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New self service fire-alerts signup launched.

2010-02-26T19:03:19Z

Due to the number of signup request that come in.. few hundred every week I have sat down and got a simple way for users to self-signup themselfs to the departments that they want. This will take a great burden off the staff of helpers and myself doing all these.. Will also allow the requests to be added in realtime. I am getting ready to launch livingston county so the system keeps growning and signup requests will only grow. If your request hasn't been filled visit the fire alert links above to signup via the new methode. Requests for removals will still be proccesed manualy for now. So it's a start atleast.. Thanks everybody for your donations and words.

We have also turned on a feature in the server to remove bad/bouncing emails. If we try to deliver a fire alert to your email address and it fails more then twice your address will be auto removed. This will help speed up delivery if all bad address's are removed for others. And help to control getting put on black-lists. The alert system is doing well over 190k messages outbound a month now and only growing..

Touraine Fire Audio Archive - 02-13-2010

2010-02-16T16:46:20Z

Here is the audio archive for the fire on Touraine drive in the city of flint on 02-13-2010
The audio was recorded via vox. So events don't happen in real time as all pauses where not recorded. The raw time stamped audio files can be downloaded by clicking the links below.

Flint Journal News Items on The Fire

Flint Fire Audio

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Click here to download MP3 - Click here to download RAR file with timestamped audio files

Happy New Year - 78P911 and other updates.

2010-01-16T18:46:19Z

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR... While it might not look like it things have been very busy for me around here for the past month+ or so. But I have been able to spend most of the last few days working on the scanner feeds... First off not many know but each feed all 35+ has a computer just for it. Trying to keep all 35 running has been a chore.. Not to mention the power bills. The reason being each encoder/feed was it's own box was the software program I used to archive the audio for each feed would not take installing separate copies of itself on a box. I had put off building a server based archiving system as i only had a handful of feeds and the effort to building something that would archive off the icecast server was just not a priority. Well this little animal has grown... Grown to something that is making management of it taking more time. Time which I need to put towards building out new feeds or features. So I set out to build a server based archiving system like some of the larger feed providers ( radioreference and liveatc.net ) have on there hosting of feeds for people. After some playing with different ideas I have finaly got a system working on my test vm's. So I have gone and purchased the hardware to build the production version of it. The hardware is currently burning in as we speak and if I can get to it this weekend will have the final con-fig put in it and launched for all of you. The new system is real-time to the web as well.. so no more waiting for me to compress and upload the archives to the ftp server... You will be able to browse right to it and pull the files off in real-time. With the archive hurdle out of the way I was able to look at putting multiple sound cards into one host PC. I ordered 50 USB sound cards to get started off ebay. With a few USB hubs I can start putting many feeds on one computer. So for my first test since the 78p911 computer still was having issues I picked up the radio and computer from the tower site in fenton Twp. and brought it to my house where I have the 78F911 800 feed. I slapped one of the USB sound cards into the fire encoders computer and setup the levels. So far it has been working well. The end game is rather then getting a bunch of cheap computers using one redundant computer per site with how ever many sound cards it can run without issue. Next weekend I hope to get to lansing and convert the 6 feed computers out there into one and also add 2-3 more ingham county trunked feeds.

Last night I went to the tower site in howell to install gear to feed Livingston EMS and the local ham repeater. The EMS audio will be used for the 2tone alerts. I have been testing vhf fire alerts for about a month or so but before I made those public wanted to get EMS up and running as well. Look for those feed links and alert sign up pages shortly. Speaking of fire alerts the system received over 6,525 tone outs in December and sent 108,029 messages to the subscribers that month. I have been testing some twitter integrations on some of the alert channels as well. Once I get them all setup will put the info for the twitter and rss feeds up here on the pages as well.

Again as always thank you all for the donations that coming in to help keep everything running and expanding. With out it growth would be slow if not at all.

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Fredric Moses - W8FSM
fred@moses.bz

Votes are in. 78F911 Feed is Launched - Other News.

