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A really peculiar website...

R

Radio Boogie

A couple years back, I stumbled on the oddest website, and I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. I had a link saved, but that was on an older PC.

Basically, it had a small client you could use to feed it audio from your computer, then it would pass through their server and you could then hear it again on your end... with one major modification: it was processed by an algorithm which simulated long-path and skywave propagation effects, even the addition of QRM if you wanted it.

So, I could feed it an MP3 or whatever and the results were as if I was transmitting that file from a thousand miles away. It was pretty awesome. I just wish I could remember what the heck it was called. I've got a stack of my old PC's on the bench that I've been working on, so I'll have to go thru them and see if just maybe, it's on one of them still... fingers crossed!
 
Oh no!! In the last 15 years we DXers have realized that any of our DX files *must* sound like DX, with fluttering and fading, so as not to be confused with a station's Web feed---to prove it was heard on the radio, from far away, and not online.

Now we have **this**?!??! :eek:

cd (Sorry, don't know the URL of that site. Best for me if I never knew....) :)
 
cd637299 said:
Now we have **this**?!??! :eek:

cd (Sorry, don't know the URL of that site. Best for me if I never knew....) :)
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I'd have to agree. Kinda like Photoshop for audio, huh?
 
Well, actually, you could QSO with others on it and it was a simulation of what conversing on HF is like. Not real sure of the intended purpose, but it was kinda wild.
 
I'd find such an app useful to help make a smartphone acceptable to me in sound if not in cost.

I'd like to be able to "dial up" selective phasing/fading, atmospheric AM effects, variable bandwidth, sideband hets, etc.
I'd need about 4 different model paprameters controls for thunderstorm variations alone.....

No need to include "flourescent fuzz" "sparky brush motor" "electronic natural gas ignition system",
"GSM cellphone burst", "switching mode power supply", "smart meter", "leaky TV cable",
"microprocessor clocking", etc, etc.

I have recorded 10 khz whine with variable sources differing to cancel variably, then made a file of it.
I add this to some of my podcasts to give an excellent representation of AM sound on a good receiver,
as it was heard with just a touch of reverb and 10 khz 'way down in the mix.

I have kicked my self for a few years for not recording passing thunderstorms sounds on empty AM freqs..
I'd also add it to my air signal in the dead of winter...for fun... just to have that sound on tap would be great.
 
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