Why Logger
WHY Logger
Current version: 2.5
WHY Logger is a lightweight Windows contest logger for VHF, UHF and microwave operation, mainly developed for the Swedish NAC contests.
Version 2.5 includes a modernized interface and several new functions while keeping the program simple and fast to use during a contest.
Main features
- NAC, SM-Open and SM-Micro logging
- Bands from 28 MHz to 248 GHz
- REG1TEST / EDI export
- Duplicate checking and automatic scoring
- ODX, WWL and DXCC tracking
- Dynamic Maidenhead QSO map with ODX path
- Online callsign and locator lookup
- Local callbook database
- Check Partial / N+1 callsign suggestions
- WSJT-X Auto-Log
- IC-9700 CAT support
- QRB and antenna bearing
- Live Score reporting to SLOVHF
- Autosave and crash recovery
Download
WHY Logger 2.5
why-logger-2-5.zip
No installation is required. Unpack the ZIP file and run WHY Logger.exe.
At first start, enter your own call sign and locator. Operator and station information can be entered under STATION INFO.
Information of the Maidenhead system from ARRL.
About Grid Locators and Grid Squares
An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in 1980), a grid square measures 1° latitude by 2° longitude and measures approximately 70 × 100 miles in the continental US. A grid square is indicated by two letters (the field) and two numbers (the square), as in FN31, the grid square within which W1AW, ARRL's Maxim Memorial Station, resides. Each subsquare is designated by the addition of two letters after the grid square, as FN44ig. These more precise locators are used as part of the exchange in the 10-GHz contest. They measure 2.5 minutes latitude by 5 minutes longitude, roughly corresponding to 3 × 4 miles in the continental US. The Lab Notes column in April 1994 QST covered grid squares in particular and geographical coordinates in general.
The program is free. If you want to donate for further developement:
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