Liveatc EIDW Feed is up AND GOING WELL. Donations to keep it up would be appreciated

TedR

Donation made, thanks for your work keeping this going

Mech1

Shouldnt be I didnt change it intentionally, but a lot of messing with the components has been needed and a few tripped fuses due to failures.

All settings will be visited and tweaked in the coming days. It could get worse before it gets better!!

Let me know if any flight / time space needs particular avoidance of my interference.

Mech1

Thanks Ted, very much needed and appreciated,

Im aiming to get you all the feed that we have all wanted for years, im sorry that it took a system failure on my end to push me into taking the steps needed but its gonna work out for the better in the end.

Pat.

Mech1

Package held up in customs this morning, phoned DHL and all good, just general holdup for everyone this morning so delivery of the good bits expected tomorrow.

Had a mail from Dave (LiveAtc) giving me some basic intro to the system and also re-informing me of todays delay.

We will be looking at an hour or 2 of downtime to do the switchover, hopefully tomorrow night, I think I have all the ness prep / equipment in place.

Looking forward to good things:D

Pat.

Mech1

Another customs holdup today, now cleared customs and due delivery tomorrow. My missus is hopping mad, waiting in 3 days in a row.

Mech1

Taking longer to get from Dublin airport to me, than it took to get there from Boston USA!!!

start reading from the bottom up.

Waybill:
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Mech1

Got that Crosstownk Many thanks, appreciated and will be spent well, all donations are fulltime feed improvements only now, I have built a old machine that is working sofar.

Mech1

The overall plan is to get EIDW covered on maybe 4 separate feeds (your vote counts here).

Then to introduce Weston and maybe something else in that general area shhhhhhh.... on another totally separate feed page.

TedR

Thats a lot of pieces
Sound like they sent you a jigsaw :-)

Mech1

We cant organise or vote etc on anything yet until we see the splits that LiveAtc have programmed into the system.

Then i can persuade dave to send a different freq setup as needed first, then deploy another antenna payed for by you guys already, to fit in at least another 3 feeds.

Good times ahead, but donations still needed, if you listen in, go on breakout the piggy bank, I cant do this on my own at the moment.


Many thanks to the 11 people that donated sofar, I / You know who you are.

Mech1

Many thanks Billie, its gonna be great, like the beer advert,,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZLoaMumsro

crosstownk

Mech1 wrote: »

Got that Crosstownk Many thanks, appreciated and will be spent well

Be sure to get Mrs. Mech1 a bottle of vino for sitting in the last few days!

Mech1

crosstownk wrote: »

Be sure to get Mrs. Mech1 a bottle of vino for sitting in the last few days!

lets see how she gets on tomorrow 1st, if it arrives and sets up as planned it will be nearly,
Asti Spumanti all round!

Mech1

Thanks O,F getting there!

Mech1

Just got a call from home, package arrived just now!

Mech1

Dont know if anyone noticed a bit of downtime just a few min ago? We are now running the feed through a rasberry pi and usb soundcard, not the scrap computer, I am missing a BNC to BNC cable so gotta find one of those before we can move the setup and split out freq to the sdr radios etc.

Checkpoint 1 reached!

Pat.

crosstownk

Sound quality is good this end, Pat.

Mech1

Anybody got a roof ladder I could borrow sometime soon?
I turned 49 years old yesterday so im not gonna go scrambling across the roof tiles anymore!

Im putting in an order for a second D-777 antenna at the weekend, then up goes the stainless steel pole with a double antenna diy bracket at the top, and down comes the rusty curtain pole:o

We should get another 1.5m height with that at least.

Thanks for all your help sofar.

Irish Steve

Mech1 wrote: »

Anybody got a roof ladder I could borrow sometime soon?
I turned 49 years old yesterday so im not gonna go scrambling across the roof tiles anymore!

Im putting in an order for a second D-777 antenna at the weekend, then up goes the stainless steel pole with a double antenna diy bracket at the top, and down comes the rusty curtain pole:o

We should get another 1.5m height with that at least.

Thanks for all your help sofar.

