My feeds are down while I help recover from yet another server outage. I thought the point of a co-located server with good connectivity was to prevent this kind of outage, but it has been just one problem after another.
Somehow our partition on the virtual machine that we were allocated wound up with a corrupted operating system. I didn't think that was possible in this environment, but there it is.
The entire partition had to be wiped and reloaded to get the paying customers back online as quickly as possible. My configuration will come when it gets done, so no feed for now.
Sorry for the late notice.
2008-03-09
2008-02-29
Cutover to new streaming server
For several weeks I have been testing my proposed new feed that will feed the Boca Raton area through our new Shoutcast streaming audio sever.
That server has now been cut in, so you might need to reboot your streaming machines to clear their DNS cache and force them to look up colostreaming.com with the new i.p. numeric address.
For now, the "Boca" feed is monitoring Fort Lauderdale area trunked systems, including Fort Lauderdale fire and police (good for Spring Break fun) and Broward County fire's West channel and BSO channel 6A (district 5 in the wild, wild west and district 12 Oakland Park). Deerfield Beach fire is in there as well.
I will post here when the Boca feed is actually feeding Boca Raton railroad traffic and occasional public safety stuff.
That server has now been cut in, so you might need to reboot your streaming machines to clear their DNS cache and force them to look up colostreaming.com with the new i.p. numeric address.
For now, the "Boca" feed is monitoring Fort Lauderdale area trunked systems, including Fort Lauderdale fire and police (good for Spring Break fun) and Broward County fire's West channel and BSO channel 6A (district 5 in the wild, wild west and district 12 Oakland Park). Deerfield Beach fire is in there as well.
I will post here when the Boca feed is actually feeding Boca Raton railroad traffic and occasional public safety stuff.
2008-01-26
Boca Raton, Florida feed testing
I am testing a new feed for the Boca Raton, Florida area.
It will carry railroad audio from both CSX (including Tri-Rail and Amtrak) and FEC (Florida East Coast Railway).
It will also be programmed with Deerfield Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, and Palm Beach County public safety trunked systems.
Because the scanner can be remotely controlled via the attached computer, I will be able to steer it to active incidents should the need arise.
The antenna will be about 30 feet in the air so it should have pretty good coverage. I hope that the receiver does not get overloaded with RF garbage which would limit its effective sensitivity. Only time will tell once I get it on the air next week.
Once it is on the air it will only be temporary. It could be yanked out of there at any time in the future, so don't get too attached to it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Look for the announcement here when it is online in Boca Raton. For now, it is feeding Fort Lauderdale and Broward County public safety traffic as a test.
That is all.
It will carry railroad audio from both CSX (including Tri-Rail and Amtrak) and FEC (Florida East Coast Railway).
It will also be programmed with Deerfield Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, and Palm Beach County public safety trunked systems.
Because the scanner can be remotely controlled via the attached computer, I will be able to steer it to active incidents should the need arise.
The antenna will be about 30 feet in the air so it should have pretty good coverage. I hope that the receiver does not get overloaded with RF garbage which would limit its effective sensitivity. Only time will tell once I get it on the air next week.
Once it is on the air it will only be temporary. It could be yanked out of there at any time in the future, so don't get too attached to it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Look for the announcement here when it is online in Boca Raton. For now, it is feeding Fort Lauderdale and Broward County public safety traffic as a test.
That is all.
2008-01-06
server back up, mostly
Thanks to quick work by Jeff at the co-lo facility, the Shoutcast server in Dallas is back up much faster than I anticipated. I am currently sending my stream to the old, repaired box while I configure a replacement machine.
Hopefully, the transition will go smoothly.
Hopefully, the transition will go smoothly.
2008-01-03
Server out of service
The server at the Dallas co-location facility has died, so until a replacement can be procured this feed will be unavailable. I will post here when it returns to service.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
2007-12-15
Winterfest Boat Parade
Tonight is the Winterfest Boat Parade down the New River and up the Intracoastal Waterway. It is usually a hoot for those not involved because it is barely controlled chaos.
Essentially, boat owners decorate their vessels with all kinds of holiday lights and doodads similar to what one might find on a street parade float. The larger (ritzier) vessels often have dozens or hundreds of folks on board partying and dancing to the loud music emanating from their vessels.
A couple years ago a hapless veteran ham radio operator served as net control on the marine channel for the boat parade and sounded hopelessly outmatched by the clever boat pilots zipping about the parade route. You are welcome to tune in to the festivities on the feed for as long as you can stand it. It's only 15:30 Saturday and I'm already over it!