2009-11-01T04:13:41Z

Well after a day or 2 of voting Shiawassee County Fire Talkgroups came out the winner for the next new digital MPSCS feed. I have finished all the programing and software setup for the feed. You can view it's page here. You will see a list of the talkgroups that are on the feed as well as the direct MP3 links and flash play code. We may move the 78f911-vhf phone number to this feed I will post if and when that happens. I will also been going through the phone system and adding phone numbers to the new feeds and verifying the database of numbers to feeds.

Also tonight 5 weeks of fire alert signups where completed. With the move and having the flu for 2 weeks just not finding a free moment to keep up on them. I have enlisted the help of a friend to help make sure they get done quicker. Might even get another friend as well if we keep growing at the rate we do. 197 different signups in that 5 weeks of time. I am not sure how many unique address alerts hit but some departments/tone out groups are over 200 each.. So thinking around 1400 unique address's signed up to one or more fire alerts.

Thank you all again for voting for the next new feed and for the donations of the gear. This feed would not have happend as quick if it wern't for the donations and support of you the listeners. Let's keep growning and adding more feeds. As there is support for the other feeds.

2 New Lansing PD Feeds and Updated Lansing Feed Names

2009-10-30T04:40:45Z

Well it is with a good feeling inside that I am announcing the launch of 2 new Ingham County EDACS Feeds. 519-LPD-North and 519-LPD-South. Each feed has the main dispatch channel and the tac channel for north/south. These feeds are also in the main ventrilo server for real time listening. Server: vent.moses.bz Port: 3027 As I am getting well over 30 feeds now some order is to come of the naming of the feeds with this in mind following the MPSCS slightly and using the UCRP ORI Agency Table Codes for naming of feeds. So Lansing fire is now 519-lfd and East Lansing/MSU PD is now 364-ELPD. Out county fire dispatch feed will get re-tagged soon as will other feeds. Please don't forget to vote for the next MPSCS Digital scanner feed below as well. Looks like Livingston County Fire is in the lead with state wide gevent talkgroups in second place. I will stop the voting sometime over the weekend when I get ready to launch the new feed.

As always thanks for everybody's donations and help getting these 2 new feeds launched and the new up coming digital feed. I promise once these feeds are done I will get to the fire alert signups with moving to our new home things are very busy around here. I am also going to be setting the system up for a few helpers to help me get signups done quicker. So that should be coming along as well.

New MPSCS Feed Vote.

2009-10-29T13:41:17Z

I have been givin a new MPSCS Digital scanner that can be used for a new feed. But I don't know what feed to launch next. I have more thoughts for feeds then what scanners I have now so I figured I would put a poll up and let you the users make points. As a note the wife and I moved to our house in Livingston county and I have setup a fire alert system for that county that will be launching soon hence I am including Livingston county in the poll.

Affiliate Program poll

CRIM 2009 Audio Archives Posted

2009-09-02T06:20:43Z

I have posted the audio archives from the 3 main public safety nets for the 2009 crim festival of races (EMS GEVENT5, Flint PD and ARES ). You can download the mp3 files for the nets over at http://crim.moses.bz There is also a link to last years archives as well there..

NOAA Weather Radio Stream Launched for Flint/Clio KIH29 Transmitter

2009-07-25T20:47:53Z

So while at radio shack today getting audio cables and parts for work I saw they had a digital noaa weather radio on sale for 19.99. It didn't have jacks for audio or external antenna but i figured that would be easy to mod. If it had an AC adapter I would be fine. I have always toyed with the idea of having NWR feeds here as they would be on emergency power and the like. So I got the radio. Spent a little time this afternoon modding it and getting it ready. I left a small pig tale on the internal speaker if i need to hook it up to listen localy to it was a simple plug in. The feed is up I need to get a phone number pointed to it but that should be all that's left. I am also feeding the audio to weatherunderground and there NWR audio project. Click here to listen

What's going on, why didn't coordination alert go out, shiawassee county stuff and other ramblings

2009-07-25T14:47:00Z

First off Thursday night did a nice batch of 140 sign-ups that where sent in over 9 days. I really need to sit down and learn to write the web based admin program so you all can do sign-ups and changes in real time. If somebody knows somebody that knows PHP/MYSQL or some sort of web programming and would like to donate there time to a project then have them contact me please...

