On Aug 6, 2021, at 10:05 AM, Alan Blind, WA9WUD <a.alan.blind@...> wrote:

?Working on Mike's idea of a global MQTT broker to share data.

Is there any interest?

If so, what data is of interest? ?Seems like data similar to what is now "spotted" on DX servers would be a starting point. ?Since this data is now "public", sharing the same on a un-secured MQTT broker would be the same.

Anyway, I built a flow, to take the Frequency Data and MOX status from Daves's, WO2X, Flex API flow and upload that to the "test.mosquito.org" Public MQTT broker. ?To limit data flow, the TX frequency is only uploaded when MOX is on.

Here is a link describing the Public MQTT broker. ? ?

I set the topic to be "call_paramater", or in my case for frequency, ?"wa9wud_freq". ?I see others using Node-Red, wanting to know my frequncy, to subscribe to the same topic, and building flows to display.

Other ideas for designing the MQTT "topics" are welcome.

Depending on interest level, I will or will not pursue this idea.

Alan. WA9WUD