Hi Avon,

There's a local radio station near here thats low power. I could hear it when driving home from work.

I think it has you beat on variety. <GRIN>

I don't think you play many polkas!

http://wzig.org

Cool mascots.

Take care,
bugz



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bugz wrote to Avon <=-

There's a local radio station near here thats low power. I could hear
it when driving home from work.

Years ago I used to play an automated stream into Shoutcast that did very
well 24/7! My competition was WOLF-FM who seemed to have multiple servers
at various datacenters so he could host a lot more listeners. After a while
I put on a very small FM transmitter meant for car usage on the feed server. Being that it was high up in the attic however I had some decent "ERP" and often caught cars driving by with their windows down jamming my station :)

That was pretty cool to hear.



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bugz wrote to Avon <=-

There's a local radio station near here thats low power. I could hear
it when driving home from work.

Years ago I used to play an automated stream into Shoutcast that did very
well 24/7! My competition was WOLF-FM who seemed to have multiple servers
at various datacenters so he could host a lot more listeners. After a while
I put on a very small FM transmitter meant for car usage on the feed server. Being that it was high up in the attic however I had some decent "ERP" and often caught cars driving by with their windows down jamming my station :)

That was pretty cool to hear.



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On 27 May 2021 at 08:01p, bugz pondered and said...

There's a local radio station near here thats low power. I could hear
it when driving home from work.
I think it has you beat on variety. <GRIN>
I don't think you play many polkas!
http://wzig.org

Bahahahaha... that's gold thanks for sharing.... what I am listening to now sounds like I should be sipping a drink in the lizard lounge and looking for
a James Bond bad guy to come walking in..... it also reminds me of the start
of the telly show Fantasy Island... the plane! the plane!

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On 27 May 2021 at 08:01p, bugz pondered and said...

Hi Avon,

There's a local radio station near here thats low power. I could hear
it when driving home from work.
I think it has you beat on variety. <GRIN>

I'm going to insert a shameless plus for totalfm.nz at this point.

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On 27 May 2021 at 09:29p, N1uro pondered and said...

Years ago I used to play an automated stream into Shoutcast that did very well 24/7! My competition was WOLF-FM who seemed to have multiple servers at various datacenters so he could host a lot more listeners. After a while I put on a very small FM transmitter meant for car usage on the
feed server. Being that it was high up in the attic however I had some decent "ERP" and often caught cars driving by with their windows down jamming my station :)

I'm using a mix of Rivendel for playout then into software called Sonos to
send the audio to the TX site over about a 5km line of sight RF link, another copy then processes it and feeds it into a Broadcast Warehouse TX5 which
feeds a dipole up on top of multi-storied building on a hill that overlooks Dunedin. I run 1 watt and can get about 8km or 5 miles approx .. line of
sight.

I've been feeding the audio over icecast server for a few years now too.

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Hello Avon!

** On Saturday 29.05.21 - 12:23, Avon wrote to bugz:

A> I'm going to insert a shameless plus for totalfm.nz at
A> this point.


Did you ever provide an https:// .m3u link for the stream?

I can put the links that wzig.org provides into iTunes and it
plays well. iTunes is on the XP pc that has the external
speakers that I use.


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On 29 May 2021 at 07:32p, Ogg pondered and said...

Did you ever provide an https:// .m3u link for the stream?

I have not been able to suss how to set up icecast to do this but how have a http link

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N1uro wrote to all <=-

bugz wrote to Avon <=-

There's a local radio station near here thats low power. I could hear
it when driving home from work.

San Francisco had a couple of pirate stations. Pirate Cat radio was one I listened to when I was in the Mission District. Good times.

Years ago I used to play an automated stream into Shoutcast that did
very well 24/7! My competition was WOLF-FM who seemed to have multiple servers at various datacenters so he could host a lot more listeners. After a while I put on a very small FM transmitter meant for car usage
on the feed server. Being that it was high up in the attic however I
had some decent "ERP" and often caught cars driving by with their
windows down jamming my station :)

We need more terrestrial pirate stations. I want to be able to put a station in a Pelikan case with a solar cell and a Pi and be able to transmit to it remotely.


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Hello poindexter;

poindexter FORTRAN wrote to N1uro <=-

N1uro wrote to all <=-

bugz wrote to Avon <=-

We need more terrestrial pirate stations. I want to be able to put a station in a Pelikan case with a solar cell and a Pi and be able to transmit to it remotely.

They have legal licenses for LPFM (Low Power FM) stations. I don't know what exactly is involved with them. My TX was a small in-car usage only TX but because of how high I had it, the ERP was raised. I would say I had about a block radius coverage area... not much but enough for me to enjoy my stuff
with a pair of FM headphones while I did yard work. This was before the bluetooth days.

The fact that others did enjoy it from time to time was kinda cool.

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N1uro wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

The fact that others did enjoy it from time to time was kinda cool.

I'm always pleased when I see someone listening to my shoutcast stream.

http://radio.realitycheckbbs.org, BTW. :)




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Hey poindexter;

poindexter FORTRAN wrote to N1uro <=-

http://radio.realitycheckbbs.org, BTW. :)

I tried to pull it up but got an SSL error, even if I tried to force non-ssl.

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N1uro wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Hey poindexter;

poindexter FORTRAN wrote to N1uro <=-

http://radio.realitycheckbbs.org, BTW. :)

I tried to pull it up but got an SSL error, even if I tried to force non-ssl.

Strange -- I can pull it up and the cert looks valid. Could you netmail me
the certificate info?


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Hey poindexter;

Strange -- I can pull it up and the cert looks valid. Could you netmail
me the certificate info?

You should have the info.

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N1uro wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Hey poindexter;

Strange -- I can pull it up and the cert looks valid. Could you netmail
me the certificate info?

You should have the info.

I can see it from my end, was curious to see if there was something in
between me and the listener and wanted to compare cert info from the client.

On a side note, I understand the need for SSL packet inspection, but posing
as a man in the middle to do network security just feels wrong.


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Hello poindexter;

poindexter FORTRAN wrote to N1uro <=-

I can see it from my end, was curious to see if there was something in between me and the listener and wanted to compare cert info from the client.

On a side note, I understand the need for SSL packet inspection, but posing as a man in the middle to do network security just feels wrong.

One thing I just noticed, why is SSL/TLS being enforced when it's NOT httpS? That may be my end, not sure. It should have come up via XMMS but it did not. In fact, I didn't even get a connect attempt for some reason.

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