Discussion: Streaming FESA scanner radio

Post by **vk6hgr** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:01 pm

Hi All.

I have a receiver set up on channel 57 FESA which is now streaming out to the Internet.

Further information is in the Annoucement thread

Thanks to everyone who has helped me test it. Please PM me if there are problems.

Here are some photos:

This is the lead in from the outdoor antenna (thick cable, top) to a receive preamplifier that bumps the signal up about 16dB before being split off to my own monitoring receiver and the streaming receiver.

This is the streaming radio. A 20 year old Philips FM93 sitting on the floor, waiting to be put in the rack.

philby · Post by **philby** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:05 pm

good work gav!!

looks like you need some cable ties!

Post by **vk6hgr** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:08 pm

philby wrote: looks like you need some cable ties!

Good idea!

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri May 18, 2007 10:23 am

Hi Folks.

The scanner is off the air today, Friday 18/5, as it appears as though the server has a faulty network card.

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:12 am

cheers gav hoipefully ill be able to test it soon

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:41 pm

vk6hgr wrote: The scanner is off the air today, Friday 18/5, as it appears as though the server has a faulty network card.

It appears to have fixed itself and for now it's working again.

If you're having trouble connecting, try pinging stream.warsug.info
If you get no reply then the server is having troubles.

jmmw · Post by **jmmw** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:02 pm

hey gavin not sure if its just me or not but i am able to ping the server successfully but vlc refuses to connect?

Had it working the other day but now not as co operative.

This just me?

familyman · Post by **familyman** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:03 pm

great stream.

Thanks alot

Cheers

Post by **Bonez** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:06 pm

Cheers Gav

Would love to have this sitting in the background when i'm at work but unfortunately streaming media is blocked, and even though I'm a domain admin and have passwords for all the servers/appliances I haven't quite figured out how to play with the firewall box

Anyway, for now I shall listen from home whenever I can. It's a whole new type of lingo for me to learn!

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:43 pm

jmmw wrote:hey gavin not sure if its just me or not but i am able to ping the server successfully but vlc refuses to connect?

I didn't try with VLC but I just tried and it connects OK with Winamp.

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:46 pm

vk6hgr wrote:
vk6hgr wrote: The scanner is off the air today, Friday 18/5, as it appears as though the server has a faulty network card.
It appears to have fixed itself and for now it's working again.

Make that a broken hard disk and a bad network card. Ugh. I hate computers sometimes. Really. I do

Post by **Bonez** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:03 pm

damn, pitty about the disk. Looks like you've got a bit of rebuilding on the hands.

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:05 pm

Bonez wrote:damn, pitty about the disk. Looks like you've got a bit of rebuilding on the hands.

Yay for RAID. The faulty disk in the set was causing all sorts of grief, which may be why the network was acting up. We just have to try swapping out spare hardware until it becomes stable... so the stream is still in Beta testing folks

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:56 pm

One thing about the stream I forgot to mention... the stream has a 5 hour connection limit. If you get disconnected due to the timer you are able to immediately reconnect though.

chrissss · Post by **chrissss** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:20 am

it works
paraise the lord

how close is it to real time radio?

chris