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Raspberry Pi had a melted SD card. I set up my old feed PC and the feed is back up. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Ouch!  Haven't seen a melted SD card before!

Any update?

KTLH down due to traffic crash. Someone lost control of her car and snapped the poles down the road and took out Comcast. Hopefully the feed will return sometime today.

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

Well Rob, I for one do most of my listening on my iPod, and doubtless many others on their smart phones and such, so I cannot listen to two streams at the same time, and I like listening to both. As I said, I will be working out a priority circuit that will squelch out or significantly pad down the VHF audio when HF transmissions occur, but in the meantime I will just cut the volume of that audio down so you only make it out when the HF is quiet. I'm in the middle of building and erecting the new antenna and getting the third 8846 receiver going, and when that is all finished I will figure out what to do with the VHF. Unlike you, I do not despise VHF communications and I do not really differentiate between ARINC frequencies and bands, only the traffic, and I just feel that since 129.9 is the entry point to ARINC for the three HF frequencies I am covering it's nice to be able to listen to all four... it is the same cadre of radio operators working 129.9 as HF, you can recognize them as they work that position, and most of the time the activity is serial, the pilots check in on VHF, get their HF assignment, do their first position report and then switch over to HF. After all, even receiving the multiple simultaneous HF frequencies can occasionally get confusing because when things are really busy or an operator gets bogged down they will sometimes transmit on the primary and backup at the same time using two operators, but it happens so rarely it is not worth fussing about. In the end, it will all get worked out with the objective being the maximum continuous (and contiguous) activity 24/7 with the least amount of confusion.

Hi.  I don't "despise" VHF comms at all; not sure what gave you that idea  .  In fact I listen to the 129.9 feed quite often because, like you say, it's handy for ascertaining which HF freq is in use.  The issue I have is that it's transmission overload.  In an ideal world it would be great to have more than 1 pair of ears but unfortunately we were only "made" with 1 set and it's extremely hard work trying to "process" 2 or more simultaneous transmissions; what usually winds up happening is you miss both.  I speak from experience here as I usually run Chuck's 8918 feed alongside yours. 

Hi Dave,
  Thank you for your reply.  I am an amateur/aviation enthusiast and so ideally I would just like a feed that captures the majority of the tower conversations (like before) and similarly for approach a feed that captures the bulk of the transmissions.  Mainly my issue is that I do not know when to tune in to ORD tower Center vs. North vs. South. 

KORD's tower feed used to rank in the top 50 and the fact that it is no longer ranking makes me wonder if others are experiencing similar confusion. 

Again anything that could closely resemble what the feed used to be ("I want to listen to the tower activity at ORD so I will select tower") would be ideal.

Again I love the site and appreciate all of your efforts

Couldn't find a definitive answer in the J7110.65U, but this AOPA article would indicate that the ATC was correct.

http://www.aopa.org/training/articles/2010/100428phraseology.html

(Complete Route)(runway(s) crossing, if needed)(a hold short instruction, if needed)

In the Crystal Airport example, it's pretty clear Delta comes after runways to be crossed.

In the San Antonio example, Golf and November are after the runway to be crossed, and Foxtrot is after the runway to hold short of.

That being said, I can see how if you are expecting the instructions to read like, well instructions, you would expect the runway crossing to come in the place it would happen on the route.

It is not likely that they will appear in their old form, but we can combine some of the existing feeds to make some combined feeds, but only with selected frequencies.  Perhaps suggest what you are really looking for and we can see what we can come up with.

Hi Dave,
  First let me say: thank you for everything you do, I'm a huge fan of the site. 

I was wondering if the combined feeds would be reappearing for KORD.  Specifically there used to be one feed for tower and one feed for approach in addition to the individual feeds.  I'm not always sure which feed I should listen to so it was a useful feature to say the least.  I hope it will return.

Thank you!

Well Rob, I for one do most of my listening on my iPod, and doubtless many others on their smart phones and such, so I cannot listen to two streams at the same time, and I like listening to both. As I said, I will be working out a priority circuit that will squelch out or significantly pad down the VHF audio when HF transmissions occur, but in the meantime I will just cut the volume of that audio down so you only make it out when the HF is quiet. I'm in the middle of building and erecting the new antenna and getting the third 8846 receiver going, and when that is all finished I will figure out what to do with the VHF. Unlike you, I do not despise VHF communications and I do not really differentiate between ARINC frequencies and bands, only the traffic, and I just feel that since 129.9 is the entry point to ARINC for the three HF frequencies I am covering it's nice to be able to listen to all four... it is the same cadre of radio operators working 129.9 as HF, you can recognize them as they work that position, and most of the time the activity is serial, the pilots check in on VHF, get their HF assignment, do their first position report and then switch over to HF. After all, even receiving the multiple simultaneous HF frequencies can occasionally get confusing because when things are really busy or an operator gets bogged down they will sometimes transmit on the primary and backup at the same time using two operators, but it happens so rarely it is not worth fussing about. In the end, it will all get worked out with the objective being the maximum continuous (and contiguous) activity 24/7 with the least amount of confusion.

Hi, thanks for the detailed response.  Clearly an excellent set up!     

I've been listening for the past hour and the signal strength is great but still having a lot of issues with 129.9 blocking them out sadly.  As this already has a separate stream on this site may I make the suggestion that if people want to listen to 129.9 as well then they can simply run that feed in a separate browser tab ?