Status Update: 11/6/25

The Facebook page, as well as any and all previous means to contact me, have been permanently removed. I don’t need to actually communicate with anyone to do this. In fact, doing so has created more issues than it has prevented or resolved. This is and always has been just a hobby. I stand to gain or lose NOTHING by having/not having a Facebook page or a means to communicate with anyone.

I am still actively working on this site and its features. Here’s what’s going on:

    1. You haven’t been getting notifications on your phone because that feature is currently broken. The way that information gets to you has changed on the receiving end, so I’ll have to make some updates on my end to fix it. That will be the next project I tackle.
    2. The current project is the Advanced Player. I am designing it from scratch and working on it here and there, so it’ll change/break regularly and without warning. It has quickly turned into my preferred way to listen. Here is what it does:
      • Merges all radio traffic into a single player and puts calls into a queue. No more listening to multiple audio streams simultaneously. You hear calls one at a time.
      • Allows you to select which channels you want to hear. Enable the channels you want to monitor and disable the ones you don’t. Enable/disable channels on the fly, without stopping/restarting the player.
      • Runs the audio through some filters to help normalize the levels and make it easier to hear.
      • Allows you to skip any call you don’t care to listen to.
      • Keeps a history of all calls from the past hour and allows you to instantly replay any of them.

The one thing it will not do on mobile devices is maintain a connection to the server in the background. If you switch to another app or your phone locks (or you lock it), it disconnects. The app is still running but it’s not receiving new data from the server. When you switch back or unlock, it reconnects. This is an issue with web apps on mobile devices that cannot be overcome. On 11/6/25, I came up with a bit of a workaround that I can confirm works on iPhones (and other iOS devices) that will allow this to run while your phone is locked. The catch is that you have to be running the PWA version of the site, meaning you’ve done the “add to home screen” thing. I also wrote some code to keep your phone from locking while the app is open. You can still lock it, of course, but this will keep your screen from “going to sleep” while the scanner is running. I could solve this problem (and a few others) with a native app but, seeing as how I don’t own the hardware to develop iOS apps and fund all of this with my own money, that’ll probably never happen.

It works great on desktop computers and notebooks/laptops! I have had it running on a couple of Windows PCs for days at a time with no issues.

  1. I am aware of some of the issues with the audio/site.
    • Sometimes, the two live audio streams will drop offline briefly due to connection issues between my server and the computer that handles the radios. This causes the server to disconnect listeners in some cases. It’s a side effect of realtime audio streaming. The Advanced Player does not suffer from this particular issue.
    • I’m looking into some weirdness with the Advanced Player which happens in the early AM sometimes, where the server stops encoding audio and I have to manually restart it. This was fixed on 11/3/25.
  2. I’m planning on updating the audio archives to look and function better. I came up with the current design and functionality in a hurry and I’ve never been happy with it.
  3. New site account signups have been temporarily disabled. Unless you need to view historical radio data, there is currently no real benefit to having an account. As of 11/5/25, this is no longer necessarily true. There are now “restricted” channels available via the Advanced Player, which are intended for use by people with a legitimate use for them (you can’t see them because you don’t have an account on this site with the correct access, even if you do have an account on the site). The only problem is, how do I give access to people who have a real reason to need access to it, when I’ve been left with no choice but to completely cut off communication with everyone?