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This site hosts an audio archive of emergency services and other goverment services radio traffic in Kansas. Currently including the areas around: Salina / Saline County & Newton / Harvey County & Wichita / Sedgwick County. Soon to include Abilene / Dickinson County.

The new Real-Time system lists every individual radio transmision along with text transcription of that transmission.

Soon there will be a new catch-up review system that groups audio into 15-min blocks to make reviewing larger blocks of time easier.

I created this archive for three reasons.

1. To provide a free option for those who cannot afford the new digital trunking radios required to listen to local emergency radio traffic.
2. To provide the ability to 'rewind' and hear radio traffic that was missed when you hear sirens nearby.
3. To provide a record of radio traffic for review and sharing that can help clarify misinformation.

Once the switch to digital was complete, many people were left without a solid solution for listening to emergency radio traffic. For live listening, online streaming systems have added support for the new digital system now, but there are still gaps in these systems as they temporarily fail or don't include all conversations either because of missing talkgroups or drop-outs due to performance issues on their servers and most don't include a browsable archive or if they do, you must have an account or pay for access.

My archive makes 'catching up' much easier than other systems as there is no account required and can filter by the talkgroups that interest you.

Even before the swich to the new digital system, I wanted to build this archive because many times I would be curious about sirens I heard close to me, but since I hadn't already been listening to a radio, I had already missed the initial call. By the time I could grab a radio, I would have missed key details or even the entire event.

Most valuably though, is having a record of radio traffic that can help retrace events and clarify misinformation. Often times the "game of telephone" is a very real problem and having the actual audio to refer back to and being able to share this on social media can save a lot of arguing over what people thought they heard.

I hope this archive benefits others as much as it has benefited me. I do this entirely on my own time and pay for all costs out of my own pocket. If you feel like helping, anything is welcome and I thank you in advance for your generocity!

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Short version: This archive is built with several PCs placed stategically around KS using Software Defined Radio (SDR) devices to capture radio transmissions. This is a USB device that allows for simultainious capture of several radio conversations at the same time. Previously, a physical scanner was used and limited the capture to one or two conversations at once.

The captured audio is then sorted, tagged, and indexed on this site for review. An AI transcription system is now being utilized to transcribe the audio to text. This AI system is running locally (not cloud-based) and provides a "good enough" transcription for the purpose of this site.