Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] How do you keep track of your DX Loggings for AM, FM etc?

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

James already knows the answer for me, but for others I'll pick it up. I started with individual 3 x 5" index cards for each station heard. That got me through my time DX'ing in Northern NJ, but when I re-started about 6 years after moving here, I switched to a Lotus spreadsheet format, then later to Excel, and now with some help from James and several others, I use Access, and I agree with everything he's said about it.

While I track my recorded logs as well as my verifications in the database, I don't link them, mostly because it would be a lot of effort to do, and I don't see much of a benefit. My recordings are mostly in mp3 format although I do still have about 10% of my NJ recordings still on reel to reel tape which will ultimately also be converted to mp3.

I capture frequency, calls, city, state, country, date and time of reception, description of the details heard, whether recorded or veried, and slogan as applicable. Each entry also indicates each first-time logging so that I can use that to produce reports.

My FM log went into Access first ( for FM I also capture distance and grid square ) owing to a smaller number of logs and less variation in how I'd maintained them previously, and it's much easier to work with. The AM is partially into Access, and should be all the way there within another month or so.


Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8
AM:  Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot


--- On Sat, 8/18/12, James & Donna Niven <jniven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: James & Donna Niven <jniven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Amdx] How do you keep track of your DX Loggings for AM, FM etc?
> To: amdx@xxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx, irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "WTFDA" <tvfmdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 7:14 PM
> Hello All,
> 
>  
> 
> I want to begin a discussion on "How do you keep track of
> your DX Loggings?"
> 
> 
> Do you use a spreadsheet, notebook, database etc?
> 
> How about your DX recordings, do you keep a list of your
> recordings via the
> same log method or something totally different. Are your
> recordings tied
> back to your DX logging?
> 
>  
> 
> Also, what do you record as your logging entry?
> 
> Date, Call, City , Time etc. Do you break your loggings out
> be cities you
> have lived in?
> 
>  
> 
> How do you summarize your totals by Country, then state, new
> stations, call
> changes?
> 
>  
> 
> Just curious!!
> 
>  
> 
> I will start it off.
> 
> When I started DXing Broadcast stations in 1975 I used an
> accountant
> notebook with the many columns per page.  
> 
> I would record, date of logging, Call sign, city and
> Country, then
> Frequency, time and if I was chasing a QSL, date I received
> a reply from the
> station. I had a column for comments of the logging and
> location I heard the
> station. I then discovered MS Access database and learned
> how to create
> databases. I converted all my notebook loggings to my newly
> created access
> database, which has been a blessing indeed. Using a database
> has made
> summarizing my totals so simple. Within the database I have
> linked all my
> recordings back to the particular station log.
> 
>  
> 
> I have done the same for my shortwave loggings also!!
> 
>  
> 
> This is my "Geeky Method" but works for me!!
> 
>  
> 
> Who's next ....to discuss their method?
> 
>  
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
>  
> 
> James Niven
> 
> Austin, Texas
> 
> www.fmradiolog.com
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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