London Pirate Listening Station.

How to build a Pirate Listening Station.

• Hardware

  Use at least a pentium II with 128M ram.
  If you are going to go to all the trouble
  of siting pirate scanner on a network somewhere,
  then you may aswell use it for other things.
  You will need isa slot for cadet radio card.
  

• Operating system

  Use your favourite distribtion of linux.
  I am using Redhat 9.0 for this project.
  Install redhat as a server
  Make 'scanner' user and password.
  Start sshd & httpd services.
  Close unecessary service such as 'sendmail' and 'cups'.
  Set hostname.
  

• Encoder
• Tuner card
• CADET AM/FM Radio Data Rcvr Card ISA8 8MB-RAM ID Logic PNP

        Can be bought for 4.00 gbp at datavision http://www.dvstuff.co.uk/

        To install driver modules at bootup

        add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

          /sbin/insmod videodev
          /sbin/insmod radio-cadet


        

• Controller
• Apache
• fmio: http://jumbo.narod.ru/fmio.html

   
         install fmio-2.0.8-1.i386.rpm (home|local)

         make available to all users:

           chmod 666 /dev/radio

         Test with:

           fmio -d v4l -S -c 3 -l 100.0 -h 107.6

         You may also need to install fmtools: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/fmtools/ to switch card on using
         install fmtools-0.99.1-1.i386.rpm (home|local)

         fm -d /dev/radio on


         

• Audio Encoder(s)
• dark ice: http://darkice.sourceforge.net/

      install darkice-0.13.1-1.i386.rpm, lame-3.91-1.i386.rpm

      install sound card using /usr/bin/redhat-config-soundcard

      run darkice -c darkice.cfg

      

• Server
• Audio Server
• ice cast: http://www.icecast.org/

      Server status

    

• Client(s)
• Audio players
• Linux
• mpg123: http://www.mpg123.de/
• XMMS: http://www.xmms.org/
• zinf: http://www.zinf.org/
• Microsoft Windows
• winamp2: http://classic.winamp.com/
• zinf: http://www.zinf.org/
• Apple Macintosh
• macamp: http://www.subband.com/macamp/