DXtreme Monitor Log 14

Overview

DXtreme
Monitor Log 14
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Our
Popular Logging
Program
For Active Monitors
and Listeners

DXtreme Monitor Log 14™ helps you find stations to monitor, log stations, report reception, manage your QSLs, and track the performance of your monitoring station.

Features

Finding
Broadcast
and
Utility Stations
to
Monitor

Logging Stations

Station Tab

The Monitor Log window is the first window you encounter when you start the program, with Station the first tab.

The Station tab lets you log introductory information about the station you've heard. For example, you can enter the:

• Class of the station (BCB, SWBC, Aircraft, Ham, Ships, Utility, and so on).
• Name and location of the station: Tx Site, Country, Latitude, Longitude, and Grid Square (automatically calculated from the coordinates specified).
• For ham stations, the call sign of the station the monitored ham was in QSO With.
• Date and time of reception.
• Frequency of transmission.
• Signal mode your receiver is set to.
• Transmission mode transmitted by the station monitored.
• Transmission mode details when appropriate.

With a supported SDR application or Afreet Omni-Rig configured on your computer, Monitor Log 14 obtains the frequency and signal mode from your receiver and displays them in the Frequency, Band, and Modes area when you start a log entry.



The kHz, MHz, GHz, and Hz option buttons let you select a convenient unit of measure and the corresponding box lets you type/edit the frequency. The boxes of deselected option buttons display converted frequencies as appropriate and the remainder of the software uses kHz as the official unit of measure. Monitor Log 14 remembers the last option button selected.

The software sets the Transmission Mode to a traditional mode based on the signal mode provided by the rig control application. For example, if the rig control application sets the Signal Mode to USB, the software sets the Transmission Mode to SSB.



But say you've received a utility station transmitting in one of those exotic digital modes, such as STANAG 4285, with your radio set to a Signal Mode of USB. You select the digital mode received in the Transmission Mode list box and type free-form information about the received transmission mode — such as baud rate, bandwidth, etc. — in the Transmission Mode Details box. This information will be important to you and others, and should be included when you report reception.



The Transmission Modes module, which organizes and populates the Transmission Mode field, can accommodate up to 30 characters per mode, which is large enough to accept the official name of any mode active today — like STANAG 4285 or MIL-STD-188-141A. A Signal Modes module manages signal modes.

You can also use the Station tab to specify:

• Receiving equipment used to monitor the station.
• Signal quality of the transmission.
• Remarks about signal quality.
• Propagation mode of the transmission.
• Name of the file that contains a recorded audio clip of the station.
• Announce your DX catches to social media sites. Refer to "Reception Reporting - Social Media Posts " for more information.

eQSL.cc Nickname Default

After selecting Ham in the Class field and specifying call signs in the Station and With fields, the default eQSL.cc Account Nickname is displayed for your review after you tab out of the With field.

Clicking OK with the Monitor Log window on any tab sends the request to the displayed account. You can, of course, visit the Verification/Report tab to change the eQSL.cc nickname for the current log entry.

Note: The Amateur Radio section of this data sheet provides more information about sending eQSL Requests. It also provides information about using the Update From eQSL.cc Inbox facility to process eQSL.cc verifications and using the Batch Upload to eQSL.cc Outbox facility to batch-upload Ham-class log entries (eQSL requests) to eQSL.cc.

Bearing and Distance Display

When the latitude and longitude of a station are known to Monitor Log 14, short- and long-path bearings and short-path distance from your QTH to the station logged appear in the B+Dx field on the Monitor Log tab (in the unit of measure you specify in Preferences).

The short-path bearing appears continuously; the long-path bearing appears as a pop-up when you mouse-over the field. If the coordinates of a station are not known to Monitor Log 14, bearing and distance to the station's indicated country appear.

Double-clicking the field runs a Ham CAP¹ propagation prediction or DX Atlas² azimuth plot for the logged station (as specified in Preferences).

Coordinate Acquisition

Monitor Log 14 uses station coordinates to display bearings, maps, and propagation information. When specifying a country and tabbing out of the Country field, the program obtains default coordinates from the Countries module, which indicate the geographical center of the country.

Precise coordinates of the actual transmitter site can be obtained instead by starting a log entry from an Aoki or FCC AM schedule in the Schedule Checker. Unlike EiBi schedules, these schedules list the latitudes and longitudes of most transmitter sites.

Another way to obtain the latitude and longitude of a transmitter site is to enter the name of an ITU-registered transmitter site in the Tx Site field. You can do so manually, or you can click the ITU code to look up the transmitter site in the Transmitter Sites module.

To lookup a site, you perform a Find operation on the Transmitter Sites module based on the country passed, clicking Next to navigate to the site you want. When you arrive at the desired site, you click Send Data to Log Entry to update the Tx Site, Latitude, and Longitude fields with the site's coordinates and, if Auto Calc is selected, calculate and update the Grid square.

