Category: HamClock

HamClock is not dead!

In order for your HamClock to work after June 2026, you must switch to a different backend server. Since my original post on the future of HamClock, a number of very talented people have been hard at work in examining the traffic to and from HamClocks and the host server and reproducing it. First of […]

The end of HamClock?

** UPDATE **HamClock is not dead. See here. On Thursday 29th January 2026 a simple notice appeared on the HamClock home page. I’ve worked with Elwood Downey, WB0OEW very closely on HamClock over the last couple of years and we’d become good friends. I emailed him straight away using a different address to the one […]

How to disable logging on an original Inovato Quadra running HamClock to prevent the log from filling up.

If you have the Quadra 4K, see here. There’s a bug somewhere which stops the log tidying working correctly on some installations of HamClock, including the original Inovato Quadra. As a temporary fix, it’s possible to start HamClock with logging disabled and this will describe how to do that. First, close HamClock. Click the padlock […]

How to disable logging on an Inovato Quadra 4K running HamClock to prevent the log from filling up.

If you have the original Quadra (not 4K), see here. There’s a bug somewhere which stops the log tidying working correctly on some installations of HamClock, including the Inovato Quadra 4K. As a temporary fix, it’s possible to start HamClock with logging disabled and this will describe how to do that. First, close HamClock. Click […]

New things you can do in HamClock

I wrote my HamClock install guide about a year ago and although I’ve kept it up to date with each version that’s been released, it doesn’t specifically show the new stuff that’s been added. I wrote about the new On The Air pane here. Configurations HamClock now allows you to save and load configurations. This […]

Working JA via long path grey-line propagation on 17m.

I’ve never been one for morning TV but quite often, before I go to work in the morning, I’ll switch the wireless on and work a few stations using FT8. This morning I tuned to 17m, pointed the aerial towards Europe and started calling CQ. It took a few shouts before an EA4 (thanks Antonio) […]

How to use the new “On The Air” pane and Title with HamClock 4.09

HamClock 4.09 has just been released and the familiar POTA and SOTA panes have been replaced by a single pane called “On The Air” (displayed as “On Air” if it’s set to show in the tall left panel). It adds a new organisation, World Wide Flora & Fauna, abbreviated to WWFF and has been designed […]

How to set up a HamClock for your shack

Note: this entire process was tested and re-validated on the 12th April 2026 using a Raspberry Pi 5, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.22. This is a long guide because it’s so detailed but it’s actually very straightforward to follow. Once you’ve installed HamClock, it will take you through the setup […]

Why you might want to try using my DX Cluster

DX Spider

Telnet: dxspider.co.uk:7300 There are many DX Cluster nodes out there and to be fair, they’re all very similar. They all connect into the same network and they all offer pretty much the same services. I make no claims that my node is better than any others but it does have a lot going for it […]