[arm-allstar] Broadcastify setup issue

Sat Jan 20 05:33:55 EST 2018

Do you know or even understand what "broadcastify.com" actually is and what it is used for?  It isn't to "broadcast" via your repeater...  It doesn't even "bend" the rules...  

Let me explain a little bit...

It is to stream the audio FROM your repeater (or any live audio source, like a scanner) to the internet - where that part 97 "broadcast rule" doesn't mean anything.
It makes it so that I can monitor my repeater(s) from any web browser on the planet on my smart phone, tablet, or PC...  24/7/365...  And believe me, on the ham repeater feeds, there is a LOT of "dead air time"...

http://www.n5mbm.net/listeningpost.html

Checkout the above link - it may explain a bit.  I have a rack full of of scanners listening to ham radio, EMS, Fire, Police, Sheriff and aircraft frequencies - and they all send live streams to the Internet for my county and every county around us.  I have multiple feeds running 24/7/365.
The local VFD's have come to DEPEND on my feeds.  The local EMS personnel have come to rely on my feeds.  Even the local news crews listen to my police feeds - which sort of gave me a chuckle...  The local pilots monitor the local airport via my feeds.  All from their smart phones, anywhere in the state, or world for that matter...  I've been doing this for years.  I accidentally became something a heck of a lot of people around where we live, RELY on...  My local VFD depends on it!

I had to laugh when local news media used captured audio from my archives for a news story on the local news one night...  I was like Whoa!  I told my wife - "That's from my scanner rack!"

I even used it to listen to my repeater on "net night" from a Carnival cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean on my smartphone a few years ago...  I have used it at work or in hotels to listen to things going on "back home"...

And NONE of it gets broadcast OUT of my ham radio repeater to break the FCC's part 97 rules against "Broadcasting".
Broadcastify.com has become a very useful and trusted tool in our little county, and those that surround us.  I have found it to be downright handy...  The local VFD's really appreciate those feeds...  The local EMS really LOVE having those feeds available - who knows, I may have saved a life or two over the years I have been doing it...

And no, it doesn't break the FCC rules...  But it HAS allowed a lot of newbie hams, prospective hams and scanner listeners to listen to things they ordinarily wouldn't have access to.  Even our local "broadcast media" has found these feeds very useful.

I hope that explains a few things, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

Bill - N5MBMwww.n5mbm.net

      From: Tony Ross via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
 To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org 
Cc: Tony Ross <ynotssor at yahoo.com>
 Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 3:29 AM
 Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Broadcastify setup issue

 I've always wondered, please, how others justify a "broadcast" in view of the Part 97 prohibition of same,

 Are such "broadcasts" prefaced with a "QST QST QST" to address the Tx to all stations within range, or is that somehow just implied and accepted anymore?

 On 01/19/2018 07:15 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:

  Kevin, 
   Sorry about that it is  hamvoip-ezstream 
  pacman -Syu hamvoip-ezstream

  If you ever want to search using pacman do   

  pacman -Ss ezstream hamvoip/hamvoip-ezstream 0.1-2 
  I will correct that in the howto.   
      73 Doug
  WA3DSP
  http://www.crompton.com/ hamradio

 On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:43 PM, "Kevin Halton via arm-allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

Taking another shot at installing broadcastify on my node. Following the
 directions and almost immediately run into a problem., error: target not
 found:ezstream. I cannot go any further with the install.

 Last login: Sat Jan 20 02:32:39 2018 from 192.168.1.12
 [root at XXXXX ~]# pacman -Syu ezstream
 :: Synchronizing package databases...
  core is up to date
  extra is up to date
  community is up to date
  alarm is up to date
  aur is up to date
  hamvoip is up to date
 error: target not found: ezstream

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