For BCB-class stations: When an FCC AM schedule has been imported into the Schedule Checker, Monitor Log 14 queries the schedule data for QTH and frequency information as you log BCB-class stations. The station call sign entered on the Monitor Log window must match exactly the station call sign in the imported FCC AM schedule.

Keep?

When you anticipate specifying much of the same information over several log entries, a Keep? check box freezes the information in the following fields until you clear the check box or click Cancel:

• Class
• Signal Mode
• Transmission Mode
• Date
• Rig
• Ant
• Acc(essory)
• Signal
• Detail (Signal Quality)
• Prop(agation)
• Language
• UDF 1 through 22

Address Tab

The Address tab lets you enter the postal and Internet addresses of each station you've heard. You enter this information once because Monitor Log 14 can recall it each time you log the same station.

If desired, you can drag and drop, or copy and paste, address information from a Web-based station lookup page.

When you subscribe to HamQTH.com, QRZ XML Logbook Data, or Buckmaster™ HamCall™, Monitor Log 14 fills the address fields automatically when you add a log entry for a monitored Amateur Radio operator — if the information is provided by the subscription service. If a QSL manager is defined in the service, Monitor Log 14 enters the address of the QSL manager into these fields.

The address information appears in paper reception reports, electronic reception reports, and address labels.

Clicking the Web caption on the tab displays the Web page of the station in your specified browser; clicking the E-Mail caption invokes a pre-addressed Message window in Microsoft Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Microsoft Office Outlook, or Mozilla® Thunderbird® as configured in Preferences and supported by your version of Windows.

Verification Tab

Report

The Verification/Report tab lets you specify information about your reception reports and eQSL.cc requests.

For Reception Reports, you can specify whether you've sent a report. You can also specify the:

• Date you sent the report.
• Return postage you sent with the report.
• Method you used to send the report (air mail, surface mail, e-mail, etc.).
• Language of the report.

For eQSL.cc Requests to monitored Amateur Radio operators, you can change the eQSL.cc Account Nickname through which the eQSL.cc request will be routed. Monitor Log 14 sets the following fields automatically when the eQSL.cc request is accepted by the eQSL.cc server:

• Date you sent the request.
• Return postage: None.
• Method: eQSL.cc.
• Language: English.

Monitor Log 14 also displays the response from the eQSL.cc server.

Note: The Amateur Radio section of this data sheet provides more information about sending eQSL Requests. It also provides information about using the Update From eQSL.cc Inbox facility to process eQSL.cc verifications and using the Batch Upload to eQSL.cc Outbox facility to batch-upload Ham-class log entries (eQSL requests) to eQSL.cc. In addition, the Update/Import section of this data sheet provides information about using the Import Log From ADIF facility to import ADIF-formatted log entries from all monitoring activities — both ham and non-ham — into your database.

QSL

The Verification/QSL tab lets you specify information about your QSLs received.

For QSLs (paper or electronic), you can specify whether you've received a QSL. If you have, you can scan, capture, or import it and specify the:

• Date you received the QSL.
• Method the station used to send the QSL to you (air mail, surface mail, e-mail, and so on).
• Signer of the QSL.
• Name of the file that contains an image of the QSL.

The Verification/QSL tab also lets you preview the scanned, captured, or imported QSL.

And the Preview QSL Image display shows QSL images automatically whenever you display a verified log entry. It includes:

• A Fit box for applying fit-to options to the display
• And command buttons for:
  • Refreshing QSL images when necessary after scrolling

  • Copying QSL images to the Clipboard

  • Magnifying images

  • Displaying images full size in the re-sizeable QSL Imaging application

  • Navigating multipage images within the Preview QSL Image display; this screenshot shows page 2 of the QSL:

    

An arrow button at the top-right of the viewing area lets you expand (and contract) the width of the display, so you can see more of your larger QSLs.

More on QSL Imaging later.

Content Tabs

The Content Tabs let you describe the content you monitored.

When you click or "Tab" to the Content tab in the top row of tabs on the Monitor Log window, focus is applied to the Details box, the Start and End boxes populate automatically with the start and end times specified on the Station tab, and Content Tab 1 is relabeled with those same start and end times.

Within the Details box, you begin typing your content details.

If you want, you can type details of an entire transmission on just one Content Tab, which is what we did for our African Pathways Radio log entry above.

Or you can spread your content details across two or more tabs (as shown below), which produces distinct rows of content details — per time interval — on your reception reports. You can type up to 10000 characters per Details box. The number of characters remaining displays at the lower right within each tab. For this data sheet example, you'll spread your content details across two tabs.

When you have finished typing content details for Content Tab 1, you click or "Tab" to the End box and type the end time for the details you wrote (say, 22:10), Tab to the Quality box and accept or change the signal quality for the time interval.

