Logbook Overview

Overview

A logbook is only available to licensed operators and is where your QSOs are filed. Every contact you work is filed in a logbook, each logbook logs under a single callsign, and each callsign may have one logbook.

That one rule is what keeps everything else unambiguous. A contact logged under a callsign is confirmed, exchanged and sent to QRZ or Logbook of the World as that callsign, so you say which callsign applies once, when you create the book, and never again on an individual contact.

Your logbook is more than a list. It confirms your contacts against other operators automatically, exchanges QSL cards when a contact confirms, keeps your station details so you are not re-keying them, and syncs with QRZ and Logbook of the World in both directions.

You reach it from your profile, or from the Logbook link in your account.

What Is On The Logbook Screen

The logbook selector, under the page heading, names which book you are looking at. It is a scope rather than a filter. With one logbook it is fixed; with more than one, whatever you choose here is the book that Log a QSO, Import ADIF and Export ADIF all act on.

Six totals across the top. Total QSOs, Confirmed and Pending are a complete split of your log, so Confirmed and Pending always add up to Total. Operators, Entities and QSL Cards count who you have worked, how many DXCC entities, and how many cards have been exchanged.

Awaiting You appears when another operator has logged a contact with you that you have not logged yourself. Log your side and both logs confirm automatically. See How QSO Matching And Confirmation Work.

The log itself, one row per contact, showing the date and UTC time, the callsign, the country and DXCC entity, band, mode, RST sent and received, distance and bearing, your notes or the comment, and the status.

The controls at the top right. Filters, Export ADIF, Import ADIF and Exception Reports.

Log a QSO, the green button above the table.

What The Status Column Tells You

Confirmed means both operators logged this contact here and QSL Shack paired them. Pending means it is waiting on the other operator, and there is no time limit.

A QSL card marker means cards were exchanged on this contact.

Public or Private is whether this contact appears on your logbook to other operators. Private changes nothing about confirmation.

A QRZ error marker means this contact has something waiting for you on your Exception Reports.

What Other Operators See

A visitor to your logbook sees your public QSOs and nothing else. Your private contacts, your notes, your totals for hidden contacts, and every control on the page are yours alone.

Your notes are private in every case, on a public contact as much as a private one. Your comment is not: it is what the other operator sees and it is what goes on the QSL card.

Private does not hide you from the operator you worked. A contact you log against another member appears in their Awaiting You queue so they can log their side, private or not. Private controls your public logbook, not whether the person you worked can see that you logged them.

What To Watch For

Distance is shown in miles or kilometres according to the preference of whoever is reading the page, not the one who logged the contact. Switch it with the mi and km buttons.

A distance marked with an asterisk was measured to the middle of the other operator's country because no grid square was known for them. Adding their grid square to the contact gives a real figure.