[Elecraft] Options for contest logging software under Linux

[Kevin Anderson]

Kevin, KD5ONS,

Depending on your Linux  background, and your goals with contesting, for your Option #3, I would recommend TRLog for Linux,
https://www.kkn.net/trlinux/

This is a port by Kevin Schmidt, W9CF, that migrates Tree's (K6TR) TR-Log using its native Pascal source code (by permission of Tree, with necessary modifications) to Linux. So this is the real program, and not running an emulation of any sort. 

There is a high learning curve to getting proficient in using TRLog (as there was in the original DOS version) in configuring things for contests to have shortcuts and function keys work the way you might like them, as it relies heavily on the keyboard and not the mouse. But if you are at all used any of the old DOS-based contest logging programs (as I used NA, plus some CT, before this with a parallel port keying interface), if will seem familiar. What I especially like for TRLog for Linux, as I contest primarily with CW, is that it gave me a way to migrate my contesting to Linux (my preferred OS at home) using K1EL's WinKeyer (I have the WKMini) on laptops with only USB ports for interfacing.  There is some Linux configuration needed, so still not for the novice Linux user, but W9CF's instructions help with most of it.

Cheers/73,

Kevin Anderson, K9IUA

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Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA
k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com