What Ham Radio Logger Should I Use?!

Great news everyone! Amateur radio has many great logging applications that help you keep track of the contacts you make when operating your radio! Some of focus specific for Parks and Summits On The Air, others are full-featured radio and computer control systems and others focus on simplifying contests! Lets talk about my favorite loggers tonight!
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[@nosbig98]

Finding this 6 months after the stream... I am playing around with Cloudlog and Wavelog. WL is a fork of Cloudlog, but both are self-hosted web-based logging tools. They run on a LAMP stack; I am looking to consolidate my logs in one place, no matter the device I am using to log. It does have support for contesting, and it generates the QSO map asked by a watcher toward the end of the video.

[@dorvinion]

3:40 The contest (and my laptop failing in the field so no FT fallback) kinda forced me to stop saying "I'm not ready" and go ahead and just call CQ and complete my first CW only activation today Was able to hunt 4 operators on CW before family started to give me the 'can we go now' look. Spotted myself, called CQ and in 10m had the last 7 despite needing multiple attempts to send the hunters back their calls. But I got the first one out of the way and the next one will be better right?

[@tankrust1]

Good Video Josh. I’m really interested in HRD and just haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Looking forward to what’s to come on this.

[@Reviews-Tidbits]

I watched your video for 52 minutes and I didn’t learn anything I came here to find out what a good logger to use.

[@Yaegermeister163]

Any update on when the new version of HRD is going to be released? I know they have been rebuilding the database for the software.

[@caltech-wirewizard]

I used to use N3FJP's logging software for all my logging activities (General logging, Field Day, QSO Parties, etc). I switched this year to N1MM+ because I can sync SDRUno with Omnirig, N1MM+ both to my rig without Com Port issues. Although, I had to use a Virtual Com Port driver (VSPE). N3FJP software is NOT Omnirig compliant & doesn't parse the data stream from a Virtual Com Port "properly". Which is too bad, I really like the N3FJP software!

[@CC-hk6vy]

Good show Josh--its a long topic. Remember your HRD show with Dr Carper? And you barely t touched it all. GL OM de WO8USA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@darrenrogers5174]

I guess the N1MM can be customized for shortwave listening logging?

[@aa3konthego]

You can probably use its DX General Log template but it will not track QSLs. It is designed as a contest logging program and definitely excels at that.

[@darrenrogers5174]

@@aa3konthego Ok. Thanks.

[@MaryBrownForFreedom]

Dang, I just realized I have been a ham for 50 years!!! If anyone knows of a log program that does VHF contests and supports FOUR radios without my having to resort to another computer and networking... I single op 6m thru 1296 plus 10ghz so a lot of radios to read data from... its enough of a zoo running the bands without having to grab a different keyboard and mouse... or use a switch to switch to a second computer...

[@aa3konthego]

DXLabSuite or N1MM. Both will handle at least 4 radios. For contesting N1MM is the way to go.

[@MaryBrownForFreedom]

@@aa3konthego N1MM is 2 radio as far as I can tell... yes I need it for contesting...

[@aa3konthego]

@@MaryBrownForFreedom I know one of the N1MM authors and will ask him.

[@aa3konthego]

@@MaryBrownForFreedom I checked with the N1MM author and you are correct, two radios max. DXLabSuite Commander rig interface will handle 4 radios but I've never pushed it for more than two. While it will do contests, its not as smooth as N1MM.

[@MaryBrownForFreedom]

@@aa3konthego I will check it out... for contesting fast flow is a must so if the user interface is clunky not good... on 6 meters 2 years ago during June VHF I was running 100 q's per hour! On top of running 2 meters, 70cm, 33cm, 23cm...

[@robmccray6360]

Was the N3FJP rig setup issue possibly because something else was already using the 7610 port?

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

I checked that. There wasn’t. But I had been connecting and disconnecting different apps all day. So it likely just got stuck. Oh well.

[@aa3konthego]

​@@HamRadioCrashCourseyou may have needed a computer reboot. I've had N3FJP hang it's rig interface twice on me in the field after changing bands. Need to further quantify what I was doing to change bands. Dis I do it on the rig or through the program?

[@MaryBrownForFreedom]

HRD server is running, it locks out any other com port use

[@teuluPaul]

Only windows options, no Linux? Anyway - thanks for sharing! Sad news about Bob Heil - RIP.

[@chrisgaeth]

I do not know of any straight Linux native loggers. There are directions out there to get it running in with Wine.

[@teuluPaul]

@@EricFullwood I actually use cqrlog, but with it's dependency on Lazarus, it can be a challenge to build on Gentoo. My laptop is NixOS, and cqrlog works well on it.

[@lucastancato4446]

I use cqrlog on my Linux.

