2014

When the stream hardware at this end is taken down for maintenance, the server that is in some far off distant land, heck knows where, that’s between here and the Shoutcast server detects the loss of stream and automatically fills in with an mp3 file that the GB3OA team have uploaded.

This used to contain one piece of music and an announcement, which kept going around in a loop of a few minutes until the stream became active again. Now this has been lengthened with more ‘interval’ music and announcements to make it more entertaining.

Although it’s unlikely you’ll catch the stream down and this Stream Down segment,  if you do try to guess the music used as ‘interval’ music – there’s a certifcate in it for the listener who does guess one piece! And also a special unwanted item from one of the team’s shack as it’s a difficult thing to catch. A hint: the first and third music are from a film. We doubt you’ll guess the second piece.

There will be short periods of downtime on the Shoutcast stream as the hardware is reconfigured and rebooted. Also, relocation of the hardware is approaching. Before this takes place a news item will be posted here.

The GB3OA team hope these necessary downtime intervals don’t spoil your enjoyment of listening to GB3OA worldwide.

Apologies to those who regularly listen to the GB3OA Shoutcast stream – those in Canada, the US, Norway and Brazil as well as other far off exotic territories. Our Shoutcast server has had an extended problem which was only finally resolved yesterday.

We can confirm now that the server is now fully up to spec and can only apologise for the protracted delay in resolving the issue.

As always the GB3OA stream can be listened to by pointing your VLC player to: http://184.154.43.106:8080

We’re pleased to inform that our remote server is now online again and functioning normally supplying our Shoutcast stream. Apologies to all who do use this stream for the amount of time it has taken to co-ordinate the return of the server.