"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Read about a system called WebSDR on the softrock mailing list, and boy, is it ever cool. It is a software defined radio that is hooked to the internet. Multiple listeners (17 at the time I was on) can separately tune over portions of the 40m and 80m band, and have the sound streamed to their local machine via a nifty java applet. It’s very, very cool. Well done!
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