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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Outage/Status Reports => Topic started by: IndyTower on June 12, 2005, 10:10:10 PM
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Finally got IND up...although it'll probably be temporary. I wanted to run both IND and LAF this week due to heavy traffic on both later in the week. I'll post details on that later in the week. My parents are attempting to keep the IND feed up at their house in Indy but don't know much about any of this so it'll be up and down. I'm working on acquiring a 2nd scanner to run LAF so that may be up and down all week. Hopefully it will be up tomorrow afternoon. Just wanted to let you all know.
Matt
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IND is up but there's no audio coming through...not sure what the reason is as I'm 65 miles away and unable to go down there. Should be fixed sometime tomorrow (22nd).
Matt
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IND audio is working again. The Air Race Classic ends at LAF at the end of the week, so I'll probably be taking my scanner back to LAF and returning the borrowed scanner. Then IND will be down until I come across a second scanner...so could be months.
Matt
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Air Race at LAF is over, therefore IND is down until I come across money for a new scanner. Probably will be over a year (after I graduate and get a job) till that happens. LAF will be down at some point for a few hours tomorrow (6/27) as I move the feed from the airport back to my apartment.
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IND/ZID is up for the weekend...through Monday afternoon. Will be mostly scanning high altitude ZID during the day with low altitude and IND mixed in at night. Due to the apparently popularity of ZID I'll try to keep LAF up during the week and ZID/IND up over the weekends.
Matt
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Bought an external antenna so the feed will be down off and on June 2 while I figure out the optimal configuration.
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OK here's the deal on these two feeds. I'm hoping to move the LAF feed to the airport. I had it there in June for the Air Race Classic and it sounded much better than it does at my apartment, about a mile or so from the field. So, hopefully it will be back up around the end of August.
As for IND, it will be up on most weekends probably through the end of August. After that, I'll be working some weekends at Purdue and will be in IND some weekends, so it'll be up on random weekends.
So in short, LAF back in late August and IND on random weekends. I was hoping to have both ZID and IND up full time soon but it won't be for at least a year and I'm planning a trip that all my money is going towards...and after a year hopefully I'll have a full time job while waiting for FAA to call. Thanks all for being patient through all this.
ZID is up for this weekend, with some IND in there when I get the urge to hear it. I'll have ZID up a decent amount now that the ZNY feed is back up...gotta love hearing aircraft cross the country.
Matt
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Good luck with the FAA, Matt. Hopefully you can tough it out on that two year wait. I sure do know I can't wait for my 2 years of waiting to go out to OKC *Sarcasm* :lol:
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I'll have IND on tower/ground today (August 7) as the Brickyard 400 is in town and those should be pretty busy in the afternoon. Unfortunatly it'll be a bit slow until then, as I have to work 12-8 and will not be here to switch to just tower/ground when it gets busy. Hopefully it'll be worth it when all the traffic is departing after the race. I may even switch to just tower...haven't decided yet. They may end up spliting tower to two freqs...probably just for an hour or two. Which is not much fo the 9 hours I'll be gone. We'll see.
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I finally got both of my machines up and running smoothly. I brought my scanner to IND...will have IND running for at least a couple weeks. I'm working on getting LAF moved to the airport (on the ATC prof's scanner) and hope to have that up within a couple weeks. I may leave IND up after two weeks...just depends on how much I miss having my scanner at Purdue!
If anyone's willing to donate a scanner...even something cheap and basic, I'll be glad to have IND and LAF up all the time!
Matt
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Indy's up for this week....that is unless the power goes out at the feeder site again. Still working on getting LAF up...that's more political than anything else. Don't know how long it will be.
Matt
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Lo and behold, more t-storms at the feeder site, power went out, and there's no one there who can restart the feed. Therefore, as of next week, I'm moving the antenna and the scanner back up to Purdue to run LAF from my apartment until we can get it set up on the field. Sorry, but it's just too much of a hastle to try to keep IND up when I'm not there.
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I can understand that, for sure. We've had some pretty good storms here tonight and more on the way. I'm in Robinson, IL, about 100 miles or so west of Indy.
KP
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LAF is up again for the first time in months...down side is IND is down. There is however, more of a demand for LAF at the moment with all the students in the aviation department Purdue finding out about the feed and asking me about it. And of course with one scanner/antenna, I can only do one feed at a time.
As last year, LAF may be down some weekends when I am out of town.
And something to look forward to...when I finish at Purdue in May, I've decided to stay in the IND area for at least a while, and hope to have a 2nd scanner by then. At that time I'll probably feed both IND and ZID.
