[Dx4win] DX4WIN and the iPhone

[Kelly Johnson]

Thanks to several of you for guiding me toward the VE7CC user program
for sending alerts of important spots to my iPhone.  I have yet to
integrate "AR" with DX4WIN, but I've gotten "AR" to do what I wanted
to do: alert me via SMS on my iPhone when an important spot shows up.

For those of you trying to do the same thing, here are the issues I
encountered and how I solved them:

PROBLEM #1 - AR does not seem to support TLS/SSL authentication when
connecting to an SMTP server.  This was preventing it from sending the
alerts directly to my ISP's SMTP server.  It also prevented me from
sending through either my Yahoo or GMail account, since they both
require authentication as well.

SOLUTION to #1 - go to www.downloads.com and download "Local SMTP
Relay Server 5.5".  Set up AR to communicate with the SMTP Relay
Server instead of directly to an external server.  Let the SMTP Relay
Server send the e-mail to the internet.

PROBLEM #2 - Even after solving #1, I was unable to send SMS messages
to my iPhone because my ISP blocks port 25 to prevent spammers from
sending direct mailing through this port.

SOLUTION #2 - Configure "Local SMTP Relay Server 5.5" to use the
"implicit TLS" option to authenticate itself with my ISP's SMTP
server.  All e-mail is now sent to my ISP's SMTP server via a
different (authenticated) port instead of port 25.




On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Kelly Johnson <n6kj.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use DX4WIN at home.  I'd love to figure out a way to notify myself
> of a DX spot that I need.  I'm sure I could figure out how to build an
> iPhone app (or send an SMS message to my iPhone) when a needed spot
> shows up, but how do I get the comparison information.  Clearly the DX
> spots window knows when a spot arrives for a country you need, but how
> can I "pipe" that information out to another program (automatically,
> without manual intervention) so another program can forward it on to
> my iPhone?
>
> There are so many cool applications on the iPhone and so few for
> amateur radio.  It would sure be nice to see more for ham radio.
> Ultimately, I'd love to be able to remotely control my station through
> the iPhone AND be notified of important spots when not at home as
> well.  Anything out there I don't know about?
>