Audio Server Technical Information


This is the equipment that handles online audio streams and audio archives:





N7ZQT hosts the system at the Data Systems Group, Inc. data center in Vail, AZ.


Everything is powered by an ICT Comm Series 13.8V 9A (continuous) power supply.


This Maxrad BMOY4403 yagi pulls in a solid (-68dBm) signal from the repeater:






KC7CPB donated an ADI AT-400 (with CTCSS unit) for use in this receiver assembly:





A Transcendient CDC-01 CTCSS decoder was added to filter the 100Hz tone.



A Mini-ITX PC was built around an Intel D945GSEJT fanless Atom N270 motherboard:





Remote Desktop Connection is used to manage the system from anywhere.



ScannerCast acts as a streaming audio server and feeds RadioReference:






RecAll-PRO creates voice-activated MP3 recordings and manages file sizes:





A VBScript script runs daily to remove local archives more than 10 days old.


SyncBackPro runs periodically to sync local archives with the web server:






Acronis True Image makes a weekly backup drive image to a USB flash drive:






Processes running on the Linux Apache web server:


Cron runs a command daily to remove archives more than 10 days old.

"ID3 Mass Tagger" runs every 30 minutes to insert MP3 ID3 tags.

Cron runs a shell script every 30 minutes to parse a list of current archives into HTML.

A SSI directive inserts that HTML into the audio archives page to keep it dynamically updated.



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