It was breakfast time in Germany, dinner time in Australia, but Tom was able to interrogate my transceiver, fiddle with the arcane and mysterious CAT commands until lo and behold a new version of the program was in my inbox containing the appropriate driver for my rig! Unfortunately Yaesu does not seem to provide a CAT command for the PTT on the 920, so that was the only missing link.Įmailed this small gripe to Tom - then hey presto another vision of the program turned up containing the missing command (which turns out to be the same as used by the 890). This is where the writer of this software went above and beyond. Plenty of newer rig drivers were included, but not the venerable 920. Transferred my old PC logs using ADIF, connected to LoTW, EQSL, QRZ.com and DX spot server with no problem and off I went.īut wait! There was no connection with my FT920 so was unable to read or send frequency & mode information. Then of course the inevitable happened - the laptop wouldn't load an update and began to run like a dead wombat.ĭetermined to find a Mac logger, I tried the usual suspects and eventually arrived at RUMlog. Having moved to Mac some time ago, I kept a Windows laptop just for logging and radio-related uses. Easy to learn, easy to use, and powerful functionality makes RUMLog a winner. RUMLog's intuitive layout, effortless LOTW/eQSL integration, QRZ lookup, Search functions, etc., are easy on the eyes and brain. I much prefer it to the popular MacLogger. RUMLogNG is very well designed/coded software for DXers. Being excellent software, I't was a tough act to follow.

Previously I logged with DXKeeper, from the DXLab suite. I've been using RUMlogNG daily for about a month now. Thank you DL2RUM! 73Įarlier 5-star review posted by ZS1DX on RUMlog is available in the App Store, and updates from the App Store - the way serious Mac software should be. But RUMlog is, for me at least, more functional for the DX'er. MacLogger has more eye-candy, is prettier. I had high hopes for MacLoggerDX, but found the LoTW, ClubLog integration, award tracking, QSL tracking and 'all the info I need at a glance' not as useful as in RUMlog.

On the Windows platform I prefer DXlab, albeit somewhat clunky and convoluted. Also own and have used AC Log as well as MacLoggerDX. I own and have used DX4WIN for many years. RUMlogNG is my favourite logging software. Most of what's in that manual isn't much more than a guide on how to start figuring out things yourself.īut so many great reviews tells me one of two things.Įither it's just not for me, or others have worked their way around the shortcomings and have a lot more patience than I have. But with all the other hassles I found it a bloated, and sometimes tedious program with a user manual that falls short of being much help. There are literally dozens of columns, most of which are of little value to anyone but those who have nothing better to do than collect myriads of otherwise useless information about a QSO. And yes, those fields still show in the input section causing you to tab through them or use the mouse to skip them.

While you can hide whatever log columns you don't want to use while logging QSOs, doing so does not remove the underlying column and yes it will be included in the export/import to a spreadsheet. In order to print the log correctly, you must export the log, then import it into a spreadsheet program and print it from there, after editing the columns that you want or don't want to show in the printout. Further, there are printing functions even though all it prints is a pdf image of a portion of the log.

Getting any kind of control through my transceiver was a waste of many attempts. The maps can be off by hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles relying very often on outdated info from the sites that its gathered from (even though the maps on the actual mapping websites themselves that this program gets its info from are accurate). I've yet to see any DXCC spots with this program and LoTW reports are't always accurate. I honestly don't get the great reviews for RUMlogNG.Īs a logging program it's fine. Good for some things, not so good for others

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