It has over 60 Mhz active bandwidth, plus the Air/2 Meter Ham Bands (either/or, not together). It borrows heavily from both the OpenWebRX and the KiwiSDR projects - there's a review video from Tech Minds that should be seen if interested.
Again, it's virtually turnkey. Unlike most other SDR's, and like the KiwiSDR, it plugs directly into your network. It's essentially a server running Linux, doing all the processing that a computer would do for an ordinary SDR. Like the KiwiSDR, you access it via a web interface. The only computer-based SDR software that has a web interface is the OpenWebRX/+, which Artisan Radio runs.
I know the folks that make the KiwiSDR provide a free proxy to allow servers behind firewalls to make their SDR public (i.e., provide Internet access). Not sure about the Web-888 - if you're interested in doing that, you would have to see if they also provide a proxy, or make sure that you can upload to the Internet through your ISP.
There's some pretty amazing stuff out there. It makes me feel that I'm running the bottom-of-the-barrel SDR.
I'm thinking seriously of getting one of these Web-888's.
Update: The manufacturer does supply a proxy to publicly access shared SDR's.
Took a glance over at the link. I'm completely lost, spell it out simple to me what this does. Is this an over-the-air digital receiver (requiring no internet, wifi or cell) to pick up Ham bands?
Oh nevermind, you just said it requires Internet
I'll attempt to explain.
The lower cost SDR's, the ones I've been working with, such as the RTL-SDR or the SDRPlay, capture all radio signals (digitally) within their hardware-specified bandwidth. For the RTL-SDR, 2.4 Mhz, for the SDRPlay, 10 Mhz. These digital signals are then downloaded via a USB cable to a computer running software that can decode them, and put a display up on your computer; in the case of OpenWebRX+, a web interface.
These newer and more expensive SDRs essentially have that computer built-in, as well as software that can decode the digital data, and provide a web interface. You connect the SDR to your network via an ethernet cable (wireless accessories are also available), and access the SDR via a browser.
The Web-888 SDR runs Linux, and the decoding software is a mixture of OpenWebRX+ and that developed by KiwiSDR. I was wrong in my previous description - apparently the KiwiSDR software is indeed open source.
The SDR's can support a small number of simultaneous listeners (the KiwiSDR - 4, haven't seen exactly the number for the Web-888).
You can access these SDR's on your local network, and you can also make them public over the Internet. To do the latter, you either need an Internet accessible static IP, or use some sort of proxy. I use my VPN as that proxy with OpenWebRX+. Both KiwiSDR and Web-888 provide a free proxy service as well to do that (it's in their interest, as they get lots of SDR's 'out there' on the Internet).
The other amazing thing about these new SDR's is that they can capture signals over an amazing bandwidth - 1 Khz to 30 Mhz for the KiwiSDR, and 1 Khz to 60 Mhz for the Web-888. The Web-888 also has VHF capabilities for the Air Band and the 2 Meter Amateur Radio band; however, you have to choose in the settings which you want to monitor, you can't do both at the same time).
So, effectively, you have something that is simultaneously receiving all radio signals it can detect in the LWMW/SW bands (i.e. HF) and displaying them all at the same time. Of course, you get a jumbled mess on the screen, and you have to either zoom in for specific frequencies, or you can specify bands, even specific frequencies.
I'm in awe of these 2 SDR's. Apparently, for the Web-888, there's a specialized chip that is at the heart of the reception capabilities, and there are 2 ARM9 CPU's to handle the O/S and processing. All in a box not much larger than a pack of cigarettes.
@artisan-radio It just that all this SDR talk is an entirely different realm than part 15 broadcasting is.. I mean I realize there's only so much to talk about concerning our hobby, but is there anything about SDR broadcasting and receiving have any relation to part 15 at all? You like to discuss it extensively here.
Sometime the topic of online streaming is highlighted here, understandably so because it augments our operations by expands station its reach, but how is this relate?
It's really just another form of online streaming (without calling it that, and without, at least right now, having all the copyright fees).
If you have your own public SDR, and you're a Part 15 broadcaster, it allows users to hear your Part 15 signal in other parts of the country and world. It doesn't matter whether they're using a computer, or a smartphone - as long as they have a browser-capable device, they can hear it.
I put up my SDR server so that others could hear Artisan Radio, without having to be in the 100-200 meter radius of the transmitter.
I see it as just another tool in the Part 15 broadcaster's toolbox. Just as streaming is.
But if people aren't interested, I will stop posting about them. I'm pretty much where I want to be with the technology, anyway.
@artisan-radio Not saying it's uninteresting, it is interesting, it just that to me it seemed so out of place here, but now I think perhaps it's really not. As you just pointed out "It's really just another form of online streaming" - which really brings all back home into the realm of the part 15 broadcasting hobby, it's an augmentation or extension to our station, so I see your point. But don't see how it eliminates any copyright fees requirements, it's still a public performance.
It does however seem to be a lot more complicated and roundabout way to stream though.
Anyway, disregard my previous opinion, it's no less relevant and it does provide online access to your station. My apologies.