Faulkner County Area Public Safety

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Listen	Feed	Genre	Listeners	Player Selection	Links	Status
	Faulkner County Area Public Safety	Public Safety	14			Online

Feed Notes

(This feed now utilizes multiple SDR dongles & SDRTrunk.)

** READ ** - It is COMPLETELY NORMAL to sometimes hear nothing for extended periods of time. ESPECIALLY in the wee hours of the morning.

SDRTrunk will queue in order nearly everything it has heard. So, during the daytime you will hear LOTS of information. More than you would have under the old Pro-106 Scanner as it could only listen to and stream one item at a time. Anything else that happened in the interim was simply missed. SDRTrunk doesn't work that way.

You get the benefit of more calls and less missed info, but at the cost of additional processing delay. The more data blocks that are in queue for streaming the longer it takes. Therefore, more delay vs real-time during the day as compared as to the night but you often get to hear a near constant audio stream.

However, during the wee hours of the night and early morning the queue is very short, usually caught up. If it is a slow night and there is nothing going on... guess what? There is nothing to hear. Please keep this in mind before sending a report saying there is no audio. How long did you actually listen? Just a couple of minutes? Quite often that is NOT long enough.

1 SP A NORTH North - Information and District Calling
3 SP A South - Districtwide Dispatch
19405 RURAL PD Greenbrier, Mayflower, and Vilonia Police, general AWIN Ops
19402 SO DISP Sheriff - Dispatch
7216 MEMS 2 Metro Emergency Medical Services 2
45008 MEMS EMS Dispatch
3203 AHP District 1 - Dispatch
37729 DSP Fire - Dispatch
30116 DISP Fire - Dispatch
03 - South District
2117 / 2603 / 2601 / 2605 / 2617 / 2621 / 2613 - Mutual Aid (Could be random. Not specifically defined.)
3203 / 3209 / 3227 / 3215 / 3221 / 3233 - District Dispatch 1-6
2663 ADEM Central Area 1 Emergency Ops
53623 / 53625 - Pafford EMS
44720 - 60-PCSO P1 / Sheriff - Primary 1
44721 - 60-PCSO P1 / Sheriff - Primary 2
MAC1 / Little Rock Weather

UPDATE: SDRTrunk automatically mutes encrypted channels, so you should no longer hear "encryption gibberish." Or, it should be extremely rare. At this point, if you DO happen to hear fairly consistant "gibberish / garbage audio" please notify the admin so that the talk group can be found and muted. (I do not monitor this feed 24/7 and this may have to be done manually.)

Please do NOT confuse "encryption gibberish / garbage audio" with an encrypted stream that's been DECRYPTED and broadcast in the clear. You will not find the latter on this feed as it's a no-no, and I neither possess nor want the ability. (The former is not illegal to stream, but it's certainly annoying to listen to.)

Services occasionally make talk group changes, or add new talk groups. If you should hear something that you think you shouldn't again, please notify the admin with specifics so the issue can be investigated.

Lastly, please review the following and make sure that what you think you may have heard is indeed something that needs to be addressed and, again, please provide specifics to the best of your ability before sending a "nasty-gram" to the admin.

There is a difference between streaming dedicated service channels and occasional, similar traffic that you might hear on those channels over "normal" channels.

(KNOWN DEDICATED tactical, narc, detective, etc., are exempt from the stream.)

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Some snippets from the various Broadcastify FAQs:

If an agency has a dedicated frequency or talkgroup for SWAT operations - it is not allowed to be on the feed. If the agency's SWAT team operates on the PD regular dispatch frequency, than it is OK.
If an agency has a dedicated frequency for ambulance to hospital communications, it is not allow to be on the feed. If the EMS agency passes patient reports over the regular EMS Dispatch channel, that's OK.
If a routine dispatch or special events channel or talkgroup happens to have communications such as tactical, tac, car-to-car, NCIC, records, detectives, swat, SRT, and supervisors then that is permitted and is not subject to our terms of service restrictions.

There will always be exceptions and variations to this rule, but feed providers should always strive to maintain the spirit of what we have put into place above.
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The FCC's stance on Internet Live Streams:

FCC rules do not prohibit redistributing over the Internet those communications licensed under FCC rules Part 90, such as the communications of local government, law enforcement, civil defense, private land mobile, or public safety communications, including police, EMS, fire and the like. Licensees under FCC rules Part 90 concerned about the intercept and divulgence of their communications may encrypt or scramble these communications, except for station identification. Part 90.735(d) requires station identification to be transmitted by unencrypted voice.

Station ID may also be by digital transmission of the station call sign, including by Morse code. A licensee that identifies its station in this manner must provide the Commission, on request, information (such as digital codes and algorithms) sufficient to decipher the data transmission to ascertain the call sign transmitted.

Rules are located in Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations; Part 90 is available online at:
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=8e93313d3e1ae8538b0300f39ce33f8c&node=pt47.5.90&rgn=div5