M3OYQ Amateur Radio Station

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

<iframe width=100% src=http://www.m3oyq.com/widgets/sunspot_display.php scrolling=no frameborder=no></iframe>

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

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