This is the equipment that handles online audio streams and audio archives:

N7ZQT hosts the system at the Data Systems Group, Inc. data center in Vail, AZ.
An ICT ICT12012-11A supply powers everything. Total AC draw = 22W.
This Maxrad BMOY4403 yagi pulls in a solid -68dBm signal from the repeater:

KC7CPB donated an ADI AT-400 (with CTCSS unit) for use in this receiver assembly:

A Transcendient CDC-01 CTCSS decoder was added to filter the 100Hz tone.
A Mini-ITX PC was built around an Intel D945GSEJT fanless Atom N270 motherboard:

Remote Desktop Connection is used to manage the system from anywhere.
ScannerCast acts as a streaming audio server and also sends a feed to RadioReference:

RecAll-PRO creates voice-activated MP3 recordings and manages file sizes:

A VBScript script runs daily to remove local archives more than 10 days old.
SyncBackSE runs every 30 minutes to sync local archives with the web server:

Acronis True Image makes a weekly backup drive image to a USB flash drive:

Processes running on the Linux Apache web server:
Cron runs a command daily to remove archives more than 10 days old.
"ID3 Mass Tagger" runs every 30 minutes to insert MP3 ID3 tags.
Cron runs a shell script every 30 minutes to parse a list of current archives into HTML.
A SSI directive inserts that HTML into the audio archives page to keep it dynamically updated.
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