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Shortwave Broadcast Schedules Beta 0.0.1b3

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ChrisSmolinski:
Shortwave Broadcast Schedules helps the SWL find shortwave broadcasts to listen to, as well as identify the station that is tuned in. You can double click on an entry to tune your radio to that frequency. You can also manually tune your radio, and the list of possible broadcasts will scroll along with the frequency, helping you identify the station.

It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, as well as linux.



This is the first public beta of the app. It is not yet completed, there are more features to add. It also likely has some bugs.

Presently, radio control is only implemented for Icom radios using the CI-V interface, as well as the SdrDx SDR app for Windows and Mac OS X. I do plan on adding support for additional radios, this is where users can help, by testing how it works with their radio. If you're interested in doing this, and you already have your radio connected to your computer via a serial cable, let me know what radio(s) you have.

If you'd like to try it out, you can download a copy using the following links:

Windows: http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/mypics/ShortwaveBroadcastSchedules-Windows.zip

Mac OS X: http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/mypics/ShortwaveBroadcastSchedules.zip

Linux: http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/mypics/ShortwaveBroadcastSchedules-Linux.zip

There is a ReadMe.rtf documentation file that comes with the download.

Echo_One:
What a very nice thing.

I dont have an SDR or anything fancy - just a simple radio... Will I still be able to use it or only with an SDR program?

ChrisSmolinski:
If you want to use it to control your radio (or be controlled by your radio) you will need a radio that can be controlled by your computer with a serial link. Otherwise, you can always use it manually, without the radio interface, to see what is on.

skeezix:
Excellent.

Currently setting up one of my Macs to control a Yaesu FT-840. Have the USB-Serial adapter and the Yaesu RS-232 to TTL interface, but something isn't quite right and can't get the Mac to control the radio. Have an old Perl program I wrote for an FT-817 that used to work fine (with the 817), but its not working with the FT-840 yet. Could be the program, the FT-840, the serial cable, or who knows what.

Probably too early for a feature req, but will mention it anyway:
Put in a map with the rx location & the tx locations along with bearings to/from the station. For some distant version of the program, be able to click on a country/region on the map and it picks up all the xmtrs (where region is perhaps a user-defined radius from where someone clicks), along with the great circle path of the signal. However, that info would have to be gathered from HFCC or elsewhere, as EiBi doesn't have it. Lots of possibilities for map-based control/viewing, but considering the program is early beta, I'm sure there's a thing or three that must be done first.

Another one, that may not be so much work as the map thing:
With a radio hooked up, the program can poll the radio every second or something, then display station info for the frequency its on.

rdla4:
Nice App! I am running Linux Mint 15, a modified Gnome desktop. Minor complaint: The wording in the drop downs is cut off. I have not messed around to see if this can be easily remedied.

I have used the DXToolbox app to talk between SDRdx and either the local loopback, or over the LAN. Using the ports specified in SDRdx and DXToolbox, I will see if this works the same for me.

Ahh, Serial port....nevermind that "ports" stuff  ;)

Thanks for the work!

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