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Shortwave Radio and The PC

Posted by Hemos on from the car-54-where-are-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica has an indepth guide on the Ten Tec RX-320, a shortwave radio receiver that connects to the PC and is controlled by software (both Linux and Windows). The article goes into depth on different high frequency modes, broadcast shortwave, and even a bit on ham radio and new digital modes."

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  1. Re:Possible apps... by Hittite+Creosote · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Weather alerts

    I have a weather alert device adjacent to my computer. Despite being called a 'window', it hasn't crashed yet, although as I'm in England, I do regularly get the grey screen of dampness from it.

  2. Re:How about the internet over short wave? by Aliencow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah I can imagine being on the net at midnight, downloading stuff from England at 0.01bit second, and then bam, it drops at 0 because of the sun... And screaming and crying...WHY you damn sun ? Why did you have to show up again??

  3. Clear Channel by nightsweat · · Score: 2, Funny

    The bad news is if these leads to a shortwave resurgence Clear Channel will buy up all the shortwave stations so they can broadcast crap music to the ends of the Earth.

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