OrangeKraken Radio Live

Radio as a planetary sensor. Not a WebSDR with a map on top: this site asks what the global radio environment can tell us about what is happening on Earth right now. Thousands of public receivers, a shared database of proven propagation paths, the Sun's effect on the ionosphere, and one software-defined radio in Great Falls, Montana that the engine measures itself — drawn on the same world, hour by hour, with every number traced to its source.

as of 2026-08-31 · live lab feed

In plain English

Every radio signal that reaches a receiver carries a record of the path it took: how high the ionosphere was, whether the Sun was up along the way, how disturbed Earth's magnetic field is. Read enough paths at once and the planet's radio environment becomes a sensor — for space weather, for thunderstorms, for the day/night line sweeping across the globe. OrangeKraken Radio reads that sensor in public, from open sources, and freezes its own forecasts so they can be graded.

What you'll see: A live, honest picture of the ionosphere built from what receivers actually heard, forecasts that beat climatology on a graded record, and a receiver in Montana that turns out to read the Earth a little better each day.

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LISTEN

Explore the world's public receivers — tune one, hear the planet from somewhere else.

OBSERVE

What radio says about Earth right now: RF weather, the ionosphere, WSPR trails, the terminator.

DISCOVER

What the engine finds that a person would miss — anomalies, converging events, model-vs-observation disagreement.

CONTRIBUTE

Lend your browser for a few minutes. Anonymous, ephemeral, and every contribution lands in an auditable training ledger.