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Originally Posted by Sam Cogley
Get an digital TV tuner for your laptop.
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This. The price of PV panels that can charge batteries have come down significantly in price, and you can usually find AGMs that are pulls from big commercial UPSs for not a lot. 100Ah or so gives a lot of time for looking at weather maps.
An HF ham rig with the hurricane net frequencies programmed in would be my first choice, though. Those guys are really on the ball when it comes to weather reports and health & welfare traffic.