Dxtuners has closed. I had gotten used to using it when travelling to keep an eye on things ‘back home’.
Last weekend I came across this post by Steve Haigh. His updated version of pcrd compiled fine on my ubuntu machine (though I did fix one small mistake).
That got me thinking, so I asked a few ‘geeks’ in work for solutions. It was suggested that controlling it over IRC would be the fastest way of doing it requiring mimimum effort on my part.
Well I think they were right, all of about 8 lines of tcl and its working again. Log in to #frequencydb on zirc and say hello.
“Here’s a cool, in fact probably downright cold, Antarctica blog. It’s by David Ruth, a sculptor who has received an NSF grant to study ice textures and forms. He’s a good writer/photographer, and this should be an outstanding blog all season.”
Kelly of Dxtuners gave me a heads up about this file which he found while doing some Internet Browsing.
I tip my hat in your general direction Mr Connolly, you are definitely a dedicated listener. I’m just glad someone gets a chance to use it, as I rarely do. Thanks for the link Kelly.
Reading Shortwave Magazine a few months back and I came across an article discussing the services of www.dxtuners.com. Its a cool idea, basically it allows you to tune a radio receiver on the other side of the globe if you wish. In fact I was so impressed I set up my own node so now there is a dxtuners node in Waterford. Unfortunately, the node in Waterford is valued quite highly by the dxtuners network, so a subscription is required to listen to it.
If any of you dxtuners are reading this, feel free to contact me if you want frequencies added to the band listings.
Random thoughts — Mostly Amateur Radio, Satellite, Linux or Work related.
