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Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by WB9SBD, Apr 16, 2015.

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  1. WB9SBD

    WB9SBD Ham Member QRZ Page

    QSW.Me & CQ-QSO Websites Are Open & Ready For Use!

    QSW.Me is a web site that it's sole purpose is to make up schedules so one amateur and another amateur can meet at a specific time and frequency in an attempt to make a contact for whatever purpose the contact is needed.

    Yeah, yeah, another scheduling page. But not so fast! This page operates a LOT differently than the dozen others out there.
    Are you still looking for that missing state for your 5 band work all states? Or that last county you need to finish your worked all Wisconsin counties? Grid squares? Zones? You bet!
    The DX spotting clusters, networks, and all other types of alerting systems work great to alert you when a certain station appears on a certain frequency. But you have to also be there ready for when they indeed do appear. When does that happen, and on what frequency? Who knows? Also mainly these are only good for DXing chases. But if you need Montana for a W.A.S., They won't be helping too much.

    Then there are the chat room versions, where you have to monitor the chat room, waiting and hoping that a station you want actually happens to join in on the chat. You both have to happen to be there at the exact same time to be able to find each other. What are the odds of that happening. Pretty low. Yes it does happen. But I wonder what the percentage is of missed possible QSO's could have been because the guy you needed just 5 min ago left the room?

    Or the message boards. Say a guy from North Dakota posted that he is available, a year ago, how do you look through all the hundreds of postings to find him. Even if his posting still exists on the server. Good luck!

    Or you can join in one of the live on the air nets in the hope a station you would like to contact actually shows up. And if they do, then have to sit there waiting your "turn" to try to contact them. This often can take hours before your "turn" comes around.
    But again this is all random. You just have to be lucky that the station you need is also right NOW in that chat room, or the net, or being spotted on the spotting systems.
    With this new web site all this "chance" is removed!
    When you join, you will end up filling out a station profile. This profile will store the location of your station, every band you can operate on, and on each band what modes you can operate. Yes it is a somewhat tedious data entry, but at least you only have to do it once. Or make changes when your stations capabilities change.

    From then on it is really simple.
    Say you need Wyoming on 15 meters for your 5BWAS. You simply go to
    the web site and indicate the filters.

    For example you choose:


    • North America
    • Wyoming
    • 15 meters

    then hit search and the web site will display every station that it has as a member, that is in Wyoming, and that is capable of operating on 15 meters.
    You will also be able to perform detailed searches. As an example:


    • North America
    • Wisconsin
    • Sauk County
    • 40 meters
    • CW
    • Must do LOTW for QSLing

    If someone from there meets all those parameters has registered, the web site will display them!
    Once displayed there will be contact information on how to get in touch with them to make your schedule.

    We even have a "Tool" that you have access to, that will aid your decision of what time is the "Best" Time to try to make the QSO, As an example, say On 40 meters, when is the best time that a Station in Wisconsin can contact a Station in Arizona? We can tell you that!

    Once a schedule is made we even have a chat room available to meet on at the time of the schedule, which is nice for the harder paths. Kinda of a "can you hear me now" thing. To see if either station is getting any traces of signal and then keep trying. Or give up and try again at a different time.

    Everyone that joins, gets their own personal "Message Board"

    There are forums also available for your use.
    As we are a new site we know when you join right now that there will be very few people to contact. But please still do fill out a profile. It is the only way this will eventually work. The web site needs as many as possible to fill out profiles and become a part of this effort. If people do not join, this will not work.
    It takes a small amount of effort to fill out the profile. And then you never need to even look at it again, unless you change your stations capabilities. Just go to the web site front page..

    http://www.qsw.me/

    And watch the introduction video to see how to sign up, and then actually do searches.

    And this is all FREE!
    We hope you join us on this new effort to make it easier to find those hard to find contacts.

    73
    The QSW.Me Team
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    QSW.Me The Place To Find
    That Contact You Need And
    CQ-QSO Just To Make QSO's
    http://cq-qso.com/
     
  2. K5YVY

    K5YVY XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    I look forward to utilizing the site. I would like to see the search options have the ability to search for multiple selected choices at one time. I search for several of the states I need and hope more folks sign up to get better results. Good work and Good start, 73!
     
  3. CU3AK

    CU3AK Ham Member QRZ Page

    Tryed to create an account. Click on Europe and we can only choose Netherlands. Why ????
    But seems to be a good site and and a good tool to any dx man reach there goals.
    73
    Eloy
    CU3AK
     
  4. KT1F

    KT1F Ham Member QRZ Page

    Probably a good idea, good luck with it.

    As someone who makes web sites myself I feel I need to say this ...

    Using html tables for layout? Font tags? Really? That all ended about ten years ago. You need to learn some CSS.
     
    Last edited: Apr 17, 2015
  5. WB9SBD

    WB9SBD Ham Member QRZ Page

    Morning, Yes the site wanted to get it launched as fast as possible, There is literally thousands and thousands of data information for just North America alone. They are working on everywhere else. But they do say on the web site.

    "[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Other countries are coming soon. If your country is not seen, please contact us and we will get it setup right away"

    So I suggest dropping them a message, and tell them you need Portugal to be set up quickly.

    Joe WB9SBD
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  6. KG4WAS

    KG4WAS Ham Member QRZ Page

    It would be nice if people would acknowledge the QSO's you already made on QRZ. There are some states that I've made 5 to 10 QSO's to yet not a one will confirm the QSO. I have about 450 QSO on HF and only 120 or so confirmed.
     
  7. WB9SBD

    WB9SBD Ham Member QRZ Page

    Many people do not do electronic QSLing. And of the three electronic QSL methods, LOTW, E-Qsl, and now QRZ, QRZ has the fewest confirmations. I uploaded my whole log to QRZ, I have W.A.S. many times and ways over, yet QRZ tells me I only have like 20 states confirmed, after 40 years of hamming.

    Whats niice about the QSW site is I have so far been 100% QSL confirmation rate. Plus even before I make the QSO I know what ways the station will QSL.
     
  8. K5JEF

    K5JEF Ham Member QRZ Page

    I'm in!! Thanks for all of the hard work to set that up. K5JEF
     
  9. WB9SBD

    WB9SBD Ham Member QRZ Page



    We are happy to offer this, the more the merrier, spread the word!

    Joe WB9SBD
     
  10. NZ4X

    NZ4X Premium Subscriber Volunteer Moderator QRZ Page

    Just signed up. I guess now I should go watch the video. Looks like fun.:cool:
     
  11. K0ECN

    K0ECN Guest

    There is always one out there. Collins gear has been gone a number of years but still gets a lot of use..Cut the folks some slack, ok?
     
  12. WB9SBD

    WB9SBD Ham Member QRZ Page

    Sorry, I do not understand this? Did you reply to a different message?
     
  13. K7JBQ

    K7JBQ Ham Member Volunteer Moderator QRZ Page

    Joe,

    Beats me as well. Nice working you on 17m yesterday. Hope the brats turned out great.

    73,
    Bill
     
  14. WB9SBD

    WB9SBD Ham Member QRZ Page

    Yup they did for sure,
     
  15. W5LMM

    W5LMM Platinum Subscriber Platinum Subscriber QRZ Page

    I Agree 100% It is so irritating to need ONE state for WAS, and have 10 contacts in that state, but NONE of them confirm!! This went on for some time, and I ended up having to email each and every one in the hopes that one of them would at least confirm. Annoying!!!!
     

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