Hey guys, I'm the one who runs that feed. Two reasons I didn't want to run on LiveATC.net:
1) I liked running the 24kbps/22khz instead of the 16kbps/11khz because most of my feedback has always been about the quality of the stream (and often complimenting it sounding better than the LiveATC streams), so I didn't want to 'take a step back' as it were.
2) I didn't want to run LiveATC codec in addition to my shoutcast DNAS because i have been running it from home and didn't want to commit an additional 16k to running the stream out to two servers (Comcast's upstream used to be a lot worse than it is these days).
Interesting notes about the stream:
-It has been down less than 90 hours in the last 4 years
-It averages 5 concurrent listeners during most daytime hours
-Peaked at 196 listeners during the Nike landing gear incident when the link was run on local news stations
-It runs on a server at my office (Concordia University in Portland) and is on a 20MB DS3 link.
-It has been run at 128kbps three different nights when the atc was mixed into live house/dance music for parties (which is interesting to listen to).
I just E-mailed Dave a few minutes ago about the LiveATC client specs. I am considering splitting the stream into two separate streams using a Pro-91 and a Pro-94 scanner I already have on a system with 2 sound cards. One stream would be for CTR/Tracon ops, the other for TWR/GND. I am also considering relocating the scanners and encoding computer to my office. My home is 3 miles from the airport, over a small ridge, but my office is less than a mile from the airport and I have line-of-site to the tower/runways from the roof of my office. (Video stream anyone?
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This plan is contingent on whether the LiveATC encoder will support two simultaneous instances on one computer with two sound cards. If it doesn't, the existing stream won't change and I'll look for an opportunity to split it sometime in the future.
Not sure if anyone else has experience with this but I was also thinking of getting a Pro-2052 and trying to write some software so that listeners could control the scanner. Not sure how badly abused that would be, but it might be a fun experiment
Enjoy and much respect to Dave and his crew for all their work with LiveATC.net and their support of VATSIM, you guys rock!
Brad Metzler
Air Traffic Manager - Seattle (VATSIM)
http://www.seaartcc.net/http://www.thumper.net/atc.htm