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Hey Matt,
Sounds like a great plan! You are a very dedicated feeder, always yearning to update the feed status to listeners. We really appreciate your feed, hard-work, and presence!
Jason
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IND and or ZID up until Tuesday (Oct. 11) afternoon/evening. LAF back up Tuesday night.
EDIT: About 5 minutes after posting this, my ISP in Indy decided to screw up so I have no internet. Sorry folks, no IND for now, but LAF will be back up Tuesday.
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LAF will be down starting this afternoon (Oct. 19, 2005) through Sunday evening or Monday morning as I'll be out of town in Madison, WI for the Purdue/Wisconsin game.
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I will be at the folk's house in IND for the Thanksgiving holiday starting Tuesday the 22nd, and I plan on taking the scanner and antenna down with me. It may be as early as Sunday (Nov. 20). Either way, LAF will be down either Sun or Tues through the following Sunday, Nov. 27. Again, I'll have it on IND tower/approach/departure or on Indy Center off and on based on my own selfish desires at any given moment. ;) Either way, it's always interesting traffic.
Look for 3 weeks of the same around X-Mas. I'll post more details on that at the time.
Enjoy,
Matt
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Just broke down and bought a new Pro 94 on sale, even though this is probably the time in my life I have the least money. Just couldn't pass up the deal. Therefore, the news I've been waiting to give you for years...
IND and LAF will both be up simultaneously within 10 days...as soon as the 2nd scanner is shipped to me.
Matt
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Somehow IND keeps getting stuck on one freq. It'll be on one for a while, then go back to scanning, and then get stuck. I know it's not one particular freq with interference because it has been stuck on tower and departure.
Unfortunatly, I'm 65 miles away and can't get down there until the weekend. It's at my folk's place and I had my mom turn the squlech up, but that didn't do a thing. Sorry guys. Luckily it's off and on and not stuck on one freq all the time.
Matt
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Got the new Pro 94. It's like Christmas early...except that I payed for it. So, LAF and IND are both up. I moved my good antenna down to IND so LAF won't be quite as clear as I'd like, but it's not bad.
Matt
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Hey all,
Well not so great news. Both IND and LAF are down indefinatly. The power supply on the Dell running LAF has been dying and is done for good now, and I can't afford a new one. The same night, the eMachine that runs IND crashed. So, I'm down to 0 computers. I've put lots of money into both feeds, and just can't afford any more.
Sorry to have to pull the plug on both. Hopefully I'll be able to get them up sometime again, but for now it's not looking too good.
Matt
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Sorry to hear that, Matt. I've been listening to IND more than anything lately. Good luck on getting it back online soon and thanks for having it up to now.
KP
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OK things turned out better than I'd imagined.
Called Dell, and unbeknownst to me, the Dell is still under warranty. So, after an hour on the phone with tech support with me knowing well that I needed a new power supply, they finally decided that it was indeed the culprit sent me a new one!!! So, IND is running on the Dell.
I'll work on the eMachine with the hopes of getting it back up and running soon. Then hopefully things will be back to normal with both LAF and IND running.
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Excellent! :)
KP
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woooooohoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Indy is such a great feed Matt
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this entire post is of him flip-floping on every thing lol stupid isp's o well reminds me of a political figure a year ago lol but good luck with the fedd happey holladays
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this entire post is of him flip-floping on every thing lol stupid isp's o well reminds me of a political figure a year ago lol but good luck with the fedd happey holladays
I don't really consider it flip-flopping. I consider it updating. I don't see much use in starting a new topic each time I have an update on my feeds, and usually if I have an update for one, it effects the other. I think alot of people who listen to my feeds appreciate it. If it bothers you, feel free not to read it.
That said, as I mentioned a few weeks ago, one of my machines crashed...the one I use to run IND when I'm in LAF. I'm returning to LAF tomorrow, and will be taking both machines up there. The Dell for my personal use and to run LAF, and the eMachine to try to get it fixed by my friends majoring in computers (one of the advantages of going to Purdue).
So, IND will be down at least two weeks starting this evening, but LAF will be up starting tomorrow afternoon (Sat Jan 7). I'll try to have IND back up ASAP. Thanks again for understanding folks.
I'm also going to start looking for a new home for the LAF feed as I graduate in May. I'd rather get it done well ahead of time if possible. So if any of you Purdue folks who read this board would be able or would like more info, please message me through this site. I'd be more than happy to help you set it up.
