{"id":34663,"date":"2018-10-30T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34663"},"modified":"2018-10-30T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:10:12","slug":"radio-spectrum-archive-featured-in-the-ieee-spectrum-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/radio-spectrum-archive-featured-in-the-ieee-spectrum-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Spectrum Archive featured in the IEEE Spectrum Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to\u00a0Stephen Cass<\/a> for the interview and excellent piece about the Radio Spectrum Archive<\/a> in the\u00a0IEEE Spectrum magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Building a Time Machine for Radio<\/h1>\n

The Radio Spectrum Archive will let you listen to old broadcasts as if they were live<\/h2>\n

Stephen Cass<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Witherspoon is building<\/strong>\u00a0a time machine, of sorts. With it, you\u2019ll be able to pick a date and tune through an entire broadcast band as if you had a radio that could pick up transmissions from the past. Sure, well-established shows already make past episodes available, but with Witherspoon\u2019s time machine you\u2019ll be able to hear not just that programming but everything else that was on the air as well: the local news, the commercials, the pirate stations, even\u00a0the mysterious number stations<\/a>\u00a0that lurk on shortwave.<\/p>\n

Witherspoon\u2019s time machine is\u00a0The Radio Spectrum Archive<\/a>. The technological advance that makes it possible is the proliferation in recent years of\u00a0cheap software-defined radios<\/a>\u00a0(SDRs), which can digitize enormous swaths of radio spectrum. The SDR\u2019s software can be used to select individual transmissions and listen to them live. Or the swath of spectrum can be recorded and played back through the software later, letting listeners tune into broadcasts just as if they were live.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at the IEEE Spectrum.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many thanks to\u00a0Stephen Cass for the interview and excellent piece about the Radio Spectrum Archive in the\u00a0IEEE Spectrum magazine: Building a Time Machine for Radio The Radio Spectrum Archive will let you listen to old broadcasts as if they were live Stephen Cass Thomas Witherspoon is building\u00a0a time machine, of sorts. With it, you\u2019ll be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,43,158],"tags":[6605,157,4087],"class_list":["post-34663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-radio-spectrum-archive","tag-sdr","tag-software-defined-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-915","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34312,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/ieee-spectrum-magazine-this-artist-made-a-radio-out-of-a-kitchen-sink\/","url_meta":{"origin":34663,"position":0},"title":"IEEE Spectrum Magazine: “This Artist Made a Radio Out of a Kitchen Sink”","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source:\u00a0IEEE Spectrum via Ed C) Amanda Dawn Christie\u2019s work commemorates the fading glory of shortwave radio By\u00a0Stephen Cass Some artists work in oils, say, or marble. 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