Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!autodesk!melange!abeals From: abeals@autodesk.com (Visualize Whirled Peas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Stock Ticker from FM Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 04:50:06 GMT References: <5312@tellab5.tellabs.com> Sender: news@Autodesk.COM Distribution: na Lines: 21 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.