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MacLoggerDX HD for iPad Support Page

MacLoggerDX Support Group

Quick Start

1) Enter your Call Sign and pick your DX Cluster from the Cluster Panel:

2) Select your call book from the Settings (Gear Icon) Popover:

(If you are using QRZ or HamCall enter your user name and password)

3) Enter a call sign to look up or a DX Cluster command:

Notes:

  • The Blue light to the left of the Call sign means the DXCluster is connected.
  • The flashing Green light means that the call looked up is in your Log.
    Tapping on the flashing green light shows previous QSO's in Log Panel.
  • Color Codes for Grid (first 4 character), ITU, DXCC, CQ Zone, IOTA, State Text Color:
    • Red - Not in Log.
    • Brown - Worked in Log but Unconfirmed
    • Black - Worked in Log and Confirmed.

Log Panel

  • Single-tap on a log entry to display QSO.
  • Double-tap on a log entry to delete QSO.
  • Color Codes:
    • Red - QSL Sent but not yet received.
    • Green - QSL Received.
    • Black - QSL neither sent nor received.
    • Grey - QSL Sent field set to "I" for Ignore.

Map Panel

  • Double-tap on a Map spot to lookup.
  • Pinch to zoom the Map in and out.
  • Spot colors:
    • Red - Less than 5 minutes old.
    • Yellow - Between 5 and 30 minutes old.
    • Gray - Older than 30 minutes.
    • Spots older than 4 hours are removed.
  • 2D Map Marker Shapes:
    • Box - Internet or Log Grid Square.
    • Circle - Internet or DXpedition database Latitude and Longitude.
    • Cross - Call sign database.
    • X - City database.
    • Z - US Zip Code database.

Cluster Panel

  • Single-tap on a dxcluster spot to lookup.
  • A Green Call sign means you have worked that station, a Green DXCC ID means that you have worked that entity.

Transferring Log and ADIF files using iTunes File Sharing

MacLoggerDX HD can transfer logs with the name "MacLoggerDX HD.sql" back and forth between Mac and iPad.

It can also Import from and Export to "MacLoggerDX_HD.adi".

You can copy the iPad log to the desktop or you can copy the desktop log to the iPad.

  • Desktop to iPad
    • When you copy a desktop MacLoggerDX .sql file to the iPad it overwrites whatever is there and becomes the entire log on the iPad.
    • The file must first be renamed or copied to "MacLoggerDX_HD.sql".
    • You can drag your MacLoggerDX sql file into iTunes in the DEVICES/your iPad/File Sharing/ area connected with MacLoggerDX HD.
    • If you want to merge some QSO's from the desktop into an existing log file on the iPad then copy them onto iTunes as ADIF (MacLoggerDX_HD.adi) and import them into MacLoggerDX HD.
  • iPad to Desktop
    • Your MacLoggerDX HD iPad log can be dragged out of the iPad onto your Mac and opened in MacLoggerDX.
    • You can merge that copied log into your desktop MacLoggerDX log or you can open it as a separate log.
    • You can also copy the MacLoggerDX_HD.adi ADIF file to the desktop for importing into any other logging software that supports ADIF but you need to Export ADIF first from the Settings popover.

Here is a link to the Apple Support document on iTunes File Sharing.

Bonjour Radio Sharing:

  • Tap once on the server in the MacLoggerDX Servers in the Settings panel to connect, tap again to disconnect.

  • Once you connect to a server MacLoggerDX HD constantly reads back the frequency and mode of your radio, it also allows you to set the radio frequency with an Auto Lookup spot, by tapping on a DXCluster spot, by typing the frequency into the MHz field or by tapping the +/- buttons in the Settings Dialog.

  • K4DJV's MacLoggerDX HD and Kenwood TS-2000 setup.