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Radio-SkyPipe is an application which helps users to broadcast radio online.

* Collect data on your PC using your sound card or a simple analog to digital converter.
* Store, retrieve, and edit strip chart files with header information secured within the file itself.
* Share your real-time data with others over the internet even if you use a dial up connection.
* Send live data to multiple recipients.
* Send and receive data simultaneously from multiple sources.
* Use in Stand Alone mode for local use only.
* A built in chat window allows you to communicate with others during observations.
* Can be used for radio astronomy, seismology, weather, any scientific or industrial monitoring task.
* Automate real world tasks using LabJack ADCs, control industrial processes, home heating, solar power.
* New (2013). Connect directly to your Arduino projects and graph your data!.

Radio-SkyPipe is a data collection program which allows sharing digitally sampled analog data in real-time over the internet or other TCP/IP connection. R-SP may also be used as a standalone data collection utility which accepts data either by sound card or via a simple analog to digital converter connected to the computer's parallel port.

Modes of Operation

Stand Alone Mode - The PC acts as a data collection device, taking in data either through the sound card or an ADC. Data is displayed in a strip chart that scrolls as new data is collected. After an observation is completed, the file data file may be saved and recalled later for viewing or editing.

Server Mode - This is an extension of the Stand Alone Mode. Data collected may be sent as it is collected via a TCP/IP connection to one or more remote PCs.

Client Mode - In this mode the PC receives and displays data being sent from a Radio-SkyPipe server, that is, from a PC running the same program in Server Mode at some remote location.

You may use Radio-SkyPipe as a server or a client using either a permanent or dial-up type connection to the internet. You do not need a permanent IP address because R-SP uses a ILS (Internet Locator Service) to help you find serving PCs and to allow others to find you when you are acting as a server. This ILS is a free private service which runs at the Radio-Sky Website for all Radio-SkyPipe users.