{"id":293,"date":"2026-07-28T19:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=293"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:40:40","slug":"alerts-for-6m-dx-condx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Alerts for 6m DX condx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to better catch 6m DX conditions, I wrote a small program to alert me about the band openings (called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jmeloranta\/ealert\">ealert<\/a>). I have WSJT-X Improved running 24\/7 with filters set to DX only, so it will broadcast only those decodes (see WSJT-X network settings). The program then catches those UDP multicast messages, parses them, and forwards them either to a given email address or XMPP address (using <a href=\"https:\/\/gajim.org\/\">Gajim<\/a>). The latter works better for me since it does not litter my email box. It has a simple GUI that allows turning the alerts on\/off. I have XMPP client (Conversations app) on my cell phone that catches the alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even when I am not at the radios, I can use my cell phone to run VNC remote desktop to my station and run FT8 QSOs. This combined with the alert system should improve my presence on 6m whenever the band opens up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to better catch 6m DX conditions, I wrote a small program to alert me about the band openings (called ealert). I have WSJT-X Improved running 24\/7 with filters set to DX only, so it will broadcast only those decodes (see WSJT-X network settings). The program then catches those UDP multicast messages, parses them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham_radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}