Bote's Wild Feed has been taken out of service. Watch this space for an announcement about this mount point, it might be coming back online in a different location.
Nobody listened to it anyway. Except for you. You know who you are.
2010-04-22
2010-03-29
I Survived the Great Tornado of 329
Local channel 10 WPLG news made it sound like Armageddon, going so far as to talk about buildings destroyed as their camera zoomed in on a length of white aluminum gutter lying on the ground. Oh. Boy. Circle the wagons, Martha!!!111!!1
Now that the shouting is over, the police command post monstrosity is no longer parked on NE 5 Terrace at 42 Street in Oakland Park, and the helicopter has gone home, and the water has receded, I have put the scanner feeds back to where they were yesterday.
Bote's Mixer Board scanning Fort Lauderdale, Pompano, and Deerfield Beach fire departments.
Bote's Wild Feed currently in Spring Break mode scanning Fort Lauderdale police districts 1, 2, and 3 (in other words, all of 'em). Nobody seems to care about listening to cops so I guess I'll put that back to Broward fire west channel. I think it's kind of neat to hear the same incident being handled on both the fire and police channels, but I must be in the minority.
If I can manage to get an antenna and feedline up high enough to hear Hollywood's digital system I might stream them instead of Broward, since there are a couple other Broward feeds.
Now that the shouting is over, the police command post monstrosity is no longer parked on NE 5 Terrace at 42 Street in Oakland Park, and the helicopter has gone home, and the water has receded, I have put the scanner feeds back to where they were yesterday.
Bote's Mixer Board scanning Fort Lauderdale, Pompano, and Deerfield Beach fire departments.
Bote's Wild Feed currently in Spring Break mode scanning Fort Lauderdale police districts 1, 2, and 3 (in other words, all of 'em). Nobody seems to care about listening to cops so I guess I'll put that back to Broward fire west channel. I think it's kind of neat to hear the same incident being handled on both the fire and police channels, but I must be in the minority.
If I can manage to get an antenna and feedline up high enough to hear Hollywood's digital system I might stream them instead of Broward, since there are a couple other Broward feeds.
Stormy weather
Severe thunderstorms moving through southeast Florida with reports of a tornado touchdown in Oakland Park just now.
I noticed my casement windows slam shut with winds suddenly out of the north, then incredibly strong "gusts" lasting 30 seconds or more. I think we dodged a bullet as that might have been the edge of the tornado.
A house is on fire 10 blocks north of me due to downed electrical lines.
Bote's Mixer Board is cut back to just Fort Lauderdale fire. Bote's Wild Feed is still on Ft. Lauderdale police. All public safety agencies are going crazy right now.
My DSL still goes out for 2 minutes or so with strong lightning bolts and sometimes randomly, so if you hear the intermission music just hang in there until the feed comes back up. Or if you wait more than about 5 minutes just restart your stream and it should come back on your end.
I noticed my casement windows slam shut with winds suddenly out of the north, then incredibly strong "gusts" lasting 30 seconds or more. I think we dodged a bullet as that might have been the edge of the tornado.
A house is on fire 10 blocks north of me due to downed electrical lines.
Bote's Mixer Board is cut back to just Fort Lauderdale fire. Bote's Wild Feed is still on Ft. Lauderdale police. All public safety agencies are going crazy right now.
My DSL still goes out for 2 minutes or so with strong lightning bolts and sometimes randomly, so if you hear the intermission music just hang in there until the feed comes back up. Or if you wait more than about 5 minutes just restart your stream and it should come back on your end.
2010-03-16
Spring Break cops in Ft Lauderdale
Bote's Wild Feed will be streaming Fort Lauderdale police scanner action for the remainder of March in honor of all the bullet-heads who come down for Spring Break madness.
I should have done this sooner since we are yet 2 weeks into Spring Break, but there's only one of me to go around.
I'll post here when the Wild Feed switches back to Broward County's gripping fire radio action.
I should have done this sooner since we are yet 2 weeks into Spring Break, but there's only one of me to go around.
