Baltimore City Fire online feed

[briank627]

Understanding that these wonderful online feeds are graciously provided on a volunteer basis and come through my computer like a generous audio gift (have I kissed up enough yet?)...Does anyone know what's up with the Baltimore City Fire online feed? The one I've been using on my laptop, and could access on my Droid using Scanner Buddy, has been offline since Saturday night (right in the middle of a fascinating CO call with forced entry on Northern Pkwy!). On Sunday, I noticed that two new feeds have appeared, one for dispatch and one for fireground. I connnected with them briefly on Sunday, but now the fireground feed is offline. And even if both new feeds were working, the offline status of the original combined feed renders my Scanner Buddy Droid app ineffective, so no more listening in the car. At this point, getting real scanner equipment would require some marital negotiations in which I would probably not fare well at the present time...I need my online feed! Does anyone know what's up?

 

[Citywide173]

My guess is it has something to do with this:

http://forums.radioreference.com/ma...m/194926-new-baltimore-system-discussion.html

Lots of people having difficulty with the system

 

[briank627]

I looked there first but I thought that since those problems seem to have been around for months and that this just happened on Saturday that the two were not related. But you might be onto something. Thanks for the info.

 

[ocguard]

I looked there first but I thought that since those problems seem to have been around for months and that this just happened on Saturday that the two were not related. But you might be onto something. Thanks for the info.

That thread is old (it was created when first news of the upgrades broke) but the problems are still very new, as the cutover to the upgraded system has been only about a month ago. Give it time, I'm sure the feeds will return.

 

[AD9O]

Appologies. The UPS the computer and related equipment are on has been intermittently dying for no explainable reason. I was in Michigan all weekend and could not restart it. The feed should be back up this evening when I get home from work (went straight from the airport to the office this morning).

I sincerely regret the inconvenience. I'm going to be replacing the UPS shortly and hopefully this will resolve the problems.

Tony

 

[briank627]

No need for apologies. I sincerely appreciate that you make these feeds availbable!

 

[AD9O]

Feed is back online. If anyone notices any reception issues, please feel free to PM me or file a report. I don't have the feed up all the time at work, so don't know if I'm getting any drop-outs te way some users are.