We only need a few more feeds to fill out CA

[lbpd719]

We are SO close to filling out the state.. If you can receive any of these counties and would like some help setting up a feed, please consider feeding a stream..

Del Norte
Siskiyou
Modoc
Trinity
Shasta
Lassen
Tehama
Plumas
Sierra
Marin
San Francisco
Inyo
Kings
San Luis Obispo
Imperial

[RolnCode3]

I bet a few of those counties will have so little traffic that there won't be enough listeners to make it worthwhile. Marin and SF could provide plenty, but some of those counties are extremely rural, rugged, and sparsely populated. Just a thought.

[antfreq]

Originally Posted by RolnCode3

I bet a few of those counties will have so little traffic that there won't be enough listeners to make it worthwhile. Marin and SF could provide plenty, but some of those counties are extremely rural, rugged, and sparsely populated. Just a thought.

I'm very surprised that SF and Marin are not fed.

Some "blue" counties still need more feeds or modifications. Placer County for example, it only has a CalFire feed. No law and no "local" fire/ems. While on the flip side, Sacramento County has several feeds that double or triple the law and fire/ems coverage. That's good in the sense that the listener has options, but perhaps some of the over exposed feeds could be utilized elsewhere, such as Placer County.

[gmclam]

Originally Posted by lbpd719

We are SO close to filling out the state.. If you can receive any of these counties and would like some help setting up a feed, please consider feeding a stream..

Del Norte
Siskiyou
Modoc
Trinity
Shasta
Lassen
Tehama
Plumas
Sierra
Marin
San Francisco
Inyo
Kings
San Luis Obispo
Imperial

I pick up Sierra and Tehama counties from here. Very little traffic on each; except Sierra during a busy camping weekend. I pick up Shasta & Plumas as well, but not good enough quality for a feed.

Originally Posted by antfreq

Some "blue" counties still need more feeds or modifications. Placer County for example, it only has a CalFire feed. No law and no "local" fire/ems. While on the flip side, Sacramento County has several feeds that double or triple the law and fire/ems coverage. That's good in the sense that the listener has options, but perhaps some of the over exposed feeds could be utilized elsewhere, such as Placer County.

I tried listening to a Sacramento feed recently and it was not very good quality. I am not in the city itself, and pick these signals up better than they were being streamed. I would expect a feed to be "broadcast quality".

I'd like to see the quality of feeds improve, and the "selectivity" of feeds before quantity. It should be more about getting GOOD quality feeds that are not loaded with so much traffic that you can't pick out the different agencies you are hearing. In other words; I'd rather see separated feeds for counties, cities, fire & law enforcement; not just lump everything into a single feed (unless it is someplace sparse like Sierra County).

[RolnCode3]

Originally Posted by antfreq

I'm very surprised that SF and Marin are not fed.

Some "blue" counties still need more feeds or modifications. Placer County for example, it only has a CalFire feed. No law and no "local" fire/ems. While on the flip side, Sacramento County has several feeds that double or triple the law and fire/ems coverage. That's good in the sense that the listener has options, but perhaps some of the over exposed feeds could be utilized elsewhere, such as Placer County.

I agree. I call a meeting to hash it out over pizza and beers.

[landonjensen]

I was thinking there should be a feed commitee... One for each state... So say, 3-4 people from that state rate feeds and thier quality, and if they should be approved for reasons like said above (bad quality, overlapping, little to no traffic, etc) I'd be willing to do it... That way we can have some great feeds, instead of 200 not too great ones! I would rather see 1 feed scanning a smaller busy area, rather than say 10 cities that causes info to be missed for certain cities.... Examples of this is 1 feed scanning ALL of the LACOFD channels... If we had say 3-4 feeds doing Blue 1&3, Blue 6 (Already being done) Blue 8 (Already being done) Blue 13, and Blue 12, we would have the whole important part of LACOFD comm's covered. Broadcasters could throw in the White Tac's as well so people would hear those also.

