Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to conclusively prove the existence of electromagnetic waves by engineering instruments to transmit and receive radio pulses using experimental procedures that ruled out all other known wireless phenomena.

You could say he is one of the godfathers of modern radio. For more information check out the Wikipedia article here: http://goo.gl/bwcjm

OK I know, its starting to sound a little like a stuck robot but hey its what I am working on right now, more breakthroughs on the robot, its now doing a bunch of checking on the submitted log, works out the total time frame that the log contains (this could be a very handy step later on for scoring in a tie break situation, most calls logged in the smallest time frame could take a decider etc). Also checks your callsign against the one you want to submit the score for, so that should help for miss-logs.

One thing I do want to do for the sake of clarity is to save every log file uploaded, so that if there is any issue later with a score not matching up etc I will be able to see what exactly happened, I should also track the IP address the upload came from too I guess, I am sure I will find a way to work that in there somewhere.

So in short the basics are coming along well, there is plenty to do, sadly so far the process doesn't do anything exiting, just allows you to upload a log, checks the content and thats about it - from this point on it should get more exciting!