Next you click Content Tab 2 (or if you prefer, "Tab" repeatedly until Content Tab 1 has the focus again and press the Right Arrow on your keyboard to move to Content Tab 2). The cursor is now in the next Details box and the following events occur:

• Content Tab 1 is now labeled with the Start time and the modified End time as specified within its tab.
• The Start box displays the end time from Content Tab 1.
• The End box displays the end time specified on the Station tab.
• Content Tab 2 is now labeled with the Start and End times specified within its tab.

Within the Details box, you type content details for the next program.

When you have finished typing details for Content Tab 2, you click or "Tab" to the Quality box and accept or change the signal quality for this time interval. (Of course, if you were to write content details on another tab, you would also adjust the End Time as you did in Content Tab 1.)

To generate or compose a summary, click or "Tab" to Summary and double-click the Generate hyperlink. The software inserts into the Summary field keywords summarizing the content you wrote in the Details fields of the previous Content Tabs.

It is likely you'll want to edit the summarized version. You can generate or type up to 5000 characters in the Summary field. The number of characters remaining displays at the lower right. Also, if desired, you can double-click the Keywords hyperlink to drag-and-drop (or copy and paste) into the Summary field detail or summary keywords from the Content Detail-Summary Keywords Lookup window.

The text in the Summary field populates the [content-summary] log variable, which can be used in scripts of any kind (but especially in those used to share log entries) to provide summarized versions of the content heard.

Speaking of log variables, there are dozens from fields throughout the software, which you can use when sharing log entry data or creating Reception, Performance, and Stations reports (log variables such as Signal Modes, Transmission Modes, Transmission Mode Details, etc.).

When you're ready, click OK to save your log entry.

Note: If you prefer to write content details on the resizeable Content Editor window, you can click the button at the lower right of any selected Content tab.

The Content Editor window appears.

If desired, you can change the look and feel of the Details and Summary fields and the Content Editor by clicking the Option button in one of the toolbars (highlighted in yellow in the following screen shot).

Then set the fields in the Application-Wide Heading Font Attributes area as desired.

Comments Tab

The Comments tab has a single field that lets you enter additional information about each log entry. The Comments field can accommodate up to 10000 characters.

Changes you make to header font attributes on the multi-functional Last Log Entries And Application-Wide Font Properties window (accessible from the Last Log Entries) grid are applied to Comments. You can change foreground and background colors and fonts and font sizes, if desired, to increase readability.

User Defined Fields Tabs 1 and 2

Each User Defined Fields tab has 11 fields you can define and use to enter and track information important to you.

There are two kinds of user defined fields (UDFs): Text Box Fields and List Box Fields.

• Text Box Fields — Four text box fields on each tab let you type the information you desire. Each field can accommodate up to 100 characters.
• List Box Fields — Seven list box fields on each tab let you select the information you desire from a list of items you defined earlier.

You define UDFs on the Preferences window (described later). You can also label the caption of each UDF tab.

Defining UDFs involves:

1. Labeling each field.
2. Entering the list items available for selection in each list box field.

For example, you could define and use UDFs this way:

• Text Box UDF — Specify "Parallel Frequency" as the label in Preferences. Then on the Monitor Log window, type the station's parallel frequency into the Parallel Frequency box. When you run a report, you can track parallel frequencies.
• List Box UDF — Specify "Digital Application" as the label in Preferences and then define a list of the digital applications you use. On the Monitor Log window, select the digital application you used to monitor the station. When you run a report, you can track specific digital applications.

When you redefine User Defined Fields (as you inevitably will, from time to time), you can replace old UDF data in your log with new UDF data using the UDF Data Replacement facilities, accessible from the Edit menu of the Monitor Log window.

The window above shows replacing Doublet antenna entries with the more traditional Dipole.

Improv Imaging Tab

The Improv Imaging tab lets you associate ad hoc images with log entries.

Shown: PC-HFDL by Charles Brain, G4GUO. Visit http://www.chbrain.dircon.co.uk for more information.

The Improv image associated above is a screenshot of the PC-HFDL application during reception of Flight RZO323, an Airbus 321 jet in International Airspace flying over Grid Square GN77, heading west toward Labrador.

Other images you can associate with log entries can include signals on a spectrum analyzer or waterfall, screen captures of other digital applications, and more. Anything you desire!

An asterisk appears in the Improv Imaging tab when an Improv image is associated with a displayed log entry.

More on Improv Imaging later.

Last Log Entries Grid

If desired, you can display a colorful grid on the Monitor Log window that shows up to 5000 of the most recent log entries.

Improv Imaging

Rig Control

Amateur Radio Support

Audio Archiving

The audio archiving facility lets you record and play audio clips of the stations you've heard.

Audio Toolbar

The audio toolbar on the Monitor Log window ...

... lets you quickly and easily record and play WAV audio as you log a station. Monitor Log 14 also integrates with the Windows Sound Recorder to let you edit and compress WAV audio files.

Audio clips are saved in the Audio folder you specify in Preferences (described later).

