I know this comes up from time to time, and I also know the answers can
be defended/argued as strongly as vi v emacs ;-) but I thought I'd ask
you guys what the cool kids are using for logging these days.
I've played with various logging programs over the years, none of which
I've ever stayed with, mostly for one big reason... no way to easily
store or sync the log data online somewhere. Which means if I use a
program on one laptop, that means it's yet another piece of data I have
to remember to sync between systems.
So I was hoping to get an idea of what good general purpose logging
programs are popular right now. I don't do a lot of contesting, so I
don't need that kind of horsepower, but something good for general
purpose logging.
Hopefully something that will sync on the fly or on demand with
something online (looking at LOTW, I've never used it before but maybe
that's the solution I'm looking for, even though their software doesn't
appear to be linux friendly).
I do most of my logging still with pen and paper because I've never
found a logging program that wow'ed me enough to stick with. I even
started writing my own at one point that was going to sync with a SQL
database hosted along with one of my websites, or at the very least sync
its data to one of my websites for backup purposes. But I got lazy and
abandoned that because pen and paper still work well.
It would be nice to have something that could do QSL lookups on the fly
but that's not necessarily required as I may or may not have internet
connectivity when operating (portable, QRP, etc)
Anyway, it just occurred to me to ask that old familiar question as I
sat here working today with the HF rig on behind me. I've stopped and
made a few contacts today, including an IOTA and a SOTA station on 20m
and realized that sometimes my logs consist of scraps of paper that were
handy when I needed something to write on :/
Cheers and 73,
Jeff
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