Does Anybody Make A Mobile Weather Alert Radio With GPS?

[JASII]

I was thinking it might be handy for truckers and others who are on the road constantly to have a mobile weather alert radio that would select frequencies based on GPS coordinates. Although SAME is nice, even the plain 1050 hZ would be okay for this application.

 

[rdale]

No, that'd be such a limited market it'd be a no-win.

 

[kb0nly]

Nope... All you need is a scanning radio with weather alert, a scanner, most of the newer amateur radio products. Sure you can't set SAME into them, but if your mobile over a large area you wouldn't want SAME anyway as you would have to have a huge list covering every county you might be in, etc.

 

[Zagadka]

All you need is a scanning radio with weather alert,

Conicindently I saw this question come up elsewhere recently. Here are the radios I mentioned then.

Here's a CB w/ weather scan - Midland 1001LWX

Here's a handheld GMRS/FRS w/ weather scan - Midland GXT 1000

Hope that helps.

 

[UPMan]

Since there are only 7 frequencies, it takes almost no time to scan for a receivable frequency, so GPS wouldn't really be needed to select a frequency.

If you are in range to receive a NOAA site, that site will include alerts for where you are (this is true even when multiple sites are receivable; this does assume the antenna is on a vehicle and not a 1000' tower).