I’ve spent a little time playing with websdr over the last day or so. This is certainly one way to achieve the subliminal morse background mentioned a couple of posts ago! (Assuming of course the workload is low and the wifi is up!!). You can see even before you ‘tune in’ if a CW signal might be the right speed.
I’m impressed with the easy usability of the remote websdr enabled receivers.
It’s also fantastic to get a clear sense of the band conditions and activity in another part of the world like Reston, VA. No signs of an Australian based webSDR station yet. Bandwidth charges probably have something to do with that.
The only downside so far is that as the site depends on Java there’s no way of accessing it with the iPad. And the absence of Flash on that device means you can’t use it for the best source of morse ambience – lcwo.net.
FYI, LCWO now also supports MP3 files for the HTML5 audio-tag, which should work with Safari. It used to offer OGG only for HTML5, which worked on Firefox only. Now it’s detecting the user agent and tries to deliver whatever the browser can handle.
Lacking a iPhone or iPad, I couldn’t test it myself, but I was told it works on the iPhone. Would be great to know about the iPad too!
73
Fabian DJ1YFK
Hi Fabian,
Thanks for your comment and thanks a million times over for http://lcwo.net!
I was really excited to see the effort put in to enabling lcwo.net on devices like the iPad without Flash. I’ve not had any success hearing the files on the iPad using the HTML5 player selected up until about a week ago – when I last tried.
I’ve just noticed on the news section of lcwo.net that you added mp3 support for Safari on 28 September!
I’ve just tested on an iPhone 3 and an iPhone 4 and they both work! (now I have no excuse for improving my cw!)
I’ll check the iPad a bit later today. (I was installing a beta of the iOS4 and it was taking so long to restore I had to leave it running under the watchful eye of my 9 year old daughter.)
Cheers
Stephen