Matt
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LAF will be down from March 10th thru March 19th as I will be in SFO. I will take one scanner down to IND and run tower/approach for the week (under class C). The 2nd will be coming with me to SFO to see what I can get from the hotel.
Matt
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When you return from San Francisco, what will be the short and long term plans for the IND feed? Thank you.
Paul
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My parents just bought a new machine, and they've given me their old machine to run the IND feed from their house. So, IND is back up for at least a few months.
As for LAF, I am in the process of handing it over to a new feeder, a friend of mine who lives about the same distance from the airport...also an ATC student! I will have it running on my machine until then, but without the nicer antenna, which is now in Indy. Therefore the quality won't be as good until he takes over. I hope to hand LAF over to him sometime in the next couple weeks.
As for the long term...LAF will be up through the help of my friend. I may or may not leave IND up after I graduate in May. My parents will still be in Indy, but I may end up taking my scanner with me wherever I go. It all depends on where I move and what I can pick up in the area. Also, if I end up in an area that's well covered, I won't need both scanners and could leave one in Indy. I'll have to update more on that when the time comes. Long story short, IND is up (barring technical problems which I often seem to run into) through the middle of May.
Matt
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Hey guys,
I'm going to be testing a few things on IND today. I want to see how a low altitude ZID and high altitude ZID feed would sound. Unfortunatly, it's Saturday and traffic is pretty light, so this won't be a real good representation. But I'm not in IND during the week so it'll have to do.
Saturday 10:00AM-noon, Eastern, I'll have it on some low altitude freqs. These are 119.55, 124.52, 124.77, and 132.2. The first three have both sides of conversation and the last doesn't. Due to low activity, these will likely be combined today.
Saturday noon-2:00PM Eastern it'll be some high altitude freqs. 133.42, 134.17, and 125.15. Again, being Saturday, they may be combined.
Again, this is just for testing purposes for a possible future feed. Gotta see which sounds better.
Also, I had all these freqs up starting at about 10 last night. You can hear lots of traffic from the cargo carriers heading into and out of their respective hubs especially between 11pm and 1am eastern if you want the archives, and again in the early morning, though I was sleeping then.
Matt
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I'm going to be playing with freqs today and over the weekend (4/14-4/16) on both the IND and LAF feeds. I'll have both machines in Indy this afternoon. I am looking for a replacement for LAF, so it may be down for a few weeks. In about a month I should have ZID high or low up, as I will have graduated and be in Indy for a while looking for a job that isn't to horrible while I wait for the FAA to call.
This afternoon it looks like there will be some Tstorms over Indiana, so I'll probably have high ZID on one of the two feeds.
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Hey Indytower;
I'm up here in YYZ and I have to tell you that the Indy feed is my favorite feed. I was just wondering what the status is as it's been down for a few days.
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The internet connection at my parent's place has been pretty bad and they've been having to reconnect it pretty often. I'll call them and see if they can't reconnect it...I just feel bad having to call once a day and have them do it. I'll be down there Friday to try to solve the issue. Also, the new tower opens Friday at 8pm!
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No worries. I'll be out of town for a week and won't have an internet connection.
Thanks for the update.
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Ok folks...I know I'm back and forth on things. I'm in the middle of finals and graduating and starting paperwork for my new job (until the FAA calls) and planning my wedding and renovating my parents place so I can live there till I get an apartment. So as you can guess, things are hectic, and it all interferes with keeping the feeds up. Please bear with me...things should be normal and stable on IND and ZID within a few weeks.
For now...I have ZID up under Class D/Centers. It'll be up off and on until my parents get a new ISP or I (less likely cause I would rather save money) get an apartment. I'm also working with audio issues. IND will be up after a week or two when I bring my other machine from Purdue. LAF will be down until I find a new feeder, if I do.
For now, I'll alternate between low and high altitude sectors. The high have cross country traffic, along with some arrivals and departures to/from SDF, ORD and MDW. The lows have arrivals/departurs to/from IND, CVG, ILM and some others. If one sounds better than the other I'll switch to just one after a while. Until then, I'll switch every couple days or something random.
No promises on anything due to everything going on and the fact that I'm not positive I'll easily be able to run two feeds with the ISP issues and computer issues. The thing is I want both these feeds up as much as you guys and am trying my hardest. Thanks for understanding! Sorry for the rambling...I just want to be clear and as informative and keep you all up to date a much as possible.
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IND will be down a couple days as I'm going to Purdue for graduation and when I get back, I'll be painting my room and installing new flooring. Will have it back up ASAP, and hopefully ZID along with it at some point in the next few weeks.