Changelog:
- NEW: Enhancements for Rotor control:
- Now you can set bands handled by the rotor. The “Turn antenna” function implemented in the QSO Entry, DX Cluster windows or Band Maps will only work if transceiver is tuned in any of the selected bands (transceiver control must be started).
- Up to 4 rotors supported by using PstRotator! Swisslog will be able to select the corresponding rotor automatically when changing bands on the transceiver. Please read the chapter Rotor control in the Swisslog help!.
- NEW: Enhancements for satellite operations:
- QSO entry: added a button to activate / deactivate panel for propagation mode and satellite name. You can activate / deactivate this button also with Ctrl+Alt+S. These fields are specific for 10m and V/U/SHF bands. In order to avoid setting a propagation mode or satellite name when working on bands lower than 10m, If transceiver control is started and this panel is activated, Swisslog will deactivate it automatically if one of the following conditions meets:
- if propagation mode is SAT and you change bands other than 10m, 2m, 70cm,13cm or 23cm (satellite bands used for uplink).
- if band is lower than 10m
- World map: added a SAT button to show only DXCC/Grids for QSOs made by satellite on the selected bands/modes.
- When activating the panel to display the propagation mode and satellite name fields, now Swisslog sets the last content assigned on these fields.
- Selecting a propagation mode different than SAT will clear satellite name automatically.
- When selecting SAT it will recall latest satellite name used.
- When selecting a satellite, propagation mode will be set automatically to SAT.
- After selecting any propagation mode or satellite name, focus will go automatically to the Callsign field.
- Added Sat Mode and Sat Name fields in the Previous QSO / New QSO listing in the QSO Entry window.
- Added: HO-107 and RS-44 to satellite list.
- NEW: Tools menu: added options to update the statistic database and country table to the latest available. Swisslog will release a message at startup when a new country table/statistic database is available. So no more manual operations to update these important databases!
- NEW: CW Type: now Swisslog will save current QSO if found one of these sequences on macros: ~[lgs] or `[lgs]
- NEW: Users retrieving data from QRZ/HAMQTH/QRZCQ, WAZ and ITU zones will be read from the QSO partner profile (if assigned) if Geographical Coordinates field has been checked in the Field Copy Instruction in the Callbook Cd / Internet databases tab.
- NEW: Logbook views > Update QSOs with data from Country Table and/or Callbook Cd / Internet databases: if you use internet databases you can now set the QSL Manager field. This option extracts the first valid callsign found in the QSL INFO field. Very useful to set QSL manager after importing QSOs from a contest program. QRZ is the recommended option to get the best results (XML subscription needed!).
- NEW: Export to WSJT-X: added a field to select the Callsign to export (callsings defined in MyQTH). Leaving this field empty will select ALL your callsigns.
- NEW: Tools > Update awards information: added “Update ALL and shut down computer”. Useful to leave this function working and shut down computer automatically when finished.
- NEW: Transceiver control with OmniRig: Swisslog will generate a beep sound at transceiver control start up and when selecting a Rig in toolbar according these conditions:
- Rig1: 1 beep
- Rig2: 2 beeps
- Rig3: 3 beeps (OmniRig v2)
- Rig4: 4 beeps (OmniRig v2)
This is very useful for blind users or users having vision problems.
- NEW: QSO Entry: The following shortcuts are available in the QSO Entry window:
- Ctrl+Alt+B: if using a rotor interface and rotor toolbar is displayed, focus will be placed at rotor field to set beaming manually
- Ctrl+Alt+C: activate/deactivate the CW button
- Ctrl+Alt+R: changes rotor if using multiple instances of PstRotator
- Ctrl+Alt+S: activate/deactivate the special modes (propagation) and satellite fields.
- Ctrl+Alt+T: changes radio if using OmniRig (same as clicking on the Rig number in the transceiver control toolbar).
- NEW: Confirmation message when closing: very useful to avoid closing Swisslog accidentally.
- NEW: Added FT8DMC for membership panel.
- NEW: Added FT8DMC statistic in C_SP11 field.
- Corrected: Import QSOs: Longitude and latitude were checked during QSO importation and any mismatch caused Swisslog to create new HomeQTHs unneccesarily. Now longitude and latitude are not checked when importing QSOs to prevent this.
- Corrected: Users from 9A, E7, HA, OM, S5: it was not possible to add QSO not in real time because a wrong date format error was displayed. Language of these countries uses blanks between date separator and needed a special workaround in the code.
- Corrected: WSJT Band Maps: DT was not displayed when checking the View DT option.
- Corrected: WSJT Band Maps: When a callsign was in the QSO Entry window, mode field was changing to SSB sometimes.
- Corrected: WSJT-X/JTDX link: Accented/special characters in Name/Comments were not passed correctly to Swisslog.
- Corrected: WSJT-X UDP settings: if Auto Start is checked in one section and program path was blank, a file explorer window was opened when Swisslog starts up.
- Corrected: Transceiver control: file explorer opens continuosly when setting up HRD for the first time.
- Corrected: Image viewer: violation errors when closing manually the image viewer window.
- Corrected: Image viewer: when saving an eQSL card the filename was empty when should be set automatically to “call mmddyyyy band mode”.
- Corrected: Callbook query: portable callsigns in other countries (i.e.: ZA/EA3GCV) were always searched for the home call. This caused wrong callbook information if this station had a specific profile for such portable callsign.
- Corrected: when editing QSO from US, the State displayed was different from the one really stored in the database.
- Corrected: Merging data from import QSO function: violation access error and conversion stopped.
- Corrected: World Map: If CAT button was disabled, DXCC/Grid fields were always set to All/None respectively at map startup, ignoring user changes.
- Corrected: some popups menus for Copy, Paste were only in English. Now it will be displayed in the selected language.
- Corrected: QSO Entry: Missing label in the QTH Name field.
- Corrected: QSO entry: Prev and New QSO listings: the Comments field was displayed as MEMO. Now you can see the contents of the first 75 characters of this field.
- Corrected: Country table: WAZ was defined as zone 4 for US States FL and GA when is zone 5. At first start up of this version Swisslog will fix automatically this in all your QSO with these US States.
- Corrected: IOTA statistic: added LoTW confirmations and some queries in the IOTA folder.
- Corrected: Using ARS-VCOM as Rotor control: fixed COM port error while starting ARSVCOM
- Updated: 30MDG, AGCW, ARLHS, BCA, CLUBLOG, CWOPS, DCE, DCI, DEE, DEFE, DERESP, DFCF, DIG, DME, DMVE, EA QRP, EPC, eQSL, ERC, FISTS, FOC, FT8DMC, HSC, IOTA, LYNX, LOTW, MF, NDG, SKCC, SOTA, TBDXC, TEN TEN, URE, WCA and WFF statistics on 18/07/2020
- Updated country table. THANK YOU VERY MUCH to Erik, EI4KF.
