houston station the Galveston one is the closest working one
http://radio.weatherusa.net/NWR/KHB40.mp3
I would run it on my station if the Houston or Galveston station was running Paul V2.
I am experimenting with using the Zone forecast RSS feed from NOAA and converting to audio via a commerical text-to-speech product.
Will post results either way.
No stream for Tampa Bay area either.
The weather is free.
There are several different low-cost radios that can recieve the weather band, you could grab one and record the forecast that way.
I am going with this weather forecast service for local Houston weather starting tomorrow at 5am 8am 12pm 2:30pm 5pm and 10pm. This is the service I am going with check them out they are great
They send you 3 forecast a day morning midday and night. You pick what the person says in the intro and outtro. Yes they allow internet radio station I am a internet only station for now. This is the only serivce I know that allows internet radio stations check them out.
If you plan to go with Nowcast Weather tell them Phat Beats Radio recommend it to you.
Website show $5 per day for broadcast, $1 per day for lpfm stations. Any idea what the pricing model is for streaming only?
I admit it's a human reading the weather, and sounds better than my best efforts (to date) at text-to-speech, however at $1825 / $365 per year I would need to justify it!
Maybe too you could talk to them about part 15 AM broadcasting which only has a range of 1.5-2 mles to a GOOD car raddio and a setup whereas there is little obstructions. Certainly in the house you are not going to hear our AM stations remotely near that range.
Since most of us are not for profit I am sure something could be worked out. It depends on how they feel about Hobby or cummunity neighborhood broadcasting.
DJboutit - any deal in progress? I don't want to ask the wrong question and undermine somthing you are working on
I am trying out a 60 no risk trial.