{"id":3962,"date":"2024-11-28T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2025-01-07T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:35:33","slug":"macloggerdx-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"MacLoggerDX &#8211; pretty good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still in a learning curve MacLoggerDX is doing a good job.\u00a0 So far, the shortfalls are ones I knew of before I made the purchase so I would never consider those items a negative (including being pricy).\u00a0 It runs very well on the Mac and supplied the info necessary to talk to popular digital programs.\u00a0 It has a whole bunch of features and will take some time to work through them all (or most).\u00a0 Of the two digital mode programs I have found that WSJT-X is the most seamless with MacLoggerDX.\u00a0 Fldigi is a bit clunky (I used MultiPSK on the windows machine).\u00a0 I hope I can make improvements with the interface with Fldigi, but I am not too hopeful that will happen.<\/p>\n<p>For information purposes the following are things I knew going in that would have been nice to have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User define fields<\/li>\n<li>Mapping of fields from my former logger to MacLoggerDX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Nice to have&#8221; items I should have known about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It would be nice to have more rig control including user specific commands. \u00a0(e.g. VOX on and off and a tune button)<\/li>\n<li>More to come (?).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not so good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the QSL received field \u00a0DXLab puts a Y for QSL received and R to request a QSL. \u00a0When the confirmation process in MLDX was run it confirmed 100% of all QSO\u2019s in my log (entered using DXLab) as the QSL R field contained data. \u00a0Note: This issue was corrected in v6.54.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still in a learning curve MacLoggerDX is doing a good job.\u00a0 So far, the shortfalls are ones I knew of before I made the purchase so I would never consider those items a negative (including being pricy).\u00a0 It runs very well on the Mac and supplied the info necessary to talk to popular digital programs.\u00a0\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3962'>Continue Reading &lsquo;MacLoggerDX &#8211; pretty good!&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,34,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","category-fldigi","category-mac-mini","category-macloggerdx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}