Third-Party Audio Integration

Monitor Log 14 supports the use of a third-party audio application, supplied by you, to provide recording, playing, and editing of audio clips in a variety of audio formats. A third-party application, like Audacity®, is the most convenient way of recording audio from a USB-connected radio.

Note: For ease of playback, the executable file of the application you select must be capable of accepting, as a command-line argument, the name of an audio file.

To Record an Audio File and Link It to a Log Entry

After the application is specified in Preferences, click the Access Third-Party Application button on the Audio tab of the Monitor Log window to invoke the application.

When the third-party application appears, refer to its documentation to record and process audio from the desired source.

When you have finished recording, in the third-party application, save the audio file in the desired format into the Audio subfolder of Monitor Log 14, or any other location you want.

In Monitor Log 14, add or display the log entry to which the audio file will be linked. On the Audio tab, click the Browse button.

On the Select Audio File window, navigate to and select the third-party audio file you want to link.

If the file resides outside the Audio folder specified in Preferences, Monitor Log 14 copies the file into that folder. The linked file is then backed up when you close Monitor Log provided automatic audio backups are configured in Preferences.

Click OK to save the log entry with the linked audio file.

To Play and/or Modify the Audio File

If necessary, display the desired log entry. On the Audio tab, click the Access Third-Party Application button.

When the third-party application appears, refer to its documentation to play and/or modify the audio file.

Verification By Audio

Monitor Log 14 supports the concept of Verification By Audio, letting you track (if you want to) the stations, countries, continents, zones, and states and provinces you've "verified" by audio. This feature gives you the flexibility to "prove" reception while waiting for your QSLs to arrive. You can also use this feature as an alternative to traditional QSLing.

While there is no substitute for an attractive QSL card, let's face it, more and more stations are unable or unwilling to QSL by means of traditional QSL cards or letters. Tracking verifications by audio can be a very satisfying and inexpensive alternative.

Of course, you can continue to track verifications by traditional QSL cards, letters, and eQSLs. Monitor Log 14's QSL Imaging facility (described later) provides impressive support for QSL image processing. Monitor Log 14 also offers Verification By Improv Image as another alternative to traditional QSLing (as described earlier on this page).

Multimedia Benefits

Take it from us, there's nothing like looking through your log years later and hearing the station you logged while viewing the QSL you received, or viewing an Improv Image showing the actual transmission and station ID on the decoding software you used!

Reception Reporting
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Social Media Posts

Reception Reporting
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Paper and Electronic
Reception Reports

Paper and Electronic Reception Reports

You can create paper and electronic reception reports in DXtreme Monitor Log 14.

Paper Reports

You can create paper reception reports using Microsoft® Word®, Microsoft WordPad, or your Web browser. Select the type of reception report you want (Word, WordPad, or Web) on the Reception Reports tab in Preferences.

Word, Template-Based

By using custom templates you can create and edit yourself, each reception report created in Word has precisely the format, richness, and wording you want. Reception reports include pertinent information from the Monitor Log window.

Actual report larger, clearer.

Several templates come with Monitor Log 14. You can use them right away, base new templates on them, or tweak them by editing. Instructions appear in the Procedural Help system. When you run a reception report, a window lets you select the template you want to use.

WordPad, Script-Based

By using custom scripts you can create and edit yourself, each reception report has precisely the format and wording you want. Reception reports include pertinent information from the Monitor Log window.

Actual report larger, clearer.

Several WordPad scripts come with Monitor Log 14. You can use them right away, base new WordPad scripts on them, or tweak them by editing. Instructions appear in the Procedural Help system. When you run a reception report (or eReport), a window lets you select the script you want to use.

Web Browser, Script-Based

By using custom scripts you can create and edit yourself, each reception report has precisely the format, richness, and wording you want. Reception reports include pertinent information from the Monitor Log window.

Actual report larger, clearer.

Several Web Browser scripts come with Monitor Log 14. You can use them right away, base new Web Browser scripts on them, or tweak them by editing. Instructions appear in the Procedural Help system. When you run a reception report (or eReport), a window lets you select the script you want to use.

Sample Script

Using the Script Editor window, you can create and edit scripts which format your reception reports (and eReports). By applying log variables and boilerplate text (and HTML tags and attributes in Web-based scripts), you can create the reports you want. Several scripts and instructions come with the software.

When you run a reception report (or eReport, described next), a window lets you select the script you want to use.

Electronic Reception Reports (eReports)

You use special eReport scripts to produce eReports in Microsoft WordPad or your Web browser. They have the same appearance as the reception reports shown above.

And you can send your eReports using your MAPI e-mail client, or Windows® Mail.

Several eReport scripts come with Monitor Log 14. You can use them right away, base new scripts on them, or tweak them by editing.

Reception Reporting Menu

The Reception Reporting menu provides access to reception report functions.

