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VHF &
Microwave Contest
Logger Software
By: Bertrand Zauhar,
VE2ZAZ / VA2IW
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Page last updated: 08/10/2023
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This amateur radio software
provides the ability to log and display the
QSOs (radio contacts) made during one of the
ARRL VHF, NA VHF Sprints or various NA
Microwave contests. It offers a simple and
efficient interface customized for these
contests. The interface is distributed over
several independent windows, which allows the
user to better organize the desktop. The
software performs continuous "dupe checks" and
score calculation. It also displays the worked
grid squares using color boxes on a zoom-able
Maidenhead grid world map. Both 4-character
and 6-character grid square logging is
supported. Digital QSOs made on the WSJT-X
software can be automatically logged. To save
the contest information, the script uses a
simple CSV (comma-separated text) file; no
complex database is used. Since this software
is a python script, it can be run on Linux,
Windows and Mac, once the python-3 interpreter
is installed. Another benefit of being a
Python script is that it uses a simple text
file as source code. It can thus be easily
improved and customized by the user. Though it
is customized for VHF and Microwave
contesting, this software can also be used for
general logging of VHF/UHF contacts.
Please see the GitHub project
repository, and in particular the Help.pdf
file, for all the details on this software
package, the installation procedure and for
some additional screenshots of the software
windows.
Software
Download
The VHF &
Microwave Contest Logger software is
contained in a single folder that can be
downloaded from GitHub (hyperlink below).
Simply decompress the downloaded .zip file
to a suitable disk location of your choice.
More details on running the software are
provided in the help file mentioned above.
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