Online Logging (English Version)

If you take the amateur radio hobby seriously, then you also want to document successful radio connections, with a few requirements:

• Digital documentation of the radio link
• Upload to various online logs, such as Clublog, eQSL, etc.
• Universal input options:
  • With a PC or notebook with suitable logging software
  • With the smartphone
  • Online using a browser
  • Simple data exchange using ADIF format
  • A central storage and backup of the log information
• Contest ability and use of a simple QSO log

After a longer hobby break, I was looking for new ways and optimal solutions for the above requirements, after having only used eQSL.cc for a while with little hobby activity. After researching the Internet, I came across the following logging portals that were shortlisted:

• Clublog: https://clublog.org/
• Logbook of QRZ.com: https://logbook.qrz.com/logbook
• Logbook of QRZCQ.com: https://www.qrzcq.com/page/logbook
• HRDLOG: http://hrdlog.net/, respectively https://www.ham365.net/
• HAMLOG: https://new.hamlog.eu/

In the evaluation, I only go into the features that are decisive for me, without examining every solution in detail.

Clublog:

Clublog is a very professional and very widely used logbook, but I missed an input window for manual input here.  That was a KO criterion for me, so I didn’t examine the other points in more detail.

QRZ.com:

The QRZ.com logbook has now been adopted by many radio amateurs as well, so like a Swiss army knife it offers the most important radio tools in one place.  However, it offers an export only for paying members.  QRZ.com could thus also be removed from the list.

QRZCQ.com:

This logbook only offers rudimentary features, so it was immediately removed from the list.

HRDLOG:

HRDLOG offers almost everything your heart desires, including a very tidy online input window for QSOs.  Compared to my favorite, however, it only came second because the export of the ADIF file is a bit cumbersome.  You can either have the log transferred weekly to cloud storage such as Google Drive or Dropbox, or you can request a download link via email.  This is not for the impatient.

HAMLOG:

HAMLOG has a very sophisticated input window for QSOs (Add QSO), while individual QSOs can be conveniently edited with „Edit QSO“.  Import and export of ADIF files are also easily supported (Upload my log / Download my log).  In contrast to Clublog, for example, you can display the complete log (My Loglist) and search in it.  Unfortunately, that doesn’t work with the club log.  The log statistics evaluate the logbook according to various criteria: by year, month, mode, band or DXCC. All in all my favourite.

Have fun with radio operation!

73 de DF3DAD