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DX SUMMIT SOON READY FOR 2-WAY COMMUNICATION WITH OVER 110.000 MONTHLY USERSThe Radio Arcala DX Summit portal is celebrating the milestone of one million monthly hits over a course of several months and more than 110.000 people spending an average of 35 minutes on the site daily. The top five nations using the service are as follows: USA (28.5%) followed by Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and Japan. In total, users from 170 DXCC countries have entered the service portal. With new visits approaching 19% during the month of May, an increase of users is quite evident. In the process of making the DX Summit service more focused on younger user segments and non-amateur radio population, two features have been added recently. Each spotting and spotted callsign is automatically linked to QRZ.COM, providing a more human link to the personal profiles of people and to their pictures. Just click the callsigns and you will automatically enter the relevant QRZ.COM page. Additionally, each line carries the name of the DXCC country spotted. In a few months time, custom selected filters will be provided to the public allowing users to receive personalized spots that they would like to receive. While initially the selected spots will be sent to your personal email address, the ultimate aim is to offer an SMS (short message service) option to DX Summit users. This service is a non-profit exercise for Radio Arcala, OH8X but we are pleased to recognize Yasme Foundation and Nokia Corporation for their support of further development and defrayment of operating expenses of the portal. As the servers are in the hands of a professional service provider in the United States, some interruptions are recorded and changing the service provider is in process. Also, a Help Desk for regular users and for S/W developers is being set up. Here it is suggested that DX Summit open a channel for accepting voluntary donations to keep the Help Desk operational. On a trial basis, through PayPal, DX Summit accepts donations and, additionally, following a donation of 10 USD or 10 EUR, Radio Arcala will send you a full-color Radio Arcala wall calendar postpaid. This option is valid only for the months of July and August. We thank you for your support of and interest in Radio Arcala DX Summit. The OH8X Team DX Summit is now using TwitterYOUNG BRIT CAME OUT AS WINNER OF RADIO ARCALA ESSAY CONTESTIt was in February 2009 when the team at Radio Arcala, OH8X launched an essay contest to get some fresh ideas from today's youth and their elders to boost recruitment to the ranks of Amateur Radio. Great participation was ensured, and determining the winners took some effort from a multinational jury representing six nations. A 19-year old Briton, Mark Dumpleton, 2E0NCG came out as winner by a fair margin while two U.S. hams, John Scott Anderson, KC9OQO and Brian Wood, W0DZ , finished in second and third place respectively. Argentinian Diego Salom, LU8DX was recognized for his submission of the best Spanish language piece. You can read Mark's piece and his interview at www.radioarcala.com under the Young People Terms button and get your personal inspiration to do your share for Amateur Radio. NEW DX SUMMIT TAKES OVER THE MOTHER OF ALL DX SUMMITSThe 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. DX SUMMIT ALERTThe 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 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!
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