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Re: [TowerTalk] eLog book

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] eLog book
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:24:13 -0700
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On Sat,8/22/2015 10:01 PM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
Can somebody tell me where to get help with electronic logging and log book

Hans,

I strongly recommend the FREE DXLab suite of programs, which includes DXKeeper (logging), and Commander (reads frequency and mode from your radio, plugs it into the log). I was lucky to discover it in 2003 when I got back on the air. I have recommended it to many friends, all of whom have thanked me for it.

There are other programs in the suite, some of which I use, others I don't. DXView tells you the country, beam heading, and distance from your QTH, as well as sunrise/sunset for that station, and shows the path on a world map. WinWarbler is a very nice "shell" for MMTTY and 2Tone to do RTTY. Spot Collector takes spots from several DX clusters, compares them with your log, and can be set to display only the countries, states, zones, and bands that you "need" for an award.

If this sounds complicated, it isn't. To get started, all you need for logging is DXKeeper. Commander makes it more automatic (by reading frequency and mode via a rig interface).

73, Jim K9YC
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