In a short time I have made a good number of PSK QSOs as well as a some RTTY contacts, even giving some points away in the fast paced SCC RTTY contest last weekend. By double-clicking received text you can set Callsign, Locator, RST/Serial, Name/QTH quickly and with ease. On installation, the macros are already populated and labelled sensibly and are easily editable. The TX/RX window and QSO macros are easily accessible and I found the interface much more intuitive than other programs I have used. PZTLog uses the MMVari engine to operate PSK/RTTY and it uses a familiar waterfall display. I have tried PSK and RTTY before using other programs but I often found myself confused and intimidated by the interfaces and jargon. The really nice selling point for me was the inbuilt data mode operation. The program has a multitude of features but at the moment I am using it to simply enter and log details of contacts, combined with the CAT interface to the FT857-D and the OMNIRIG control the mode, frequency, band and power settings are automatically populated. After looking at a number of programs I opted to give Charlie Davy’s ( M0PZT) freeware PZTLog a try and after using it for a couple of weeks I am very impressed. Now my operating confidence has grown I am making more contacts and so I really need to computerise and centralise my logging. JT65 data mode logging was handled by the JT65HF program itself and for the UKAC and other VHF contests I have been using the MINOS logging program – all in all a bit of a mishmash. Until recently I had only made a small number of voice QSOs on HF and had entered those manually into the online eQSL, QRZ and HRDlog logbooks I maintain. With good intentions I purchased a proper RSGB Deluxe log book months ago but that has remained pristine and has just become a handy band-plan look-up! It consisted of a spiral bound note book full of various scrawls sometimes tabulated for contests but more often than not a free form mess.
Organisation isn’t one of my strengths and my logging of contacts has been pretty woeful.
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