I'll post here when the Wild Feed switches back to Broward County's gripping fire radio action.
2010-02-12
Testing dedicated feeds
Bote's Mixer Board is now scanning only Fort Lauderdale and Deerfield Beach fire departments. Bote's Wild Feed is now scanning only Broward County fire.
2010-02-06
Super Bowl Saturday Night Party
Fort Lauderdale is hosting a shindig on the beach to celebrate Super Bowl 2010 in Miami.
Bote's Mixer Board has the usual fire traffic, which includes the Fort Lauderdale fire department's special events talkgroup tac D.
Bote's Wild Feed has police traffic focused on FtL police and Broward interoperability talkgroup 14D for traffic control during the event and to escort the favored few into and out of the party area.
BSO interop 14i is also active with event traffic. There are likely others, so listen up.
Bote's Mixer Board has the usual fire traffic, which includes the Fort Lauderdale fire department's special events talkgroup tac D.
Bote's Wild Feed has police traffic focused on FtL police and Broward interoperability talkgroup 14D for traffic control during the event and to escort the favored few into and out of the party area.
BSO interop 14i is also active with event traffic. There are likely others, so listen up.
2010-01-23
FtL Feed Troubles
Even after adding a bunch of memory to the feed computer, it is still croaking after a couple of days with the same problem. I thought that Windows was simply running out of resources to wipe its own butt, BUT apparently not.
SimpleCast is what is crashing, but it takes down ScannerCast along with it. I'm going to burn in a new feed computer while I rework the machine that is in trouble.
I apologize for the outages as they are uncharacteristic. I like to run a reliable service and this jes don't cut it. One way or another I will make these feeds reliable once again.
SimpleCast is what is crashing, but it takes down ScannerCast along with it. I'm going to burn in a new feed computer while I rework the machine that is in trouble.
I apologize for the outages as they are uncharacteristic. I like to run a reliable service and this jes don't cut it. One way or another I will make these feeds reliable once again.
Haiti Earthquake Victims
Broward County is running frequently to FLL (Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport) to transport victims of the earthquake in Haiti to area hospitals.
It is 05:56 on Saturday morning 23 January, 2010 and they just dispatched a bunch of ambulances from Broward County fire stations, Davie, City of Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park, and Hollywood to the airport. This has been ongoing for several days and should probably continue into the coming week.
Operations are usually conducted on one of the fire tactical channels, typically tac A.
It is 05:56 on Saturday morning 23 January, 2010 and they just dispatched a bunch of ambulances from Broward County fire stations, Davie, City of Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park, and Hollywood to the airport. This has been ongoing for several days and should probably continue into the coming week.
Operations are usually conducted on one of the fire tactical channels, typically tac A.
2010-01-20
FtL Maintenance Outage
Both Bote's Mixer Board and Bote's Wild Feed will be down for maintenance on the feed computer today. The reason the feeds have been dying I believe is due to insufficient main memory in the Dell computer that sends out the feeds. It shouldn't be more than 30 minutes between tearing everything apart, installing the new chip, and hooking it all back together again.
UPDATE: 16:30 - ALL DONE! Now I have to watch the streaming machine over the coming days to see if it still wigs out. If both the Mixer Board and Wild Feed die simultaneously you'll know it's the same problem recurring.
UPDATE: 16:30 - ALL DONE! Now I have to watch the streaming machine over the coming days to see if it still wigs out. If both the Mixer Board and Wild Feed die simultaneously you'll know it's the same problem recurring.
2010-01-13
Feeds consolidated
In case you were wondering why all the weirdness on Bote's Mixer Board and Bote's Wild Feed tonight, I was consolidating both streams onto one streaming computer. Until now the Wild Feed had been running on my main desktop machine as proof of concept. But, this proved inconvenient when I had to reboot or make recordings that would interfere with that feed.
You should not notice any change on your end, but if something is amiss please let me know.
bote.prodigy@gmail.com
Happy New Year!
You should not notice any change on your end, but if something is amiss please let me know.
bote.prodigy@gmail.com
Happy New Year!
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