Essentially, boat owners decorate their vessels with all kinds of holiday lights and doodads similar to what one might find on a street parade float. The larger (ritzier) vessels often have dozens or hundreds of folks on board partying and dancing to the loud music emanating from their vessels.
A couple years ago a hapless veteran ham radio operator served as net control on the marine channel for the boat parade and sounded hopelessly outmatched by the clever boat pilots zipping about the parade route. You are welcome to tune in to the festivities on the feed for as long as you can stand it. It's only 15:30 Saturday and I'm already over it!
2007-09-27
Railroad Only For FECRS Convention
From today through the end of the F.E.C.R.S. Convention in Fort Lauderdale the FTL feed will only stream FEC and CSX railroad channels used in south Florida.
2007-09-09
Blog Created 20070909
This blog replaces my Yahoogroup named scanaudio_FLL which was created before blogs became popular.
Since a blog is better suited to my purpose, I am closing the old Yahoogroup and posting status updates here. I have been wanting to do this for quite some time, but I guess you could call me a late adopter.
Also, I recently acquired a client (VoiceInterop) engaged in public safety interoperability and RoIP (Radio over Internet Protocol) and it's really interesting stuff and it actually works a lot better than I had thought. There's an outside chance that I might be employing our products to expand my little network of streaming audio sites, so stay tuned for those developments.
For now, the FTL stream still has the same ol same old:
Broward County public safety trunked system INPUT frequencies (outside of school bus hours of operation) allow us to hear units nearby. This mostly stays locked except on nights and weekends, otherwise the school bus and public works traffic monopolizes the scanner's time. Because of the Balkanization of south Florida, Wilton Manors has the south side of Oakland Park Blvd a few blocks away, but they are on Fort Lauderdale's trunked system. BSO Oakland Park has the north side of the Boulevard and the surrounding neighborhoods, hence the usefulness of the input frequencies when it's not too busy on that system.
Every blue moon or so I open up my ham bank that has Lu's repeater on 444.025 in Margate w/IRLP link, 146.52, 52.525, 29.60 ham frequencies.
Because of the high noise floor from all the computerized devices around here I can not monitor certain marine channels. It seems that VHF hi band is where a lot of this garbage can be heard.
So that is my modest offering to those not fortunate enough to live in the Venice of Florida, or whatever they call this dump. At least it's warm when you northerners are shoveling snow. That's gotta count for something.
Since a blog is better suited to my purpose, I am closing the old Yahoogroup and posting status updates here. I have been wanting to do this for quite some time, but I guess you could call me a late adopter.
Also, I recently acquired a client (VoiceInterop) engaged in public safety interoperability and RoIP (Radio over Internet Protocol) and it's really interesting stuff and it actually works a lot better than I had thought. There's an outside chance that I might be employing our products to expand my little network of streaming audio sites, so stay tuned for those developments.
Channel Line-up
For now, the FTL stream still has the same ol same old:
- FEC Railway: road, dispatch uplink, maintenance-of-way (rarely used)
- CSX: road, dispatch, m-o-w (occasionally used)
- marine channels: 9 (draw bridges), 12, 13, 14 (Port Everglades calling), 69, 71, 72 (fisherman chit-chat), 77 (Port Everglades internal operations), 85 (police interoperability).
- WFTL Steven J. Gray traffic plane 455.925MHz
- Wilton Manors LG & police talkaround 153.86 PL=3Z
- Florida state-wide mutual aid 854.6375 MHz (after rebanding)
Broward County public safety trunked system INPUT frequencies (outside of school bus hours of operation) allow us to hear units nearby. This mostly stays locked except on nights and weekends, otherwise the school bus and public works traffic monopolizes the scanner's time. Because of the Balkanization of south Florida, Wilton Manors has the south side of Oakland Park Blvd a few blocks away, but they are on Fort Lauderdale's trunked system. BSO Oakland Park has the north side of the Boulevard and the surrounding neighborhoods, hence the usefulness of the input frequencies when it's not too busy on that system.
Every blue moon or so I open up my ham bank that has Lu's repeater on 444.025 in Margate w/IRLP link, 146.52, 52.525, 29.60 ham frequencies.
Because of the high noise floor from all the computerized devices around here I can not monitor certain marine channels. It seems that VHF hi band is where a lot of this garbage can be heard.
So that is my modest offering to those not fortunate enough to live in the Venice of Florida, or whatever they call this dump. At least it's warm when you northerners are shoveling snow. That's gotta count for something.
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