Remote controlled shortwave radio system

Under construction… The first in a series describing a system for internet remote control of a shortwave radio station. Its not something new. There are commercial products that provide remote operation of amateur radio transceivers. The purpose of this project is to make it possible to use shortwave radio sounds in musical performance, without the …

Internet shortwave radio using Max, Hamachi, and Mumble

How to control an amateur radio transceiver over the internet, using Osc (Open Sound Control), VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and VPN (Virtual Private Networks). What problem does this solve? Using a shortwave radio receiver in a  live performance without installing a large antenna system. This method gives low-latency real-time access to audio, and radio …

Regenerative shortwave radio experiment

Circuit design by Ray Ring http://circuitsalad.com/2015/01/27/yet-another-variant-of-the-junk-box-regen-this-one-is-really-weird-but-is-an-excellent-performer/ The audio is playing through headphones here, so you can’t hear the excellent signal quality I didn’t have the OpAmp called for in the circuit, so I built this audio amplifier designed by Dean Segovis: http://hackaweek.com/hacks/?p=131 The antenna was a piece of wire about 30 feet long. An air variable …

Processing shortwave radio sounds

Using the python sms-tools library. sms-tools: https://github.com/MTG/sms-tools Here is a song made from the processed sounds: mp3 version: This project was an assignment for the Coursera “Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications” course. https://www.coursera.org/course/audio Source material Sounds were recorded from a shortwave radio between 5-10MHz. freesound.org links to the sounds: am_interference_7mhz: https://www.freesound.org/people/tkzic/sounds/258095/ buzz_pulse_7mhz: https://www.freesound.org/people/tkzic/sounds/258096/ digital_pulse_7mhz: https://www.freesound.org/people/tkzic/sounds/258098/ cw_7mhz1_small: https://www.freesound.org/people/tkzic/sounds/258097/ wwv_5mhz_short: https://www.freesound.org/people/tkzic/sounds/258099/   Processing …

American Radio History

Scanned PDF files of classic electronics magazines. http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm Popular Electronics Electronics Illustrated Electronics World Radio Electronics Elementary Electronics Radio TV Experimenter Byte Radio News Radio Craft

maxradio updates

Upgrade to Mac OS Max version. Windows, runtime, standalone, and documentation upgrades still in progress… changes This is an interim update to add new drivers. driver for rtl-sdr minor bug fixes download https://github.com/tkzic/maxradio instructions Connect a radio Open maxsdr7a.maxpat  note: 1/23/2015 – the repository was really messed up – missing externals, etc., have reloaded. The …