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RADIO · SHORTWAVE · WORLDWIDE

Listen to Shortwave, from Anywhere on Earth

The listening globeplays internet radio — the streams broadcasters put online. This is the other half: the actual airwaves. Hundreds of people around the world run a KiwiSDR— a wideband shortwave receiver — and open it to the public. Pick one in Iceland, Japan or Chile on the globe above and you can tune the whole 0–30 MHz radio spectrum through their antenna: distant broadcasters, time signals, aircraft, the hiss and whistle of the ionosphere. Each dot is coloured by whether it has room to listen right now, and opens on the operator’s own receiver.

PUBLIC RECEIVERS845listed 2026-07-13 · live on the globe
THE BAND0–30 MHzthe whole shortwave range
OPEN RIGHT NOW394with no one listening (snapshot)

How this works

A KiwiSDR has a hard limit on how many people can listen at once, so every receiver is coloured by its occupancy right now — whether there’s a free slot for you. Tap one and it opens on the operator’s own receiver, in a new tab. LiveEarthViewer hosts no audio and proxies nothing: you’re listening on someone else’s radio, exactly as if you’d found it yourself — which is the whole point of a public receiver.

Openno one listening — wide open
In usesomeone is tuned in, room to spare
Fullat its listener cap right now — try another

New to shortwave? A short field guide unpacks what those signals are and how to tune them:

What is shortwave radio? →

Receivers around the world

A snapshot of the public receivers by broad region (listed 2026-07-13). The globe above always shows the liveset — receivers come and go, and some in this list may be offline right now. Every link opens the operator’s own receiver.

EUROPE413 receivers
NORTH AMERICA269 receivers
ASIA47 receivers
OCEANIA83 receivers
SOUTH AMERICA19 receivers
AFRICA8 receivers
OTHER6 receivers

More ways to listen to the planet

RADIO · STATIONSThe internet-radio globe →Thousands of real broadcasters — tap a city and hear its own stations, straight from the source.RADIO · LIVETune into where it’s happening →The station nearest a live quake, storm or volcano — the news in the local voice.SKY · AURORAWhy the bands go long or dead →Space weather that lights the aurora is the same force that opens and closes the shortwave bands.SUN · FLARESWhat blacks out shortwave →A big solar flare can silence the whole HF spectrum for hours — here’s the Sun doing it, live.
Field guide: what shortwave is, why it travels so far — and how to tune a receiver →