[South Florida DX Association] DX SUMMIT ALERT

[Bill Marx]

DX SUMMIT ALERT

The Old OH2AQ DX Summit Goes Offline November 19, 2008 at 1000 UTC

The new DX Summit website at http://www.dxsummit.fi/ debuted on May 23,
2008.  The site has been redeveloped from the ground up and uses the latest
technology available. The new DX Summit has been ramping up steadily and
today the number of hits is approaching 1 million a day.  In addition to
providing the same functionality as the old DX Summit, the new platform
offers the necessary flexibility to easily add new features which are
currently on the drawing board.

The old DX Summit homepage at http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/ redirects users to
the new DX Summit website. However, all the old DX Summit data pages are
still online but the trend for daily hits has decreased, as we expected.
The number still remains high but the time has come to shut down the old DX
Summit machine which may cause your software to stop working.

To try and maintain compatibility with older software which may no longer be
supported, the new DX Summit includes a series of DX spot webpages which are
100% HTML compatible with the same pages on the old DX Summit.  Simply
changing the URLs in your software according to the information below should
keep it working with the new DX Summit.  If your software does not allow you
to edit the URLs, please contact the author of your software and ask them to
change the URLs according to the information below.

URLs to change

Latest 25 DX spots page
Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx25.html
New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx25.html

Latest 1000 DX spots page
Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx1000.html
New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx1000.html

Latest 10000 DX spots page
Old URL: http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx10000.html
New URL: http://www.dxsummit.fi/text/dx10000.html

Software authors who wish to implement data exchange with the new DX Summit
should visit http://www.dxsummit.fi/technical.aspx for information on data
formats and URLs.  If your software does not work with the new DX Summit, we
encourage you to forward this information to the author of the software you
are using.

We hope all software relying on the DX Summit can be successfully updated to
work with the new DX Summit. We look forward to providing you with this
valuable DX resource for many years to come!

73,

OH8X Team