Santa BOLO and Radio Silliness

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Sometimes we get to have some fun.  Here’s our annual BOLO (be on the lookout) for Santa.  People stay up till after midnight to hear this every year, and every year it’s a bit different.

Many hours later, after a typically busy night (yep, Christmas is non-stop running from one call to the next)(did you hear the phones ringing constantly in the background?) one of the units cleared a loud music call in a slightly different than usual manner…  so I responded in kind.

We were busy from 7pm till I left at 3am. And dispatch was short handed all night long.  It’s been a long, tiring shift, and I’m ready for bed!  Then I get to get up and do it all over again tonight.

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It Was Nuckin’ Futs Last Night!

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I walk into dispatch at 1700 hours (5pm).  It’s moderately busy, but not bad.  I sit down at Channel 1, and prepare for my shift.  The first hour or so is not bad, I get my shift rostered, tell various Sargents about pending calls, and generally settle in for 5 to 7 hours of radio.

It didn’t take long for the fan to be hit.

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TCSO Scanner audio online

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I’m streaming our radio traffic onto the internet.  You can hear the audio by pointing your browser, or Media Player, to mms://kc6yru.net:1199. It’s a stereo feed, with Channel One, the south end of the county, being on the left track.  Channel Two, the north end, is on the right track.  I was having some difficulty with the computer I was originally using, so I’ve moved it to one that should be more stable, and online 24/7.  If you listen closely, and at the right times, you may even hear me!

This feed is not provided by Tulare County Sheriff’s Department, or Tulare County, and they are not responsible for it being online.  The equipment is simply two scanners of mine, feeding into a sound card on a computer running Windows Media Encoder.

UPDATE:  January 9, 2011 – I’m no longer streaming the scanner audio.  The computer I was using decided to start acting up, and I don’t have a reliable replacement for it.  I don’t know if I’ll be putting the feed back up in the future or not.  In the meantime, if you have an iPhone or iPad, you can download 5-0 Radio, or Scanner911 and catch us there.

 

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