No more all boroughs nyfd channel!

[Mgroup1359]

There was until recently an online scanner that had a channel to monitor all 5 nyc boroughs replicating a true scanner.
About a week ago it stopped connecting.

Anyone seeing this too? Anybody know why?

 

[kc2asb]

I'm familiar with that feed but did not know it was offline. Perhaps the feed provider is having technical issues or moved away. These feeds are provided on a voluntary basis. Nothing can be done if a feed provider decides to stop streaming.

 

[Mgroup1359]

Ahhh…good to know. Thx!

 

[k2hz]

I'm familiar with that feed but did not know it was offline. Perhaps the feed provider is having technical issues or moved away. These feeds are provided on a voluntary basis. Nothing can be done if a feed provider decides to stop streaming.

That feed and the remaining individual borough feeds are provided by nycfire.net operated by a FDNY member. There were obvious technical difficulties with all the feeds recently that may have been beyond the providers capability to resolve. I have not seen any comment from him on their website about the situation.

Proving feeds in the NYC area is challenging with interference issues and, for a system like FDNY that is analog simulcast, it is difficult to find a site with good reception on all frequencies. He may have encountered difficulties with the all borough feed with no readily available solution.

 

[mgroup]

Thanks again for the info. QUESTION...is there an app that provides actual "scanner" capabilities? As in like a Bearcat type scanner? One that can be set up to scan the 5 bouroughs and stop on active station? Exactly like the feed that no longer exists on "PoliceScanner" or "FireWire"?

 

[k2hz]

No such app other than apps that support a SDR dongle that acts as a scanner. But, like a scanner you would be limited to local and not wide area reception. In the NYC area you would have the same problem as the feed provider with good all borough reception not available from most locations. Usually, clear reception of one or more boroughs will be a problem from most locations but it may be something you can live with depending on your location and the priority of what you want to hear reliably.

 

[BFD319]

The FDNY borough Dispatch channels are all high power repeaters can easily monitor from in and outside of NYC for at least 25 mile range
open mzh feed you can customize listen to each borough or all together. Not sure if any scanner feed had an all scan kinda hard to listen to city that way would miss alot be locked on one channel for awhile with activity

OpenMHz

openmhz.com

 

[k2hz]

The FDNY borough Dispatch channels are all high power repeaters can easily monitor from in and outside of NYC for at least 25 mile range
open mzh feed you can customize listen to each borough or all together. Not sure if any scanner feed had an all scan kinda hard to listen to city that way would miss alot be locked on one channel for awhile with activity

OpenMHz

openmhz.com

You can select multiple channels on Broadcastify Dashboard to listen to simultaneously but not "stop on an active station" like he requested. The reception issue in the area is not with signal strength but with the distortion from the effects of simulcast and multipath resulting in choppy reception the varies from annoying to unreadable on some frequencies depending on your location.

 

[BFD319]

You can select multiple channels on Broadcastify Dashboard to listen to simultaneously but not "stop on an active station" like he requested. The reception issue in the area is not with signal strength but with the distortion from the effects of simulcast and multipath resulting in choppy reception the varies from annoying to unreadable on some frequencies depending on your location.

True you can do that with broadcastify also to listen. Havnt had any simulcast issue listening but im outside the nyc area on LI to the east always sounds clear on the UHF and VHF side