May 21, 2023
Good signals, for a change, listening for doomsday planes and ground stations on 11175 - HFGCS frequencies.
seen from Vietnam
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seen from United States
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seen from Türkiye
seen from Germany
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Good signals, for a change, listening for doomsday planes and ground stations on 11175 - HFGCS frequencies.
Jammers started on 7200 and then moved down to 3860 kHz. Time & freq sync is almost perfect, with a nice stereo effect from the combination of receiver sites. I recorded in IQ mode from pairs of KiwiSDRs, then synced the data during post production.
Unajammer and his buddies seem to be coordinating a bit less right now on their activities, unlike their winter jamming on the 75 meter ham band. But they were certainly up for hitting the fasheys on two different bands Wednesday night (early 2023/05/11 UTC time).
Skywave Linux v5.3 is available for download! It is a self-contained live Linux iso for shortwave listening on internet based SDR sites. The picture is from a nice night enjoying CBC Radio 1, picked up on a receiver in Newfoundland, Canada
Get the iso image, burn it to a USB stick, boot the system and have fun. Shut down and unplug the USB, your PC never knew it was running a live Linux system...
Now updated to v5.1, with Xanmod Kernel 6.8.8 and more internet SDR streaming options.
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There is a new handbook for the WebSDR. Learn all the tips and tricks for operating these radios. They are the best way to do shortwave listening for free, without your own radio or antenna.
If you live in an apartment, highrise condo, or an RF noisy neighborhood, WebSDRs let you tune the bands from ideal locations and top-notch SDR equipment.
Hell yeah, WebSDRs help you escape censorship. If you live in an authoritarian country or American "red state," you can use WebSDRs to find better radio stations - free of your local propaganda and beyond local censorship controls.
Skywave Linux 4.4 (GNOME + i3)
Skywave Linux 4.4 is in the works. Currently I am working on the keybinds, as the keys in i3 don't quite match the GNOME defaults - and many conflict with the hotkeys for SDR and radio streamer apps in Skywave Linux.
When the iso is released, you can just replace your old iso with the new one. You'll be able to switch easily between i3 and GNOME, and the keys will (mostly) work the same way in either session.
Skywave 2.0 is in the works, built on Ubuntu 16.04. Lots of polishing lies ahead, though, and it is still a bit heavy at 1.8 GB. Part of the experience with an updated base system is finding new things that weren't there before and discovering things that were taken out. Snapd and syslinux-utils come to mind right away. Gqrx and QtRadio are never as easy to set up as they appear. One depends on an outdated component from GNU Radio and the other doesn't play nice with pulseaudio...