![]() ![]() I subscribe to QRZ's internet look-up system. I have been using DX Keeper for the past few years, and it has been the finest general logging program, particularly for DX logging, that I have used. One of the most significant benefits of DM780 that impressed me is the almost automatic operation of the logger. What is the worst, though, is to want to try something out and be frustrated by the myriad stumbling blocks that more complex programs can add. Of course, complications mean features generally, and as the belt needs loosening, so to say, it is easy to slide up the scale. It is uncomplicated and provides a very functional introduction to the basics of digital keyboard modes without complications. I still recommend DigiPan as a first program for sampling PSK. In so far as eQSL - a reporting system I use because so many other hams, especially outside the US, want QSLs through that internet system - is fully automated and no bother to satisfy the eQSLers out there in DX Land (and many here in the US as well). The HRD/DM780 suite contains a logger that is quite good, though I have yet to find a way of easily uploading to LoTW through it. I have also dropped FLDIGI - though I like the program very much, I have found that Simon Brown's DM780 is far more versatile, and yet still is free to download and use. You can use VOX, but having real-time control of frequency and keying is a benefit - especially when it comes to logging. Since I am an ICOM fan(atic), I use the CI-V to control the rig through the COMM port. It does not control the rig, so you should either build a level-control or order one. ![]() I will add one thing to the above about the Signal Link USB - which interface I now am using on the air. ![]() If you like digital ops, I suggest giving it a try out (if you haven't already done so - I am often among the those who never "got the memo" so to say). Unlike MixW, FLDIGI will connect with that *other* site and swiftly look up a call and enter the data even before you save it to the log. I like that there is a gateway interface for DXKeeper - my principal logger - but it also works well as a stand-alone. I am now auditioning it on Windoze Vista and it seems to work very well. I had tried it with Linux in the past, but could never manage to interface properly with the rig. Working FLDIGI is pretty simple and straightforward, like Skip Teller's wonderfully simple DigiPan, but it is loaded with the versatility of a multiplicity of modes only a mouse-click away - very like MixW. Lots of folks like DM780 by Simon Brown, but I don't like the interface. It is the first digital mode program I have found that rivals, indeed may even exceed, MixW. I am very impressed with FLDIGI in its latest iteration. ![]()
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