Monroe and Ontario Counties Fire - Digital

9/7/2026 - Immediate and top-of-hour roundup of weather alerts issued by the National Weather Service for Albany County can now be heard on this feed, along with a quick mention when talkgroups are added and removed based on incidents as they occur. Two tone audio, data, and other signaling audio is filtered and should no longer be heard. Audio quality should also be improved with a fresh approach to processing the audio chain.

5/29/2023 @ 11:30a: The server upgrade and maintenance is complete, audio quality should be much improved, if not perfect and stutter-free.If you hear any issues, please email mikewren@gmail.com

5/24/2023: To address the ongoing audio quality issues, especially during times of high radio traffic and system utilization, a new server will be installed this Sunday and Monday (May 28-29). The new server (Intel Core i7-based) is orders of magnatude more powerful than the existing server (Raspberry Pi 4).

2/23/2022 6-11pm: Additional configuration occurring on new SDR receivers and software stack, reverting to old Uniden scanner during this update window. We also set up a new Discord server - stop by and say hello.

1/21/2022: Major system upgrade --- All transmissions are now received via two SDR receivers and are recorded simultaneously, then replayed in the order received. During periods of high activity, there may be a delay as radio traffic is queued for playback. The timestamp for each transmission along with the talkgroup ID tag is in the feed alphatag.

Permanent Talkgroups

• City of Rochester Fire (Dispatch, Fireground East, Fireground West, Command, Staging)
• Monroe County Fire Battalion 1 (Laurelton, Pt. Pleasant, Ridge Culver, Sea Breeze, St. Paul, Union Hill, Webster, West Webster, Irondequoit)
• Monroe County Fire Battalion 2 (Barnard, Brockport, HMW, Hilton, Kodak, Lakeshore, North Greece, Ridge Road, Spencerport, Greece)
• Monroe County Fire Battalion 3 (Brighton, Bushnells Basin, East Rochester, Egypt, Fairport, Mendon, Penfield, Pittsford, Perinton)
• Monroe County Fire Battalion 4 (Chili, Churchville, Clifton, Gates, Mumford, Scottsville)
• Monroe County Fire Battalion 5 (Henrietta, Honeoye Falls, Rush)
• Monroe County Interop
• Greater Rochester International Airport Fire & Rescue

Optional Talkgroups

• Ontario County Fire (Operations, Hazmat, Mercy Flight, Bristol, Canandaigua, Cheshire, Clifton, Crystal Beach, East Bloomfield, Farmington, Fishers, Geneva, Gorham, Hall, Honeoye, Hopewell, Ionia, Manchester, Naples, Northside, Oaks Corners, Phelps, Port Gibson, Shortsville, Stanley, Victor, West Bloomfield, West Lake, White Springs)

All transmissions are recorded simultaneously then replayed in the order in which they were received. During periods of high activity, there may be a delay as transmissions are queued for playback. The timestamp and talkgroup number and alphatag is provided and should be shown in your app or playback software.

Technical Specs

Hardware: Dedicated Quad-Core Intel Xeon (E3-1226) at 3.3GHz with software defined radio (SDR) receivers located in the Village of Webster.

Software: Trunk-Recorder, LiquidSoap and a custom stack of middleware and scripts for audio processing.

All server and network hardware are powered through a dual power backup systems (UPS/battery and natural gas generator) for indefinate runtime during long-duration power disruption. Additionally, the internet connection is redundant with cellular-based automatic failover.

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