Wide-Band WebSDR – Shortwave Radio on the Internet
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HN comment orderThere are many more of these: http://websdr.org/ Be sure to check several. Receive capability is not the same across stations or between frequency bands on the same SDR.
I found WebSDR a while back and was fascinated by it, however I was surprised to find out the author, an EE/CS prof[1], has a very closed source view of both the client-side JavaScript code as well as the server-side code. I wanted to poke around the JavaScript and see what I could learn but that's explicitly disallowed by the license[2]: > Since the intended use of this code involves sending a copy to the client computer, I (PA3FWM) hereby…
There's a lot of Web-accesible SDR's out there for 0-30 MHz. Here are some based on the KiwiSDR hardware: List: http://kiwisdr.com/public/ Map: http://rx.linkfanel.net/
An index of others also online at: http://www.websdr.org
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