[Ham-Mac] RumLog

Rick Prather rprather at mac.com
Sun May 18 10:03:50 EDT 2008


On May 16, 2008, at 7:58 PM, John L Merrill wrote:
>>
> Nice program.

Yes, not a full featured operating aid like MacLoggerDX but I find it  
does a great job of handling queries like "confirmed on LoTW"  and  
"confirmed only on LoTW".   In fact, it's great reports finally got me  
off my butt to submit for DXCC after 30+ years.

The LoTW integration is terrific.  No more manually looking up  
contacts and marking them confirmed.

I also find it is about the easiest I have found for logging old  
contacts from paper logs.  Little touches like only having to enter  
the middle number of the RST are nice.

And, for me the main reason I have it opened alongside MLDX all the  
time is the filtered and color coded DX spot window.  Plus, now with  
the addition of the text message notifications I was able to work a  
new one yesterday!  I was out getting the BBQ ready, got an alert on  
my iPhone,  walked back in here, worked him and I don't think my wife  
even missed me!

When I first started to play with the program I downloaded my LoTW  
confirmations and found that a bunch that were in the log showed as  
not there.  I checked them and found that they indeed were there.   I  
sent an email off to Tom with a couple of examples.   About an hour  
later I had a new version in my email that fixed it!  (problem turned  
out to be related to the seconds in the time field).  I was impressed!

http://www.dl2rum.de/rumsoft/RUMLog.html

Usual disclaimer:  I have not financial interest in RumLog (in fact  
either does Tom (DL2RUM) apparently since it is free - unlike another  
Mac logging program I paid $39 for and found that it does very little!

Rick - K6LE



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