← IKARA Software Defined Radio VK1HF
Spring Range · NSW

IKARA SDR

Two wideband KiwiSDR receivers at the Ikara remote site, north of Canberra. Open a receiver below to tune it in your browser — no software required.

Now 8
channels
01 — Receiver

SDR 1

Wideband KiwiSDR covering the HF spectrum. Up to eight people can listen at once, each on their own frequency, with their own waterfall.

Online
02 — Receiver

SDR 2

Second KiwiSDR, being commissioned. This link will start working as soon as the receiver is on site.

Not yet online
Live

See who is listening right now, which bands and modes they are on, and the hours of the day the receivers actually get used.

SDR Listeners →

Want to use it?

The QRM Eliminator is open to any licensed amateur — you just need your callsign added to the allow list first, and the current PIN. Both come from me, and it costs nothing.

ian.vk1hf@gmail.com

Send me your callsign and I’ll add you and reply with the PIN. VK1HF.

QRM Eliminator

Most of the noise you hear on these receivers comes from the MPPT solar charge controller — the device that charges the site battery from the panels. Muting it makes the bands dramatically quieter. It switches back on by itself, and there is a daily limit so the battery always recovers.

Charge controller

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Who has muted it today

Nobody yet today.

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The IKARA station at Spring Range in late afternoon light: the equipment cabinet on its trailer, the vertical antenna, the weather station mast and the three solar panels, with gums and open paddock behind.
Spring Range, 12 September 2026 — the cabinet on its trailer, the vertical, the weather station and the three solar panels. View full size →

The receivers are served over plain HTTP on their own ports, so your browser may warn when leaving this page. Formerly Snowline SDR.

IKARA · VK1HF · Spring Range