Contents Introduction Preferences Operation Maps Telnet FAQ How To Work 3B7C Sooner with VE3SUN DX Monitor Tools for the Intelligent DXer Download the latest version DX Monitor is a standalone Windows program which monitors the DX announcements available on the internet at DX Summit, HB9DRV and connections to one or more local and international DX Cluster Telnet Servers. New DX spots are displayed in the main window with user selectable bands, fonts, colors, and highlighting of alerts and local spotters. A band map tracks the current stations on the air by frequency. Maps show the openings with buttons to select bands and times. The predicted signal strength of the spotted station at your QTH can be displayed with each spot. A 24 hour propagation prediction by band takes only one click. DX Monitor builds a database of DX Spots, Announcements, and WWV information and includes many tools which can be used by DXers to improve their chances of working a new country. Click for Screen shots and Introduction DX Monitor Main Window What's New? Animated Google Earth Interface. Fly from spot to spot as each one arrives. Plot spots and propagation paths on Google Earth and Google Maps. Pinpoint US and Canadian amateurs. See antennas from space. Show Location Information and beam heading on each DX spot: Country, State, US County. Predicted propagation from your location to each spot. 24 hour instant forecast. Optionally filter by signal strength to only show stations you can work. Rig interface for instant tuning or intelligent scanning to monitor incoming spots. Real Time Features Combines DX Spots from multiple web sites and telnet servers in one display. Check Propagation from your location to the DX using HamCap. View spots on a color coded Band Map. User defined frequency filters and color coding. Open paths plot automatically on Mercator and Azimuthal (Great-Circle) maps. Alerts for needed DX by callsign or DXCC entity. Hot Spots Button. One click lists the hottest DX being spotted by band. Click a call for recent spot history, QSL and station information, location, beam headings, sunrise times, Google searches and more. Graphic Display of WWV Solar Flux and Geomagnetic Indexes with 27 and 45 day forecasts. Analysis Features Search and Sort the History Database by call, country, distance, heading, dates, distance to spotter, alerts, popularity, hourly rates and more. Plot any list of DX spots or log data on the maps. Activity Scatter Plots show DX activity on each band by hour or by day of the week. Animated Maps show changing propagation by hour on each band. Band and Hour Buttons for viewing of the spot maps by frequency and time of day. Convolve Plot to map 24 hours of observed propagation to your location. Load log files (ADIF or Cabrillo) for plotting, sorting, and counting countries, calls, US states and counties and more. More Features Supports RAC Callbook and HamCall CDs and the free K4HAV FCC/VE Database. Minimize DX Monitor to run in the background in the system tray. Includes a complete Telnet Application for simultaneous connection to an unlimited number of Telnet Servers. Fully automated and integrated with DX Monitor. Personalized font styles, sizes and colors to suit your eyes and your computer screen. Access Atomic Time Servers to accurately set your computer clock. Show only spots from local spotters or highlight them. Plot Terminator (Gray Line) on maps in real or historical time. Read the DX Monitor Manual Download (3 MBytes) Download dxmon124.exe from closest mirror server (FASTEST) Download dxmon124.exe from benlo.com Download dxmon124.exe from ve3sun.com The latest DX Monitor is now being beta tested at www.ve3sun.com/beta with many exciting new features. DX Monitor is shareware. Try it free for 30 days. If you like it, buy now. Join the DX Monitor Mailing List Group members discuss new features and how to benefit the most from DX Monitor. Go to DX Monitor Group Discussion