The features for the site is open for comments either post them in the comments below or use the feedback tab on the site. I’ll be posting some more news in the feature about progress being made.

Since August the development of DXAnywhere has increased a fair amount and from when I gave an overview to the project at the RSGB HFC the system has changed, and the features have improved.

The current system is focused on 3 sections you have the dx cluster, which provides access to the cluster network allowing you to pick out the spots your after either by watching the main list, or you can select the band you wish to look at. Within this section you can also set DX alerts these can either be sent via email, twitter and soon SMS, the system checks the database every 5 minutes using a perl script then sends out any alerts which need actioned.

Example of a Tweet

DX Cluster also allows you to view the solar data in graph format either in monthly or yearly format, giving you a good idea about whats happening with conditions or perhaps the lack of conditions. We are also sending the solar data to twitter using @DXAnywhere this is done on an hourly basis.

Total Spots Graph

You can also find a number of statistics graphs showing total spots, bands and spots, you can easily spot the major contests on the yearly spots graph!

The next section is Profile, this is the social hub on DXAnywhere which still has a long way to go, the basis of this section was my final university project so theres plenty of bugs to fix but it allows you to create a profile and become friends with other users.

After this we have the Applications section which will evolve over time currently you can use the prefix guide if you forget a prefix, and there’s a very early beta of our mobile logger which allows you to quickly store QSO details and download the ADIF for your main logbook later.

None of all this development hasn’t problem free the nature of the system consumes a lot of processor power and memory with the large amounts of data flowing around, the alerts system has had a number of rewrites I finally switched the script from PHP to Perl which fixed the major issues, which has stopped the server from crashing!

Currently in development is the sms system this is not only for alerts but will also be integrated within the rest of the site, allowing you to send details of prefixes and even when someone makes a comment on your profile, this will be subscription based but the costs have been kept to a minimum. Next due a new iteration is the mobile website, which will integrate all the features of the browser based desktop version.

To sum things up development of DXAnywhere is strong, features are being added on a weekly basis so its worth signing up and taking a poke around to see what you can do.

This isn’t the case any more the DX cluster system is stable and collecting spots as they come in, these are being stored in MySQL so they can be used for any purpose, which at the moment is displaying the latest spots and also providing an alerts system.

Once you have registered its possible to create an alert based on a callsign and band your wanting to work them on, once we come across the callsign in our database the system sends out an automatic email to alert you.

We’re also working on showing statistics to include data like

• Total number of spots yearly, monthly
• Spots on an hourly basis based on band

Apart from the cluster aspect of the system, we have a small social networking engine which allows you to create a provide and include lots of information about your ham radio activity which can be viewed by everyone, you can also become friends with other users of the system. There’s also a few other interesting features to be found once you start playing around.

What is now in early stage of development is the mobile website for DXAnywhere which can be found at http://www.dxanywhere.com/m/ which allows you to view cluster spots and setup new alerts, more features are in the pipe line.

The development doesn’t stop here though we’re activity developing more features to make DXing more enjoyable and allowing you to find information about stations easily, in the next release you’ll be able to click on the callsigns on the cluster page and it will give you details like DXCC, last time they we’re spotted, and any other details we can dig up about them, but again some of this data will need to come from other websites so we’re relying on third party API’s.

Please do go check DXAnywhere.com out and feel free to use the system and tell your friends we’re always open to suggestions so either leave a comment or send me an email.