Saturday, 25 January 2020

Log4OM V2

My main logging program, Log4OM, had a major update recently from V1 to V2. This involved a database upgrade, so involved exporting all QSOs from V1 and importing into V2. Also involved some changes to the way WSJTX and JTAlert interact, which is covered in Facebook and Log4OM forums fairly well. After an upgrade to JTAlert managed to get everything working.

The main logging screen is a bit different. Typing in a call and there is a lookup to show the location of the station on a map. Nice, but the grid square is required to be accurate to get a useful map. As well as typing, you can click on a call in WSJTX and it looks them up as here for BD7OXR


The recent QSOs tab show you recent contacts. The columns are configurable, although missing IOTA and SOTA fields now. Does at least have SIG and SIG_INFO for WWFF contacts. There is a QSO Manager which is more useful to view all your entries.


The cluster tab shows you cluster spots from your selected connected cluster. Note some SOTA stations on, I could not hear them though...


Propagation shows current and predicted radio propagation. Have not played about with this much. The path reliability is shown for the currently selected grid square on 20m


The last tab is one I find the most useful, Worked Before. This featured in V1 and was initially moved to a separate window, but brought back in the man screen by popular demand. Can see I have worked this station before on 3 bands.


The program is still being updated. Be interesting to see further developments. Looks good.

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