{"id":40035,"date":"2026-02-23T23:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=40035"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:15:48","slug":"via-amateur-radio-daily-community-hamclock-backend-server-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2026\/02\/23\/via-amateur-radio-daily-community-hamclock-backend-server-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"via Amateur Radio Daily: Community HamClock Backend Server Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first known community backend server for HamClock is now available for all HamClock users. The project, <a href=\"https:\/\/hamclock.com\/\">hamclock.com<\/a>, is free for anyone to use and will keep existing HamClock installs running indefinitely.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Major work beyond OHB includes: rewriting the VOACAP propagation engine with cubic interpolation, building weather pressure maps in both millibar and inHg units at five resolutions, adding aurora map generation, real-time PSK Reporter spot data, Kp index from NOAA SWPC, overhauling satellite TLE tracking, and hardening the entire server for production use serving 1,600+ HamClocks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.hamweekly.com\/2026\/01\/hamclock-creator-elwood-downey-wb0oew-silent-key-hamclock-to-shut-down\/\">passing<\/a> of HamClock creator Elwood Downey (WB0OEW), HamClock will stop working in June unless users point their installations to a new backend service. Updating existing HamClock installations is a simple task. Users have two options, updating their hosts file, or updating the command used to start HamClock. Both require only simple text changes.<\/p>\n<p>Hamclock.com is run by Bruce Edrich (W4BAE) and is built upon <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/BrianWilkinsFL\/open-hamclock-backend\">open-hamclock-backend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Headlines from <em>Amateur Radio Daily<\/em> are made available to HamClock via open-hamclock-backed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/hamclock.com\/\">HamClock.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Amateur Radio Daily &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.hamweekly.com\/2026\/02\/community-hamclock-backend-server-live-w4bae\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first known community backend server for HamClock is now available for all HamClock users&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"twitter_16139062_16139062","service":"twitter","timestamp":1771906581,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,165],"tags":[5968],"class_list":["post-40035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-follow-up","category-news","tag-hamclock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40045,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40035\/revisions\/40045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}