To make it easy to edit your script files, each level of the Reception Reporting menu provides access to the instance of Script Editor that deals with its function's scripts, the Editor opening files from and saving files to the appropriate folder on your PC. Several script files come with the software. You can use them as is, edit them, or create your own — perhaps using one of ours as a starting point. Editing/creating scripts is the best way to customize your reports and posts. The Procedural Help system explains how to create and edit script files.

Paper Reports

eReports

Reception Reporting Toolbar Button

The Reception Reporting toolbar button provides quick access to reception report functions.

SWL and Address Labels

Monitor Log 14 supports two ways to print SWL and Address labels:

• Using Direct Print SWL and Address Labels to print on popular label stock using standard printers.
• Using the Social Media Post facility to create SWL and Address labels for printing on DYMO® LabelWriter® printers.¹

Direct Print SWL and Address Labels

You can print SWL and Address labels on your printer.

Examples of the labels you can print:

• Single-Line SWL Label (SWBC-Class Station)



• Single-Line SWL Label (Utility-Class Station)



• Multi-Line SWL Label



• Address Label

Using this feature, you can print labels one-at-a-time or in any number up to the maximum number of labels on your preferred label stock (such as 30 per sheet). You can skip around, too, choosing the physical label you want to print on. Further, you can include user-defined closing expressions and signature text on the last line of each SWL label. Closing expressions and signature text are defined in Preferences.

Address Information

By default, the Direct Print SWL and Address Labels window receives its address information from the Address fields on the Monitor Log window.

If necessary, you can click the Station Web Search button on the Direct Print SWL and Address Labels window to perform a Web search for the station address. When the search site you set in Preferences appears, find the address information on the Web page and drag and drop it onto the Address Information box. The address must be in text format on the Web page. You can also type or edit an address.

Closing Expression and Signature Text Workflow

The Direct Print SWL and Address Labels window provides a workflow for printing closing expression and signature text on the last line of SWL labels. Its Closing Expression list box contains ADIF propagation modes plus any custom entries you've added ...

... using the Closing Expression Text module in Preferences.

The Signature Text option button contains the signature text you defined ...

... on the QSLs tab in Preferences.

For any SWL label, you can:

1. Select the closing expression you want from the Closing Expression list box.



2. And select the adjacent check box if you want to include the Signature text.



Which produces a label similar to the following:

Print Preview and Edit

And edit your label data in a number of ways.

Properties

A Direct Print SWL and Address Label Properties window lets you define the labels you want to use. This window comes with default label properties you can use right away or edit if they need a little tweaking to work with your printer.

Reception Reporting Menu and Toolbar

The Reception Reporting menu and accompanying toolbar button let you choose whether to print just paper reports, paper reports and labels, or just labels:

Using the Social Media Post Facility to Print SWL and Address Labels on DYMO® LabelWriter® Printers

You can also use the Social Media Post facility to create SWL and Address labels for printing via the DYMO QuickPrint application.

Just start DYMO QuickPrint with the desired label layout, display the log entry in Monitor Log 14, select one of the Dymo social media scripts we created (there's one for log entry data and one for addresses), and drag and drop the social media post to DYMO QuickPrint.

In a clear area, press Enter on your keyboard to register the text. Then click Print.

DYMO® and LabelWriter® are registered trademarks of Newell Rubbermaid.

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QSL Imaging

QSL Imaging

QSL Imaging™ is a multifaceted facility that lets you scan, capture, import, browse, view, format, and archive your QSL cards, letters, and electronic QSLs.

With it, you'll never again have to look through boxes or photo albums to answer the question:

"What did that QSL look like?"

Verification Tab

The Preview QSL Image display on the Verification tab of the Monitor Log window lets you scan, capture, import, and preview QSLs.

An arrow button at the top-right of the viewing area permits you to expand (and contract) the width of the display, so you can see more of your larger QSLs.

When the Preview QSL Image display is contracted, a tabbed area on the left side of the Verification tab provides the typical Report and QSL fields.

And the Preview QSL Image display shows QSL images automatically whenever you display a verified log entry. It includes:

• A Fit box for applying fit-to options to the display
• And command buttons for:
  • Refreshing QSL images when necessary after scrolling

  • Copying QSL images to the Clipboard

  • Magnifying images

  • Displaying images full size in the re-sizeable QSL Imaging application

  • Navigating multipage images within the Preview QSL Image display; this screenshot shows page 2 of the QSL:

    

QSL Imaging Application

The re-sizeable QSL Imaging application lets you see your QSL images full-size.

And it lets you edit your QSL image files completely, including adding additional pages to multipage image files.