Also, Feed providers should fill out the information on thier feed info/notes more often... I dont see many people doing this, and that info is extremely beneficial to those listening so they know what they are listening to! For example, the LAPD feed just says "Los Angeles Police Department" and nothing else. I am sure some people are curious as to if the feed scans all of the LAPD channels, or just certain divisions? Or maybe the hotshots channel?

"Uplink" and myself who host CA feeds often update the "Feed Status" to what we are feeding. So if people come onto the RR CA Feed Page, they will see Feed #1 is feeding a 2nd alarm in Pasadena, while Feed #2 is scanning LACOFD channels. Feed #3 may be on a standoff in LAPD NW Division. This seems to work well and helps attract listeners, and also lets people know whats currently being fed!

Admins and others, please feel free to throw in your thoughts about my idea of individual feed commitees. Like I said, I am willing to be one of the CA members to do what I mentioned above. Also, I would like to see feed owners to be able to change the feed title.

Just my 2 cents. ~

[antfreq]

Originally Posted by RolnCode3

I agree. I call a meeting to hash it out over pizza and beers.

I agree! Even for non-stream related "business".

Now that I'm on days ( TDY ) I'm available any day after 4pm.

Again, meet in a spot with good reception and electrical outlets and such.

I'm game for anywhere from Downtown to Folsom.

[seligman]

A feed in the Redding area would probably cover Shasta, Trinity, and Tehama counties. You could also pick up Redding's 800-MHz trunked system.

I've found that Shasta County's radio system is rather weak the farther you get from Redding. I go on vacation in this area and it amazes me how hard it is to monitor public safety frequencies. Where I stay, about 1 hour east of Redding (about 5000 feet elevation) the 2-meter ham repeaters in Redding blow the socks off everything else.

Not only that, I can hear Tehama County's radio traffic much better, and I'm smack dab in the middle of Shasta County. Both are VHF in the 150-MHz range.

Sorry I'm not very helpful, but I would look into Redding if you can.

[landonjensen]

I did a quick review on all the Los Angeles feeds on RR right now since I had nothing better to do, and wanted to see what was going on in CA! Feeders, dont take offense to what I noted. Just my personal opinion

"Los Angeles area Police and Fire"
-Has good audio... Some hum at times. (This is my feed so I will work on it). I will be changing it over to a new scanner in the next 1-2 days.

"Los Angeles County Fire (CountyWide dispatch, Blue 8)"
-Audio cuts in and out... I dont think the broadcaster has good reception of Blue 8.. Scanner volume seems to be low... Also, if your volume is turned up too high (at your computer), you will get a hum/buzz.

"Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACOFD)"
-Offline, My feed.. Doing updates on the computer. Will be back soon to feed LACOFD Blue 6, San Gabriel Valley Response channel...

"Los Angeles Los Angeles County Sheriff (Santa Clarita Valley), Fire, and EMS:
(covers Castaic, Valencia, Stevenson Ranch, Saugus, Newhall, Vale Verde, Agua Dulce, and Canyon Country)"
-GREAT GREAT audio quality... Seems to get good reception on everything that the user is feeding.

"Los Angeles County Sheriff (Santa Clarita Valley), Fire, and EMS"
-Good reception on channels that are being received.. Some slight buzz off and on..

"Los Angeles International Airport air traffic"
-Listened to a little bit... Not much traffic to really say anything.

"Los Angeles Police Department #1"
-Alot of digital/P25 bleeps on some channels.. Other channels are EXCELLENT revieve and sound quality wise. No hum at all.

"Los Angeles Police Department #2"
-Offline

"Redondo Beach Police and Fire"
-Great audio! No hum, no need to turn my speakers up. From the traffic i heard, seems to receive everything well.

"South Bay Police and Fire"
-Same comments as Redondo Beach PD and FD... Seems to be good!

"Torrance Police Department"
-Offline

[gmclam]

Originally Posted by RolnCode3

I agree. I call a meeting to hash it out over pizza and beers.

I am game for this as long as it is not between 8/28 & 8/31.

I've found that Shasta County's radio system is rather weak the farther you get from Redding.

Not only that, I can hear Tehama County's radio traffic much better, and I'm smack dab in the middle of Shasta County. Both are VHF in the 150-MHz range.

