How it works

HAM4LIFE shows your station live on the web while you operate. Your logging program sends radio status over UDP; a small Windows tool (the Web Dashboard Feeder) forwards it to HAM4LIFE, which displays it on your callsign page.

N1MM Logger+ / MiniBook → UDP → Web Dashboard Feeder → HTTPS → HAM4LIFE
/live/<callsign>

Download Web Dashboard Feeder v1.3.1 Create an account

Step 1 — Create an account

Step 2 — Register your callsign

On your dashboard, choose Register callsign and enter your call (for example PA6Y). A portable suffix like /P becomes its own page (/live/pa6y-p). Your public page will be at https://ham4life.com/live/pa6y.

Step 3 — Generate your API key

Open your callsign and click Generate API key. The key is shown once on screen and also emailed to you. One key per callsign — it is shared by every feeder (feed) of that callsign. Regenerating it invalidates the old key, so update all feeders.

Step 4 — Add one or more feeds

A feed is one feeder = one live card. Give each feed a unique feed ID (e.g. pa6y-1) — that is all you set.

There is no N1MM / MiniBook setting. The card type is chosen automatically from the incoming data: MiniBook identifies itself, and anything else falls back to the N1MM card. It even switches live if the source changes.

Multiple feeders posting to the same callsign each use a different feed ID but the same API key.

Step 5 — Install & configure the Web Dashboard Feeder

Install the feeder on the PC running your logger. You can download it here (v1.3.1). Enter:

Dashboard URL: https://ham4life.com
ID: the feed ID you created in Step 4 (e.g. pa6y-1)
API key: the callsign API key from Step 3
UDP IP/Port: match your logger's UDP output

Web Dashboard Feeder configuration — The Web Dashboard Feeder — set the URL, ID (feed ID) and API key.

Step 6 — Enable UDP in your logger

N1MM Logger+: enable broadcasting of RadioInfo and point it at the PC/port the feeder listens on.

MiniBook: open Preferences → UDP Radio Status, enable it and set the destination IP/port to the feeder.

MiniBook UDP Radio Status settings — MiniBook — Preferences → UDP Radio Status.

Step 7 — Build your event page

On your callsign, open Edit event page: add a title, intro, description and up to 5 photos (max 200 KB each, arranged automatically), choose which feed cards to show, then set the status to Published. Light/dark styling follows the visitor's system setting automatically.

Done

When your feeder is running and a QSO/frequency change occurs, your card turns ON AIR and updates live. Your page appears in the Live stations directory.