I have been getting a few emails about why when coordination was toned out yesterday did not an ealert go out. The system when it hears a 2tone will record 45 seconds of audio after the tone. Flint TWP had just toned out so the system was recording that tone.. Central toned before the recording of flint twp had ended.. The system while it is recording audio does not alert for other tones in till its done recording. It has happened in the past and one way to get around it is to get a second instance of the software running just for coordination tones. I am going to work on seeing if it can be run on the same computer as 25fire now or if i need to use a second computer. That is my first project for today. Coordination is my #2 in sign-ups with 126 people on that list. So it is pretty important and if i had to put a second computer on it I know that it is worth it. #1 right now is county all call with 158 people on it.

I have secured a nice secure place in shiawassee county to move the police 800 feed to. It is close to the owosoo tower which should help with the bips and burps we are hearing on this feed. I would like to see donations of ether monies or in equipment to get a shiawassee county 800mhz fire feed going. I have the computer equipment ready for the feed just need the 800mhz digital radio.

Well it is going on 11am and I should start working on projects..

25PD-SOUTH FIXED, TALK GROUPS CHANGED IN 25EMS

2009-07-15T19:16:46Z

Finaly heard the garbled transmissions from 25PD-SOUTH this morning. Went to the site and found the radio decoding the control channel about 10% out of 8 other radios on the multicoupler it was the only one doing it. When listening to the audio I heard what sounded like a wining in the audio. When I broke the ground RF connection off the multicoupler it went away and decode went back up to 95%. Installed a ground isolator into the antenna and decode is holding good.

While I was there I removed the 25REG1 talkgroup from the 25EMS feed there patch from analog sucks. And is over modulated and just makes listening to the feed crap... I added 25PATRI for Patriot Ambulance in its place... I may also put MMR South in it.. But didn't right the talk group down before I left for the site.

New Flash Based Player for all Scanner Feeds

2009-07-15T02:38:05Z

I have finished the page with all the flash based player apps to listen to all of my scanner feeds. From this one page you can hit play on any number of feeds and listen to them all without having to run software on your computer. This should allow anybody to listen from anywhere without having to download things. Plus ease of listening to multipul streams. You can click on the scanners tab above or here if you like. I will be added each feeds single app to it's feed page so if slower computers have trouble loading the big page you can just listen to one or 2 depending on how many browser windows you have open.

Mid-Michigan MS150 Live Page

2009-07-11T03:56:01Z

This weekend is the Mid-Michigan MS150 event and just like for West Michigan I have built a mini live page with the camera, net audio and aprs overlay. visit http://moses.bz/live

East Lansing Police Feed Launched

2009-07-01T15:32:17Z

Ok audio levels have been set and talkgroups loaded into the radio. This is my third lansing based feed and the second Ingham EDACS Feed. Click here for feed page - Click here to listen

This feed includes the following talkgroups:
02-061 EL MSU P
02-063 EL CAR
02-065 EMM TAC1
02-066 EMM TAC2
02-067 EMM TAC3
02-070 EMM TAC4
02-071 EL CMND
02-072 ELPTAC A
02-073 ELPTAC B
02-081 MSU CAR
02-083 MSU CMND
02-084 MSU EVENTS

Field Day 2009 at NWS White Lake office.

2009-06-28T09:01:52Z

We are doing field day this year at the NWS White Lake office. I have live video up which is from one of the HF operating spots. We are running 3F. Hope to see you hams on the band.

New Ventrilo Port and Testing East Lansing PD Feed

2009-06-27T06:54:16Z

Vent has a new port: 3207 All the scanner feeds have been moved over. I am also testing a new feed covering East Lansing PD Talkgroups on the EDACS system. The audio level needs to be fixed and then i will finish the offical page and launch the feed.