Westborough Police & Fire

 Police Operations  482.3625 MHz - (PL 123.0)

 Fire Operations  484.4000 MHz - (PL 114.8)

Police Callsign: WPWD203

Control Point (Police): Town Hall - 45 West Main St., Westborough, MA

Fire Dept. Callsign: WPWG476

Control Point (Fire): Fire Dept. Building - 42 Milk St., Westborough, MA

Transmit Location (Police & Fire): 300 Friberg Parkway, Westborough, MA

Site Elevation (AMSL): 377'

Repeater Location (Police & Fire): Fay Mountain, Westborough, MA

Site Elevation (AMSL): 705'

Basic Info:
My feed was approved and listed on 2025-01-19 and I started streaming on 2025-01-21. I started off using a RadioShack Pro-162 scanner just to get a working 'Live' stream going. My ultimate mission was to provide two simulcast feeds; a standard live feed and a "Calls" feed of two separate radio channels. Using my scanner was something I did not want long-term not only because it's bulky and has poor sound quality but because it wouldn't be able to capture both channels when they are bioth active at the same time. Not to mention the analog input noisefloor is and always will be unacceptable. I truly wish Broadcastify would enact sound quality standards because even some of the "Official" feeds have unbelievable hissing in between transmissions that would drive anyone insane. Plus, these days it's ridiculously cheap and easy to capture and stream a radio transmission with ZERO noise uccuring between calls,  I wanted two SDRs, one for each channel, as for physical footprint size w

I wanted this feed up and running ASAP and so I used the extra parts and devices I already had on hand. Setting it up as a tradition scanner sourced audio stream was quick easy tried and true. My next step, in addition to the aforementioned audio and antenna upgrades, is to make an SDR call-ingest platform version.

Current Setup:

- Nooelc SMART RTL-SDR v5 (Two of these)
- Raspberry Pi 4 (8gb)
- SDRTrunk: Streams & Records both channels as 2 streams to Bcfy (Std. and "Calls")
- Antenna: Indoor mounted Larsen Tri-Band NMO

Initial Setup:

- Radio Shack Pro-163 Scanner
- Raspberry Pi 3b
- Sabrent mini USB audio adapter 
- BFCY Shell: Connects and streams scanner audio to Bcfy
- Antenna: Indoor mounted Larsen Tri-Band NMO