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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>The RTL-SDR dongle has a Ralink chipset maybe? So one would get many more channels than just am or fm talk radio by using that device? I pulled up the following website.<br><br><a href="http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/" target="_blank">http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/</a><br><br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 19:07:29 -0500<br>From: erikerik@gmail.com<br>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] off topic<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Ryan Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com" target="_blank">ryanjcole@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">If it worked I never would have given it up - having the option to listen to some broadcasts on demand from anywhere would have been too nice to pass up.</blockquote>
</div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br></div>Agreed. With most stations live-streaming these days, it's likely not needed, but you could likely pick up one of those cheap RTL-SDR dongles to accomplish the same. They're well-supported in linux.</div>
<div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra">One can do all sorts of cool stuff with these dongles - homebrew police scanner (even for the 800 MHz digital systems), decoding weather satellite images, listening to shortwave radio, etc.<br>
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