The QSL Imaging application provides the following general imaging functions:

Basic Functions

• Scan (industry-standard TWAIN scanner required)
• Capture
• View
• Magnify and zoom
• Navigate pages of multipage image files

Page Manipulation Functions

• Annotate
• Alter, crop, and delete
• Copy, cut, and paste to and from the Clipboard

Formatting Functions

• Change the brightness, contrast, hue, color saturation, and gamma
• Sharpen, resize, reverse, rotate, flip, and shear

Filing Functions

Share Log Entry Data With Blogs and Clubs

Share Log Entry Data With Blogs and Clubs

Share Log Entry Data With Blogs and Clubs lets you report your DX catches and QSLs received.

Create Single or Multiple

You can create single Shares one-at-a-time as you add or display log entries, or you can create multiple Shares at once.

The Share Log Entry Data With Blogs and Clubs menu selection on the Reception Reporting menu provides access to all Share functions, including access to the instance of Script Editor that deals with each function's scripts, the Editor opening files from and saving files to the appropriate folder on your PC.

Shares accumulate in work files until you're ready to send them, usually in time to meet a monthly deadline as directed by club and magazine editors.

When ready, you can send your Shares via MAPI mail. Or if you're using Windows 10 or Windows 11, via Windows Mail if your registered browser is Microsoft Edge.

Script files determine the content and format. They consist of boilerplate text and log variables you can edit using the Script Editor.

Several scripts come with Monitor Log 14. You can use them right away, base new scripts on them, or tweak them by editing. Instructions appear in the Procedural Help system. When you create one or more Shares, a window lets you select the script you want to use.

Sample Script

The Shares in the work file above were produced using this script:

Performance,
Stations,
and
Log Entries
Reports

Performance, Stations, and Log Entries Reports

Monitor Log 14 has an array of Performance, Stations, Variables-Based Stations, and Log Entries reports that let you track the performance of your station and view information about the stations you've monitored.

Appearance and Style

Style files dictate the appearance of Performance, Stations, and Log Entries reports in the Web Report Viewer. Monitor Log 14 ships with three style files for each report type: Dark, Gray, Light, and Silver. If desired, you can edit and create as many additional style files as you want.

Here's a Countries Performance report displayed using the included Dark style in Microsoft Edge:

And here's a Utilities-Class Stations report displayed using the included Light style in Microsoft Edge:

And here's an Aircraft-Class Stations report displayed using the included Silver style with no report image in Microsoft Edge:

For more information about reports and style files, click Other Enhancements

Performance Reports

Performance reports let you track the overall performance of your monitoring station.

The following Performance reports are available for each report type on the Performance By menu.

• Summary — Lets you view the number of stations, countries, continents, zones, and states and provinces you have monitored and verified.
• Countries — Lets you view a list of the countries you have monitored, not monitored, verified, and monitored but not verified.
• Zones — Lets you view a list of the zones you have monitored, not monitored, verified, and monitored but not verified.
• States and Provinces — Lets you view a list of the states and provinces you have monitored, not monitored, verified, and monitored but not verified.
• Grid Squares — Lets you view a list of the Maidenhead Grid Squares you have monitored, not monitored, verified, and monitored but not verified.

Note: Reports for Signal Modes and Transmission Modes are accessible via the Modes item (as shown above); for Solar Flux, A-Index, and K-Index via the NOAA Propagation Indices item; and for Monitor Log 14's 22 user-defined fields via the UDF [Tab Caption] items.

Sample Performance Reports

Running reports begins with the Parameters window, where you specify filter criteria and display and publish options.

Displayed in the Web Report Viewer

You can specify the colors and text sizes of reports in Preferences.

Click the hyperlink of the report you want to view (these reports use the Dark Style).

• Summary Report for All Classes by Rig: IC-7700
• Countries Report for the SWBC Class
• States and Provinces Report for the Amateur Radio Class
• Grid Squares Report for the Aircraft Class

Displayed in a Window

Stations Reports

Stations reports lets you view a list of the stations you have monitored, verified, and monitored but not verified for each report type on the Stations By menu.

Note: Reports for Signal Modes and Transmission Modes are accessible via the Modes item (as shown above); for Solar Flux, A-Index, and K-Index via the NOAA Propagation Indices item; and for Monitor Log 14's 22 user-defined fields via the UDF [Tab Caption] items.

Sample Stations Reports

Running reports begins with the Parameters window, where you specify filter criteria and sort, display, field, and publish options.

Displayed in the Web Report Viewer

You can specify the colors and text sizes of reports in Preferences.

Click the hyperlink of the report you want to view (these reports use the Light Style).

• Stations Heard Report for All Classes During 2022
• Stations Heard Report for the SWBC Class by Continent: Asia
• Stations Heard Report for All Classes by K-Index: 3
• Stations Heard Report for the Utility Class by Signal Mode: USB
• Stations Verified Report for the Ham Class
• Stations Verified Report for the Utility Class by Any Type (QSL, Audio, or Improv Image)
• Stations Verified Report for the Aircraft Class by Improv Image

Displayed in the Advanced Search Window

When displayed in a window, Stations reports operate as Advanced Searches.

