I would hesitate to call these "full featured and mature" as compared to
DXKeeper, which automates applications for awards like DXCC, and
tabulates totals for dozens of awards by band and mode. Nor as compared
to N1MM Logger Plus, which supports hundreds of contests and has many
features that simplify contesting and make the operator more
competitive. N1MM Logger Plus supports hundreds of rigs; RUMPed supports
only the handful of rigs the program author owns and is feature-poor
compared to N1MM Logger Plus. DXKeeper supports IOTA, WAS, WAC, WAZ,
WPX, CQ Field Award, US counties, VUCC (VHF/UHF grids), Fred Fish (6M US
grids), and dozens of awards from ham societies in UK, France, Spain,
Russia, Japan, and lots of other countries. It imports contest logs, and
allows you to keep track of QSOs by contest! It also logs TX power, so
I can sort QSOs by power to check for status of what I've achieved QRP
(150 countries worked so far).
NY4I just posted statistics for logging programs used by those
submitting logs for CQWW CW and SSB last year. N1MM was the most popular
by far -- 44% of logs used it. WinTest was next with 8%, TR4Win with 6%,
CTESTWIN, N3FJP, and WriteLog , each with 4%, and QARTest with 3%. ALL
of those are Windoze programs.
I made the recommendations for DXKeeper and N1MM because they are top
programs in their class -- you won't find yourself having to learn
something else when you get serious, or export years of logs to a new
format. They are both FREE, well supported, and reasonably easy to
learn. Indeed, my experience has been that it's much easier to learn a
program when you don't have UN-learn another program that does the same
thing.
FWIW -- I started with WriteLog in 2003, used it for four years. Friend
AE6RF was running FD for our group and declared that we were using N1MM,
so I downloaded and learned it. Within four months, I had abandoned
WriteLog, and I've never looked back. It wasn't the cost, it was the
features!
73, Jim K9YC
On Wed,1/27/2016 2:17 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
I have used RUMlog (a general purpose log program) and RUMped (a
contest logger) for several years. They are mature programs and
Thomas, DL2RUM provides excellent support. He has a new logging
program, RUMlogNG which provides the functionality of both programs
and is available at not cost through the Apple App store.
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