DX-Tuners is QRT

Nigel Hammond of DX-Tuners reports that, after 10 years of fine service to the radio listening community, his World Wide Web based network of remotely controlled radio receivers is no longer available.

Users of this network know how extensive it was. It included several receivers with huge antenna systems and/or quiet rural locations that all of us urban DXers could only dream about. I used it quite often to verify that frequencies were active, or just to receive clear signals from stations seldom heard here in The Land that Shortwave Forgot.

Nigel reports that DX-Tuners will refund unused portions of subscription fees. Instructions are at http://www.dxtuners.com/.

Far as I'm concerned, DX-Tuners can keep my balance. They earned it, to say the least.

Northwood UK Fax Via DX-Tuners

DX-Tuners is a global network of receivers tunable by the Internet. A couple of these are free, then you get a lot more by subscribing at different levels. A few of these are "DX" receivers, with good antennas and audio of sufficient quality to achieve good decode of many digital modes. HF weather FAX, for example, is a snap. [I know, FAX is analog, but you get the point.]

Here's an especially good surface weather chart from the UK Royal Navy, received on 8038 kHz USB dial reading on a large wire antenna in Alma, Sweden, then sent over the net to my computer here in The Land That Shortwave Forgot: