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I have established a scanner feed to cover South Brunswick Township and, to a lesser extent, its neighbors, for the benefit of myself and fellow firefighters who are too far away for decent reception or who don't have scanners. Naturally anyone is free and welcome to listen.
The scanlists have been altered for the duration of Hurricane Irene. The feed will run for as long as power holds out.
| Left Side | Right Side |
| South Brunswick Fire | South Brunswick Police/EMS & Neighbors |
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| BC780XLT | Pro-2096 |
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Following are the details of the stereo stream:
| Left Side | Right Side |
| South Brunswick Trunk | South Brunswick Conventional & Neighbors |
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| BC780XLT | Pro-2096 |
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Since the target user for this feed is already familiar with all of the codes, identifiers, and vernacular, I won't get into that here. For more background refer to Mercer County (for Princeton); Middlesex County (for South Brunswick, Monroe, Cranbury, and Plainsboro); and Somerset County (for Franklin).
If I have the opportunity, when SB has a working fire I will clear the right side and move SBPD and SBEMS to it so that the left side is exclusively SB fire talkgroups, fleet calls, and SPEN-4 patch.
If you hear something happening in a neighboring town, check to see if there is a feed which better focuses on that town. There are feeds dedicated to and usually in service for North Brunswick, East Brunswick, and Monroe in particular. Check RadioReference.com.
DO NOT e-mail me if the feed is offline. I am automatically notified 15 minutes after my feed goes down and reminders are sent out regularly after that. If I am not at home then I am unable to re-establish the feed or make any changes to how it is working (volume & squelch) and what it is scanning.
DO NOT e-mail me if you're having trouble accessing the feed. I could only provide the tips listed below.
From this page, you should see the audio controls towards the upper-left and an indication of the number of listeners towards the upper-right of this page (or it will say "OFFLINE"). If you see neither of these then ensure that JavaScript is enabled in your web browser and that no security settings are blocking scripts.
Generally if there is a problem on "my" end of things then the feed status will show as "OFFLINE". If the number of users shows as a number and the feed seems dead then either it is especially inactive at the time or there is a problem on the server end of things.
There have been some maintenance sessions and hiccups on the host/server side during which the feed shows as online but it really is not. If I am expecting a protracted outage either of my own doing or as the result of host actions then I will make a note of it on this page, but this is rare. Otherwise you may check the Live Audio Broadcasting Forum or the Twitter account set up by RadioReference.com for general outages.
Most or all conventional channels are being scanned with PL/DPL squelch, to reduce interference. Some conventional channels have been attenuated to reduce the distant traffic coming through on them, and I have programmed only the input to the Middlesex County Police Hotline channel so you're likely only to hear South Brunswick transmitting into it. There's too much stuff unrelated to the general SB area for that repeater to be scanned here. Trunked talkgroups are scanned in closed/scan mode so new talkgroups will not come through. I will be routinely monitoring the feed to assure maximum performance and while I consider requests to add or remove channels, I make no advance promises about complying.