Click on "Live Stream" below to hear the repeater in near real time...
Live Stream of 147.165 RRA repeater in Nyack, NY - Requires RealPlayer
Recordings of recent RRA Nets, Tuesday nights at 8PM ET
Note: Live streaming is suspended due to unavailability of a PC for use as an encoder. As soon as I obtain a PC for this use, I will resume streaming. See below regarding donation of a PC for this purpose.
Note: there is an encoding delay of several seconds, plus buffering time on your client software. This adds up to a minimum 20 second delay for audio to make it from real time to your PC's speakers.
Note: the live feed is a "Sure Stream" multi-rate stream. It will adapt to the highest bandwidth available up to 60Kbps. Audio quality will vary as your bandwidth varies, particularly if you are on a modem connection. It's sometimes fascinating to watch as the RealPlayer throttles the stream.
How It's Done: The "RealProducer" software runs under Windows 98
on a 600MHz Pentium PC to encode the audio into a digital multi-rate stream.
The stream goes to a Sun Microsystems server running Solaris and the Real
server software.
The Apache web server runs on a 1GHZ 4 processor Pentium running FreeBSD operating system. Each of the three systems is dedicated.
How you can help: If you have an old PCI bus machine that works and you can donate (monitor not required), I can make the feed permanent. The machine used as an encoder is borrowed and must be returned. If I can obtain two such machines, I can set up live streams for additional repeaters. Each stream requires a dedicated encoder.
73 - Gregg