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Geek-9pm:
Not what I thought.  :o
I thought it would just give me webs sites for the few broadcasters who do live audio streams over the internet. I could hardly only imagine a literal way to  tune the band and listen and pick what I want to hear. It is true!

It is Web SDR. A Software Defined Radio connected to the Internet. There are lots of them allover the world. You can listen to actual raw shortwave recited in  Europe or even form California.
Read more:
http://www.websdr.org/

Again, it is not streaming form the broadcasters, rather it is  raw shortwave reception form a specific location in the world.

I recommend this if you want something different  just steam from major broadcasters. It is a real SW receiver from another place in the world.

The technology is mind boggling! It is a real-time spectrum analyzer and you can select center frequency and a audio feed from a specific frequency using three or four types of demodulation. And variable bandwidth both the spectrum range  and the demodulation. And a volume control, of course.

Check it out!
Related links:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
http://n8sdr.com/index.php/sdr-listen-live-sites
http://69.27.184.62:8901/
Great for a rainy day.  ;D
 

DaveLembke:
Neat stuff Geek... was playing around at this site http://69.27.184.62:8901/

I like that they show full bands and a graphic of where radio transmissions are happening in a time lapse graph and so you can see what frequency has a transmission happening and click and go to it.

25 years ago I had a ham radio without a FCC license  ::) and I just listened a lot and a couple times would get in on a conversation. Also had an old Norelco Short Wave Radio ( guessing a 1960s model which I remember said Made in Holland on the back of it )which was blue plastic body with white plastic knobs and the pressed paper fiber board back to it. It was an old tube radio that I picked up at a yard sale for $5 but it worked awesome for pulling in some far away signals with the antenna that I used which I would disconnect my ham radio and connect the old short-wave radio to this 20 foot antenna on roof of my house.

These days I have a modern hand held Radio Shack AM/FM/SW/Weather radio that takes 4 AA batteries and has a scan for picking up on signals, but its not as good as that old Norelco I had.

The closest thing I have seen to what you shared was a USB Stick that was sold about 10 years ago that was an Internet Radio Device, where the device basically when connected to a computer would launch a program that gave you access to streaming audio broadcasts all over the world so I wasnt stuck with just whatever my radio could pick up in New Hampshire USA because whatever radio stations around the world that had a streaming service that were added to this device I could connect to without a weak signal.

Saved this page for future use to listen in on different radio transmissions.

Geek-9pm:
DaveLembke,
Glad you enjoyed it. It brings back old memories of my adolescence. Rather than learn how to talk to girls,I learned Morse code. and got a radio license.  :D

Geek-9pm:
Here is a long list of receivers all over the place.
https://skywavelinux.com/best-sdrservers.html
Don't let the Linux reference mislead you. The sites listed work well with Windows. The software is web based and does not require yu to have a specific OS.

Here is one in the UK:
http://grimsbysdr.ddns.net:8073/

Another located in Pennsylvania, USA.
http://k3fef.com:8901/

Japan:
http://103.2.34.7:8073/

New Zealand:
http://kiwisdr.jks.com:8073/
Here is CA3PBR, Santiago, Chile.

Washington DC, USA:
http://na5b.ddns.net:8901/

WebSDR, Montevideo, Uruguay
(South America)
http://201.217.131.106:7900/

Bear in mind some will default to the  shortwave band. And you will hear static until you tune to a frequency with a good signal. Others will default to local AM broadcast. This is a great way to hear local dialogue in other countries.  :)

Alain, this is not a stream from the studios. It is a linefeed of a Web SDR that you can tune to a frequency of your choice.

Geek-9pm:
Long wave BBC:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=198am
In the above the frequency i sin the URL.
The receiver is in the Netherlands.

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