Funny thing, I am listening to Tehama County, Red Bluff PD and Redding Fire from Fair Oaks today. Tehama county always comes in, the others only when conditions are good.

[trooperdude]

Originally Posted by lbpd719

We are SO close to filling out the state.. If you can receive any of these counties and would like some help setting up a feed, please consider feeding a stream..

San Francisco

I can probably do this from a secure site I have above Fremont at 2100 ft AMSL, with
a 2mbps wireless broadband link.

It can "see" from Marin to Monterey.

I have a spare dell desktop computer and a non-remote control
scanner as a spare.

I'm already putting up a fire feed here with a remote control computer and
a remote-controlled Uniden scanner.

I've also sent an e-mail to Mr. Blanton about doing an RR-branded super RX site for San Francisco-San Jose-San Mateo at my site above the bay area.

[trooperdude]

BTW, this is a cheap way to get rid of the ground loop hum on feeds.

Ground Loop Isolator - RadioShack.com

[sonticus]

Originally Posted by antfreq

While on the flip side, Sacramento County has several feeds that double or triple the law and fire/ems coverage. That's good in the sense that the listener has options, but perhaps some of the over exposed feeds could be utilized elsewhere, such as Placer County.

I would agree with Antfreq, there's a lot of overlapping feeds for Sac Co agencies. Maybe they could be whittled down so there's a few less agencies on each feed. When I'm listening to my own scanners I'm fine with scanning many different agencies because I can identify and single out the talkgroups or channels where action is happening. That's not possible when I'm listening on these feeds. For example, if one agency is in pursuit those those transmissions could easily be "buried" by another agency's routine (aka boring) traffic.

There's already one feed dedicated to SSD, maybe the other two could switch to SPD or Sac Fire? And maybe one more feed for the other smaller law enforcement agencies on SRRCS if needed (EGPD, TRPD, CHPD, WSPD, FPD, etc).

Although this would probably be better discussed over the aforementioned pizza and beer.

[antfreq]

Originally Posted by sonticus

I would agree with Antfreq, there's a lot of overlapping feeds for Sac Co agencies. Maybe they could be whittled down so there's a few less agencies on each feed. When I'm listening to my own scanners I'm fine with scanning many different agencies because I can identify and single out the talkgroups or channels where action is happening. That's not possible when I'm listening on these feeds. For example, if one agency is in pursuit those those transmissions could easily be "buried" by another agency's routine (aka boring) traffic.

There's already one feed dedicated to SSD, maybe the other two could switch to SPD or Sac Fire? And maybe one more feed for the other smaller law enforcement agencies on SRRCS if needed (EGPD, TRPD, CHPD, WSPD, FPD, etc).

Although this would probably be better discussed over the aforementioned pizza and beer.

Currently I got a feed going for Placer County law - but I am willing to feed something else.

The RR feed admins are quick and friendly. I'm pretty darn impressed with RR accomplishments.

[RolnCode3]

Originally Posted by sonticus

I would agree with Antfreq, there's a lot of overlapping feeds for Sac Co agencies. Maybe they could be whittled down so there's a few less agencies on each feed. When I'm listening to my own scanners I'm fine with scanning many different agencies because I can identify and single out the talkgroups or channels where action is happening. That's not possible when I'm listening on these feeds. For example, if one agency is in pursuit those those transmissions could easily be "buried" by another agency's routine (aka boring) traffic.

There's already one feed dedicated to SSD, maybe the other two could switch to SPD or Sac Fire? And maybe one more feed for the other smaller law enforcement agencies on SRRCS if needed (EGPD, TRPD, CHPD, WSPD, FPD, etc).

Although this would probably be better discussed over the aforementioned pizza and beer.

My law enforcement feed already covers all of those other agencies. My ssd/SPD feed is almost 24/7 running double digit listeners. I had a max of 63 during the officer involved shooting a few weeks ago. Maybe that could be split off to separate feeds, but for right now it's staying as-is till something better shows up.

Next week I'll be available for a get together. Weekend I'm totally free. Weekdays after 730pm, or I can leave early with notice.

