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IMPORTANT NOTICE: We have encountered an issue that is now completely resolved. If you received an incorrect copy, you can return it to Amazon for a refund. Once refunded, you can place a new order for the correct version. Thank you very much for your patience and trust!

Download the latest Release 2026.1.3.0

🔒 All Modules are now digitally signed

• Full compatibility with modern Windows
• Fewer alerts during installation and execution
• Increased security and reliability

• 👉 Updating to the latest version is recommended

FT8.it read the review of our FT8 and FT4 Manual

Our FT8 manual is gaining attention.

A specialized site has published an enthusiastic review, highlighting what many operators are already discovering: this isn't the usual theoretical book, but a practical guide designed to achieve real results.

Configuration, operating strategies, advanced use of WSJT-X and JTDX… everything is explained clearly and is immediately applicable. In an environment where noise is increasingly present, mastering FT8 can make the difference between just listening and successfully completing a QSO.

If you're using FT8 without maximizing its potential, or want to start the right way, this review will show you why more and more radio amateurs are choosing this manual.

👉 Read the full article here: 

Read the article on FT8.IT https://www.ft8.it/news/manuale-ft8-e-ft4-una-guida-pratica-per-radioamatori-per-massimizzare-il-potenziale-dell-ft8/2232/

Buy the FT8 and FT4 manual on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GK1HTD65

The new Reserved Area

We have redesigned the Reserved Area: a more pleasant and readable layout, a more integrated logic, and a better user experience.

In addition, from the new Reserved Area, it is now possible to access a new feature, “Discover the News”: a button that will allow you to instantly check, in 4 languages, all the news introduced after the release you have and will help you download or renew support if it has expired.

Support expiring at the end of the month?

Last days for renewal with 13 monthsinstead of 12. If your support expires at the end of April, hurry not to miss a free month!

Check the expiration date in the Reserved Area of EasyLog.

* Have you lost the credentials for the Reserved Area for renewal? Contact us

All our ebooks FT8 and FT4 Manual,  Mastering the DXCC and Smart DXing are now available on amazon.it in paperback!

You can also download our ebooks directly from our website starting from just €2.95

These aren't just manuals: they are practical tools designed to help you achieve results quickly. Clear texts, concrete examples, and immediately applicable advice allow you to improve from the first pages.

If you want to learn more, do better, and get more from your amateur radio activities, this is the starting point

👉 Download them now from our website.

Enjoy the reading!

• The promotion continues for new users, EasyLog with 12 months of free downloads and update services for only €39.95 instead of €49.95

Renew EasyLog for 12 months of downloads

Renewing the license, you will have 12 months of updates to new versions and services: Manager, DXCC, CHECK, diploma updates, and more.

Renewing before the expiration you will have 13 months of support instead of 12.

The renewal also offers access to the dedicated Facebook group and priority technical support — EasyLog is for those who do not want to fall behind!

And if you purchase EasyLog today, you'll pay €39.95 instead of €49.95 

EasyLog is not just a software: it's a true companion for every radio amateur.

With its unbeatable Award management, integrated FT8/FT4 support with LoTW, ClubLog, QRZ, eQSL and many exclusive features, it simplifies your life and makes every QSO a pleasure.

You also have technical support always by your side — because with EasyLog, you will never be alone.

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Tips & Tricks

🔒 Information on Windows Security Messages

Despite the new digital signature, some Windows 11 systems may continue to display protection messages during download or installation.

This is normal behavior for modern Microsoft security systems, which are increasingly strict with software downloaded from the Internet.

The digital signature introduced in this release improves software compatibility and recognition, significantly reducing these warnings.

In most cases, it only takes a few seconds to confirm the software's trustworthiness and proceed normally.

🔒 File download

During the download, some browsers or particularly updated Windows systems may display an additional security message for executable files downloaded from the Internet.

The new digital signature introduced in EasyLog 2026.1.3.0 improves software recognition and significantly reduces these warnings.

In some cases, it may still be necessary to manually confirm that you want to keep the downloaded file. Here is how to proceed:

1. Click the '...' menu (three dots), the following menu will open, click "Keep"

A window like this will appear:

Click on "Show Details" a menu will appear as shown in the figure below:

Finally click on "Keep anyway" - the application will be saved and ready to install.

