Listening to Internet radio has many advantages. These include easy access, the ability to receive broadcasts without a traditional radio, the ability to do without receiving radio waves, low cost of equipment, enormous programming options, and low cost or free access. Easy Access. Listeners can access an Internet radio station by just going online and connecting to the Internet radio station. Connection to an Internet radio station usually takes less than a minute and because most Internet radios stream their broadcasts, listeners only have to download a portion of the broadcast at a time. Works without a Traditional Radio. Most people that use Internet radio are in a location that radio waves cannot reach or in a building that blocks most of the signal. Listeners can access a specific radio station anywhere they have Internet access. This means that a person living in France can easily pick up a radio station in Los Angeles with a few mouse clicks. For millions of people that work in office buildings that have poor radio wave reception, it is extremely easy to log on to their computer and access their favorite radio station in near CD quality. Works with Practically All Computers. Anyone who has a standard computer with an Internet connection, a sound card, Internet web browser, and Internet access can usually listen to thousands of different Internet radio stations anywhere in the world. Most computers fulfill these requirements. Enormous Program Choices. One of the great aspects of Internet radio is that there are thousands of Internet radio stations to choose from. There are radio stations that each play different genres and that provide talk radio or sports programs. Internet radio stations are available in many countries, are all usually easy to access, and provide decent sound quality. There are also many portals that let listeners access many different radio stations from one location, making it easier to switch from one program type to another. Low cost or Free. The majority of Internet radio stations are free of charge and advertisers support them. Most Internet radio stations simulcast to broadcast simultaneously their normal programs over the Internet. There are Internet radio stations that charge a small fee, usually less than 1. They include special programs such as talk shows, exclusive sporting events, and commercial free music. Disadvantages of Internet Radio. While Internet radio is a great service for the most part, it has some disadvantages including poor sound quality, shoddy connections or software, and does not allow dial up Internet users to access certain stations. Sound Quality. While the majority of Internet radio stations provide near CD quality, some Internet radio stations stream a lower quality sound due to bandwidth limits. More data is necessary to produce high quality sound. The higher the quality, the more data that must be sent. Internet radio stations trying to save on bandwidth costs usually send a lower quality signal. Poor Connections and Software. While most Internet radio stations provide good connections with competent media players, there are some Internet radio stations that have a shoddy connection or a buggy media player application. Temporary problems often arise, however, some Internet radio stations allow these problems to persist. Problems with Dial up Internet Connection. While most Internet radio stations can stream programs to listeners with only a dial up connection, listeners usually need a broadband Internet connection to receive high quality transmissions. Some Example Internet Radio Stations. BBC Radio. BBC Radio, found at www. BBC Network. The station features 2. BBC Radio also sponsors 1. 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Scope Amateur Radio Digital Communications Interface. Version 1. 5. 6. Ham. Scope is a multi mode communications interface for amateur radio that. PSK3. 1 BPSK and QPSK, see. PSK3. 1 Home Page. RTTY Ham. Scope uses Makoto Moris. Engine ASCII both 7 bit and 8 bit protocols using MMTTY MFSK1. MFSK1. 6 Home Page. PACKET Ham. Scope uses George Rossopoulos. Engine CWHamscope also offers an advanced user interface with a multitude of features. ICOM, Ten. Tec, Kenwood. Yaesu transceivers 4. Ham. Scope has added data links to several logging andor radio. Ham. Scope is designed to run under Windows 9. NT, and requires. MHz Pentium class or better machine. SVGA color or greater. Users have reported that Ham. Scope. generally works fine on Windows 9. ME, XP, 2. 00. 