Talk:Hurricane Katrina

I'm sure people have recorded some interesting comms coming from the various live streams. How about a place to post them?

I would think it's best to edit them down, eliminating senstive information such as names of victims, telephone numbers, etc...

What do you think?

18Kbps?

The feeds sounded really great at the higher bit rates yesterday but could not accomodate the number of users trying to listen. Now we have multiple feeds capable of thousands of streams nowhere near capacity and it sounds how you would expect at that low rate, useable but lousy.

With only a few relays, dropping the rate down made sense but some very nice folks stepped up with many new relay streams today so did the quality get knocked a little to far down? If the main feeds were managed so relays and only relays were connecting, bumping the bitrates back up should be possible.

Comments? Yeah, I'd like to see 24Kbps if possible.

is there a possibility for OGG vorbis streaming? Any WinAmp player v5 and newer can handle receiving .ogg streams... that would be great for the "backbone" relays, and then the relays could turn the stream in mp3 format, giving a bit more headroom for better audio on the backbone streams.

Suggestion: David H's Feed

The list of frequencies and explanations is so clean, I didn't want to touch it. But I would note that the first freq there "123.00000", listed as "Air to Air", is also the frequency used for operations at Louisiana Regional Airport, thus explaining the comms in there concerning Runway 35.