Update: 12/9/25

Still working on writing code, etc.

  1. New Channels – I’ve added some new channels. Among them are Arkansas State Police Troops A, B, and C, as well as Jonesboro Police & Fire and Prairie County Sheriff. More to come soon. Note that these channels are not, nor will they be, available in either of the live streams.
  2. Live Streams – On the subject of the live streams, I have plans to remove them once I’ve completed development and testing on the next phase of the app. They’re redundant and using system resources on my server that will be needed for the expanded app capabilities and added channels.
  3. Fire Tone-Out Notifications – Still have to write the UI for the fire tone-out notifications which, by the way, have been working great. I’ve got to add buttons and stuff so you can pick which, if any, you want to receive notifications for. It’s coming, I promise.
  4. Facebook, etc. – Since I’m not on social media these days, there are probably plenty of folks who aren’t aware of the changes I’ve been making. If you think someone might find this website useful, please don’t hesitate to share.

Update: 11/30/25

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! 

  1. Fire Tone-Out Notifications – I have completed initial development of the tone detection code. That process was way more complicated than I thought it would be. The logic needed to examine audio data and match specific frequencies and patterns in real time is complex, to say the least. I currently have the code running on the server to test it “in the wild.”

    So far, I’m getting notifications to my phone whenever a fire department I’m monitoring is toned out, so it is working. I plan to let it run for a while before making it available to everyone. It’s going to need some adjustments and refinements first. I still have to develop a user interface for it, too, so you can choose which, if any, fire departments you want to receive notifications for.

Update: 11/21/25

Hi, everyone. Just a few notes:

  1. New Audio Player – I hope you have found the new live audio player useful. I spent well over 150 hours developing the concept, writing code, and testing. It is definitely my favorite way to listen now. I’m still making small changes and adjustments so if you experience some weird behavior, it’s most likely something I’m doing. As a project, it’s not “done” and probably never will be.

    11/22/25 – I added some code to handle network disconnects, like you might experience with poor/no wireless service. Now, instead of just quietly reconnecting but never resuming the audio feed, the server will detect that you’ve reconnected and start sending you audio information again. The code will also detect and remove stale connections.

  2. Fire Tone-Out Notifications – This is my latest project. I’m writing code to conduct near-real-time analysis of fire department radio traffic to detect agency-specific tone frequencies and patterns, and send automated notifications to your device. If a department you’ve enabled this feature for gets toned out, you get a notification to your device, whether I’m listening to send the notification or not. This project is in the very early stages and I have barely begun development. Matching specific waveforms and patterns is tough, especially given the variances in audio files recorded from radio traffic.
  3. Incident Alert Notifications – I did some troubleshooting and discovered what was causing the issues with notifications not being sent to your device. Those who still had active notification subscriptions probably received a notification Tuesday morning about a residential fire in Lakeshore. Now that I have fixed what was broken, I’m considering redesigning the entire user interface and integrating it into the new live audio player as a separate tab. I will continue to use the existing system for breaking incidents for the time being.

    If you don’t see the option to enable Notifications above the alert feed (below the player) on your device, it’s because you are not running the app version of the site. Note that enabling Alerts is not the same as enabling Notifications. I’ll admit this is somewhat confusing, and I’m planning on making the whole thing more intuitive and (hopefully) user friendly.