#Skywave Linux KiwiSDR

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Enjoy KiwiSDR shortwave radios independent of your web browser. SuperSDR is a full featured KiwiSDR client which runs on your PC and is included in Skywave Linux.

Skywave Linux is a live boot drive image you use to stream internet radio and also tune live signals. You don't need an expensive radio or big antenna. All you need is a PC and internet access to enjoy top notch performance and access signals from around the world.

Is your local media crappy, censored, and filled with disinformation and propaganda? Break free with the global connectivity you get with Skywave Linux. Enjoy loud, clear, and BS-free broadcasts from far away places. Censors don't matter: this Linux has VPNs and Tor to get you around any of your internet content restrictions.

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The 75 meter amateur band is "4chan for boomers." Drilling fown even deeper, I refer to 3860 kHz as "Prepper City" due to the decade or longer that the alt-right hams have been in there talking about their guns, the end times, and so many geopolitical conspiracies.

Their rage attracts jammers like flies are attracted to a rotting carcass. Here is a nearly two hour video, screencapped mostly in Skywave Linux, of some work geolocating the jammers.

It becomes evident after a while that a culture war is incrementally getting hotter as we move through the Trump era. Jammers hate the Trump cult; the Trump cult hates the jammers and everyone except others in the cult.

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Skywave Linux v5.3 is available for download! It is a self-contained live Linux operating for shortwave listening. Connect easily and stream from internet based SDR sites. The picture is from a nice night enjoying CBC Radio 1, picked up on a receiver in Newfoundland, Canada.

Get the iso image, burn it to a USB stick, boot the system and have fun. Shut down and unplug the USB, your PC never knew it was running a live Linux system…

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Skywave Linux v5 is Now on Debian Sid!

Enjoy shortwave radio and overseas broadcasts, no matter where you are. Skywave Linux brings the signals to you. Broadcasting, amateur radio, maritime, and military signals are available at your fingertips.

Skywave Linux is a free and live computing environment you boot from a flash drive on your PC. Start it up, pick a radio server somewhere in the world, and tune in some stations.

Skywave Linux brings you the signals, whether or not you have a big outdoor antenna or can afford an expensive communications receiver. Hundreds and hundreds of volunteer operated radio servers are on the internet, which let you tune the airwaves and pick up broadcasts in excellent locations and on high performance equipment.

If you are into FT-8, PSK-31, JT-65, or other digimodes, you can decode the signals in Skywave Linux. It also has tools for decoding weather satellites, ACARS, and ADS-B signals.

Not only is Skywave Linux a prime system for software defined radio, but also for programming and coding. It has the Neovim editor and support for several programming languages: Python, Lua, Go, and Javascript. It is a great system for Web developers.

Debian Sid is now the base operating system which Skywave Linux builds upon. It is debloated, tuned, and tweaked for speed, so that you get the best possible computing performance. It works nicely on old laptops; it is super fast on a multi core, high spec PC.

For shortwave listening, weather satellite decoding, or airband monitoring, Skywave Linux is the system you want!

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Skywave Linux with GNOME desktop environment. LOL one of the time stations on 10 MHz plays music (Dance of the Hours) between the announcements.

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Skywave Linux 4.4 is now available for download. Make yourself a boot drive for listening to shortwave radio, VHF, and other signals on internet SDRs.

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Skywave Linux 4.4 is releases and on the wires, friends. Yeah, maybe I'm biased because I develop it, but dayum I sure enjoy using SuperSDR. And DirectKiwi. Snd the SDR Map utility. They make it so easy to tune around the bands and find great broadcasts.

You don't need an expensive radio on your desktop, nor do you need a big antenna set up outside your residence. You just need some internet...

Give Skywave Linux a try - you don't even have to modify your PC. It is a boot drive image you can write to a USB stick or boot in a virtual machine. Start it up and find some signals!

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Now updated to v5.1, with Xanmod Kernel 6.8.8 and more internet SDR streaming options.

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Skywave Linux 4.4 (GNOME + i3)

Skywave Linux 4.4 is in the works. Currently I am working on the keybinds, as the keys in i3 don't quite match the GNOME defaults - and many conflict with the hotkeys for SDR and radio streamer apps in Skywave Linux.

When the iso is released, you can just replace your old iso with the new one. You'll be able to switch easily between i3 and GNOME, and the keys will (mostly) work the same way in either session.

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Skywave Linux 3.0 is released. This version has a different look, now using the MATE desktop environment. It is efficient and has visual appeal. We're now on the Xanmod Kernel 4.13, which makes for a responsive and stable base system. Audio now starts as a plain PulseAudio system, without plugins, for greater hardware compatibility. More wifi drivers are also included in Skywave Linux 3.0. Multiple desktops are enabled, so users can de-clutter and organize their activities on the system. As to the software defined radio applications, we now have four sources of remote servers: WebSDR, OpenWebRX (KiwiSDR), QtRadio/HPSDR, and RemoteSDRClient (SDRAnywhere). The latter is the newest and connects to shared RFSPACE radios. RTLSDR applications are now moving into new capabilities: simultaneous multichannel monitoring, data logging, and ability to stream audio to shoutcast servers. ACARS and VDL Mode 2 are now decodable, with logging. Bleeding-edge support for ADALM-PLUTO devices has been added. Kodi has received some updates and continues to offer streams from thousands and thousands of sources. Those stations sound great with the dynamics and EQ processing in PulseEffects. Overall, this version of Skywave Linux does more, makes better use of system resources, and is a joy to use.