Speaker 1: World Radio League is my current preferred logging software, although
Speaker 1: Sebastian keeps trying to get me tried to Polo. I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of them, so I really like
Speaker 1: this one because it's so easy to saint between your phone,
Speaker 1: your tablet, your computer, multiple computers, multiple platforms and operating systems.
Speaker 2: So James is going to tell us about updates today.
Speaker 2: So what are you guys working on right now?
Speaker 3: Okay, awesome, Well, you can see the platform over here,
Speaker 3: so you guys are probably mostly familiar with the basic
Speaker 3: interface here at World Radio League, and so we've we
Speaker 3: have new releases almost every single week.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to go over with you guys
Speaker 2: some of the latest stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, first, this is not super new, but I think
Speaker 3: one of the coolest things that I'll just show really
Speaker 3: quickly is that we do have a band conditions widget
Speaker 3: we've added on our mobile app.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you.
Speaker 3: Download the mobile app and you just hold down the icon,
Speaker 3: it'll expand out and you can get a real time
Speaker 3: band conditions update widget on your mobile app.
Speaker 2: I've got to put that on. Super cool. Okay, as
Speaker 2: you can see right now, the bands are trash. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm giving you a real demo, but it's super cool.
Speaker 3: And as Jason mentioned, one of the really nice things
Speaker 3: about World Radio League is everything sinks from your phone
Speaker 3: to the web app, so you can go online offline
Speaker 3: on your mobile app, and then when you get back
Speaker 3: to your computer at World Radio League dot Com, everything's
Speaker 3: gonna you know, sync. So just to give you a
Speaker 3: quick demo of that, I can come into my mobile
Speaker 3: app here.
Speaker 2: And I can select a park.
Speaker 3: Maybe I want to activate US nine four four six,
Speaker 3: which is close to me.
Speaker 2: Here, I click create logbook. Now I'm in and logging.
Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna drop
Speaker 3: a contact into my log I'll look up Professor Jim
Speaker 3: and for a BFR, I'll hit enter.
Speaker 2: Now I've logged in.
Speaker 3: Now what you'll notice is, yeah, so as you can see,
Speaker 3: I just logged on my phone, it's already on my
Speaker 3: computer here, so everything sinks across devices.
Speaker 2: I can from from here.
Speaker 3: Also you can auto spot yourself over to pod Uh
Speaker 3: you've got your park to park, and then everything is
Speaker 3: super easy to export over to the Poda site as well.
Speaker 2: So it's really a purpose built general logger. Pode a logger.
Speaker 3: But you know, we want to kind of focus on
Speaker 3: some of the things that are new that are coming
Speaker 3: out with a log or two, so I can give
Speaker 3: you a rundown of a lot of those things, which
Speaker 3: if you come into the contest page, that's where you're
Speaker 3: going to start to see a lot of uh new
Speaker 3: action here within World Radio League. Okay, So traditionally, if
Speaker 3: you're you know, using a law a logbook for contesting,
Speaker 3: you had to uh go into the logger maybe download
Speaker 3: a specific uh you know plug in for that contest,
Speaker 3: or you had to configure your log book with a
Speaker 3: template for that contest. With World Radio League, we've made
Speaker 3: it really easy to participate in contest because you've got
Speaker 3: basically your entire contest calendar. So I can see, you know,
Speaker 3: cq Worldwide WPX coming up, I can see all the
Speaker 3: QSO parties or field Day of course, this is probably
Speaker 3: one of the most popular. Yeah, so to join field
Speaker 3: Day with World Radio League, all you do as you
Speaker 3: click in, you click and roll into the contest and
Speaker 3: then it generates you a log book that has the
Speaker 3: correct template in the exchange for each contest. So this
Speaker 3: has your class and your section in the case of
Speaker 3: field day. But I mean you could even add because
Speaker 3: we have this quick settings, you could even add a
Speaker 3: PODA on top of this, so you could do a
Speaker 3: contest and a PODA at the same time if you
Speaker 3: wanted to, and it'll continue. You know, as you're logging,
Speaker 3: it generates you your map, you have your spotting built in,
Speaker 3: all those awesome things that you want to see as
Speaker 3: you're going as well. So I know for a lot
Speaker 3: of us, like you'll, you'll pop on, you know, you're
Speaker 3: doing a PODA and you hear some contest going on,
Speaker 3: You're like.
Speaker 2: What is this right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of makes it easier to note, number one,
Speaker 3: what contests are coming in, or even if you're just
Speaker 3: a casual contester, pop in and grab a couple a
Speaker 3: couple of qusos.
Speaker 1: So what if what if you're operating as a club
Speaker 1: and you want three or four or five guys all
Speaker 1: log in to World Radio League to log it as
Speaker 1: the same call sign.
Speaker 2: Yeah as and you can one hundred percent do that
Speaker 2: with World Radio League.
