Streaming Municipal Services | Wizworks
Summary
One great way to do that is to monitor the radio systems of the municipal services that operate within the town. To monitor, one can either go out and purchase a $400 scanning receiver, install an antenna, and stay within ear shot of the scanner to stay informed, or the (better) option is to setup a dedicated receiver for each service and connect the audio output to a computer (running appropriate software) to create and send a stream to broadcastify.com or other streaming relay service. What’s nice about streaming to broadcastify, is that they archive all the audio you send them, so when something interesting happens, and you miss it, you can download the audio from the stream archives and listen to it from anywhere as your schedule permits – or you can just listen live from any mobile device using the broadcastify app from anywhere. To create my streams I use the following in my arsenal: • a low power Intel Atom ultra small form factor computer with plenty of USB ports and running Linux OS. Connect the “speaker out” jack on the back of the radio to the correct “line in” port on your USB audio pickup device and set the volume halfway to start.