gerbert / QLog

Amateur radio logbook software

QLog

QLog is an Amateur Radio logging application for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. It is based on the Qt framework und uses SQLite as database backend.

QLogs aims to be as simple as possible, but to provide everything the operator expects from the log. This log is not currently focused on contests.

Features

• ADIF import/export
• Rig and rotator control via Hamlib
• HamQTH and QRZ.com callbook integration
• DX cluster integration
• LotW, eQSL QRZ.com and Clublog integration (eQSL includes QSL pictures download)
• Secure Password Storage for all services with password
• Online and Offline map
• Bandmap
• CW Console
• WSJT-X integration
• Station Location Profile support
• Various station statistics
• Basic Awards support
• Custom QSO Filters
• Basic Satellite support
• NO ads, NO user tracking, NO hidden telemetry - simply free and open-source
• SQLite backend.

For more details, screenshots etc, please, see QLog Wiki

Please, used QLog Issues for reporting any issue or open a discussion.

Installation

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• The recommended graphical resolution: 1920x1080
• CPU and memory: minimum requirements the same as for your OS
• Graphic Card with OpenGL support
• Serial connection if radio control is used

Windows

For users:

Prerequisites:

• Installed Trusted QSL (Optional)

Installaction packages are available for Windows 64bit

For developers:

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2019
• Installed Qt for Windows
• Installed qtkeychain-devel library and headers
• Installed OpenSSL-devel libraries and headers
• Installed HamLib-devel libraries and headers
• All integrated in QT Creator

To be honest, It is not easy to compile it under Windows but it is possible.

Linux

For users:

Prerequisites:

• Installed Trusted QSL (Optional) - sudo apt install trustedqsl or from ARRL

DEB packages for currently supported Ubuntu version are available for amd64, arm64 platforms via Ubuntu PPA. Ubuntu users can use following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:foldyna/qlog

sudo apt update

sudo apt install qlog

RPM packages are available via GitHub Releases

Snap or Flatpak are not planned at this moment.

For developers:

for Debian:

sudo apt-get -y install qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools libsqlite3-dev libhamlib++-dev libqt5charts5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5keychain1 qt5keychain-dev qtwebengine5-dev build-essential libqt5serialport5-dev pkg-config

for Fedora:

dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtwebengine-devel qt5-qtcharts-devel hamlib-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel qt5-qtserialport-devel pkg-config

for all:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/foldynl/QLog.git

cd QLog

for Debian:

qmake QLog.pro

for Fedora:

/usr/bin/qmake-qt5

for all:

make

MacOS

For developers:

In order to build QLog on MacOS, following prerequisites must be satisfied.

1. Xcode command line tools
2. Homebrew
3. Qt with QtCreator

Xcode

Xcode command line tools can be installed by issuing a command in command terminal:

xcode-select --install

N.B.: This command doesn't install Xcode itself, however It will take some time to download and
install the tools anyway.

MacOS build

Last dependencies before building QLog are:

 brew install qt6
 brew link qt6 --force
 brew install hamlib
 brew link hamlib --force
 brew install qtkeychain
 brew install dbus-glib
 brew install brotli
 brew install icu4c

As soon as the steps above are finished, QLog source can be opened in QtCreator, configured, built and run.
QLog app (qlog.app) from the build artifacts folder can be later copied (installed) to ~/Applications and
accessed via Spotlight search bar.

License

Copyright (C) 2020 Thomas Gatzweiler

Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Ladislav Foldyna

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.