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
I’m very happy to announce that the Yasme Foundation has awarded Club Log a grant of $2,000! Club Log is built to be run on a frugal platform using just one server, and part of the fun and games has … Continue reading
Expedition web site: http://xr0yg.com Between 20-27 March 2013, a team of British hams will be active from Easter Island on all bands 160m to 10m, mainly CW. We will run the HF bands but we also plan to work challenging … Continue reading
Not long ago, after many years using a Apple iPhone I decided to give Windows Phone 8 a go, and bought a Nokia Lumia 920. There are a lot of attractive features in the Nokia (especially the camera) and I … Continue reading
During the next week or so I’ll be on Corvo, in the western Azores with Nigel G3TXF. We’re activating the callsign CU9AC as part of the Azores Islands Hunt (see http://www.slideshare.net/g7vjr/the-azores-islands-hunt). Hope to work you! http://azores-islands-hunt.com/ Update: here is a gallery … Continue reading
Club Log has been a great testing ground and learning tool in the last few years. I’ve picked up a lot of ideas along the way about how to get MySQL to scale (without giving up and going for a … Continue reading