Francesco, IV3TMM has long been part of the core of DXers who work with the team at Club Log to improve our database of DXCC and CQ zone lookups. In this post, at Francesco’s request, I’m posting some files which … Continue reading
I’m thrilled to report to you that the half-billion mark has been passed, on 28 May 2018! The 500 millionth QSO was uploaded by W4PG, who uploaded a QSO with ZL1BQD on 17m (FT8). Congratulations in equal parts to Robert, … Continue reading
There is a great deal of interest in the growth of FT8 (and in particular, whether other modes are losing out to it), but the analysis of the raw data up to now has been dependent on whether I have … 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
dxlite is a popular little tool I wrote about 5 years ago, designed to provide lightweight HTML access to the latest DX Cluster spots. The number of pages served by DXLite is sometimes thousands an hour, mainly from mobile phone … Continue reading
One of my motivations in amateur radio is DX, but the other is keeping my skills sharp in IT. It’s rare that I do any coding in a professional sense – because I am not a professional software engineer – … 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