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KB6IBB SWL Logger v5.1.0

A shortwave listening logger for shortwave and amateur radio.

The KB6IBB SWL Logger is a program designed for the shortwave radio listener. It offers shortwave specific logging of stations, with most tasks handled automatically within a console style of operation. The program also incorporates the use of EiBi, HFCC, and AOKI shortwave databases for logging and looking up various known shortwave stations world wide.




Features
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Program Participant.
• Supported Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Debian 12 (Bookworm),
• Supported Linux Desktops: Gnome 40/43, Cinnamon, Xfce.
• Supported Linux Theme: Adwaita with Cantarell 11 Pt Font.
• Rolling Linux Releases and Pi/ARM processors not supported.
• Windows 11 - 64 Bit Only.
• Windows 11 Edition work flow is identical to the Linux Edition.
• SDR Support: Gqrx, SDRConnect (when available), SDR++, HamLib.
• All Releases are LTS (Long Term Support). 3-5 year version life cycle.
• SWL Logger operates in the UTC time zone transparently. No need to configure timezones or offsets.
• Most tasks are completed automatically with a common sense work flow for live logging.
• SWL Logger incorporates the EiBi, HFCC, and AOKI Shortwave Databases. User Maintained.
• North American HF Propagation data from NOAA/WWV.
• Reddit: r/KB6IBBSWLLogger
• Minimum monitor size for Version 5 is 17 inch for Laptop/Desktop Usage.
• Supporting SWL Contests

Changes:
v5.1.0 2025-01-23
New Feature:
Presumptive Propagation Analysis of logged entries. This feature performs
a comparison of the logged entries with current propagation numbers to
provide a cluster listing of stations broadcasting to a coverage target
area, frequency, radio station, and transmitter location that you should be
able to hear under the current set of propagation numbers.
This feature relies upon the analysis of the A and K Indexes.
This feature requires the details to be logged. If you are manually
logging a entry, you must fill in the required fields to gain results. They
include: All of the propgation group, Frequency, Radio Station, Signal Db,
and Transmitter Location. The AOKI database does not provide Coverage
Targets, if logging from the AOKI database, you will need to manually enter
the Coverage Target for the entry to be used in the anyalsis.
Instructions for use are contained on-screen.
This is a new feature and will be worked on extensivly over the next several
months. It will be our main area of focus until all issues are worked out.

Improvements:
The instruction manual is and always has been a part of the distribution,
and is available in two places. You can access instructions from the
Help -> Instruction menu option, or view the instructions file in the
KB6IBB-SWLLogger folder. It will no longer be available for download
on it's own.
Performed some extensive work on the SDR communicatons interface. This is
partly in anticipation for the future releases of SDRConnect. GQRX support
remains solid and stable. SDR++ support is and always will be a "we get
what we get" since it's a nightly build model being used. We improved the
HamLib interface as well. There is still some work to be done in this
area. Stability has been greatly improved.
Corrected the AOKI database interface to further deal with the misaligned
data provided. AOKI is now included in the "On Air" filter. We also added
default value of "Information not Provided by AOKI" for the Coverage Target
and Persistence fields. This was done for the Presumptive Propagation
Analysis feature.
Added the option for the AOKI data to translate the ITU County Code provided
using the HFCC tables. You must first merge the HFCC database to do this.
You will see the Code followed by [HFCC: <description>] in the entries.
All selection tables and display tables are now sorted within the sql querry
in column order left to right. The Shortwave Reference Database selection
table is now sorted by Frequency, Time, Radio Station, Coverage Target for
example.
Removed Misc. links from the Help Menu.
Improved the on screen instructions for various tasks.













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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
1,342 3,547 Jeff Stillinger <img src="https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/gallery/thumbs/SWL1_th.png"border="0"> May 19, 2025 - 00:05 5.1.0 22.72MB ZIP 5/5, out of 18 Votes.
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