0, and perhaps others. I will. not promise this, as I cannot test it across all systems of interest. If you run Win 9. Microsoft patches Year 2. OLE patch, as a minimum, to get it. Please visit the. Win 9. 5 and OLE. Windows XP and Newer Ham. Scope seems to work on Windows XP at. XP. There may be remaining issues with saving window size settings and some. MMTTY RTTY engine. Support for Windows Vista and newer variants is not planned at this time. Program Installation. The program consists of a single executable file Ham. Scope. exe. This file can be placed anywhere, but it is probably best to create a new. C Ham. Scope for example. If online. Ham. Scope. Ham. Scope. cnt should also. Simply unzip the Ham. Scopev. 15. 6. zip file in. Ham. Scopev. 15. 6. If you wish to use RTTY and ASCII modes in Ham. Scope. you must also download JE3. HHTs. MMTTY RTTY Engine. Ham. Scope folder you created. Also. to use either HF or VHF PACKET, you must download and configure SV2. AGWs. Engine in the Ham. Scope install folder. Please see the Sound Card Packet Site. Ralph Milnes KC2. RLM, for more info on packet operation using AGWPE and Ham. Scope. Once the program has been run once, it creates a Ham. Scope. ini file in. Windows directory usually C Windows. MMTTY also creates a couple. RTTY. Likewise, AGWPE. These. files store the current user program settings each time the program exits. Windows will also create a few other files if Help is used. Download Ham. Scope. Download English help files. Ham. Scope v. 1. 5 zip file archive. Download Spanish help files. Ham. Scope v. 1. 4 zip file archive. Thank you Antonio EA1. MV for your. translation. Download Italian help files. Ham. Scope v. 1. 4 zip file archive. Thank you Edoardo I5. PAC and Antonio. EA1. MV for this translation. Download Ham. Scope v. Download Ham. Scope v. Download the MMTTY RTTY Engine. RTTY in Ham. Scope Ham. Scope Technical Specifications. Ham. Scope Ham. Scope Support Group on Yahoo Groups Hamscope Home Page on Yahoo Groups Subscribe to Ham. Scope Group via Yahoo Unsubscribe to Ham. Scope Group via Yahoo Email Owner of Ham. Scope Group on Yahoo Groups Ham. Scope Mirror Site Thanks to. West Mountain Radio for hosting the Ham. Scope mirror site. Download English help files. Ham. Scope v. 1. 5. Download Spanish help files. Ham. Scope v. 1. 4 zip file archive. Thank you Antonio EA1. MV for your. translation. Download Italian help files. Ham. Scope v. 1. 4 zip file archive. Thank you Edoardo I5. PAC and Antonio. EA1. MV for this translation. Download Ham. Scope. Ham. Scope Technical Specifications. Ham. Scope Other Digital Links Ham. Scope Revision History. Update of version 1. MTTY engine hanging program. Ham. Scope. ini file in system directory. Moved all configuration data to the registry under HKEYCURRENTUSERSoftware to support some use of the program under Windows XP. Minor update of version 1. Minor update of version 1. Windows ME. fixed several more bugs and further refined the general program operation. Minor update of version 1. MODE field and support for DXBase 2. General Settings window fixed several more bugs and further refined the general program operation. Minor update of version 1. ICOM radio control interface with hex base address entryreworked waterfall display for higher resolution, changed default colormapfixed bugs in DXBase logging interface, and in writing ADIF filesfixed bugs in TRX Manager interface, and in LOGic 6 link added callsign lookup feature with LOGic 6 fixed several more bugs and further refined the general program operation. Minor update of version 1. TRX Manager linknew two way DDE interface to RYLogit using RYLogit ver 4. Update of version 1. PACKET mode using the AGWPE packet engine refined waterfallspectrum display quality added support for custom waterfall colormaps added additional radio control options for native Ham. Scope radio. control provided more flexibility in configuring serial ports for various. Major update of version 1. Ham. Scope DDE server added bandpass and notch filters added additional radio control options added hard keying using DTR for CW, direct FSK using the MMTTY. RTTY buffer sync issue. Major update of version 1. COM ports to provide a total of 8 removed suboptimal modes and features added MMTTY RTTY engine added support for multiple soundcards increased waterfall resolution updated AFC algorithms, added AFC bounds control added RST edit control and macro moved Use LSB to main window, renamed to Reverse polarity added support for additional ICOM, Ten. Tec, Kenwood, and Yaesu. Always on Top button to general setup fixed display sizing bug fixed slash 0 bug fixed a multitude of other bugs and oversights based on user. Original version.