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Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

40 points mmaunder 43 minutes ago 12 comments

hmokiguess 16 minutes ago | parent

I'm confused by this one, when I click the link I am seeing a lot of live traffic?

EDIT: The title is confusing to read, there's 2 statements.

mmaunder 13 minutes ago | parent

Yeah sorry about that. This is a software defined radio based on a hangar at Orcas island, receiving the entire airband, channelizing it into over 700 channels, and then demodulating the channels and playing whatever is sent provided it's voice. It also transcribes using a voice model and an LLM parses the output and attempts to create cards on the right hand side. It's also trying to detect simulcasts and remove the duplicate transmissions. Hope that helps explain it. It's also archiving everything so you can listen to old transmissions. Right now I'm working to keep the server up. Thanks HN. :-) For context, I'm a pilot based at KORS and a nerd.

ryandrake 9 minutes ago | parent

What SDR did you use that has the bandwidth to capture the entire airband? You need to scan about 20MHz for the voice channels.

What STT system / model are you using?

I had a plan to try something like this from where I live, but I wasn't sure how to solve those two problems.

hatthew 4 minutes ago | parent

I don't think GP is confused about the technical details, they are confused about what they are looking at and what the point is. I think the answer they were looking for is (correct me if I'm wrong) "this is a live feed of transcribed ATC comms in the Vancouver area"

eleventen 14 minutes ago | parent

If someone who understands what this is feels like explaining it, that would be very cool :)

mmaunder 12 minutes ago | parent

Please see my other reply. Happy to answer any questions in between trying to keep the server running. Amazing how well node performs under load.

eleventen 9 minutes ago | parent

Ok, thanks for that!

bobmoretti 9 minutes ago | parent

Haven't listened by KORS is a small untowered airport in the San Juan islands, in the northwest corner of WA state. It's very near Victoria, Canada, whose ATC controls the nearby airspace, extending into US territory slightly.

The post title is implying that Victoria airport is also subject to a ground stop.

molsongolden 7 minutes ago | parent

If you scroll back to 2:03pm (the time this link was posted) there was this interaction:

14:03:04 Uh just wanted to confirm uh there's a ground stop uh going into Vancouver on this frequency?

14:03:10 Encore 3325, that's correct. Nothing is departing to land at Vancouver at this time.

hbn 5 minutes ago | parent

I’m supposed to be flying tomorrow afternoon for my wedding next week. I fly to Toronto and then Mexico, so no stops in the US but needless to say I’m worried.