While your Demo has full capability, you will see users identified by call and frequency in the Chat/Cluster box. By typing "/users qrg" in the chat bar or pressing the "F12" key, users on your frequency are shown, alternately anyone on the same band is shown.
By typing "/lookup (callsign)" in the chat bar information about that user is shown; Name, Location, Subscriber type, activity.
Look through the "short manual" found on the Hamsphere website for more command line info.
BTW, I found a post by the developer on the Hamsphere website which briefly describes how Hamsphere works. You can see the HAMSPHERE BLOCK DIAGRAM on my Home Hosting experimental page. A little research shows the Hamsphere system uses an open source audio codec called SPEEX which finds many applications in the VOIP world.
While your Demo has full capability, you will see users identified by call and frequency in the Chat/Cluster box. By typing "/users qrg" in the chat bar or pressing the "F12" key, users on your frequency are shown, alternately anyone on the same band is shown.
By typing "/lookup (callsign)" in the chat bar information about that user is shown; Name, Location, Subscriber type, activity.
Look through the "short manual" found on the Hamsphere website for more command line info.
BTW, I found a post by the developer on the Hamsphere website which briefly describes how Hamsphere works. You can see the HAMSPHERE BLOCK DIAGRAM on my Home Hosting experimental page. A little research shows the Hamsphere system uses an open source audio codec called SPEEX which finds many applications in the VOIP world.
I have always dreamed of us having such a site to show off our stations to each other and swap show segments for local transmit. Forget the fadeout and am bandwidth,lets have full range stereo channels! OK you software writers,lets get busy!!!
I have always dreamed of us having such a site to show off our stations to each other and swap show segments for local transmit. Forget the fadeout and am bandwidth,lets have full range stereo channels! OK you software writers,lets get busy!!!
MRAM,
Unfortunately I wasn't able to tune into your virtual shortwave station but i was able to play with Hamsphere a little bit more. I nearly forgotten about the account i had there.
Also a couple things came to mind when reading this thread.
1) i seem to recall (sort of) a station in California years ago that was fully licensed but created the illusion they were a pirate radio operation by adding noise to their audio chain (on purpose). Even the liners and ID's sounded a bit rough too. I wish i could remember the stations location and call letters. (not to be confused with the clear channel stunt a few years ago)
2) www.rock957.net is a home hosted website. I am running streaming and a webserver on the same machine. I wanted to brush up on my hosting and tech skills but found it too expensive to buy a dedicated server . The webserver is Apache (WAMP), the stream server is Steamcast, the encoder is Edcast (now defunct) and I am using the free dns services of dnsexit.com.
So far so good. I have installed php, mysql and security features. There is more work to follow but things have been very busy here lately so I have not had much time for anything else.
Here it is nearly Winter and I still have not worked on my FM antenna.
Oh well, it's all good.
i seem to recall (sort of) a station in California years ago that was fully licensed but created the illusion they were a pirate radio operation
Right you are, '95-7, that was a three year experiment pioneered by super producer Scott Shannon (Super-Shan!) and super jock Shadow Steele in an attempt to capitalize on all the press Stephen Dunifer and Free Radio Berkeley were getting at the time.
Read more than you'd ever care to know here:
www.kqlz.com
(Caution - turn your speakers down before visiting - lots of 'on load' sound files!)
Thanks SCWIS,
That is the one i was talking about. I thought the whole concept was pretty cool. KQLZ was hard for me to remember for some odd reason.
We had the same "pirate radio" operation going here in the Akron, Ohio area.
There is a 5kw station on 1350 kHz. Originally it was WADC many years ago. That changed to WSLR in 1964, a county music format. That changed to WTOU in 1994 doing a contemporary urban format. Again the call changed to WARF in June of 2005 running Sports Talk and then Liberal Talk Radio.
It was under the call WARF they advertised as Radio Free Ohio and played like it was a pirate station.
In March of 2007 they switched back to Sports Talk radio.
You can find all this info HERE AT WIKIPEDIA.
As a side note, when I was a child (1958) 1350 kHz was about the only radio I could pickup on my Tiny Tim Crystal Radio and Cub Scout Crystal radio. They ran Kathryn Kuhlman and Garner Ted Armstrong, both religious programs, at night. Used to scare the begebies outa me.
Back in the 60s Garner Ted Armstrong was on here on 1010 KXEN 50kW at 12 Noon everyday. I loved his style, he had probably the best speaking voice on radio. His "prophesies" about things to come are actually happening now, although I think anyone can safely predict what human beings will do every time.
Somewhere in my library I have some actual "World Tomorrow" tapes, Garner Ted's programs, which a station I worked for got free after I recommended they fill there religious slot with it.
Garner Ted was kicked out of the church his father, Herbert Armstrong founded, and I got hold of a faculty "expose" publication containing claims of Garner Ted's shinnanigans around the campus in California. It would all make a great movie script.
The last I heard Garner Ted opened his own church in Big Sandy, Texas.