M3OYQ Amateur Radio Station

Continued with the contest today, worked on 20 and 15 metres. Had some great stateside contacts, and one in Canada. - Thanks for your QSO’s

FT-897, 1/2 wave 20metre dipole about 10 metres high facing E-W from IO91rv

Contest Site : http://www.cqww.com/

I had a couple of hours, so I thought I’d have a go with 10 watts, FT-897, 1/2 wave 20metre dipole about 10 metres high facing E-W from IO91rv

Contest Site : http://www.cqww.com/

Thanks for your QSO’s

After spending a wiile programming and letting M3WFO and M0GGO trial the software, I finally converted my current logbook to the visual format using the wordpress HamXlog plugin.

As a follow on from playing with the google maps api, I’ve also created a map of the UK repeaters.  Soon I’ll change the marker colour based on the band in which the repeater operates.  I’m also trying figure out an easy way of updating the repeater status

View the UK Visual Amateur Repeater Map Here

I’m also having thoughs on APRS

Been playling around with some code this weekend, and had the idea of plotting my logbook using the Google Maps API.  Looking in my logbook however I don’t have many contacts with their Maidenhead Grid Locator, so looking back through my email I found a copy of M0GGO’s Ham radio deluxe database., from early 2007. Using php+mysql+javascript+Mdb tools I created this map of Chris’s Contacts.  The page takes a little while to load as there is quite a lot of data here.  I’ve added a couple of the fields from the database to the tags so when you click on a marker a bit of info about the QSO is printed to the screen.  Different colour icons represent different bands worked, however I ran out of icons so some of the bands share the same colour.

Check out the Visual Logbook Google Map HERE It takes about a minute for all the markers to load on to the map - please be patient

Let me know what you think.  :)  I’m thinking of making this into a blog plugin is anyone is interested

My online logbook, a little out of date, but not inactive. I just don’t seem to have spent much time on the radio recently.
I am writing a web application that uses google maps to make the logbook a little more interactive, and using some of the code I’ve developed for my UAV on http://www.wildride.org.uk to calculate the bearing and distance from your station to mine.

You can see the Logbook here

73 de m3oyq