Issue #10 week 33, 2024

A note from the founders

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Dear Readers,

🤩 We are excited to share that we’ve reached the 10th issue of our new version of newsletter! It's been two and a half months since we embarked on this journey, and we hope you're enjoying the content and finding it useful and informative. Your support means a lot to us as we strive to bring you the best updates.

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Piero and Franco Pirrone, EasyLog’s founders

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New Release 2024.1.0.6 is available for download

by Franco Pirrone

By the time you read this newsletter, the new release 2024.1.0.6 will have been released. Let's take a look at it and explain what's new in it. The next release, which we have been working on for some time now, will include automatic eQSL support.

WSJT-X QSO import

We have worked to add the possibility to import the Power and the Note field. Since WSJT-X at lease in he actual release 2.6.1 has check to include/exclude the fields to import, we realized they don't work, so we preferred to add two new check boxes in the QSL settings tabsheet in EasyLog Add/Edit window.

email extraction from QRZ.com for QSL Courtesy module

We have carefully verified the process of email extraction from qrz.com in QSL section used by the QSL Courtesy.

EasyLog automatically ask for a new session to qrz.com when an active session has expired. This gives continuity in the query and the extraction progress should not be interrupted.

Please note that if you use QRZ.com in free mode you have a 150 queries per day limit, when this is finished you will not be able to make other queries, so in this case the automatical process of extraction will stop to get the emails.

To use the email extraction and other features that make automatic queries on QRZ.com in a massive way (like the FT8 WAS feature) please consider to use a paid mode account that has no query limits.

Now you can add or edit the emails after extractions

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We have now split the QSL courtesy button in QSL section in two different buttons.

One, the new yellow button, to extract the emails and the other, the blue one, to open the QSL Courtesy module and delivery the emails (see figure 1).

This approach give you the chance to edit the emails in case of mistake or to manually add emails that QRZ.com was unable to find. Just press Enter on a row or double click it to show the edit email dialog box.

QSL Courtesy @yahoo support

We added the support of @yahoo accounts to EasyLog QSL Courtesy

To setup a yahoo account, after selecting the QSO in the QSL buffer window, click the QSL Courtesy button to open the module and then click the Setup button to provide your @yahoo username and password.

Please note that, similarly to @gmail accounts, the password is not the one you use for yahoo.com webmail. You need to generate an App Password for EasyLog. Click the blue button in the setup dialog box for a step-by-step guide on generating the App password.

FT8-Running improved parsing

We have improved the parsing of the incoming data from WSJT-X / JTDX to recover the additional information that may be written in the CQ lines.

This additional information may include DX specifications such as CQ DX, CQ NA, CQ EU, or special awards such as POTA, IOTA, etc., so we highlight it so you can take advantage of it.

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you will receive a very special coupon offer!

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What's cooking?

Latest News

With the release of the new 2024.1.0.6 we are now fully back to work on the next release which will include automatic e-QSL support.

We are completing the transition to another, more powerful service for sending newsletters that will be more timely and faster. There are so many of you!

Current developments

eQSL automatic support

We are far along in the research and development and very close to having a preview available. Please stay tuned as this new feature is truly amazing and we are very proud of it.

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Tips & Tricks

This week we will start the exploration of the DX-Cluster support in EasyLog. We have three different display modes:

DX-List
Panel Cluster
DX-Hunter

All three have peculiarities and we do have our own preferences. We will speak this time of a very unique way to manage the incoming DX-Spots:

The Panel Cluster

To open the Panel Cluster view mode, just click on the Panel Cluster button on the right of the DX-Cluster area

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The Panel Cluster regroups all the DX-spots of the same DX callsign and allows you to have a more clear and clean vision of what is going on on the frequencies.

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The panel displays all the most important information of the DX-Spot, like the DXCC country and the other awards' information, if the DX station uses LoTW, and the number of times the DX station has been spotted.

The DX-Call, clicking the DX-Call the Running window will be opened with all the details allowing a quick and comfortable logging
The UTC time of the last spotter
The DX-Call uses LoTW.
The number of times the DX-Call has been spotted. By clicking it all spotters of the DX-Call will be shown
DXCC Mode status
Frequency of the Spot in KHz. By clicking it the TRX will be tuned automatically
DX Spot notes
DXCC band status
DXCC Band and mode status
DXCC status

Click on the color icon to know the color codes used by EasyLog

On the Panel Cluster bar some controls allows to change the order and to navigate between panel pages:

Show the panels in order of date and time (the last spots first)
Show the most spotted first
Show in DXCC status order (the Newones first)
Use the slide to adjust the time window in within to show the last spots (between 1 and 30 minutes)
Page navigation
Switch on and off the DX Spot pronounciation
Clean the DX-Spot panels

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