Hello - please could you add space for completion times of HF contacts. It is SO important when you are having a long QSO. It is the one thing stopping me moving over.
James.
GM0GMN
As a relative newbie to HF I’m asking this out of ignorance; are you saying that you log the beginning AND the end times of your QSOs?
If so, what is the purpose of doing that?
Yes - it’s a requirement of the licence in many countries for you to log the start and the end of the QSO. It’s fine if you are working POTA and just exchanging a 59 report but what if you are chatting to a station for 40 minutes. One time is NOT reflective of your QSO. ALL the major logging programs record a start and finish time.
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@GM0GMN Hey Jim,
I’ve added this as a feature request and talked to the team about this. I’ve created a custom logbook template called ‘Ragchew’ that you can use however there is an issue with that custom field I added (TIME_OFF) not getting exported in the ADIF. So we’ll address both in the feature request.
Thanks & 73
Brad K4AZE
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@GM0GMN James, thank you for the education. Any day I learn something new it’s a good day.
No problem. Happy to help - this will be a major help to WRL and will bring over a lot more users.
Thanks Brad - I appreciate this SO MUCH and I believe it will bring a lot of HF operators across to WRL. I take it I need to wait for the feature request and then I will be able to transfer my current logbooks across to WRL? I really like WRL and this was the one thing that was stopping me move over. Regards, James. GM0GMN.