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FYI xssfox ended up developing a Amazon Web Service CloudWatch solution for monitoring the KiwiSDR status point. A screenshot of the tool and the files to do it are on github here: https://github.com/xssfox/kiwisdr-monitor

This does require familiarity with AWS however, but provides a very nice looking monitoring dashboard!

73, Mark VK5QI

Just as a bit more information on this one, here's a spectrogram plot from one of the KiwiSDRs over a few days, and also the estimated total RX power (just from summing all the bins). The scales are not quite matching, still some work to do there.

I'm not sure what the clipping point of the KiwiSDR is, or how accurate the RX Power estimate I'm doing is.

Anyway, the day/night cycles are clearly visible, and you can see those large red bands of shortwave stations that are causing me problems at some times!

EDIT: The code to capture the required data and generate the above plots is now on github here: https://github.com/darksidelemm/kiwisnr-rrd

73 Mark VK5QI

I've spotted similar on the VK5ARG KiwiSDR:

At first I thought there was some issue with the site, or someone had driven a RF-noisy car up to the antenna, but It was also visible on the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Learmonth Spectrograph.

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Mark VK5QI

This was in the middle of the day, and it was a different solar radio burst to what you saw (May 22nd 2021).

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Mark VK5QI