Category: HamClock

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HamClock 4.09 has just been released and the familiar POTA and SOTA panes have been replaced by a single pane called “On The Air” (displayed as “On Air” if it’s set to show in the tall left panel).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 2nd January 2025 using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, the ‘recommended’ version of Raspberry Pi OS and HamClock 4.12. I appreciate that the last post here was about the HamClock and I said I wouldn’t be providing a guide to building one but I’ve been […]

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 […]