First run of the installer

On the first launch of the installer, Windows may display an additional confirmation window.

This is a normal security check for applications downloaded from the Internet.

The new digital signature introduced in EasyLog 2026.1.3.0 now allows Windows to verify the authenticity and integrity of the software, clearly displaying the application's publisher.

To continue, simply click "Yes".

Over time, these alerts will tend to appear less frequently.

The new Reserved Area

We have redesigned the Reserved Area: a more pleasant and readable design, a more integrated logic, and a better user experience.

The new "Discover What's New" button allows you to check the updates introduced in the releases following the one installed on your device:

The new "Discover the News" button allows you to view the updates introduced with the releases following the one installed on your system:

You can thus navigate through all the releases and new features and quickly discover what's new.

And now you can access the Reserved Area even if your support has expired to check the updates released after the expiration and renew to download the new releases:

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From Our Community

When Silence Became a Sound in the Ether

He, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, is a strong name, a name that for us radio amateurs represents the beginning of everything, and when we tell his story, we remember that he was born in 1791 in Charlestown into a strict and cultured family. His father Jedidiah, a pastor and geographer, and his mother Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese instilled in him discipline, faith, and curiosity, qualities that he shared with his brothers Richard and Sidney and that accompanied him first in painting and then in his inventions. 

His life seemed destined for art until the late news of his wife's death showed him how cruel the slowness of communications of that era was, prompting him to seek a way to make words travel faster, and so in 1832, listening to a discussion on electromagnetism during a ship journey, he realized that electric current could become a messenger.

He built the first telegraph with simple materials and, together with Alfred Vail, created the Morse code, an essential language made of dots and dashes that in 1844, with the famous "What hath God wrought," inaugurated the first telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore, forever changing the world. 

 Telegraphy made news almost instantaneous, revolutionized journalism, accelerated diplomacy, transformed the economy, and connected continents that were previously separated by weeks of silence, and when in 1866 the transatlantic cable connected America and Europe, the Earth became smaller and closer.

And it is from this revolution that Guglielmo Marconi took the baton, because if Morse had demonstrated that a wire could carry a message, Marconi showed that the message could travel wirelessly, crossing air and ocean, delivering the first transatlantic signal in 1901 and paving the way for radio, and even though there was no direct relationship between the two, there is an ideal connection, almost a passing of the torch between the one who invented the language and the one who gave it the infinity in which to run.

And it is precisely from these origins that my personal connection with radiance arises, because every time I turn on the radio, listen to a distant signal, or send my call sign into the ether, I feel I belong to a story larger than myself, a story that began with an electric impulse and continued with a radio wave, and from here comes my desire to narrate it, to preserve it, and to transmit it, like a signal that must never be extinguished.

The Morse‑Vail Telegraph Key is preserved at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, at the National Museum of American History. It is the key constructed by Alfred Vail as an improvement on Morse's first transmitter and is considered to be the model actually used on the experimental telegraph line Washington–Baltimore in 1844, that of the message “What hath God wrought?”. 

The structure is simple and functional: wooden base, levers and brass contacts, return spring, adjustment screws. It measures about 17 cm in length, 7.6 in height, and 5 in width, with a weight of just over half a kilo. It marks the beginning of instant electrical communication. Previously, messages traveled only as voice or paper, with Morse and Vail they became impulses.

After the success of 1844, Vail improved the mechanism and simplified the code, but Morse's name remained the most remembered. Today, the key is displayed alongside the first recorders, sounders, and materials from the first transatlantic cable, as a symbol of the start of the electric era and as the material root of radiotelegraphy, the point where silence began to transform into signal.

Prototype of the telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse, from 1835 made with a painter's frame, electrical wires, an electromagnet, and a paper tape mechanism operated by a suspended weight. It is considered the first functioning telegraph in history. 

A faithful replica is now kept at the Science Museum in London, while the original is housed in American historical archives as a testament to the beginning of electrical communication.

Giorgio IZ3KVD

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