Creating Custom Digital Dashboards for Your Ham Shack Computer

Ever since personal computers emerged in the 1970s, hams have developed creative ways to put them to work in the shack. Today, we use them for a variety of purposes, such as maintaining our logs, pointing our antennas, and communicating with digital modes. However, many hams miss out on advantages that their station computer can offer them. An internet-connected computer has access to a wealth of useful resources. What is often lacking is an easy and organized way to access them. In this article, you will learn how to easily construct your own customized digital dashboards to display a variety of valuable information that is relevant to you and your ham-radio activity.

A digital dashboard is a computer interface that collects and displays data from multiple sources, such as online databases, web services, and locally hosted files. Dashboards are popular as they present). The dashboard user doesn’t have to reach for a reference book or use Google to search for the desired resources.