What length do you need on the roof ladder, and do you also need a ladder to get to the roof? dpending on what you need, I may be able to help there.


49? Shore, you're only a stripling yet, but I do know where you're coming from, and the temperatures at the moment are not conducive to doing things on a roof without very solid support structures.

Mech1

Irish Steve wrote: »

What length do you need on the roof ladder, and do you also need a ladder to get to the roof? dpending on what you need, I may be able to help there.


49? Shore, you're only a stripling yet, but I do know where you're coming from, and the temperatures at the moment are not conducive to doing things on a roof without very solid support structures.

I have a good "normal ladder" that gets me 4ft above the gutter / eves . Thats a pretty famous ladder by the way, its sort of how this all started.http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056928782 (epic thread)

Roof ladder length I dont know, but its a standard enough 3 bed 2 story semi d.

Irish Steve

Mech1 wrote: »

I have a good "normal ladder" that gets me 4ft above the gutter / eves . Thats a pretty famous ladder by the way, its sort of how this all started.http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056928782

Roof ladder length I dont know, but its a standard enough 3 bed 2 story semi d.

OK in that case, I should have something that fits the bill, my place is a dormer bungalow, so the roof is longer than a normal roof, which meant an extension to get it to the gutter, but it's easy enough to remove that and the other extension that gets it down to ground level. When do you need to get up there, I'm not sure what my availability is at the weekend.

Mech1

Irish Steve wrote: »

OK in that case, I should have something that fits the bill, my place is a dormer bungalow, so the roof is longer than a normal roof, which meant an extension to get it to the gutter, but it's easy enough to remove that and the other extension that gets it down to ground level. When do you need to get up there, I'm not sure what my availability is at the weekend.

Your great for offering and I could collect it, no need for you to travel, but your explanation of the ladder is maybe not what im looking for:

Roof ladder:

Mech1

Thats the sort of yoke i need but a bit shorter.
is that what you have?

Mech1

Many thanks PatDunne, got that!

Irish Steve

Sorry for the confusion, what I have here is a roof ladder, very similar to the pic, but fitted with a removable extension to get to the gutter due to the size of the roof, the standard length (which does work for a "normal" roof, I did a Sky dish for a friend in Swords a while back with it) was about 4 Ft short on my roof.
Mine folds in the middles with specialist ladder hinges in it, so it will fit more readily on a trailer or roof rack, and has the wheels and ridge hook to secure it.

If you need it, it's here and available.

Mech1

Irish Steve wrote: »

Sorry for the confusion, what I have here is a roof ladder, very similar to the pic, but fitted with a removable extension to get to the gutter due to the size of the roof, the standard length (which does work for a "normal" roof, I did a Sky dish for a friend in Swords a while back with it) was about 4 Ft short on my roof.
Mine folds in the middles with specialist ladder hinges in it, so it will fit more readily on a trailer or roof rack, and has the wheels and ridge hook to secure it.

If you need it, it's here and available.

Excellent I will be in touch when im ready, btw I spoke to dave tonight and he has that info you talked about and is working on it, good luck.

crosstownk

If ever anybody wanted an example of Community Spirit then this thread is a go to.

Impressive.

Irish Steve

Mech1 wrote: »

Excellent I will be in touch when im ready, btw I spoke to dave tonight and he has that info you talked about and is working on it, good luck.

Excellent news in both respects, will wait for your update.

Mech1

I have decided to deffo dedicate one of the new feeds to Weston, so thats prob the easiest feed to sort but no mad rush, its gonna be after we sort EIDW.

Then its up to you guys to tell me what way to split up the active air / ground freq and see if its possible on SDR radios, if not then put in another scanner or two, I already have one on standby pre programmed to fill in if my main goes down but its unlikely to be needed for that as Bearcat stuff is almost bulletproof.

After that I think we should dedicate a feed to op's / emergency services type of thing, some of you might have heard some ambulance / fire /maintenance type stuff on the feed recently (yesterday and today), thats the emergency services airport freq, its reception is testing out quite well.

Mech1

Wouldnt you know it my internet has been down at home all day, wont be home till 8pm to see if a router reboot fixes it or if it is an area fault.