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October 19th 05, 06:03 AM
Al Klein
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Digging for Scanners on the Internet
On 18 Oct 2005 20:40:10 -0500,
(Martin
McCormick) said in rec.radio.scanner:
In article ,
Al Klein wrote:
That's a Winamp feed. There are a number of reasons to use it, among
them free alpha text streaming. (The listener can see what the
scanner has stopped on.)
If you're interested in Long Island, NY, try
http://suffolkscanner.redirectme.net:8000/stream
I don't know whether any software you use will be able to play it, but
the Windows Media Player link on my site
(
http://www.webdingers.com/scanner.html
) handles it.
It works like a charm. Sounds like a Motorola Smartnet
system. Here's what I did:
#! /bin/sh
mpg123
http://suffolkscanner.redirectme.net:8000/stream
Those of you who are UNIX devotees will see that's a shell
script, all be it a very simple one. I call it longisland so all I
need to do is type
longisland
at the shell prompt and I am hearing it. Many thanks.
With your permission, that's going up on the site for *nix users
(attributed to you, of course).
And, yes, it's an 800 MHz Motorola Type 2 SmartZone system.
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