Key West once again hosts the Race World Offshore races (which are not very far offshore, to be sure).
Races are held on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday with a lot of filler events in between.
Bote's Southernmost Feed will focus on the race channels on race days.
Marine 78 for Race operations
Key West PD/MCSO Event 1
USCG 111, 402 Coast Guard P25 communications
The mount point for Bote's Southernmost Feed in Key West has been moved to
http://listen.trackstreamer.com:8000/botekeyw
This is reflected in the HTML5 players and links on my Streaming Audio page:
http://www.botecomm.com/bote/radio/streaming.html
2024.12.09 09:30 一 AT&T is on site in Key West replacing the fiber optic gateway that had been accumulating more and more network errors. Hopefully when it is back up we should have a solid Internet connection once again.
10:58 一 The public Internet connection is back up, but there might be interruptions as testing continues.
The Windows Event Log shows the Southernmost Feed is bickering with the Ethernet switch serving it. So today I locked it at 100Mbps on both ends which will hopefully eliminate these random drops resulting from the port bouncing. It started after a Windows Update a few months ago and nothing else I've tried seemed to cure it.
It was especially bad right after a reboot. I like to apply Windows Updates and reboot the thing weekly because...Windows, so you can see how that would be a problem.
I will keep an eye on it, but I think it should be solid from now on.
UPDATE: 2023.12.02 Thanks to my good friend Lu, Bote's Southernmost Feed is back up. BUT! The same problem that started with the Windows Update is still taking down the network interface at random times for random durations. Until I can figure out why it will just go haywire sometimes. Best I can do with this hobby project.
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Windows Update upset the network driver in the Key West feed computer. In the process of troubleshooting it the thing never came back from a reboot. It's down there and I'm up here, so it will probably be some time before anybody can walk up to the screen and see what it's trying to tell us.
Networking is the one thing that can kill a remote system like that. It figures.
UPDATE: 2023.02.01 19:33 service restored, thanks to Remote Desktop (for a change).
Same ol, same ol. Windows Update -> Windows Explorer (Desktop in reality) crashed -> black screen
No E.T.R.
Hopefully, we can get somebody down there to reboot it, but that's not a guarantee.
I hope to replace that p.o.s. laptop with a more powerful machine, but will need time to make the preparations. Good luck with that.
If I could get VSThost to run on linux I'd get rid of Windows yesterday!
Hurricane Ian knocked out power to so much of Key West that most of the island can be considered without electrical power today. Bote's Southernmost Feed lasted as long as the big UPS batteries allowed, but finally lost power around 07:00 this morning. Keys Electric Coop crews were heard talking on the radio just before the feed went down, so it's only a matter of time before power is restored and we can get somebody to walk over and turn on the feed computer and everything.
Meanwhile, Broward County is getting hit with some gusty breezes. I saw an unconfirmed 911 report of a tornado near Oakland Park Blvd and the ocean, but nothing heard on the scanner so far. We might yet lose power here at our world HQ as gusty as it has become this morning.
UPDATE: Electrical power was restored around noon Wednesday, so Bote's Southernmost Feed is back online. For now I'm leaving Florida Keys Electric talkgroups enabled so we can hear the extent of damage and some people might even hear when their power is to be restored, which is nice.
The airport is open, although the airlines have not resumed service as of this writing. Their Internet service is still out, which is a very common problem in the Keys. I'll have to listen for the daily crash phone test tomorrow morning; I missed the one on Wednesday because the power died on the stream about a half hour earlier.
UPDATE 2021.04.23 - Bote's Southernmost Feed has been restored to service thanks to the efforts of a loyal local listener. The screen was blank no matter what we did so a power cycle brought it back to life. Aint Windows 10 great??
The Southernmost Feed has gone off into space (again). And Windows 10 was supposed to be so solid and reliable. And today is Wednesday which typically follows Tuesday, which is the big Windows Update day, so...I thought I disabled all that automatic update stuff so that I could supervise it to prevent THIS EXACT PROBLEM.
As soon as a local contact person can make it over to the feed site to reboot it, the thing will be back online, but that likely won't happen until tomorrow. This is a hobby, after all.
