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The EiBi shortwave schedule browser

Find out what is broadcasting on shortwave right now: browse the built-in EiBi schedule, filter by on-air time, distance and language, and tune or save in one click.

Shortwave is full of stations, but knowing what you are hearing, or what you could hear right now, is half the hobby. The app builds in the EiBi schedule, a free list of shortwave broadcasts, so you can browse it without leaving the page.

It’s built in, and works offline

Open the EiBi tab and the schedule loads into the app. The data is saved locally in your browser, so after the first load it is available offline and opens instantly. A Refresh button updates it when a new season is published. (EiBi schedules change a few times a year.)

What’s on air now

By default the list is filtered to Currently on-air, only the stations broadcasting at this moment, based on each entry’s transmission times (in UTC) and the days it runs. It keeps itself current as time passes, so the list always reflects what you can actually tune to. Turn the filter off to see the full schedule, including stations that are off air now.

Sort by distance

Sort by location to rank stations by how far the transmitter is from you. The nearest are often the strongest. Choosing this asks your browser for your location (you can decline). Sorting uses it only to compute distances in your browser. The same saved location also feeds the weather widget, PSK Reporter spots and logbook sharing, as the privacy policy explains.

Search and group

Search by station name, language, target area or country. Group duplicates collapses the many entries on a single frequency into one card showing everyone who shares that channel, handy for working out which of several stations you are actually hearing.

From listing to listening

Each entry has two actions. Tune drives the radio straight to that station, in the right mode. Save drops it into your first free memory slot. From there you can upload it to the radio; see Memory channels.

Recommended gear

  • XHDATA AN-80 reel antennaAntennaEiBi lists what is on air; a wire out of the window decides how much of it you actually hear.
  • MLA-30+ active loop antennaAntennaLow-power broadcasters in the schedule need the quieter reception an active loop gives in a noisy flat.

Try it on your radio

Connect over USB or Bluetooth and follow along on the controller.

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Welcome to ATS Mini Controller

This web app connects to your ATS Mini radio over USB or Bluetooth LE and lets you control it directly from a computer or phone. It adds remote tuning, memory slot management, screenshot capture, audio streaming, spectrum scanning, theme editing and other features on top of the device's built-in firmware.

Firmware 2.34+: pick a connection method

Starting with firmware 2.34 the radio accepts remote control over USB or Bluetooth LE. Pick by what matters more for you: fast screenshots (USB) or clean audio from the radio’s 3.5 mm output (Bluetooth) — the two transports trade off in opposite directions.

  • USB Serial

    Settings USB Port change Off to Ad hoc

    Works in any Chromium-based browser. Requires a data-capable USB-C cable (opens in a new tab).

    Best for screenshots and theme work. Transfers complete in a second or two. Audio capture is noisy while the cable is connected — the radio lacks the filtering needed to isolate its 3.5 mm output from the USB power rail, so hum and switching noise bleed into the audio path.

  • Bluetooth LE

    Settings Bluetooth set mode to Ad hoc

    Chrome / Edge / Opera on desktop or Android. BLE is experimental in firmware 2.34.

    Best for clean audio. Bluetooth LE carries the remote control only, never sound: the audio still travels by cable from the radio’s 3.5 mm output to your computer. With no USB cable attached the radio runs on its battery, so that output stays free of the USB power-rail noise that bleeds through on a wired connection. Screenshots are much slower (~30 s) because of the firmware's BLE throughput cap.

More than one firmware

Besides the official firmware, the app carries profiles for the Monster fork and for H. J. Berndt's firmware. It works out which one your radio runs from the replies it gets, so there is nothing to pick. When nothing matches, it says so instead of guessing.

  • Berndt firmware is never assumed. It reuses some of the official firmware's keys and what they do there is not established, so the app asks you before switching to it.
  • Missing controls are deliberate. Whatever a firmware cannot do is left off the page rather than greyed out, and on Berndt firmware, commands go out one at a time, a few seconds apart.
How the app handles other firmwares (opens in a new tab)

Keyboard shortcuts

Single keys control the radio on the Controller page, except while you type in a field.

←→
Tune one step
↑↓
Volume up / down
Enter
OK
BN
Next / previous band
MV
Next / previous mode
SA
Next / previous step
WQ
Next / previous bandwidth
GF
AGC up / down
LK
Backlight up / down
IU
Calibration up / down
OP
Sleep on / off
T
Toggle status log
C
Screenshot
H
Log reception
D
Cockpit view
⌘K
Search pages & stations