It does beg the question if there is a use case where someone is not exporting 
their ADIF log to a real logging program (or using JT-ALERT to do it for them). 
As has been said, I would expect the station logger to have the QRZ, HamCall, 
etc interface and NOT WSJT-X.


Tom Schaefer, NY4I
Blog: www.ny4i.com
Madeira Beach, FL (Grid: EL87ot)




> On Dec 3, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Hasan N0AN <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Please do not ask the developers to turn WSJT-X into Bloatware. Focus on the 
> core functions and let 3rd party apps do the rest. They are out there. The 
> interface to them already exists. Don't recreate the wheel and negatively 
> impact the decoding of weak signals by trying to make WSJT-X into a Swiss 
> Army Knife.
> 73, N0AN
> Hasan
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:11 PM Adam Bartlett <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I want to agree with Jim N2ADV here - WSJT-X is a great application for weak 
> signal work.  ACLog/Log4OM/RUMLog are great loggers that will tie to 
> QRZ/HamQTH/a database of US Hams from the FCC's dump/etc, and two of the 
> three are free (plus CQRLog and other tools).  In information systems we're 
> moving away from monolithic services/software toward microservice 
> architectures - I see WSJT-X as a weak signal microservice that talks to my 
> logging microservice that might also talk to FLDigi or a SSTV tool.
> 
> 73,
> Adam Bartlett
> N5YHF
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 1:38 PM James Shaver (N2ADV) <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> So many users have so many different tastes that the UI really should be 
> dedicated to decoding functions vs what are “quality of life” functions.  If 
> you try to sharpen a hammer to make it a knife, you’ll have a mediocre knife 
> and a terrible hammer. 
> 
> Just my 2 cents... 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim S. 
> N2ADV
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Neil Zampella <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> There are many for Windows, and I'm fairly sure that Gridtracker does a 
>> lookup also, and its available for Linux.  
>> As far as modifying the wsjtx_log file, why?    Again, you're adding 
>> complexity to the program that is not really needed, and would add to the 
>> support issues seen here.
>> 
>> Neil, KN3ILZ
>> 
>> On 12/3/2020 11:37 AM, Dave Slotter, W3DJS wrote:
>>> You said, "there are plenty of third-party bridge, programs that do this as 
>>> do many logging programs"
>>> 
>>> Please support your statement with specific examples.
>>> 
>>> I would like to know which of these run under Linux and directly modify the 
>>> file "wsjtx_log.adi" file.
>>> 
>>> Thank you. Regards
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS>
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 11:29 AM Neil Zampella <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> FWIW ... there are plenty of third-party bridge, programs that do this
>>> as do many logging programs.  Adding something that requires Internet
>>> access both ways, rather than the PSK Reporter's feed only, may cause
>>> other issues, as well as add on to the support issues often seen here.
>>> 
>>> Neil, KN3ILZ
>>> 
>>> On 12/3/2020 8:38 AM, John Nelson wrote:
>>> > Dave,
>>> >
>>> > Scheme to populate name field in log:   good idea but —  you suggest 
>>> > “full names” where it seems to me “first name” would be sufficient and 
>>> > appropriate.  Comment?
>>> >
>>> > — John G4KLA
>>> 
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