[Uplink]

Originally Posted by landonjensen

I did a quick review on all the Los Angeles feeds on RR right now since I had nothing better to do, and wanted to see what was going on in CA! Feeders, dont take offense to what I noted. Just my personal opinion

"Los Angeles area Police and Fire"
-Has good audio... Some hum at times. (This is my feed so I will work on it). I will be changing it over to a new scanner in the next 1-2 days.

"Los Angeles County Fire (CountyWide dispatch, Blue 8)"
-Audio cuts in and out... I dont think the broadcaster has good reception of Blue 8.. Scanner volume seems to be low... Also, if your volume is turned up too high (at your computer), you will get a hum/buzz.

"Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACOFD)"
-Offline, My feed.. Doing updates on the computer. Will be back soon to feed LACOFD Blue 6, San Gabriel Valley Response channel...

"Los Angeles Los Angeles County Sheriff (Santa Clarita Valley), Fire, and EMS:
(covers Castaic, Valencia, Stevenson Ranch, Saugus, Newhall, Vale Verde, Agua Dulce, and Canyon Country)"
-GREAT GREAT audio quality... Seems to get good reception on everything that the user is feeding.

"Los Angeles County Sheriff (Santa Clarita Valley), Fire, and EMS"
-Good reception on channels that are being received.. Some slight buzz off and on..

"Los Angeles International Airport air traffic"
-Listened to a little bit... Not much traffic to really say anything.

"Los Angeles Police Department #1"
-Alot of digital/P25 bleeps on some channels.. Other channels are EXCELLENT revieve and sound quality wise. No hum at all.

"Los Angeles Police Department #2"
-Offline

"Redondo Beach Police and Fire"
-Great audio! No hum, no need to turn my speakers up. From the traffic i heard, seems to receive everything well.

"South Bay Police and Fire"
-Same comments as Redondo Beach PD and FD... Seems to be good!

"Torrance Police Department"
-Offline

Good thread guys. Landon, Thanks for the compliments and reviews, I totally agree, some co-ordination is need to evenly cover our area! I would recommend LAPD for example, broken up into 4 feeds by those closest to those respective areas, such as CENTRAL, WEST, VALLEY and SOUTH. LA is so huge, it would drive people crazy to scan "everything", and it's impossible to follow an incident. I realize it may be difficult for LAPD, because not everybody has digital scanners.

One confusing thing that is saw is the "LA county feed" currently listing feeding Central LAPD, La Verne and Ventura? Those are totally different parts of the city and not even the same county. I'm bewildered how you can pick up La Verne and Ventura at the same time

For fire I always just stick with Blue11 & 12, and VHF TAC18, because that's mainly what is used out here in this valley.

Yes, let get organized, and no offense here either, I realize it's just a hobby and we want to keep this "fun". Just would be nice for listeners to hop on board and know WHERE to listen, and WHAT they are listening too, especially when there is breaking news. Great work guys.

[landonjensen]

I would like to see the following if possible for So Cal.. Im sure we can make it happen!.... (Each line a different feed)

Blue 1+3, as well as local VHF tacticals

Blue 6+13, as well as local VHF tacticals

Blue 8

Blue 12, as well as local VHF tacticals

CHP LA

CHP OC

CHP San Francisco

CHP Sacramento

LAPD Central

LAPD West

LAPD South

LAPD Valley

ANF & CDF (Would need to be a good antenna setup to receive everything... May split it up into different sections for people close to certain sections?)

LASO Dispatch Channels and L-Tacs (Same as splitting up into certain sections so everything could be covered, and you could follow a incident.

Two to three dedicated ICIS feeds dedicated to scanning the ICIS radio system....

[lbpd719]

Wow - that post took on a life of it's own..

I will do what I can to help out as well

[gmclam]

Originally Posted by RolnCode3

Next week I'll be available for a get together. Weekend I'm totally free. Weekdays after 730pm, or I can leave early with notice.

How about sometime between 9/1 & 9/6 ???

[blantonl]

trooperdue, could you resend that email that you said you sent to me - I didn't get it.