This morning on my way to work I was successful at receiving WT3Q’s DX packet cluster which displayed perfectly on my TM-D700. I had a weak signal some of the way causing dropped packets, but overall it worked well. I plan on spinning up an RF node in Pottstown in the next couple weeks to hopefully fill in the shadowed areas.

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Over the last few days I’ve been working on setting up a DX cluster at my home QTH. Initially I started working with AR-Cluster, a very solid Windows cluster application. I’m thinking I may utilize this for the local VHF DX feed I have planned.

In the meantime I’ve been playing around with DXSpider running on Linux. I’m slowly realizing how powerful the whole DX cluster platform is beyond simple DX spotting of stations. This evening’s task was to introduce the US FCC amateur callsign database, which I will write a document on shortly. So far it’s a success. Feel free to use the cluster for your DX clustering needs. If you’re curious to the amount of traffic it moves, click the statistics link above.

Telnet: dx.n3qo.com:7300