On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.

Thanks for the info Erik!  I had looked at GNU Radio awhile ago but
the hardware was in the hundreds of dollars.  Glad to see that SDR has
come down enough that even a cheapskate like me can afford it :-)

Brian