Take at look at this "fake" web page http://www.obriensweb.com/whoiswhere.html
I was thinking about the idea of a "reverse DX cluster" or an expansion of the concepts behind hrdlog.net . A plce to see who is QRV and where they are on the bands. Not DX spots, just who is where. I had some private emails with a few people about the varying ideas and one correspondent crystallized the thoughts by using the term "who is where, now" ? It was further suggested that what is needed to facilitate the concept is a very easy uncomplicated process that does not take a lots of resources or bandwidth. An idea that is easily enabled in most common log book software after one configures that software to interface with your rig. The idea would take the frequency/mode info that all moderns rigs send, and populate a webpage via use of TCP or UDP, possibly in to a XML format. I created the fake webpage in the link above to start the idea rolling, an idea of what it may look like . The page I put together is fairly crude, just something to start the idea cooking. This would be a idea that is "free" , no having to pay an annual fee like some logging programs already require. So, do we have any talent here that could take the idea and create it? Then we could host it (I would volunteer) and try to persuade popular logging/rig control software authors to support it by adding the ability to send the data strings from their software. Anyone take the idea further? Andy K3UK
