Recently several people on the list offered some excellent advice to a new ham
about keeping a log. One person said that they still liked to log by hand and
several others offered comments about the many advantages of using a computer to
keep your station log. I thought that I would briefly describe how I try to
have the best of both worlds.
I initially use a computer to log all of my contacts during the actual QSO.
This gives me all of the great features like awards tracking, checking for
previous QSOs, DX spotting, etc. But at the end of each month I print out a
copy of these contacts, hole punch the pages, and put them into a 3-ring binder.
In addition I add any other kinds of "radio news" to the binder. Things like
antenna experiments that I am trying out, newspaper articles and cartoons
related to ham radio, propagation observations, email messages exchanged with
other hams, etc. Over the years my binders form a rather complete autobiography
of my radio activities.
Several years ago I actually wrote an article about my logging that was
published on eham.net. If anyone is interested I think that the article is
still on line at
http://www.eham.net/articles/5252 (BTW, I now use a different
software package than the one described in the article. I use a freeware
program called Logger32.)
73,
Paul - N8XMS
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