Dear HAM Radio friend!

Before giving a small introduction to this browser app I would like to thank some very bright brains for their ideas, inspiration and work.
There is no way to skip this section because it contains highly valuable documents and it is to honor these buddies work!

 

Credits

 

Radio Amateur Beacons

NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Project
http://www.ncdxf.org/beacon

 

Background images and HAM Maps

 

Natural Earth Data

by Nathaniel Vaughn KELSO
http://www.naturalearthdata.com

 

nacis - North America Cartographic Information Society

http://nacis.org/

 

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Visible Earth - A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
All Categories >> Collections >> Blue Marble
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=1484

 

GOM - Global Overlay Mapping

by Tim Makins (EI8IC)
http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/gom/intro.php

 

Azimuthal maps

by Tom Epperly (NS6T)
http://ns6t.net/azimuth/azimuth.html

 

Internet Applications

 

Solar data

provided by Paul L. Herrman (N0NBH)
http://www.hamqsl.com/radio

 

DX-Cluster

Pascal Grandjean (F5LEN)
http://cluster.f5len.org and http://f5len.org/blog

 

All HAMs at Radio Arcala (OH8X)
http://www.dxsummit.fi and http://www.radioarcala.com

 

All HAMs at HAM Test
https://www.dxcluster.co.uk and http://www.hamtests.org

 

PSK Reporter by Philip J. Gladstone (N1DQ)
https://pskreporter.info/pskmap.html and https://pskreporter.info

 

WSPR-Net by Bruce J. Walker(W1BW)
http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map and http://wsprnet.org

 

Internet stuff

http://www.w3schools.com

 

 

Usage

 

DISCLAIMER: This application was tested extensively for MY purposes with Microsoft edge on Windows 10 and Firefox on Linux MINT 17.x supporting HTML5 and CSS3.0 or later without any problems in MY environment. However, there is no guarantee or something like that for other browsers or operating system environments. With high probability you will experience problems using other/older browsers and/or operating systems. As usual, it is always on your risk using my software. Don't blame it on me if it does not work in your environment or if it kills your data.⛑

You may be right if you consider my HTML, CSS, JavaScript or jQuery coding is somehow kinky. However, please consult the w3schools documentation before you complain ... iow rtfm. Make things happen, watch things happen or wonder what happens - it's YOUR choice to improve this app!

 

The first idea was to create a simple css based clock, but it developed to something more sophisticated ... but you can still see the UTC clock in the right lower corner ☺

Watch the clock's second hand while background loading applications (some 20 seconds) ... who says we cannot stall or speed up time☺ During start up the system is used as a real computer. Running all initial JavaScripts take a lot of number crunching ressources. Hence, the application seems to be confused. Don't worry to much, after max. 3 minutes everything is in shape properly!

 

As promised, it was a very small introduction. I am proud to be a lazy writer ... enjoy your life!

 

Vy 73 de Karl-Heinz, DC4PC

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