This article appears in the Autumn 2015 edition of FOCUS, the journal of the First Class Operators’ Club (FOC). It is reproduced here as I felt it would be of wider interest. The Origins of Club Log Late in 2014 … Continue reading
Thanks to David, G3UNA, for the video!
On Friday 15 May 2015 at the DX Dinner at Dayton, I was inducted into the CQ DX Hall Of Fame. Thank you for the messages and for the appreciation! I hadn’t foreseen this and it is absolutely wonderful news … Continue reading
From time to time I run a report on the Club Log database that analyses the proportion of SSB (phone), CW and data modes logged in QSOs. This is an update of an earlier graph I did in 2013, and … Continue reading
The Al Slater G3FXB Memorial Award FOC page link to the award This award is in memory of Al Slater G3FXB who became a Silent Key on 11 November 1992, almost exactly 22 years ago today. Al was the back-bone … Continue reading
Early in 2014, a group of UK-based radio amateurs agreed to run a session at the RSGB Convention, which took place on 10 – 12th October 2014. Here is the video of our session: Thank you to all who participated! … Continue reading
Club Log’s most wanted list is available at any time from this URL: https://secure.clublog.org/mostwanted.php The data set which creates this list is derived from QSOs uploaded by users, so with the exception of a certain amount of noise from bad … Continue reading
This is an example of a Club Log “Last 10 QSOs” widget, embedded in a WordPress blog. For more details, see: http://clublog.freshdesk.com/solution/categories/59805/folders/100485. Here is the code I used: <iframe name=”iframe” src=”http://www.clublog.org/last10_iframe.php?call=G7VJR&limit=50″ height=”625″ width=”650″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”yes” align=”top”></iframe>
Back in August 2013 I started to learn Go, a powerful new programming language which promised to give Club Log a performance boost thanks to its clever concurrency features. For a review of why I chose Go, you might want … Continue reading
For the past few months I have been running a survey about Online QSL Requests (OQRS). The objective of this survey has been to understand the preferences and mood of the DX Community. The important question is about bureau cards … Continue reading