I hope this doesn't come off too strong, sorry if it does. Well on the rtlsdr things I'm only trying to help.
Area 2, I have a suggestions. To those of you who are streaming, remember your encoder bitrate should be no lower than 32 k.
Anything lower than that will end up not being good.
We've also got streams who's audio doesn't exist, dallas Georgia.
The problem, if we drop this, we would be in effect also punishing those who are putting their hardest efforts in.
Sadly in my situation I don't have much choice on the kzz52 situation as they are saying its going to take 2 months before they'll even have the transmitter back online.
What I'm doing, back onto the sdr subject, is giving people a few alternate routs to listen to more distant NWR Feeds really, that the streamers may not be able to provide simply as they don't have enough radios.
We aren't really getting the streams we were loking for.
A friend of mine who reads this forum who is not a user on here made a good point, some of the people on the weather underground didn't even have a website listed so in most of those cases we lost them anyway.
Bandwidth should also be a consideration. If you are on a broadband dsl connection, such as what I am, I simply won't set the quality any higher than 32 k.
There are quite a few good streams that are still streaming, they are in my list as we speak.
My personal opinion is, the ones who are unable to stream consistently, we need them to either A, fix their quality to where their stream will work right, and or B, if they need help in getting the quality to stream right, contact someone to help them instead of just, whatever works.
Being blind and as good a hearing as I have I hear a few feeds we can't even begin to understand so yeah I hear you.
My advice is don't give up on it, because remember, we are beyond that. We can get through this.
If I didn't think we could get through this I wouldn't be posting such a message like this.
We've got to remember, we are all humans. Yes we are streaming weather radio, we are also all humans, so let's try to work with each other and not get too harsh.
We don't want to lose people from being so harsh that we push people away. So if we can try to moderate that a tad, that will kinda make things simple and easy.
Having experienced this before on several forums I'm a part of I try to provide as much help as I can.
I will say this, if we want to get new streamers and stuff on the project, one thing we need to do is be as open to suggestions as possible. Hear reason, and all work together to make sure that we do our part to keep it going. Did we not put this up with a purpose in mind? Yes. So what would we be doing, if we took the project down? Pulling a WU, remember, they went down, claiming listernership and quality, but in reality, they just flat took it down.
We said we wanted to keep this up, so there is no reason to have this taken down, when the streams mentioned therin can just be delisted and go from there. There are a few new streams on broadcastify, so if we can get a hold of the ones streaming their streams on broadcastify to give us the non changing URLS, then maybe we can add those in their stead.
Has anyone reached out to them, if not let me know and I'll try to figure out, despite broadcastify's slightly difficult layout to see if I can find them to see if we can get it where we get more of the streams.
I do understand where you are coming from, I just feel that we're kinda taking exxtreme approaches when we have simple solution.
and then think about like the Idaho group that's got the streams up using the boise state public radio, Goosecreek weather, the cold front, Desoto Valley weather, Chappelle, and others who are providing quality streams, they are ill effected by what ever else is going on.
Does everyone remember, wu had to start small, and streams came and went. I can't tell you how many streams came and went that I was trying to keep tabs on.
But Unlike wu, we are ok with duplicate streams.
The duplicate streams help out tremendously.
So guys, to keep things from getting worse than they are, like was said by our team, let's not make people chase you.
I'll let this be said, who ever we gotta chase, is whom ever they may be willing to delist.
Please understand my intention is not to come off strong, it's to make sure we are being reasonable, logical and honest, understanding and at the same time, sticking to the purpose for why we are even on this thread to begin with, as well as why the sight is up.
One last thing on the rtlsdr, reliability is something that I will deal with since i'm the one who mentioned it, that is I'll try to make sure we have things a tad reliable. It should be noted I'm changing ISP's here in the coming month.
SO I might temporarily stream another stream, and mirror one temporarily until they bring it back up.
And you forget, as to the servers thing there's a reason I told the people to set their airspy servers to 20 or more clients. Because their one client would be for them if they want their stream on the noaaweatherradio.org website.
See, I have a method to my madness (figure of speech denoting that I'm expanding the thing I brought up to including streaming to noaaweatherradio.org."
Thanks
Brandon