Dear radio amateurs, dear DXers, contesters, Sunday net operators, and everyone who simply enjoys turning the dial:
We have news. Big news. About as big as an X9 flare, just without the unpleasant side effects.
Starting now, oeradio.at will feature the DX Weather Report every Friday — your weekly propagation forecast, served in bite-sized portions and garnished with a pinch of Viennese humor. Whether you want to know if 10m is worth it this week, if the K-Index will ruin your DX dream to Japan, or if the gray line might deliver New Zealand tonight — we have the answers. Or at least well-informed guesses.
What to expect every Friday?
Our DX Weather Report isn’t a dry number salad (there’s already enough of that on the internet). Each edition includes:
- Solar activity explained clearly — SFI, SSN, X-ray flux: What do these numbers really mean for your next QSO?
- Geomagnetic conditions — Is the Earth’s magnetic field your friend or foe today?
- Band forecast with concrete tips — Not just “40m: Good”, but: “40m will get really exciting tonight from 8 PM onwards — CW ops, get ready!”
- Recommendation of the week — Our best tips on when and where it’s particularly worth checking the bands. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek, always helpful.
- Live data — Real-time propagation data directly in the post, automatically updated every 3 hours.
Every Friday. Automatically. Reliably.
All you need to do is check in. Every Friday morning, a fresh DX Weather Report will be waiting for you — like fresh rolls at the bakery, just more digital. You’ll find all reports in the menu item “DX Weather” or in the category of the same name. And because we know not everyone speaks German: Each report is automatically published in four languages — German, English, Italian, and Slovenian.
For the tech nerds among you
How does it all work? Behind the scenes, a pretty clever system is at work:
- Data collection: Every Friday at 08:00, our system automatically collects current propagation data — solar indices, Kp forecasts, flare activity, and the 27-day outlook directly from NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center and HamQSL.
- AI editorial team: The raw data is passed to an artificial intelligence, which turns it into an understandable, practice-oriented report — including band recommendations, time windows, and the legendary “Recommendation of the Week”.
- Automatic translation: The German report is also translated by the AI into English, Italian, and Slovenian — while preserving all technical terms (don’t worry, SFI remains SFI and doesn’t become “Solar Flux Index”).
- Publication: All four language versions are automatically published and linked together via Polylang.
The whole thing runs as a cronjob on our Synology NAS, uses WordPress as CMS, and takes about 60 seconds per week at a cost of roughly 10 cents in API fees. More efficient than any human editor — and never complains about working hours either. 😉
AI Notice
Transparency is important to us: The DX Weather Reports are AI-generated. The underlying measurement data comes from official sources (NOAA SWPC, HamQSL). The interpretation, classification, and formulation of the text is handled by an artificial intelligence. We spot-check the reports, but interpretation errors are possible. When in doubt, the original data sources always apply. The author “OERadio DX-Wetterredaktion” is our AI editor — not a real person, but it tries hard to sound like one.
First report is already online!
Curious? The very first DX Weather Report is already available. Check it out and let us know what you think! And next Friday there’ll be another one — reliable as a Swiss watch, just with more sunspots.
➡ DX-Wetter KW 10/2026 | https://oeradio.at/category/dx-wetter/
73 de OERadio DX-Wetterredaktion
The DX Weather Reports are published automatically every Friday at oeradio.at/kategorie/dx-wetter/. The texts are AI-generated based on current data from NOAA SWPC and HamQSL.com.