[South Florida DX Association] More Logging programs

The Romagni's eromagni at bellsouth.net
Mon Mar 2 18:39:50 EST 2009 

I will add my two cents to this, I use DXBASE, and being using it for at
least the past 10 years or so, the folks at scientific solutions sure put
together a great product; the current version 2007 is very solid and stable.

Their reflector is excellent for support, and a few of us have helped
provide the product with add-ons and utility, Joe WA6AXE is always writing
free add-ons or reports for the product as well, his website contains tons
of reports for the different versions of the product as well.

Last year, Joe wrote a batch process for lotw, which it is just a simple
executable that you configure with your lotw password, and does the whole
thing, from creating the adif, it then runs the tqsl on the file, and
uploads it to the lotw site, with the same token you can do a download of
your logs with this interface, and this at the same time updates your
database. I can pretty much send or receive my lotw qso in just a few
clicks.

I just finished helping Joe with getting his AXETTY shareware working with
dxbase using the mtty engine, so you can actually send your rtty qso
automatically into dxbase. 

One of the things that attracted me to this software was their reports, you
can actually get the submissions forms all fill out for you for any of the
major awards, and it will keep track of the thing already submitted. At the
same time, if you know how to use crystal reports, you can pretty much get
anything out of the database.

Anyway, that is my take...

Steve
W4DTA
-----Original Message-----
From: sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Norman Alexander
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:00 PM
To: sfDXA at mailman.qth.net; bmarx at bellsouth.net; n8pr1 at bellsouth.net;
NPAlex at aol.com; billdz.geo at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [South Florida DX Association] More Logging programs

Bill,
I doubt if you can auto upload to LOTW just upon working a station.  But
DXLab comes close in that key stokes can upload on a QSO by QSO basis.  From
an efficiency view batching a days or operating session makes more sense. 
DXLab will on command will select contacts not uploaded, run them through
the Tqsl process and report back any new confirmations, set the flags on
those contacts as sent, and/or confirmed.  

I think that DXLab does steer the radio to the frequency and changes mode as
that information is displayed in the Spot Collector and the "WinWarbler"
digital program.

I have not tried it as I am still using this program in a manual mode.

Regards,



Norm

--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [South Florida DX Association] More Logging programs
To: sfDXA at mailman.qth.net, bmarx at bellsouth.net, n8pr1 at bellsouth.net,
NPAlex at aol.com
Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:47 PM

Perhaps easier to say what features a program is missing than what it does
have.  There are 3 things that HRD currently does not have that I would love
to
see.  Does any program have these?

1) Fully automatic LOTW upload - each logged QSO goes immediately to LOTW -
they say the ARRL will not permit this, as they want each log entry to be
run
through their TQSL program before upload.

2) Support for WSJT digital modes - they are supposed to be working on this.

3) Automatic mode switching from DX cluster - when you click on a DX call in
the cluster, it automatically retunes your rig to the DX station's
frequency, but it does not change the rig's mode.  So if you are listening
on SSB and click on a CW spot, you must change the rig to CW mode manually.
Not
exactly a backbreaking chore, but automatic would be nice.  My Kenwood
TS-480SAT
could be set up to do this, but not ICOM rigs. 


--- On Mon, 3/2/09, NPAlex at aol.com <NPAlex at aol.com> wrote:

> From: NPAlex at aol.com <NPAlex at aol.com>
> Subject: More Logging programs
> To: billdz.geo at yahoo.com, sfDXA at mailman.qth.net, bmarx at bellsouth.net,
n8pr1 at bellsouth.net
> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 3:26 PM
> The feature set you described sounds the same as those in
> DXLab, the  support 
> is superb by the author and the many reflector supporters. 
> I like  the 
> automated upgrades and uploads to LOTW and eQSL.  Just a
> couple of key  clicks and 
> it is done.  With regard to contest logging, N1MM dominates
> the  FCG contest 
> group, and for field day and other contests the N3FJP
> application is  a 
> favorite.  in this area.
>  
> Norm W4QN  
> 
> 
> All  of the major programs have pretty much the same
> features and 
> capabilities,  just a matter of personal choice as to which
> one has the best look and  
> feel.  I have not seen a "pay for it" program
> that has more or better  features 
> than the free ones.  
> 
> Support is important, a friendly  forum where you can ask
> questions and get 
> any problems solved quickly.  A  few people at the HRD
> forum said that they 
> switched to HRD from Logger 32  because they received
> unhelpful answers from the 
> Logger 32 owner, although I  have no personal experience to
> confirm or refute.
> 
> Although there's a  lot of debate about the best
> program for general logging, 
> the N1MM logger  seems to be the favorite for contesting.
> 
> Other HRD features: award  analysis (tracks your progress
> towards various 
> awards), mapper (displays maps  with a plot of all stations
> you have worked), 
> satellite tracker, automatic  upload of each logged qso to
> eQSL (but not to 
> LOTW), bandscope, audio  notification when new DX spotted,
> audio grabber (records 
> the output of your  receiver), Google Earth map of stations
> you work.
> 
> 73, Bill NZ5N   
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Norm W4QN
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