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.

I then took an hour out and had an interesting chat with Eric K3NA (more on that soon maybe), and finalised my short talk about DXAnywere for the Ham 2.0 session. it also allowed me to stock up on mugs of hot chocolate!

The next set of lectures was a double stream by Dom (M0BLF) on Ham 2.0 – sharing amateur radio information across the Internet. which gave an in sight to Web 2.0 and what it can offer amateur radio he also put in a couple of short presentations by Michael G7VJR on Club Log which is a tool for producing DXCC league tables, log search services and most-wanted lists for ham radio clubs and societies.

I then followed up with a short presentation about DXAnywhere which is a Social Media engine to provide features which include cluster notification, social networking and mini applications.

After this we returned to the bar for a short period to grab some lunch and a drink before getting ready for the afternoon lecture by John Gould G3WKL on Update on Countering Deliberate QRM, to finish up the weekend there was the final farewell from the RSGB President and the Raffle Draw. It was good to see it wasn’t fixed when Janet (2E0LLM) got called out (Well done Janet!!).

Which finally concluded a fantastic weekend yet again and very much looking forward to next year, was also nice to see a slightly larger turn out of young people!