Global Tuners-anyone know about it?

[crainbebo]

Does anybody know about the website globaltuners.com? It's a website where you can listen to remotly-controlled radio recievers from around the world!

http://www.globaltuners.com/

-crainbebo

 

[4dude]

Yup i have had an acct there since it was JAVARADIO

 

[fussbudget]

Fabulous site. Just remember to share the tuning with fellow DX'ers.

 

[cyberdad]

They had a few changes a year or two back and I let my account lapse, but it was pretty cool. I remember once tuning a receiver in Southwest England for some BCB DX and picking up about a dozen or so North American stations. I seem to recall WBBR being the strongest.

 

[Rob]

this is a great site but they lost a lot during the transfer back then..
anyone want to share their radios??

-Rob

 

[radioman148]

Do you have to share a radio in order to listen?

 

[cyberdad]

Do you have to share a radio in order to listen?

I stand to be corrected on the details, but the gist of it is that you first log in, then you go to a page listing where the receivers are located. Gernerally a couple dozen at various locations around the world... slightly more concentrated in Europe and North America than elsewhere.

Anyway, you pick a receiver, then....using a chat function....ask if anyone is using it. If there's no response, you just start tuning. Its pretty easy, and you're tuning an actual receiver by remote control. You're simply asked to be considerate and not hog the receiver for a long period of time. I always limited myself to about a half hour or so.

Note that there is a small user fee involved (or at least there used to be). However, at any given time there used to be one or two "free sample" receivers available.

 

[radioman148]

Very interesting--thanks Cyberdad.

 

[Tom Wells]

This is true internet radio. I tried them out years ago, but the narrow bandwidth of the recievers and the low-bitrate encoding
was too much of a turnoff. Maybe they sound better now...