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

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's nice to see such detailed record keeping. Where did you come across your county map?

Ira Elbert New, IIIWatkinsville, GeorgiaProudly Serving You Since 1964.

> From: jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: jniven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; amdx@xxxxxxxxxx; am@xxxxxxxxxxx; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; tvfmdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:08:21 -0400
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] [Tvfmdx] How do you keep track of your DX Loggings for	AM, FM etc?
> 
> Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
> 
> I use Excel spreadsheets for LW, MW, FM, TV and SW.  When I shifted to Excel 
> for my MW logs, it was many weeks of typing entries.
> 
> Since I have lived in this area since 1976 there is no need to note my 
> listening location.  My logbooks previous to 1976 in other locations were 
> handwritten in order of frequency.  Excel , of course, allows for 
> re-ordering the log by any category.  I keep it in chronological order of 
> the reception dates as the default.
> 
> I do not link to anything outside of the spreadsheet, though it would be 
> cool to do so, especially recordings or TV photos.  I'm afraid that such a 
> project must wait for my next life.  I'd have to trawl through miles of 
> casette tapes, recoirding them to computer sound files, and then figuring 
> out how to link them.  If I had started from scratch linking recordings to 
> the log that would have been much easier.  But my DXing began 20 years 
> before I owned a computer.
> 
> Here's how I set up Excel columns for MW:
> 
> 1.    RECORD NUMBER (this is, in effect, the chronological order)
> 
> 2.    QSL    (one star means "sent:", two stars means "barely verified", 
> three stars "mostly verified", four stars "fully verified", special suffix 
> in this column is T = taped.  In the FM log the additional suffix of S = RDS 
> Decoder screenshot is used.  In the TV log there are separate columns for 
> QSL and PHOTO, Q = sent and QSL = received.  "PHO" means good photo, "pho" 
> means I'd love to have a better photo than the snowy one I've got!  By the 
> way I use a slip in photo album for TV, the top spot on each page is the 
> photo, and the bottom spot is the QSL.  This album is organized in channel 
> order.
> 
> CHANNEL/FREQUENCY  (In the TV log there is also an offset column and now an 
> additional column for the false channel. e.g. WGRZ is received on channel 33 
> but still brands itself as channel 2.
> 
> CALL LETTERS (call changes are also listed as separate entries, in smaller 
> font and with italics)
> 
> COUNTRY (I use the ITU three letter country abbreviations)
> 
> STATE/PROVINCE
> 
> LOCALITY
> 
> ANTENNA AUTHORIZATION (Medium Wave only, D-1, U-3, etc)
> 
> DAY POWER        (In the FM and TV log there is one POWER entry)
> 
> NIGHT POWER     (In the FM and TV log there is also a HAAT entry)
> 
> DATE
> 
> TIME    (Glenn would shudder, but I've always used ELT.  I think UTC is 
> better, but I'd have to go back and convert thirty six years of times and 
> dates in 2400 entries to fix this)
> 
> COUNTY    (I actually have a US counties map in which I color the counties 
> received, so I like to know this information)
> 
> MILEAGE    (mostly included on the FM and TV logs, not so much used in the 
> MW log)
> 
> In the FM and TV logs there is also a column for MODE, e.g., Tr, Es, Ms, 
> 2Es.  In the FM log there is a column for PI CODES.
> 
> In the SW log there are a number of transmitter location unknown entries. 
> When the transmitter site is somewhat speculative I enter it in small case.
> 
> There are many other things that could be added, like transmitter 
> coordinates (see previous comment about my next life), actual transmitter 
> location, network (this is included in the TV log), and  additonal info like 
> previous call letters, something about what I heard at the time or the 
> prevailing conditions.
> 
> My only other log book is for Newfoundland DXpeditions.  This is somewhat 
> chaotic, in that I am still reviewing Perseus files from 2010 and 2011.
> 
> 
> 
>  
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