iDXSpot
by David
Anderson GM4JJJ
(formerly known as iCluster)
Macintosh
(and Linux) DX-Cluster Telnet access made
easy!
- DX Spots announced by speech in phonetics (or plain).
- Connect to the worldwide DX-Cluster via the Internet easily.
- Calculates distance and bearing between Grid locators and sends Grid & distance.
- Hot buttons to see DX-Spots on specific bands.
- Both AR-Cluster and DX-Spider compatible
- Show DX location on Map using MapQuest.
- Editable Hot buttons.
- OS X Toolbar.
- Easy switching between favourite DX-Clusters.
- Link to TRLOG via serial port
Formatted
Spots
On VHF
particularily it is useful if a DX-Spot gives both Grid
Locators as well as the distance.If this is done in a consistent manner
then analysis of radio propagation can be more easily
carried out by both humans and computers. iDXSpot
incorporates such consistent formatting of DX-Spots.
iDXSpot
is Shareware
- you can try it for free,
once you purchase it, you will get free upgrades, support
and a code to disable the reminder messages that will
otherwise appear at regular intervals.
In order to let you try the software,
the software is
not feature
disabled, however it will only run for a few minutes in
each session.
You can purchase iDXSpot online on a
secure server (all major credit cards and PayPal
accepted).
Go to the iDXSpot Purchase
Page
Download it!
New Universal Application for
OS X only
Download iDXSpot X v1.2.5 for Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.5.x
Universal Application - Intel or PPC
For those still running Classic
Download iDXSpot v1.2.3 for Mac OS 8/9
only
Introducing
iDXCluster_linux
Download
iDXSpot_Linux for Linux x86
iDXSpot
for Linux/x86 requires GTK+ 2.0 or better. Depending
on yourdistribution
of Linux, you may already have this pre-installed.
However,you
can download and install the GTK+ 2.0 libraries from
www.gtk.org.You
may also find pre-built libraries from your Linux
distributor's homepage
Please note that I no longer have a Linux system available
for debugging so no support is possible for Linux
users.
iCluster
FAQ:
1.Where can I find a list of
DX Clusters ?
For a list of clusters
see:
http://www.dailydx.com/telnet2.html
2.
When I start
iDXSpot I get an error about a missing 'speechlib' and
cannot continue.
This is because you do not have the
Apple Speech Manager extension installed in your
system.Install
Apple's speech software for your system. This is fixed in
the latest release of iDXSpot.
3. In the Preferences there
are Wanted DX and Email tabs - what do these
do?
These are planned features that are
not yet implemented. You can send a test email , but cannot
as yet get automatic emails when Wanted DX is spotted by
iDXSpot.
4. How do I get the Voice to
work in Linux?
Sound in Linux now works providing you
have libsndfile installed.A symbolic link libsndfile.so must
exist in either /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib and point to the
library file for example libsndfile.so.1.0.9, note that if
you installed libsndfile from an RPM rather from source,
then you may not have the libsndfile.so symbolic link,
instead you may have libsndfile.so.1 which will not work
unless it is changed to libsndfile.so
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