April 10, 2022

Introducing xCluster: A Mac DXCluster Map App

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xCluster is a visual display of dx cluster activity. DX spots are received via telnet or web services and displayed in a tabular form and plotted on a map of the world. You can filter the spots by call sign or band. You may also configure it to only show FT4/FT8 spots.

Spots are created using the latitude and longitude of the dx station and spotter. The program has a call parsing component to determine the country for each call but can use QRZ.com for more accurate location data. Lookup priority is QRZ.com with the the call parser as a backup.

Peter, W6OP, writes that this program as a programming exercise and also because he uses VE3SUN DX Monitor on Windows and wanted to fully migrate to the Mac. It does not currently have a lot of functionality other than spot display and call and band filtering but he will slowly add to it as time goes by. Feel free to add suggestions in the comments on w6op.com or email him at [email protected] and he’ll add things as he goes along.

He will not not be adding any rig control code in the near future and if he does it will only be for the Flex Radio 6xxx series.