[LOGic] New DX Summit

Thu Nov 20 15:51:23 EST 2008

NEW DX SUMMIT TAKES OVER THE MOTHER OF ALL DX SUMMITS The Group at OH8X is
honoured to continue the services initiated by members of the OH2AQ Radio
Club more than ten years ago. In the words of the President of Yasme
Foundation, we capture the essence of this original innovation. 
Yasme Foundation and the whole world of Amateur Radio congratulate Jukka
Salomaa, OH2BUA and Antti Kantola, OH5TB for conceiving, operating and
maintaining the DX Summit, the first widely-used Web-based spotting network
portal. They created a tool that fundamentally changed the nature of HF
operating, a true advancement of the radio art.
The New DX Summit is operated by Radio Arcala, OH8X, located in the Far
North at the Arctic Circle, within the Aurora Belt, with a mission to
encourage today's youth to make possible the impossible in the course of
their own innovations through radio communication experience and related
exciting theories.
Arcala Extremes is headquartered in Finland while operating in a European
context. The message is global, and the experience is for us to share. Read
about the Arcala mission and let your imagination fly to do your share among
the young people and secure the continuation of this great passion that has
enriched our lives and made the communication among people more effective
and enjoyable. The New DX Summit and its future applications are targeted to
be part of this vision.
www.radioarcala.com
DX SUMMIT ALERT The Old OH2AQ DX Summit Goes Offline November 19, 2008 at
1000 UTC
The new DX Summit website at http://www.dxsummit.fi debuted on May 23, 2008.
The site has been redeveloped from the ground up and uses the latest
technology available. The new DX Summit has been ramping up steadily and
today the number of hits is approaching 1 million a day. In addition to
providing the same functionality as the old DX Summit, the new platform
offers the necessary flexibility to easily add new features which are
currently on the drawing board.
The old DX Summit homepage at http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com redirects users to
the new DX Summit website. However, all the old DX Summit data pages are
still online but the trend for daily hits has decreased, as we expected. The
number still remains high but the time has come to shut down the old DX
Summit machine which may cause your software to stop working.
To try and maintain compatibility with older software which may no longer be
supported, the new DX Summit includes a series of DX spot webpages which are
100% HTML compatible with the same pages on the old DX Summit. Simply
changing the URLs in your software according to the information below should
keep it working with the new DX Summit. If your software does not allow you
to edit the URLs, please contact the author of your software and ask them to
change the URLs according to the information below.
URLs to change
Latest 25 DX spots page
Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx25.html
New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx25.html 
Latest 1000 DX spots page
Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx1000.html
New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx1000.html 
Latest 10000 DX spots page
Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx10000.html
New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx10000.html
Software authors who wish to implement data exchange with the new DX Summit
should visit http://www.dxsummit.fi/technical.aspx for information on data
formats and URLs. If your software does not work with the new DX Summit, we
encourage you to forward this information to the author of the software you
are using.
We hope all software relying on the DX Summit can be successfully updated to
work with the new DX Summit. We look forward to providing you with this
valuable DX resource for many years to come! 
73, 
OH8X Team 
73, 
George Vincent K3GV

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