[@chrisgaeth]

I understand HAMRS is no longer active development. Is that correct?

[@richerich853]

There hasn't been any updates.. 😢

[@aa3konthego]

I've had to hand edit ADIF files for various reasons. Not the most fun thing to do. Hand converting to Cabrillo would be a nightmare. Just let your computer do the Cabrillo exporting. It's not that Cabrillo is complicated. It's the amount of info you'd need to strip from an ADIF format.

[@Stover159]

Why can’t everyone just use QRZ to log? It has the Facebook type page and logging capability that isn’t too bad. I don’t really understand it.. I use QRZ & LOTW but never really understood it

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Are you manually typing in contacts?

[@Stover159]

@@HamRadioCrashCourse yes lol.. have been for years, what does most use?

[@jerryKB2GCG]

What if you have no Internet in the field? Automation with wsjt-x?

[@SteelWolf13]

Wonder if he ever finished it. I played it for about 4 hours.

[@tonyrowland9216]

QSL CARDS STILL A THING?

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Yes.

[@tomdonahoe3539]

Signed up for a service called eQSL. It lets you exchange electronic QSL Cards with other operators. Still learning to use it. 72

[@arlowandersen7719]

You obviously know your logging programs, but watching this was very difficult to follow due to the scattered presentation. Nevertheless, thanks for your effort.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

For sure, this is definitely not my best. After years of doing this, every weekend, being able to perform and teach detailed content is quite difficult.

[@EricSolomon-op8ti]

New ham. & after this video- I will simply WRITE down my contacts. seems not even the Experienced Computer guys can make this stuff work.

[@acars9999]

That is a reasonable conclusion. This video was painful. I got about half way through and gave up.

[@gfmucci]

Is that wine in your glass????

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Probably. I love wine.

[@geirha75]

QLOG

[@Spencer.76]

To Bob Heil!!! 🍻

[@lifegettingintheway2710]

When I decided to get back into Ham radio after a long period of absence (licenced in 1962, originally) I sniffed around sosh media to see what the current buzz wazz. And it turns out not to be much like what I experienced a few decades ago. It is somewhat appalling to see very little DIY, a butt-load of catalogue browsing hams trying to sound expert, long ago traditions and methods abandoned, and videos featuring radio loggers that exist in computers and cell phones. Not getting that, but assume today people do not like to write things down. All my log entries were done with a pencil in a paper log book, and I could fill in random comments regarding the op at the other end, details about their family, experiences, etc. The logging was as much a part of the QSO as was the conversation. This is exactly how my future log entries will be done. My log entries from the 1960's still exist. I wonder how many digital loggers can say that 60 years on. And we exchanged QSL cards and sometimes developed lasting connections. I still have every one I've ever received. No media translation needed. It arrived postmarked and still legible, and everyone is still pinable to any cork board I currently own. I don't have to back them up to long-term storage media - they are long term media. To be honest I am not certain I will enjoy today's amateur radio experience coming from before cell phones made everything we did trivial, and where the digital age provided instantaneous gratification unforseeably easy. Our ham stations have become FT8 robots and WSPR kiosks. Everything we own comes from some vendor, and the amateur radio experimenter is a throwback to the Jurasic era of radio. Everyone knows antenna and transmission line theory but nobody understands it. We buy canned solutions, jumpstart license courses we remember but don't understand, and rudeness is the lay of the land. God bless anyone with a brain who wanders into a conversation on theory because they affront what is today's common disinformed operators. People, if asked, will tell you they have a meter that measures SWR. Such a meter does not exist in this world or any other. These meters measure traveling way energy, some times both forward and reflected at the same time with dual movement meters, but it was the meter designer that provided the curved lines where at the junction of the meter pointers the SWR report occurs. No calcuation happens in the meter - it happens thanks to the meter dial's creator. Surely this will be thought heresey. I have double vision as a result of botched cataract surgery so appologize for any typos that may slip in.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

I see two options here. You are obviously passionate about this. One, you use and enjoy your ham radio in the way you think it should be done, without worrying how others use it. Two, you work to positively enable others in the hobby to know and do what you can do. The latter is much harder. But look at people like Bob Heil. A great AM enthusiast and builder. He brought his positive message to others and demonstrated what he loved.

[@skepticalmechanic]

Well you live In the past… can’t bring that back… just move forward or give it up… your choice.. hope your eye site improves.

[@lisocampos8080]

I wish everyone did not care about callsigns and just have an intelligent conversation.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

What a weird false dichotomy. You can both care about callsigns AND have intelligent conversations

[@Stover159]

😂😂🤦‍♂️

[@theexperimentalcqdx4208]

Hamrs once paid for, for Android. Works free on window s. Regards Mike ZS6MSW