The prodigal son has returned and reset the piece-of-crap Terk VR-1 volume regulator which apparently was the stopping point of the scanner audio all this time.
It does the job well enough when it is working, but it is ultra sensitive to power glitches. Even on the APC UPS it still found a way to fritz out. Nothing is ever trouble-free.
All is well now, though.
Enjoy!
Bote
2008-09-17
2008-09-11
Boca Box no audio
Bote's Boca Box has decided to stop emitting audio from the scanner. I have tried everything I know to fix it remotely, now I will have to get access to the radio room and see what happened up close and personal. This might not be until next week sometime.
Sorry.
Sorry.
2008-08-25
Bote's Mixer Board back online
DOH! I killed all systems here as Fort Lauderdale was rocked mightily by a nasty thunderstorm the other day. Unfortunately, I forgot to turn on the streaming machine after things settled down.
Sorry about that, Chief!
Sorry about that, Chief!
2008-08-18
Hurricane Fay action
Bote's Mixer Board
The focus remains on Fort Lauderdale public safety while Tropical Storm Fay approaches the southern tip of Florida.
I'm watching the RADAR image over the last couple hours and it sure looks like Fay is tilting towards us more than previously.
The current line-up includes Fort Lauderdale fire, police districts 1 and 3 (north side, south side, and beach side), Pompano Beach fire, BSO Oakland Park (district 12), Broward fire, and the Broward interoperability talkgroups.
If any other talkgroups of interest come alive I will open those up, as well.
My DSL connection is still flaky, no repair on that yet, so if you lose the feed just try back a short time later. It will be up and down throughout the storm.
Bote's Boca Box
No change, same programming as usual.
The worst should occur here through tomorrow morning, then rapidly clearing.
Happy monitoring!
The focus remains on Fort Lauderdale public safety while Tropical Storm Fay approaches the southern tip of Florida.
I'm watching the RADAR image over the last couple hours and it sure looks like Fay is tilting towards us more than previously.
The current line-up includes Fort Lauderdale fire, police districts 1 and 3 (north side, south side, and beach side), Pompano Beach fire, BSO Oakland Park (district 12), Broward fire, and the Broward interoperability talkgroups.
If any other talkgroups of interest come alive I will open those up, as well.
My DSL connection is still flaky, no repair on that yet, so if you lose the feed just try back a short time later. It will be up and down throughout the storm.
Bote's Boca Box
No change, same programming as usual.
The worst should occur here through tomorrow morning, then rapidly clearing.
Happy monitoring!
2008-07-03
Public safety, mostly
Both Bote's Mixer Board and Bote's Boca Box will focus on public safety communications over the holiday weekend of July 4th, Friday-Sunday.
The railroads have annulled a number of trains for the holiday, plus public safety typically has its hands full between drunk drivers wrecking their cars to boaters in distress to other creative incidents.
Bote's Mixer Board will be exclusively public safety for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County West fire districts, while Bote's Boca Box will have public safety from the 3 cities of Boca, Boynton, and Delray with the railroad channels open as well. If the trains talk, you'll hear them, but don't expect much over the holiday weekend.
The railroads have annulled a number of trains for the holiday, plus public safety typically has its hands full between drunk drivers wrecking their cars to boaters in distress to other creative incidents.
Bote's Mixer Board will be exclusively public safety for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County West fire districts, while Bote's Boca Box will have public safety from the 3 cities of Boca, Boynton, and Delray with the railroad channels open as well. If the trains talk, you'll hear them, but don't expect much over the holiday weekend.
2008-06-24
FTL back to rails
Now that FEC has decided to call signals (!!!) I am switching the Fort Lauderdale feed back to FEC Railway exclusively for the time being.
I have been traveling and have not checked the logs, but offhand I'd say that public safety was more popular among my massive listener base. I'll see what I can do, but for now I want to hear as much FEC as possible from work.
Cheers!
I have been traveling and have not checked the logs, but offhand I'd say that public safety was more popular among my massive listener base. I'll see what I can do, but for now I want to hear as much FEC as possible from work.
Cheers!
2008-06-12
Bote's Mixer Board tests cops & fire
Bote's Mixer Board will be trying out public safety traffic in and around Fort Lauderdale for the next little while. The train stuff will still be available on Bote's Boca Box.
2008-06-11
No marine channels on Boca Box for now
The Boca Box feed computer is acting flaky all of a sudden, so I have locked out the marine bank for now since I will have no access to the radio room for a couple weeks. The marine channels seem to be the most problematic, between drunken weekend warriors carrying on and on or the Coast Guard droning on with a repetitious announcement over their piss-poor sounding radio system.
I don't want the thing to go belly-up with no physical access and no remote access either and be forced to listen to the nonsense so I have made this temporary change. The rest of the public safety and railroad line-up remains unchanged.
I don't want the thing to go belly-up with no physical access and no remote access either and be forced to listen to the nonsense so I have made this temporary change. The rest of the public safety and railroad line-up remains unchanged.
2008-06-09
Boca Box back up
Bote's Boca Box is back up and running.
I don't know why it was acting weird, but I didn't have time for a detailed analysis. It appeared to be running normally when I looked at the local console, but a reboot works wonders for Windows!
I don't know why it was acting weird, but I didn't have time for a detailed analysis. It appeared to be running normally when I looked at the local console, but a reboot works wonders for Windows!
2008-06-08
Boca Box up and down
I haven't figured out what is going on, but Bote's Boca Box is acting weird, so until I can get in there tomorrow to look at it the Boca feed might be up, or it might be down.
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