KiwiSDR for SWL - Short Wave Listening
The KiwiSDR platform enables you to listen to radio from anywhere around the world. This is particularly useful if you want to hear your actual "on the air" transmission and fine tune your audio settings - both transmit power and TX audio equalizer if your radio supports it. My FlexRadio does. This morning I was calling CQ on 30M and RBN showed my signal spotted in Samoa and New Zealand at 11dB and 14db respectively. Conditions per Log4OM2 were Kp:2 (Quiet) A:13, SFI 136 Sunspot 44. OK but not great given where we have been in Solar Cycle 25. Using the KiwiSDR Map, I found station ZL1ROT on line in New Zealand with an 80M HF antenna and a S/N Score of 31. All channels were busy so I had to wait in queue for a few minutes before getting access to the receiver. You can see my CW signal on 10.119 in the KiwiSDR screenshot below. The settings are all default except the mode set to CW and the zoom set to zoom to band. Connected to KiwiSDR: Software-defined receiver at ZL1R