If you see a log item in an Advanced Search window you'd like to open in the Monitor Log window, simply double-click the item. The Advanced Search window persists until you dismiss it, in case you want to open more log items.

As a convenience, a subset of Advanced Searches appears at the top of the Search menu. Legacy searches appear beneath the dividing line.

When Advanced Searches are invoked from the Search menu, the Display list box on the window defaults to Window and the caption of the window changes to Advanced Search: Type.

These Advanced Search windows can also be invoked from the Search button menu. And one Search window of any type can be selected as the default when the user simply clicks the Search toolbar button.

Log Entries

The Log Entries report lets you view a list of log entries you have monitored, not monitored, verified, and monitored but not verified by station.

Sample Log Entry Report

Displayed in the Web Report Viewer

Click the following hyperlink to see a report.

• Log Entries By Station Report for Station: VOA Radiogram

Displayed in the Advanced Search Window

Like Stations reports, when displayed in a window Log Entries reports operate as Advanced Searches.

If you see a report item you'd like to open in the Monitor Log window, simply double-click the item. The Advanced Search window persists until you dismiss it.

Variables-Based Stations

Variables-Based Stations reports let you run stations reports of your own design, based on Monitor Log 14's log variables.

The Variables-Based Stations Report window lets you filter reports by:

• A single class or all classes
• All dates, a single date, or a range of dates
• Or a combination of both

You can also select the order in which stations appear.

You design reports by creating and editing scripts on Monitor Log 14's Script Editor window. You can choose the fields you want, in the order you want. When you run a report, you select the script file that dictates the content and format of the report.

Each level of the Variables-Based menu provides access to the instance of Script Editor that deals with its associated scripts, the Editor opening files from and saving files to the appropriate folder on your PC. Script files come with DXtreme Monitor Log 14 to get you started.

You can display Variables-Based Stations Reports in WordPad, or in your registered Web Browser.

In addition to designing your own reports, if desired you can use the Variables-Based Stations Report function to create delimited text files of stations, which can be imported into databases, spreadsheets, word processors, etc.

Sample Variables-Based Stations Report

Click the following hyperlink to view the above report in your web browser (the report uses the Light Style).

• Variables-Based Stations Report

Verification Tracking

Performance, Stations, and Log Entries reports automatically track the stations, countries, continents, zones, states and provinces and Maidenhead grid squares you have verified by means of:

• QSL cards, letters, and eQSLs
• The presence of Audio files presumed to contain IDs.
• The presence of Improv Images for which the Shows ID check box is selected.

Advanced searches also support searching by the above verification types.

Display Options

You can display Performance, Stations, and Log Entries reports on the following devices:

• Web Report Viewer — The Web Report Viewer lets you view reports in your Web browser. You can specify the colors and text sizes of reports and, in the case of Stations reports, you can choose the fields that appear in the reports, including any of the 22 user-defined fields.
• Window — Stations reports operate as an Advanced Search window: if you see a log entry in the report that you'd like to display in the Monitor Log window, simply double-click the log entry in the report.
• FTP — Upload your Performance, Stations, and Log Entries by Station reports to the Web automatically, where you and your friends can view them remotely.¹ The reports appear in the Web Report Viewer.

Publish Options

You can set publish options for Performance, Stations, and Log Entries reports displayed in the Web Report Viewer.

The Report Publishing dialog box lets you select the desired option, including: View, Archive, View and Archive, and FTP. Report Publishing dialog boxes are available for:

• Performance



• Stations



• Log Entries

Fields

A Fields dialog box lets you select the desired fields for Stations and Log Entries reports displayed in the Web Report Viewer.

DX Atlas Integration

The following reports integrate with DX Atlas:²

• Countries — When you run a Countries Performance report, Monitor Log 14 integrates with DX Atlas to produce a map of pins; one color for heard countries, another color for verified by QSL countries. You can set the pin colors in Monitor Log 14's Preferences module.

This map shows overall country status. You can change the projection and rotate and resize and zoom the map as desired.



• Stations and Log Entries By Station — When you run a Stations report or a Log Entries By Station report, Monitor Log 14 integrates with DX Atlas to produce a map of pins; one color for heard stations, another color for verified by QSL stations. You can set the pin colors in Monitor Log 14's Preferences module.

You can change the projection and rotate and resize and zoom the map as desired. Stations and Log Entries By Station reports depend on latitudes and longitudes being present in each log entry. Global assignment functions are available to populate existing log entries. The following map shows stations heard and verified by QSL on the 60-Meter band.



• Grids — When you run a Performance report for Grids, Monitor Log 14 integrates with DX Atlas to produce a map showing the grids you've verified by QSL, Audio, or Improv Image.

