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by blantonl 6y ago
I guarantee you MS has enormous software and support contracts in place doing all kinds of work for the federal government with regards to surveillance. There is just too much funding out there to ignore that space. I can't think of a
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Not to mention, there are literally billions of dollars of grants and other funds available just waiting to be full-filled in search of problems. The surveillance industrial complex that was kicked off after 9/11 has more money availa
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A Brief History of Listening in on Police Radios(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
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Softlayer
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All of Broadcastify's audio servers (hosted with Softlayer in their Dallas datacenter) are completely unreachable and down. I'm going to wait a bit to see if we get a status update, otherwise we'll be spinning up instances on
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by blantonl 6y ago
It is ridiculously competitive in the mobile app store market, because there is a lot of revenue out there. All of the apps source their streams from Broadcastify, and they license Broadcastify's API and content to do so. The apps ar
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You can get started as a calls ingest provider here: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Broadcastify-Calls
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Our new project, Broadcastify Calls, might be a better fit for this. Instead of 24x7 live streams, we capture and ingest every individual call as a compressed audio file from SDRs (software defined receivers) We can then ingest and present
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by blantonl 6y ago
That might be an option, but we'd have to somehow get trained models down to the client, which is one of the issues. We're working on client ingest models now that work on more of a "tasking" perspective, where someone d
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by blantonl 6y ago
This is very impressive. I'm the owner of Broadcastify.com, where presumably these streams are being transcribed from. We've dabbled in this space and looked at real-world approaches to taking something like this to market, but tr
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by blantonl 6y ago
Fun fact, if you've ever driven from Texas to Colorado, you'll pass the largest Helium producing plant in the US just a few miles north of Amarillo, TX - on, aptly named Helium Plant Road. When the whole shortage made the news, I
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by blantonl 6y ago
The past few months has resulted in us seeing record traffic and revenue... it turns out that people stranded at home due to stay at home orders are thirsty for entertainment and information. I can't say that I'm really surprised
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This is a very accurate description of the problem space. Every municipality has their own jargon, vernacular, and ways to communicate brevity which is key in public safety communications. The communications are often digitized over vocod
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Yup, see our Broadcastify Calls Implementation https://www.broadcastify.com/calls
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We’ve abandoned flash as our default player long ago in favor of html5 audio. I’m not sure why you’d be seeing flash as a default unless you previously set flash as your default player.
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It is solely a function of the participating scanners. There is a report a problem link on each feed's page which allows you to let the provider know there is a problem. There are a lot of times providers simply don't know that t
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Chicago uses a straight analog repeater system
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Europe and the United State government are drastically different. Local municipalities in the United States are very independent and will settle on a a communications system that they locally want to use. Budgets and planning are allocated
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Every year new technology drives some agencies to remove their routine general dispatch operations from public access. Some agencies really like their communications to be publically available, and some don't. If I had to back-of-the-
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by blantonl 6y ago
Thank you for the kind comments. I started out in the hobby the exact same way, my parents got me a scanner for Christmas and I was hooked ever since.
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You don't have to rely on app stores... Broadcastify is the platform that powers all these apps, and they are online at https://www.broadcastify.com
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You can always open a support ticket with us. Feeds are provided by volunteers so we battle quality issues all the time. It's a tough problem to solve.
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by blantonl 6y ago
My Grandmother had a police scanner that she used to listen to drama going on in her small town in Virginia. Old ladies with police scanners is still quite common. It sparked an interest and my parents got me one as a Christmas present.
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Yes, it's pretty simple. There has been a proliferation of apps that all do the same thing - front end our feeds, and so we're protecting the investment that our core partners have made to write apps. We are extremely plugged in
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Hi there! I'm the owner and operator of Broadcastify, which is the platform that powers all the apps that provide police scanners and public safety communications online. I'm an active HN reader and would be glad to answer any q
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Because IBM Watson is essentially a billion dollar bet on 90% shell scripts sed'ing and awk'ing datasets. It was a sales and marketing ploy to sell global services contracts
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IBM Watson has been an abject failure. I think IBM dumped a billion dollars into what were essentially 90% shell scripts sed'ing and awk'ing datasets.
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Exactly. Put the memo on Trump's desk and remind him they were special operations soldiers and they're gonna be free and clear.
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It's been extremely disturbing to see how much the culture of special operations military has changed in the past 20 years. Previously, Navy Seal and Green Berets operated in silent, keeping the sausage making of military special oper
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I don't think this aircraft, former callsign "NIGHTWATCH-01" is used much any more. In its place, is a group of US Navy TACAMO E-6B Aircraft, which are basically converted Boeing 707's outfitted with sophisticated commun

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