What is everyone fav Kiwi SDR to listen too?
Mine is
Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK
Kauwhata one near Auckland NZ
Sydney, AUS
Mine is
Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK
Kauwhata one near Auckland NZ
Sydney, AUS
Why? I'm not being snarky, just that this is a good idea for a thread, but the thread would be a lot more interesting if the posts discussed why each KiwiSDR was a good one. Does it receive a particularly interesting mix of stations? Does it have good reception on a certain band or bands? Is it in an interesting location? My preference is for SDRs that can pick up interesting small-town stations that I might not come across otherwise, little stations that still play country music and do farm reports.What is everyone fav Kiwi SDR to listen too?
Mine is
Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK
I played for a while with the SpyServer SDRs - you can connect to them through the SDR# software, but they were very hit-and-miss in terms of which bands were allowed, a lot seemed to be limited to air band reception (not of interest to me) or a random bit of apparently empty VHF (possibly a misconfiguration). For all their faults, they were very good for giving you a chance to listen to the FM band in locations around the world, I remember there being an interesting receiver in Moscow. The big thing is that most of them only allow one person at a time, so it was very much a quick scan around and then off to give someone else a chance (if only the rest of the world worked like me).KA7U in Weiser is my go-to AM KiwiSDR (outside of the one in Kittitas WA that I am able to access through another SDR service using RemoteSDRClient).
The Haida Gwaii SDR (when on) can be a delight when Asian conditions are hot. I have heard TA and TP DX from that receiver, mostly TP of course (even as far inland as Mongolia, 1458khz Nei Menggu) plus many 1KW stations in Japan and other areas. 1575 will often have either VOA Thailand or one of the AFN Eagle relays in Japan. I have heard 531 Algeria, 1413 Moldova, the former 1215 Absolute, and even 1278 IRIB from Iran on that receiver.
The honest part of this is how there's TONS of HF/AM SDRs...and very few FM SDRs. If only there were an equivalent of VHF SDRs, especially around this time of year with sporadic-E. Milford PA is awesome, but what if all of those Kiwi SDRs had FM/VHF capability too?
I would love that. Bob Hawkins has a Global Tuner at the same site as his SDR so that's one. It rocks on FM (pet peeve on the Global Tuners system is it takes 20 seconds or so to respond). It had tropo out oo Jefferson City MO the other morning.KA7U in Weiser is my go-to AM KiwiSDR (outside of the one in Kittitas WA that I am able to access through another SDR service using RemoteSDRClient).
The Haida Gwaii SDR (when on) can be a delight when Asian conditions are hot. I have heard TA and TP DX from that receiver, mostly TP of course (even as far inland as Mongolia, 1458khz Nei Menggu) plus many 1KW stations in Japan and other areas. 1575 will often have either VOA Thailand or one of the AFN Eagle relays in Japan. I have heard 531 Algeria, 1413 Moldova, the former 1215 Absolute, and even 1278 IRIB from Iran on that receiver.
The honest part of this is how there's TONS of HF/AM SDRs...and very few FM SDRs. If only there were an equivalent of VHF SDRs, especially around this time of year with sporadic-E. Milford PA is awesome, but what if all of those Kiwi SDRs had FM/VHF capability too?
I hadn't used Global Tuners for years, but I just gave it another go prompted by this post and was able to log in and tune a receiver (Edinburgh, IN FM Broadcast) instantaneously. It seems to have improved a reasonable amount, but does it still have the limitation where there's one VFO, and you have to ask before tuning, etc? It seems like modern SDRs should do away with that.I would love that. Bob Hawkins has a Global Tuner at the same site as his SDR so that's one. It rocks on FM (pet peeve on the Global Tuners system is it takes 20 seconds or so to respond). It had tropo out oo Jefferson City MO the other morning.
That is correct, only one can tune at a time. Major limitation.I hadn't used Global Tuners for years, but I just gave it another go prompted by this post and was able to log in and tune a receiver (Edinburgh, IN FM Broadcast) instantaneously. It seems to have improved a reasonable amount, but does it still have the limitation where there's one VFO, and you have to ask before tuning, etc? It seems like modern SDRs should do away with that.