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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Stock Ticker from FM
Message-ID: <3190@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 91 04:54:30 GMT
References: <5312@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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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.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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