MacLogger DX

I was going to start using the logging part of the program. How does a person enter data ?

Hit the "Log QSO" button.

Anything in the top right edit fields will be entered in the log. unless you hit "Add UCB" in which case the data is added to your User Call Book.

'Editing' data is a little trickier: In the Log panel, or the User Call Book Panel:

Select the cell, the data appears in the edit filed, change the data, hit save.

The log file and the User call book files created in your data folder are tab delimited text files and can be edited in any spread sheet program that can edit tab delimited text files.

Is it possible to add DXclusters to the telnet list or how to add a schedule to the schedule list. Do I have to edit the DAT files in the DATA folder? Or is there an cleaner easier way ?

To add clusters to the DX Nodes menu, just edit the dxclusters.dat file in the data folder.

Similarly you can add events to the different schedule files:

winterschedule.dat, wintersunday.dat, wintersaturday.dat

summerschedule.dat, summersaturday.dat, summerschedule.dat

you can add TNC commands to the tnccommands.dat file and

you can add DXcluster commands to the dxcommands.dat file.

All these files are plain text files and should be saved in Macintosh format (carriage return line delimiters).

What significance are the day names below ie. "winterSUNDAY", "summerSATURDAY" ?

The 'winter' files are used when daylight savings is not in effect.

the 'summer' files are used when daylight savings is in effect.

The 'saturday' and 'sunday' files are used on the weekends (UTC)

Most of the SWL broadcasts have different schedules for the summer vs the winter and on weekends vs the weekdays.