[Lowfer] WebSDR available in Europe for Longwave Broadcast Listening

[Ed Phillips]

I seem to have lost contact with this list.  Anyone help?

Ed

Todd Roberts wrote:

>Hi all,
>If anyone on the list would like to hear what the European Broadcast bands sound like both medium wave and 
>longwave there is a nice Web SDR available to use for free that is run by the University of Twente located
>in the Netherlands.
> 
>This is a wideband SDR that will tune all the way down to 0kHz VLF and has many features and modes
>controllable by the user including AM, CW, FM and SSB. Lots of bandwidth choices and several ways to
>tune the radio including by direct entry of frequency and you can even drag your mouse across the waterfall display
>for tuning.
> 
>The radio is located near the top of a building and uses a wideband e-probe antenna and is very quiet and
>sensitive. It must have very good grounding it is so quiet. This is the only free WebSDR that I could find that will tune all the way down to VLF and covers the
>European longwave broadcast band with good sensitivity and quality. All the other free WebSDR radios that I could
>find in Europe seem to only cover the Ham bands.
> 
>The Netherlands is located on the Western border of Germany and is across the water from the UK
>so it is in a nice central location for European broadcast listening. The BBC4 on 198kHz comes in like gangbusters
>and also Germany on 177, Europe 1 on 162, etc. I can also hear many VLF stations in CW mode with the
>sharp filter engaged and can hear NAA on 24kHz from the USA pretty well.
> 
>Here is the address to the WebSDR :
>
>http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
>
>You will need a high speed line and JAVA enabled on your computer. You may need to lower your
>JAVA security settings if you keep getting an error message when you sign in to the radio.
>Being an SDR radio literally hundreds of users can operate the radio at the same time without
>waiting in line to use the radio. Several times I have been on there when it said there were over
>200 users online.
>
>73 - Todd WD4NGG
> 
> 
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