This map shows grid status in northeast North America for aircraft monitored using HFDL from New Hampshire (you can pan and resize and zoom the map as desired):



This map shows grid status in northwest North America for aircraft monitored using HFDL from New Hampshire:



This map shows grid status in northeast South America for aircraft monitored using HFDL from New Hampshire:

To Sum It All Up

With Monitor Log 14's powerful report functions, you can run reports like these:

• Unfiltered and filtered reports that show how well your station is performing.
• Shortwave broadcast (SWBC) stations you've heard and verified using your SDRplay RSPdx.
• Stations you've heard and verified on the 60-meter band.
• Amateur Radio stations you've monitored bouncing signals off the Moon.
• Aircraft you've monitored flying international airspace, tracked by Maidenhead Grid Square.
• Ships you've monitored sailing international waters, tracked by Maidenhead Grid Square.
• Utility stations you've heard from Africa.
• Broadcast band (BCB) stations verified in 2022.
• Countries you've heard and verified on the 19-meter band.
• States and Provinces you've heard and verified while logging broadcast band stations.
• And many, many more!

¹ — Requires an Internet connection with available Web space only if using FTP. You don't need to FTP reports to view them.
² — A software license for DX Atlas is required only if you want to use DX Atlas. You can obtain a license from Afreet Software, Inc.

Maintenance Modules

Maintenance Modules

Monitor Log 14 includes 19 maintenance modules that let you enter and maintain information that appears in:

• The drop-down list box fields of the system.
• The lookup windows (described earlier).

Maintaining module information ensures consistent entries when adding and modifying log entries.

Monitor Log 14 has the following modules:

• Countries¹
• Transmitter Sites¹
• States and Provinces
• Classes
• Signal Modes
• Transmission Modes
• Rigs
• Antennas
• Accessories
• Languages
• Postage
• Delivery Method
• Abbreviations
• Foreign Words and Phrases
• Symbols and Special Characters
• Content Details-Summary Keywords
• Amateur Bands
• Propagation Modes
• HTML Elements

Sample Maintenance Module Windows (Not All Are Shown)

Countries (if using a NASWA-based database²)

Countries (if using a DXCC-based database³)

Transmitter Sites (if using a NASWA-based database)

Transmitter Sites (if using a DXCC-based database)

Classes (two views)

Signal Modes (two views)

Transmission Modes (three views)

Rigs

¹ — Supports propagation predictions in Afreet Ham CAP and azimuth plots in Afreet DX Atlas. A license for Ham CAP or DX Atlas is required if you intend to use them. You can obtain licenses from Afreet Software, Inc.

² — The North American Shortwave Association owns and maintains the NASWA Country List. Click http://www.naswa.net to see the list.

³ —The American Radio Relay League, Inc. owns and maintains the DXCC Entities List. Click https://www.arrl.org to see the list.

Preferences

Preferences

The Preferences window lets you control the overall operation of Monitor Log 14.

Functional Areas

You can set preferences in the following functional areas:

• You

  

  Note: The Link to UDF check box and text box and the Define button are part of the User Defined Field Coordinate Link enhancement described in the What's New? page of this web site.

• Database

  

• User Defined

  

• Internet

  

• Reports

  

• Reception Reports

  

• Share Log Entry Data

  

• QSLs

  

• Audio

  

• Automatic Backups

  

• FTP

  

• Maps

  

• Links

  

• DX Atlas

  

• Ham CAP

  

• Imaging

  

• Rig Control

  

• Solar

  

• Band Master

  

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Documentation

Documentation

Procedural Help

If you don't know how to perform a task on whatever window you're on, you can click the Procedural Help button , which is available on most windows and dialog boxes. The first relevant topic on the Contents tab for the window or dialog box you're on appears. For related information, you can navigate to a nearby topic on the Contents tab because you'll be in the neighborhood.

Specific Procedural Help

If you're about to use a function that has special instructions, you can click the Specific Procedural Help button .
An example appears below.

Field Help

If you want field-specific instructions for the window or dialog box you're on, click the Field Help button . Or right-click an item and then click Field Help on the shortcut menu (except text and list boxes.) This facility replaces the old What's This? Help that Microsoft does not support in Windows 10 or 11.

Note: To access the Procedural Help absent context, on the Help menu of the Monitor Log window, click Procedural Help. To access the Field Help absent context, click Field Help.

Microhelp

If you want to view status information as you perform a task, you can read the messages that appear in the microhelp panel at the bottom of every window in Monitor Log 14.

Information Center

For even more assistance when using Monitor Log 14, you can click Information Center on the Help menu. The Information Center is a users-only area on the Web where you can learn more about Monitor Log 14.

Post-Sale Documentation

Monitor Log 14 ships with an Installation Guide and a Getting Started Guide in PDF format.

Pricing

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• New Users Worldwide — $94.99 USD
• Updating Monitor Log 12 Users Worldwide — $39.99 USD
• Updating Monitor Log 11 and Reception Log V6.0 through V10.0 Users Worldwide — $49.99 USD

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• New Users — $104.99 USD
• Updating Monitor Log 12 Users — $49.99 USD
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