A few years ago I produced a report, calculated by Club Log, which showed which modes were in use on the air. Unfortunately, the report became a little too intensive to run regularly, but I was recently reminded to run … Continue reading
In recent weeks we’ve been deluged with DX, and it’s been a great opportunity to do some comparisons. One of the interesting ones is K9W (very strong from Wake Island) and T33A (rather harder, Banaba Island). They are around 2250km … Continue reading
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
As promised, here are the slides from the RSGB Convention DX presentation I made on 12/13th October 2013. The slides discuss our travels through Chile, to Easter Island and back including various notes on the history of Rapa Nui and … 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
A question which I am occasionally asked is “how to read ADIF into a database?”. For me this is really about reading a file into PHP, to break up the contents of the ADIF line by line. One of the … Continue reading
A question that comes up in the context of DXpeditions is just how many uniques are there out there? We’re aware that there are at least 50,000 (a record set by T32C in 2011) but can we estimate the full … Continue reading
Far north of Helsinki, close to the Russian border and 40 miles from the nearest town, you need to take an unmarked turn-off down a snowy track to reach OH8X. As you crunch through the snow in twilight at -20C, … Continue reading