YFKlog - yet another ham radio logbook

Status

08-September-2019

YFKlog 0.6.0 released

• DX cluster and bandmap functions improved
• Improvements for screen reader users (accessibility)
• Documentation update
• See Changelog.

02-August-2019

YFKlog 0.5.0 released

• LoTW integration improved (display of imported/confirmed QSOs)
• Support for terminals larger than 80x25 characters
• Experimental DX cluster bandmap

Introduction

YFKlog is a general purpose ham radio logbook for Linux and Unix operating systems. It runs in text mode, which means it can easily be used on a remote server, even from Windows computers with PuTTY.

It was primarily designed with day to day HF/VHF-operation in mind, for contesting have a look at YFKtest.

Manual

The manual describes the installation process and most functions and features of YFKlog in detail. It's under permanent construction.

Key features

• Simple Console based user interface.
• MySQL or SQLite database backend
• Unlimited number of logs manageable
• ADIF import and export
• Easy log backup
• High quality QSL (cards, labels) print with LaTeX: Sample PDF file (quite a few google hits for "QSL card latex", probably looking for something like this?)
• Award tracking/statistics functions (examples)
• ARRL LoTW integration
• Basic transceiver control via Hamlib
• DX cluster / bandmap

Screenshots

The picture shows the main logging screen of YFKlog running in an xterm. There is also an alternative screen layout available. The logging screen scales vertically to fit into the terminal window.

More screenshots

Main Menu

Main Menu. All functions of YFKlog can be accessed from here.

QSL-write mode

For those who still write paper QSLs: All queued QSOs are listed in alphabetical order. After writing the QSL-card, the QSL status of a QSO can quickly be toggled.

QSL receive mode

Enter 3+ letters of a callsign, and a list with all matching QSOs is displayed. QSL-received-status can be quickly toggled.

Award tracking

YFKlog offers award tracking for DXCC, WPX, WAZ, IOTA, WAC and WAS. LOTW confirmations are fully integrated. Additionally some statistic functions are implemented (example HTML-output). Marker files for xplanet can be generated automatically: See example.

ADIF import

YFKlog imports ADIF logs. A detailled error- and warning-report is written to ensure that no data is lost without the user's attention.

Bandmap

A simple way to display the activity from the DX cluster or the RBN in YFKlog.

System requirements

• Perl 5 with Curses, DBI
• SQLite 3 with the required Perl bindings, or access to a MySQL/MariaSQL database
• LaTeX 2e with geometry package (optional, only for QSL label print)
• trustedqsl for LoTW functions
• YFKlog is very light on system resources and will run on any old computer with Linux or BSD

See the YFKlog Manual for installation instructions.

License, Download

YFKlog is free software (free as in beer and free as in freedom) and published under the GPL 2.

All released versions can be found in the download directory. The git repository can be found at https://git.fkurz.net/dj1yfk/yfklog/.

Author, Contact, Feedback

YFKlog was written by Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW (ex DJ1YFK, thus the name).

I am always interested in any kind of feedback concerning YFKlog. If you have any suggestions, questions, feature-requests etc., don't hesitate a minute and contact me via eMail.