DXHeat.com is a great website that can update you the current conditions on each band. The website has filtering of incoming DX Spots which can be displayed instantly using great graphical tools.
From the main landing page dxheat.com you can do a search by call sign or open DX Cluster. You can also scroll down to see more information.
Callsign Search
By typing in a call sign, you will see a lot of information instantly about that person. Some of the graphs are interesting as it shows how often the selected user does DX Spots by date, by band and what Continent they have been heard in.
It then shows what DX spots this user as submitted by time, band, and Continent.
DX Cluster
This is the best part of the website.
In the middle you can see live data. You can apply filters as required on the left side. On the right is the current UTC time and a lot of other interesting things.
On the right is a Propagation box which is helpful.
Also on the right is a Band Activity box which is great and perhaps the best part of the website.
This graph is powerful and shows you instantly where the bands are open.
Select your area via the drop-down box. I have selected Oceania in the example shown. You can see the band is open on 10 metres to NA, which is North America, and slightly open to NA on 20 metres also.
10 minutes before I took this screen dump, 10 metres was in the red to North America, so it changes live. 10 minutes after this screen dump, 20 metres was in the purple meaning conditions were getting harder, however 10 metres became a solid red.
20 minute later after the above screen dump, I took the following one on the right.
Now you can see 10 metres to North America is strong, and 20 metres is not even showing anymore. 15 metres is also on the graph now potentially growing in strength.
Asia is also starting to show signs of colour on 17 metres which it wasn’t before.
While these graphs are powerful, they are limited to the amount of activity on the band. For example, if no one picks up a microphone, then there is still no one to listen to.
It is a great starting point though and displayed very well. I would love to embed this on my QRZ page if anyone knows how.
The main text in the screen, you can hover over the green boxes and filter according to that box. Up towards the top, there is a mode section on the left side with green boxes, you can filter by them also. You can filter via region and band also.
Login
At the top of the screen is a login/sign up option. I would encourage you to create an account. Simply put in your email and password, then confirm it and you will be able to update your profile. You will then have an opportunity to adjust your display DX-Cluster settings as you like.
Other websites
There are other websites that show similar information in a different format that include:
- My DX Summit at http://www.dxsummit.fi/ This page has filters along the top and side.
- DXmaps at https://www.dxmaps.com/spots/mapg.php?Lan=E This has a great visial map of the data and can be filtered by band or location also.
- WSPRnet at https://www.wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map also has a map. You can filter the data displayed on the map via the filters below it.
- Solar Flux on VK3FS https://3fs.net.au/daily-solar-data/ This page is well written by a fellow Amateur, Andrew, also living in VK3. He explains a lot and goes to a lot of detail. On this Daily Solar Data page there is a usful graph tha shows the Solar Flux over the last month.
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