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A note from the founders

Dear readers,

 

Welcome to the eighth edition of our newsletter! We're thrilled to unveil our latest update, featuring an enhanced log management function.

 

This improvement aims to make your experience smoother and more efficient. Your feedback and support have been crucial to this development, and we sincerely appreciate it.

 

Best regards

 

                      -Franco & Piero Pirrone,
                      Co-founders of EasyLog

The road we have traveled has been long and difficult, but we have not faltered.

 

-King Juan Carlo from Spain

The new release

The QSL Courtesy now supports @yahoo accounts

The new release includes an update to QSL Courtesy module, that is now also compatible with @yahoo email accounts.

 

To do so, after selecting the QSO in  the QSL buffer window, click the QSL Courtesy button to automatically extract the correspondent's emails and wait for the QSL Courtesy module to open.

 

Click Setup and provide your @yahoo username and password like <your-email@yahoo.com>.

 

Please note, similar 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 for a step-by-step guide on generating the App password.

The email extraction for QSL Courtesy has been revised

We have revised the email extraction algorythm from QRZ.com / HamQTH.com

We had received some reports of mafunctions after a few extraction the extraction would stop. 

 

Now the problem has been fixed

FT8-Running

We have improved the parsing of the incoming data from WSJT-X / JTDX to capture the callsign in those cases awards informations are included in the CQ text.

 

Tnx Anton,  W1DYS

What's cooking?

Latest News

• The release 2024.1.0.6 will be available in the next few days on the User Reserved Area. Thank you for your patience!

 

• The past issues of the newsletter will be available on easylog website in the Newsletter page by the end of the next week.

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Current developments

We have successfully completed the new release and are now working on the next one, which will include, among other features, automatic eQSL support. We are working tirelessly to achieve this.

We are working on a new feature for FT8-Running that allows scanning different bands on a configureable time based schedule.

We will soon release an ebook focused on FT8/FT4 modes, covering the theory, hardware and software setup, and tips and tricks to master this digital mode. More details will be shared in upcoming Newsletters, stay tuned!

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Tips & Tricks

Some users asked on the EasyLog FB customer service groups how to upload the entire LOG to qrz.com. Curious, I decided to explore it myself.

 

I closed EasyLog, opened the Adif Converter, and exported the entire Log to ADI.

 

I then visited qrz.com, logged in, clicked my name at the top right, and selected "My Logbook" from the drop-down menu:

Since I had never uploaded a QSO, my log was empty:

By clicking on the icon on the top right corner the ADIF import window opens

I clicked on Choose File and picked the previously created ADI file.

The name of the ADI file had the same name as the LOG in Easylog, in my case Enzo.adi. I put the tick in the Send me a report by e-mail after the file was processed checkbox.

 

After a while I received the email report which contained:

 

QRZ has completed the import processing of your logbook file.

 

Book: "IK8OZV Logbook" (327650)

 

 Import Results:

 

 0 QSOs were inserted

 0 duplicates were replaced

 0 duplicates ignored

 18062 errors.

 0 queued for confirmation checking

Surprisingly, none of the QSO was imported generating as many errors as the number of the QSO. The errors looked like:

Error on record: I1BIT de ENZO on 1990-06-07 21:16:00. could not be imported into the specified book (). This can happen because the callsign doesnt match or the QSOs date/time is outside of the logbooks date range.

I started to question myself if what I did was wrong and why in the error report it said 'de ENZO' and not 'de IK8OZV', my callsign?

 

At this point I edited the ADI fileremoved all the records except one and tried again, with the same result.

 

Finally, I got it. The QSO records where exported in the ADIF file with the name of the log in the ADIF tag OPERATOR while QRZ.com expected the callsign in that field and the content of OPERATOR must match the name of the Log of your account.

Then I decided to take a look on EasyLog. From the Tools menu, clicking on the Setup button, then on Log Settings

The following dialog box appeared:

So I realized that the Call field associated to my Log was my first name while it should be my callsign. EasyLog uses this field to export as OPERATOR tag in the ADIF file, and QRZ specifically checks if the content of that tag matches with the Log name. 

 

I changed to my callsing IK8OXV and I re-exported my full Log using EasyLog ADIF Converter. Finally I uploaded again in QRZ.com

This time the email report was positive and almost all QSO were imported except a few douplicates

17591 QSOs were inserted in QRZ.com log as you can see in the image below

Thank you guys, have fun and see you next time.

 

73 de Enzo IK8OZV
EasyLog 5 BetaTester
EasyLog PDA BetaTester
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Ideas are like butterflies fluttering all around me. Each one is precious, but some are more delicate and deserve more attention. 

 

In EasyLog, these delicate creatures are embraced, nurtured, developed and released. As they are shared, they grow, resonate, and inspire others, reaching new heights.

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From our community

We want to thank once again our contributors for their participation to our newsletters. As soon as we will receive more pictures of your shacks, we will happily publish them in this section. 

 

We invite you to send your pictures or your articles to l.rainville@easylog.com

 

Thank you!

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Smile Zone

 

Don't wait too much to download our latest release. Begin to enjoy it now. They are free to all our registered users with current access to the Users Reserved Area.

At EasyLog, we are always there to provide you with new content and guide you in the proper direction. Don't hesitate to contact us.

Enter the Reserved Area and explore what you will find there.

 

73 and Good DX's from EasyLog Team