Category: Radio
By admin on Aug 16, 2007 | In Radio | Send feedback »
"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
-- Auberon Herbert, 1894
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By admin on May 22, 2006 | In Radio | 5 feedbacks »
The scanner is back online. Links to hourly summaries are under "Local Scanner Audio" on the sidebar (hamtramckstar.com) and the scanner archive page.
I'll be scanning Hamtramck constantly and Wayne County occasionally. Hourly summaries are now availa…
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By admin on Jan 2, 2006 | In Radio | 3 feedbacks »
I bought a ST2 Starmate Sirius radio to listen to Howard Stern. A couple of the other stations don't suck (yet).
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By admin on Aug 9, 2005 | In Radio | Send feedback »
The kypd project is up and running. Tonight I'm recording Detroit Dispatch and Hamtramck Police and Fire. If you've got the technology to play speex files, check out this direct link or mash on these links:
2005-08-08 10:00:192005-08-08 09:00:352005-0…
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By admin on Jul 17, 2005 | In Radio | Send feedback »
Detroit Scanner Audio during the All Star Game [1.2 MB mp3]
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By admin on Apr 25, 2005 | In Radio | 3 feedbacks »
The new antenna came today, testing will begin this evening:
The ProComm Spider is a complete base station antenna kit made specifically for use in the home. The antenna is designed to receieve scanner signals between 30MHz and 1200 MHz. The antenna incl…
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By admin on Apr 11, 2005 | In Radio | Send feedback »
Hourly summaries of Detroit Police Dispatch are now available in mp3 format!
The DETROIT Dispatch link shows the last 10 hourly summaries in mp3. The podcast should be ready for testing in a matter of days.
Leave a comment for questions or sugges…
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By admin on Jan 10, 2005 | In Radio | Send feedback »
My Police Radio project will be down for upgrades starting this evening. When I get my network transferred to the headquarters I will start recording Hamtramck and Detroit public services.
Detroit Police will be migrating to a trunked digital system…
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By admin on Dec 22, 2004 | In Radio | Send feedback »
Washtenaw County scanner recordings for November are now available at archive.org.
In addition to the web site, files can now be downloaded via anonymous FTP:
Server: audio29.archive.org
Directory: /2/audio/2004_11_Washtenaw_County_MI
Username: anonymo…
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By admin on Nov 19, 2004 | In Radio | Send feedback »
KYPD is now available at sourceforge via anonymous cvs. It's unstable, rough, alpha-code but it's there for the world to use as I develop it. If you can't wait for a stable release you can dowload it at kypd cvs.
For the geeks: the module name is kypd…
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By admin on Nov 18, 2004 | In Radio | 4 feedbacks »
Winter projects for 2004 start to take shape. I'm pleased to announce that my entire scanner audio collection is now available at archive.org. The curators there have been very supportive of my obsession with capturing and archiving scanner audio.…
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By admin on Oct 23, 2004 | In Radio | Send feedback »
A couple of weeks ago George Hotelling sent me a link to the 2001 Rick Prelinger article The Failure of Counter-Surveillance as Mass Activity published in Bad Subjects.
Who knew the man behind the Prelinger Archives was a radio scanner buff too? I sent…
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