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The popular internet site "DX Summit" this week is rolling out a newly personalized web site, calling it "My DX Summit," giving amateur radio operators of all interests the chance to improve DX alerts and the way that spots are delivered to users around the world.
"DXSummit will open My Summit for all users on May 15th," says the notice on the DX Summit web site, which says that over 121,000 users were connected to the site in April of 2010.
"The question is can we entertain people with additional information or do we make the current information better served?" the home page reads.
Organizers also made clear to radio-sport.net that they would be interested in applications specifically for contesters that could make DX Summit even more integral to the operations of many hams who enjoy contesting around the world.
"Yes, we appreciate more initiatives from contesters," said Martti Laine OH2BH, who has been publicizing the changes at DX Summit in recent weeks.
"Now that we have a lot of technology in place, we can start segmenting our services," Laine told radio-sport.net, raising the possibility of "some applications for contesters only."
Laine says with 100,000 different hams using DX Summit, contesting applications could help drive some of those people to join in more contests, and increase the number of hams in the contest hobby.
"The idea is to activate part of those 100,000+ people for some major contests with special pages and related innovations dedicated for contesting only," Laine added.
As of now, there are no specific contesting platforms that are part of "My DX Summit", but Laine says ideas are certainly welcome from the broader contest community.
"Evolving the DX Summit platform to create a mini community in DX that can potentially interact with many exciting applications," reads part of a presentation on the CQ8X WPX SSB operation of this year.
Among the ideas:
One changes is a new "DXCC Table" that will allow hams to check which countries are needed on what bands, and have specific alerts for those spots delivered via email.
A power point presentation on the changes unveiled at the Visalia DX Convention in April shows that the new "e-mail alarm" for spots can be turned on and off as needed.
For example, it could avoid times when you are more likely to be at work than at home with the radios on in the shack.
The site also includes general spot filters to allow you to include and exclude certain items when looking at DX Cluster spots over the internet.
