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Repeater Range Android App Released

M3OYQ — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:31:13 +0000

M3OYQ’s Repeater Range Android App Home Page Click Here

There are a currently only a few apps on the Android platform specifically for amateur radio, so I thought I’d add my 2p worth.

I’ve recently written a simple free application for the android platform to help locate, and find useful information about the UK’s Amateur Radio Repeaters whilst out ant about. The idea is that instead having to use the internet to lookup the appropriate CTCSS frequency, Tx/Rx frequency etc… for a particular repeater, you can see what settings you need to use on your radio by just running the app. - dont forget to switch your GPS on!

The main screen on Repeater Range shows a list that updates every 30 seconds with the distance and bearing of all the repeaters (nearest first) then if you select a particular repeater from the list you can see/update more detailed information. If you’ve got an android phone - give it a try and let us know what you think.

Repeater Range Screen Shots

Scan the QR Code below with your android handset to find the app on the Android Market

M3OYQ’s Repeater Range Android App Home Page

Disk failure caused outage

M3OYQ — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:15:38 +0000

m3oyq.com experienced an outage on Saturday for 12 hours due to a Raid disk failure. The disks are now fixed, however the website has been rolled back to 01/06/2010. I did have one comment regarding an Earthing Post on the Yaesu ft-897, and i can say confirm the ft-897 does indeed have an earthing post.

Watch Bigginge Shack Cat in his first movie - “Mouse Mayhem”

M3OYQ — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:08:47 +0000

Bigginge, the shack cat has appeared in his first movie.

You can see more of Bigginge at Bigginge.com

CQ Worldwide DX Contest 2009 (sunday)

M3OYQ — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:56:19 +0000

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/

25-10-2009 10:13	CR3A	IM12or	15m	USB	21.1678	10	32.729167	-16.791667
25-10-2009 10:17	UT7MW	KN98or	15m	USB	21.1341	10	48.729167	39.208333
25-10-2009 10:25	UA3R		15m	USB	21.1709	10	0	0
25-10-2009 10:32	RK3K		15m	USB	21.2456	10	0	0
25-10-2009 10:34	OL8R		15m	USB	21.2492	10	0	0
25-10-2009 10:40	AM3SSB		15m	USB	21.2957	10	0	0
25-10-2009 11:38	RA3AUM		15m	USB	21.1899	10	0	0
25-10-2009 11:55	9A7A	JN86eh	15m	USB	21.3147	10	46.3125	16.375
25-10-2009 12:00	ES1LBK	KO29hi	15m	USB	21.421	10	59.354167	24.625
25-10-2009 12:11	hg7t	JN97kk	20m	USB	14.165	10	47.4375	18.875
25-10-2009 12:15	OE3WMW		20m	USB	14.1438	10	0	0
25-10-2009 12:34	LY2W	KO14wv	20m	USB	14.3484	10	54.895833	23.875
25-10-2009 12:48	UW1M	KN98jl	15m	USB	21.18	10	48.479167	38.791667
25-10-2009 12:55	W3LPL	FM19lg	15m	USB	21.205	10	39.270833	-77.041667
25-10-2009 13:08	KC1XX	FN42dr	15m	USB	21.2005	10	42.729167	-71.708333
25-10-2009 13:23	K4EA	EM74sf	15m	USB	21.214	10	34.229167	-84.458333
25-10-2009 14:16	VC3O		15m	USB	21.1775	10	0	0
25-10-2009 14:42	K1TO	EL87vi	15m	USB	21.202	10	27.354167	-82.208333
25-10-2009 14:58	RK3GYM	KO92po	15m	USB	21.1663	10	52.604167	39.291667
25-10-2009 15:00	RK6LWA	KN97te	15m	USB	21.1873	10	47.1875	39.625
25-10-2009 15:31	CT1JLZ	IO91RV	20m	USB	14.275	10	51.895833	-0.541667
25-10-2009 15:33	CR3L	IM12nt	20m	USB	14.273	10	32.8125	-16.875
25-10-2009 15:37	OL9Z		20m	USB	14.242	10	0	0

CQ Worldwide DX Contest 2009 (Saturday)

M3OYQ — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:56:59 +0000

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

24-10-2009 18:56	9A8M	JN95cs	20m	USB	14.179	10	45.770833	18.208333
24-10-2009 19:11	S57AL	???	20m	USB	14.193	10	0	0
24-10-2009 19:15	SN7Q	JO91nm	20m	USB	14.177	10	51.520833	19.125
24-10-2009 19:20	S57RTH	JN75ex	20m	USB	14.158	10	45.979167	14.375
24-10-2009 19:29	S58N	JN76fa	20m	USB	14.285	10	46.020833	14.458333
24-10-2009 19:37	S50L	JN76fd	20m	USB	14.337	10	46.145833	14.458333
24-10-2009 19:39	S52ZW	???	20m	USB	14.301	10	0	0
24-10-2009 19:43	IQ3RK	JN55ur	20m	USB	14.29	10	45.729167	11.708333
24-10-2009 20:20	IQ5LU	JN53fu	20m	USB	14.278	10	43.854167	10.458333
24-10-2009 20:22	IR4M	JN64ca	20m	USB	14.284	10	44.020833	12.208333
24-10-2009 20:25	9A1P	JN65vg	20m	USB	14.295	10	45.270833	13.791667
24-10-2009 20:28	IO5O	JN52ns	20m	USB	14.32	10	42.770833	11.125
24-10-2009 20:33	IR2C	JN45on	20m	USB	14.226	10	45.5625	9.208333
24-10-2009 20:37	IQ1RY	JN34wq	20m	USB	14.15	10	44.6875	7.875
24-10-2009 20:46	IK2EAD	???	20m	USB	14.327	10	0	0

Free Sunspot Display Widget For Your Site

M3OYQ — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:49:17 +0000

As we are at a solar cycle minima everyone seems to be watching the sunspot number. Once the number of sunspots rises the possibility of better HF contacts increases on the higher bands.

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can now display the sunspot number on your website as an embeddable widget. The display colour changes with the sunspot number

To add the sunspot widget to your site cut and paste the following html code and add it to your page

You can also add it as a google gadget on your igoogle homepage

http://www.m3oyq.com/gg/daily_sunspot_number.xml

UK repeater google map is going to get widgetised next

Daily Spaceweather Facebook App

M3OYQ — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:37:41 +0000

Not really a fan of Facebook myself, but in the interests of a bit of experimentation I had a crack at making a very noddy ham radio application for Facebook.

You can add it to your Facebook applications by going to

http://apps.facebook.com/daily_sunspots/

M3OYQ Visual Logbook

M3OYQ — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:19:09 +0000

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.

You can see my Visual Log book here

UK Amateur Radio Repeater Map

M3OYQ — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:56:10 +0000

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

M0GGO Visual Logbook using Ham Radio Deluxe data

M3OYQ — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:58:48 +0000

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