The DETARC Club has two upcoming POTA outings planned in October and Winter Field Day is in January of 2025. At all of these events, multiple HF rigs will be operating with antennas in close proximity. While each rig will be on a different band, interference from strong out-of-band signals has been observed at other,…

When most hams think of logging software, they probably think about full-featured general loggers or contest loggers such as ACLog (N3FJP) or N1MM+. There are many other such loggers as well as lesser known special purpose loggers. In this article, I will describe some of both types that I have found useful. Accordingly, this will…

Back in April of 2023, I wrote an article about getting accurate location data into TQSL for uploading QSOs to LoTW. In that article, I described creating a new station location for each portable operating location. This is inconvenient and difficult to manage if you do a lot of portable operating. I have since learned…

This is a follow-up to my previous article on the POTAPlus web browser extension. With the help of “ham-proxy-app.exe” and Omnirig, POTAPlus provided rig control to QSY to POTA spots and set the correct mode. With ham-proxy-app.exe, POTAPlus would also log your contact and add your spot to POTA. As you may recall, POTAPlus did…