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This is my one piece of electronics gear purchase (other than a small network switch) that I made yesterday at Dayton. The rest was components or literature.

This is designed for a broadcast booth, and listens to multiple inputs such as radio, TV, weather radio, etc. for the SAME burst sent during a weather alert or other emergency services notification. It's capable of spitting it out as serial data, as an interrupted audio alert, or as a screen crawl for video. (Don't think mine has that option.) It was $20, appears functional, and as soon as I can program it, will go into my rack.

The only odd thing was the manufacturer used a center-ground on the power input, instead of using the outer shell. It's made here in Ohio, and I actually looked at the company once for employment. Kind of a neat piece.

This is my one piece of electronics gear purchase (other than a small network switch) that I made yesterday at Dayton. The rest was components or literature. This is designed for a broadcast booth, and listens to multiple inputs such as radio, TV, weather radio, etc. for the SAME burst sent during a weather alert or other emergency services notification. It's capable of spitting it out as serial data, as an interrupted audio alert, or as a screen crawl for video. (Don't think mine has that option.) It was $20, appears functional, and as soon as I can program it, will go into my rack. The only odd thing was the manufacturer used a center-ground on the power input, instead of using the outer shell. It's made here in Ohio, and I actually looked at the company once for employment. Kind of a neat piece.

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Motorola MC68HC11

Nice to see a classic 8-bit microcontroller powering this thing. Of course given its circa 1997 vintage, that choice wasn't a big stretch. Nowadays there would be some ARM processor or PIC or maybe even something like an ESP-32 powering such a device so it's definitely interesting to see a classic micro instead. Would have been more fun if it were a Zilog Z-80 or even and Intel 8031/8051/8052 which were definitely still common in the late 90s (and today). Nice find!

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As far as I know, you can buy a new one that's identical to this.