Speaker 3: So you just create a club account within World Radio
Speaker 3: League and then use the same logbook, and since it's
Speaker 3: all cloud based, all your contacts will go into the
Speaker 3: same logbook, and that also helps you with the duplicates, right,
Speaker 3: and then if somebody else in your club is logging
Speaker 3: the same contact, you don't end up doing it.
Speaker 2: So, okay, I'll give you a good example.
Speaker 3: Of that is we did a really big we did
Speaker 3: a really big event for a winner field day. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and so I can pull up the past results here.
Speaker 3: So we had you know, almost one thousand people, nine
Speaker 3: hundred and forty one people, seventeen thousand contacts logged. And
Speaker 3: if you go into the leaderboard, a lot of the
Speaker 3: people are the clubs, right, the Miami County Amateur Radio Club.
Speaker 2: They actually came by here yesterday and.
Speaker 3: They were just talking about how much fun they're group
Speaker 3: of young kids actually that were running that station. And
Speaker 3: you can see the leaderboard, and when you see somebody
Speaker 3: in the leaderboard, it's I mean, this is complete real
Speaker 3: time contesting. So you know, traditionally in contest, you go
Speaker 3: in and you log your contacts, you download your eight
Speaker 3: if you submit it, you know, maybe you go to
Speaker 3: thirty eight thirty and you you know, you kind of
Speaker 3: see the rumors of the contest score and it gets
Speaker 3: adjudicated and all that.
Speaker 2: But within world Radio League everything.
Speaker 3: Since we're really a cloud native platform, everything's happening in
Speaker 3: real time. Every contact that gets logged is going straight
Speaker 3: onto the leaderboard and you can see the stats of
Speaker 3: other operators as well, so that's big. Integrations are also
Speaker 3: fairly new. We got cat control, now we've got wsjt
Speaker 3: X integration. And since this is Jason, just to give
Speaker 3: you guys a little bit more info, QRZ and LTW
Speaker 3: integrations are top of what you're going to see next
Speaker 3: on the integrations we are Those are going to be
Speaker 3: today you can of course export and import into those,
Speaker 3: but with the next release at QRZ and LTW integrations
Speaker 3: are just going to be running in the background, so
Speaker 3: you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 2: To upload to those services.
Speaker 3: One other thing I think I've would love to tell
Speaker 3: your followers, Jason, this is about WRTC twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Oh right, yeah, So, I mean this is like the
Speaker 3: Olympic Games of ham Radio that's happening next year and
Speaker 3: you're going to have fifty teams, you know, like about
Speaker 3: one hundred operators from all over the world competing for
Speaker 3: twenty four hours to basically be the top ham radio
Speaker 3: contest in the world, and after a big evaluation process,
Speaker 3: the wrt team selected World Radio League as the official
Speaker 3: technology partner. They saw what we were doing with the
Speaker 3: live contesting so far and they wanted us to bring
Speaker 3: that type of interface to the World Radio Team Championship
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: So we are going to building.
Speaker 3: A completely custom dashboard and contesting experience. So and it's
Speaker 3: not just for those you know, fifty teams that are contesting.
Speaker 3: When people are at home, there's going to be a
Speaker 3: face a you know, user facing side where you can say, hey,
Speaker 3: I want to try to work all the WRTC stations.
Speaker 3: I want to see how I'm doing against other people.
Speaker 3: So we're still a year out from that, but you're
Speaker 3: going to see a lot more about WRTC twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six as we start to get closer.
Speaker 1: Good, what's the status of the desktop app?
Speaker 3: The desktop app is in testing. We've got it, We've
Speaker 3: got it working internally, but we have to just battle
Speaker 3: test the heck out of that thing. Taking a little
Speaker 3: bit longer than we thought I would still, you know,
Speaker 3: if I had to give it, if I had to
Speaker 3: put an estimate and on it, I'd say a month out.
Speaker 3: But if the desktop app isn't out in two months,
Speaker 3: I would be shocked. Okay, so I would you know,
Speaker 3: best guest a month longest guest two months okay, and yeah,
Speaker 3: desktop app coming, so that at the you know, right now,
Speaker 3: you've got your web app you can log into, You've
Speaker 3: got iOS, Android, MacBooks, that's the one platform that it
Speaker 3: doesn't run on natively yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, the desktop app will also.
Speaker 3: Be offline, offline capable from day one, yes, right from
Speaker 3: day one.
Speaker 2: Right, I'll have offline call signed.
Speaker 1: Database too, right exactly because a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: they go out to PDA or even Soda and there's
Speaker 1: no there's no internet signal out there. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people won't use a cloud based service because of that,
Speaker 1: and I understand that. So it'll be uh, it'll be
Speaker 1: nice to see when that happens.
Speaker 2: All right, man, I hope you have a good show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your time. Yeah, thank you, Jason Ye