YFKlog - yet another ham radio logbook

Status

31-January-2008

YFKlog 0.3.5 released. News:

• Remote logging from fldigi.
• Custom award support
• See Changelog for all changes.

Introduction

YFKlog is a general purpose ham radio logbook for *nix operating systems. It runs in text mode, which means it can easily be used on a remote server, even from Windows-Computers with PuTTY.

It was primarily designed with normal HF/VHF-operation in mind, for Contesting I wrote YFKtest which is in an early stage of development, but already served its purposes in several contests: YFKtest.

Manual *new*

The manual describes most functions and features of YFKlog in detail. It's under permanent construction.

Key features

• Simple Console based user interface.
• MySQL or SQLite database backend
• Unlimited number of logs manageable
• ADIF import and export
• Easy log backup
• High quality QSL (cards, labels) print with LaTeX: Sample PDF file (quite a few google hits for "QSL card latex", probably looking for something like this?)
• Award tracking/statistics functions (examples)
• ARRL LOTW support
• Basic transceiver control via Hamlib

Screenshots

The picture shows the main logging screen of YFKlog running in an xterm. There is also an alternative screen layout available.

More screenshots

Main Menu

Main Menu. All functions of YFKlog can be accessed from here.

QSL-write mode

For those who still write paper QSLs: All queued QSOs are listed in alphabetical order. After writing the QSL-card, the QSL status of a QSO can quickly be toggled.

QSL receive mode

Enter 3+ letters of a callsign, and a list with all matching QSOs is displayed. QSL-received-status can be quickly toggled.

Award tracking

YFKlog offers award tracking for DXCC, WPX, WAZ, IOTA, WAC and WAS. LOTW confirmations are fully integrated. Additionally some statistic functions are implemented (example HTML-output). Marker files for xplanet can be generated automatically: See example.

ADIF import

YFKlog imports ADIF logs. A detailled error- and warning-report is written to ensure that no data is lost without the user's attention.

Online-Log

The creation and upload of an online searchable log is easy to do with YFKlog.

System requirements

• Perl 5 with Curses, DBI
• SQLite 3 with the required Perl bindings, or access to a MySQL DB
• LaTeX 2e with geometry package (optional, only for QSL label print)
• any old computer, the author is using YFKlog on a PII-600 with 128MB RAM, running FreeBSD 5.3. It was developed and tested mainly using Mandrake 9.2, Debian 3.1 and FreeBSD 5.3.

License, Download

YFKlog is free software (free as in beer and free as in freedom) and published under the GPL 2.

All released versions can be found in the download directory.

Author, Contact, Feedback

YFKlog was written by Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK.

I am always interested in any kind of feedback concerning YFKlog. If you have any suggestions, questions, feature-requests etc., don't hesitate a minute and contact me via eMail or ICQ (169955833).

SVN access

All projects are also available via Subversion.

• Subversion: svn://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/yfk/
• HTTP: http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi

For those not familiar with SVN: You can always fetch the latest version by:

svn checkout svn://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/yfk/             # whole repository
svn checkout svn://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/yfk/qrq/         # only qrq
svn checkout svn://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/yfk/yfklog/      # only yfklog  etc...

But be aware that this version may not be 'stable' at all. If you don't like experiments, just continue to use the normal releases.

I'll gladly grant write access to the repository as needed, just drop me a line.

Mailing list

For user support, announcements of new releases and general discussion, a mailing list has been set up. To subscribe or browse the archives, please visit this link.