![]() The cost may seem high in today's world of cheap apps but you will find that you get what you pay for.Įarlier 5-star review posted by KD0PMW on Two critical features are excellent and responsive support and frequent upgrades to the software. You can print QSL cards or labels directly from your log, export contacts as ADIF file to upload. Track your awards progress when chasing DX, WAS, and IOTAs. The color coding lets you know if you have an entity worked already by band and mode and even if you have worked a particular callsign in the past. See a spot and click on it to tune the radio to the correct band, frequency, and mode. It does so much more than just logging and could be called MacSpotter since the DXClusters displays the latest spots while the Band display shows activity by band. I have been using MacloggerDX for many years and I wont run the radio without it fired up. in that yes they can do a lot of everything by compromising everything such that they actually do nothing really well. I guess Maclogger DX is in my mind rather like all-season tires, all-mountain skis, all-band antennas, etc. Maintaining 3 logs that don't tie together is a far cry from what was touted as 1 log doing everything. Currently I will might use Maclogger DX for some of my General Logging (due the money and time I already invested and the lack of other Mac logging software available), but I will have to still maintain paper log books for unsupported VHF/UHF contacts, plus a separate PC laptop with real Contest Logging software for Contesting at a Contest pace. To this end Mac users are very limited in their choices. Maybe someday there will be a logging program available for both Contesting and General Logging, but Maclogger DX doesn't cut it so don't even think that it might. Unfortunately Maclogger DX won't do either Contest or all of my General Logging for me. These all eventually became obsolete for me and as I also moved to a Mac personally I hoped for a Mac based Contest Logging solution. My frame of reference for expedient Contest Logging at contest pace has been the three programs I have previously owned and operated: CT, NA, and TR. In actual fact it only could support one of twelve possible entry classes that exist today for the ARRL VHF Contests. There is a third party Cabrillo Converter built and supported by a user group (not by the actual Maclogger DX developer) which attempts to create a proper Cabrillo log Contest entry from the Maclogger DX software's unique file format, and when you look at what contests are supported they claim it supports the ARRL VHF Contests, but it cannot possibly do so when you operate the aforementioned VHF/UHF bands. That was truly my hope, and I was very disappointed to invest around $100 and more importantly several hours to learn that it is just NOT suitable for contest logging as it is too slow to use for entering contacts at a contest pace, and that it is also not suitable for Contest and/or General logging if you operate VHF/UHF bands because it does not support many VHF/UHF bands that VHF-ers like me do regularly operate such as 222, 903, 1296, 2304, and 3456 MHz. From everything I read Maclogger DX would be a Mac user's dream logging program and would bridge the longstanding gap between Contest and General Logging, so you would only have to maintain one log.
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