lash@tellabs.com (Bill Lash) (02/14/91)
I understand that in many areas stock ticker information is broadcast on the FM band. Does anyone have any information about how the data is encoded, what frequency ranges are used, and commercial or roll-your-own products for receiving the information and storing it on a PC? I would appreciate any information. Thanks, Bill Lash lash@tellabs.COM ...!uunet!tellab5!lash
abeals@autodesk.com (Visualize Whirled Peas) (02/15/91)
lash@tellabs.com (Bill Lash) writes: >I understand that in many areas stock ticker information is broadcast on the >FM band. Does anyone have any information about how the data is encoded, what >frequency ranges are used, and commercial or roll-your-own products for >receiving the information and storing it on a PC? I would appreciate any >information. The information would be useful but it would be illegal to acutally do it according to the radio act of '34 as it is a service meant to be send to subscribers. [Like Muzak on subcarriers.] [Legal equivalent of asking for scanner mods so you *could* listen to cellular phones but of course it's illegal to actually do it.] -- Andrew Scott Beals abeals@autodesk.com Marboro: War Ich Rindveh bin.
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/16/91)
In article <5312@tellab5.tellabs.com> lash@tellabs.com (Bill Lash) writes: | I understand that in many areas stock ticker information is broadcast on the | FM band. Does anyone have any information about how the data is encoded, what | frequency ranges are used, and commercial or roll-your-own products for | receiving the information and storing it on a PC? I would appreciate any | information. There's a company called Express which sells hardware for doing this off cable TV using a sideband (like the alternate language coverage). If that's what is carried in your area they may sell a tuner for that, too. You pay a one time <$100 charge for the modem, data is free. I'm looking into the data format, I want to catch it with a UNIX box doing other stuff, not a dedicated PC. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux) (02/17/91)
In <abeals.666593406@melange> abeals@autodesk.com (Visualize Whirled Peas) writes: >lash@tellabs.com (Bill Lash) writes: >>I understand that in many areas stock ticker information is broadcast on the >>FM band. Does anyone have any information about how the data is encoded, what >>frequency ranges are used, and commercial or roll-your-own products for >>receiving the information and storing it on a PC? I would appreciate any >>information. >The information would be useful but it would be illegal to acutally >do it according to the radio act of '34 as it is a service meant to be >send to subscribers. [Like Muzak on subcarriers.] First, take note that I am Canadian and may not know what I'm talking about when it comes to American law. I heard that it is within the Constitutional Right of any American to receive any radio band s/he wishes to. Thus, police RADAR detectors are legal. In Canada, we have no such right. In Canada (Ontario at least) RADAR detectors are illegal. Perhaps some lawyers could clarify this point. I don't know about the above mentioned "radio act" either, but then I shouldn't (I'm Canadian, remember) have a reason to. -- Guy Lemieux ENG SCI University of Toronto guy@contact.uucp 9 T 2 Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
mpe@shamash.cdc.com (Mike Ebsen) (05/13/91)
> everything deleted...
why do people respond to simple questions about technology with legality
answers? This question has been asked 10000 or more times, nearly every
responds that it's not legal to decode the information. Just once, I too
would like to hear a technical answer to a technical question.
Just my two cents worth.
mpe@shamash.cdc.com