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xCluster2 for the Mac® is now on the App Store

January 25, 2023 by Peter

xCluster for the Mac® will now be distributed via the App Store. xCluster for the Mac is a visual display of dx cluster activity. DX spots are received via telnet or web services and displayed on a map of the world. You can filter the spots by call sign or band Spots are created using the latitude and longitude of the dx station and spotter. The program has a call parsing component to determine the country for each call but can use QRZ.com for more accurate location data. Lookup priority is QRZ.com with the the call parser as a backup. Note: You must […]

xCluster for iPad®

December 15, 2022 by Peter

xCluster for the iPad is a visual display of dx cluster activity. DX spots are received via telnet or web services and displayed on a map of the world. You can filter the spots by call sign or band Spots are created using the latitude and longitude of the dx station and spotter. The program has a call parsing component to determine the country for each call but can use QRZ.com for more accurate location data. Lookup priority is QRZ.com with the the call parser as a backup. Note: You must have a QRZ.com subscription to use QRZ lookups. A user […]

xCluster Update 2.1.8

July 30, 2022 by Peter

There is a new version of xCluster available for download. The new release includes bug fixes and enhancements. For an overview see the original post introducing xCluster for the Mac. Please see the manual on the downloaded disk image for all of the update details. Release Notes: Fixed crashes when connected to DXSummit. Labels on buttons were not visible on small screens. Minimum size of map was to large for small screens. New Features: Overall size automatically adapts to smaller screens. The spot list can be resized vertically and horizontally. Moved the QRZ Logon button to the Preferences window. Auto […]

xCluster Update

July 26, 2022 by Peter

xCluster 2.1.2 xCluster has been updated and enhanced. I have added many new features and performance enhancements. For an overview see the original post introducing xCluster for the Mac. Please see the manual on the downloaded dmg file for all of the update details. Release Notes; Performance and stability bug fixes. Eliminated flashing when spots are updated. New features added. Gui redesign. New features: Clicking on a spot in the list will set a light blue line under the line so you can watch it. Enhanced the spots on the map to show the last 15 spots for that call. […]

xCluster: A Mac DXCluster Map App

April 9, 2022 by Peter

xCluster for the Mac Overview: xCluster is a visual display of dx cluster activity. DX spots are received via telnet or web services and displayed in a tabular form and plotted on a map of the world. You can filter the spots by call sign or band. You may also configure it to only show FT4/FT8 spots. Spots are created using the latitude and longitude of the dx station and spotter. The program has a call parsing component to determine the country for each call but can use QRZ.com for more accurate location data. Lookup priority is QRZ.com with the […]