Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jeff Chilton, who writes:
I’ve been finding myself at your excellent SWLing Post site frequently of late.
I wonder if you’ve seen my online shortwave receiver website. It’s been online since 1995, when it looked like this:
It still controls the same old Drake R8 receiver at my house, but I recently rebuilt the pages and server code to make the interface more interactive and improve the audio streaming. It’s now at:
It is still new, and there’s a lot of Javascript involved so could be a compatibility issue but please do give it another try.
Thanks, Jeff! I’ve spent a little time tuning the R8 and the interface is quite intuitive. With that said, readers, ergonomics was not the original Drake R8’s strong suit. If you’ve never used one, it takes a while to learn to use change filters, select modes, etc. via the row of six buttons above the keypad and encoder.
Also, Jeff’s R8 is not the U Twente web SDR–I’m guessing it can only handle one operator at a time, so we’ll see how this goes as everyone checks it out today!