Since September 2018, the Chrome browser occasionally starts to play white noise on WebSDR sites. As a workaround, muting and unmuting usually restores normal audio.

WebSDR.org provides a platform for listening to radio signals online using Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology.

In order to test a preliminary version of the software without using the 25m dish, a shortwave WebSDR was set up on Christmas Eve 2007 at the radio club of the University of Twente.

Have a look at the current list of servers on http://websdr.org, and judge whether your server would add something to that, e.g. by being in an unusual location, having a special frequency …

So in order to use a WebSDR, you first have to add its URL to a list of acceptable Java sites. (Applets from other sites, including malicious ones, will still be blocked.)

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