RRU Broadcastify fire feed

I currently provide the RRU scanner feed for Broadcastify. I try to provide a quality feed. For those that don’t know, Broadcastify has two different types of feeds. Most everyone is familiar with the original feed here. It uses a normal scanner.

There is another type of feed called the Calls feed for Broadcastify. This type of feed uses a software defined radio (SDR) dongle to receive radio traffic. The advantage of this is that it will capture all radio traffic within the reception area. No radio traffic is missed unlike a scanner. You can check out my Calls feed here. This is feed is also available on the Radio Scanner app and possibly others. If you have a premium subscription, you can make playlist(s) that yo can add as many frequencies as you want so you don’t have to listen to radio traffic you don’t want.

The purpose of my post is to expand the coverage area of the Calls feed for better reception in areas that I have lousy to nonexistent radio reception. I can receive good reception for southwest Riverside county (Temecula is sketchy RRU1/RVC CMD6), Hemet, San Jacinto mountains. I can receive the north part of RVC but it can at times be low volume or really scratchy. I am looking for someone to host a Raspberry Pi mini computer with dongles and a small antenna in the north part of the county. I am hoping for better reception for Norco, Jurupa Valley, MoVal and possibly Beaumont area. I wouldn’t mind adding one for the Coachella Valley either if interested. I have all the equipment since I keep upgrading equipment so I have extras. You don’t need to do anything other than setup at your location and hooking it up to the internet. If anyone is interested, let me know. Thanks

Also, if anyone else from around the state wants to set one up for their area, I can assist you.

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Would this include smaller fire departments in the area such as Cathedral City and Palm Springs?

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It could. I am not opposed to it. The main problem is that the Calls platform requires more processing power than the other type of feed. I am able to cover 14 frequencies with a Raspberry Pi 5 and that is pushing it. I have an extra RPi 4 and I am guessing it can cover about 8-10 frequencies due to it being an older model.

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