Version 1.2.1 · Beta
The first release since 1.1.9. Contacts can now upload to a QRZ.com logbook, remember the station they were made from, and use a dedicated Operators tab.
Upload to your QRZ.com logbook
Contacts can be sent to a QRZ logbook as they are logged. Turn it on under My Station and paste the API key for the logbook you want them in.
Uploading requires a QRZ subscription at XML level or higher — QRZ's requirement, not this program's. The API key is stored on this machine only and is deliberately left out of an exported station profile.
- The queue is kept in the logbook file, so a contact logged with no signal uploads on the next run that reaches QRZ. Closing the program does not lose it.
- Only contacts logged after the setting is switched on are candidates. Turning it on does not publish your back log, and importing an ADIF file never sends someone else's contacts to your account.
- Editing a contact QRZ already holds re-sends it as a replacement, so it is corrected rather than duplicated.
- A contact QRZ refuses is marked failed and left alone until you edit it. A contact that could not be sent because the network was down stays queued.
Contacts remember the station they were made from
Previously only the callsign was recorded on each contact; everything else about your station was read at export time. Move house or replace a radio, and every QSO could quietly export the new details.
Each contact now stores its own grid square, city, state, postal code, CQ and ITU zones, coordinates, rig and antenna. Change any of it and past contacts still export what they were actually made with.
Contacts logged before this release keep the fallback behaviour: location is not back-filled because there is no record of where the station used to be. Rig and antenna are back-filled from the setup each contact named.
An Operators tab
An operator record describes a person, not one contact. It now has its own tab rather than living on the QSO form.
Callsign modifiers no longer split one person into several records. K3TCM, K3TCM/P and KH6/K3TCM are one operator with one set of notes. Exports are unaffected: each contact records the callsign actually worked.
If your logbook already contains an operator filed under more than one form of the same callsign, those rows are left as they are. The roster is the place to see and fix them.
- A roster of everyone worked, with their contact count and when you last worked them. Search matches on callsign.
- The detail view edits the record and has a Look up on QRZ button that refreshes it from the callbook.
- Remove is offered only for an operator with no contacts on file.
- The Operator card on the QSO screen is now read-only, with a link through to this tab.
Also in this release
- Operator notes typed on the QSO form are saved.
- The Logbook tab has a callsign filter that matches on part of a callsign as you type.
- The Windows installer offers a desktop shortcut and asks before creating either shortcut.
- The Android build no longer reports itself as version 1.1.0.
Upgrading
Install over the top of the existing version. Your logbook file is untouched by the installer and is upgraded in place the first time 1.2.1 opens it; nothing already in it is changed or discarded.
Going back to 1.1.9 afterwards is possible but not advised. Copy the file first if you intend to try it.