{"id":43730,"date":"2020-06-06T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=43730"},"modified":"2020-06-06T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T12:50:09","slug":"shiva-dx-cluster-for-broadcast-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/shiva-dx-cluster-for-broadcast-listeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiva DX Cluster for broadcast listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sdrconsole-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43731\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sdrconsole-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sdrconsole-4.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sdrconsole-4-300x160.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sdrconsole-4-624x332.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Walter Panella (IU2MEH), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have written a software that connects to a ham radio dx cluster and repeats the dx spot to its clients while adding spots based on list files.<\/p>\n<p>This to show markers on SDR Console or similar software to see broadcasting stations, for example, based on scheduling day and time.<\/p>\n<p>This software already runs 24h on my server accessible from the internet. If someone helps me I can give him access to it.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/iu2meh.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/shiva-dx-cluster-for-swl-bcl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out my project\u00a0 by clicking here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IU2MEH\/shiva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the related Github page by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for sharing, Walter. Connecting SDR Console with a DX cluster would make it even easier to spot DX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iu2meh.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/shiva-dx-cluster-for-swl-bcl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out Walter&#8217;s Shiva DX Cluister project page here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Walter Panella (IU2MEH), who writes: I have written a software that connects to a ham radio dx cluster and repeats the dx spot to its clients while adding spots based on list files. This to show markers on SDR Console or similar software to see broadcasting stations, for example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5935,545,3,43],"tags":[5808,8577,8578],"class_list":["post-43730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-sdr-console","tag-shive-dx-cluster","tag-walter-panella-iu2meh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bnk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9752,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/video-review-of-the-dx-patrol-sdr-dongle\/","url_meta":{"origin":43730,"position":0},"title":"Video: Review of the DX Patrol SDR dongle","author":"Thomas","date":"May 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, John, for sharing this video review of the DX Patrol SDR receiver. 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