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Station logbooks

A station logbook is a group of station locations that you want to look at together.

The logbook screen, the awards, and the charts all follow the logbook that is active. They do not follow every location you have ever created. If a location is not linked to the active logbook, its QSOs stay in the log and simply do not appear in that view.

That is useful. Home and the portable location can sit in one logbook called My station, and a club call or a contest call can sit in another. Switch logbook, and the awards follow.

Picture needed: station-logbooks-list.png Callsign menu, Station Logbooks. One row highlighted as the active logbook, with the Set as Active Logbook control visible on another row.

Click your callsign at the top right, then Station Logbooks, then Create Station Logbook.

The name can be anything. Home is fine. HF and VHF is fine if that is how you think about the station.

Open the new logbook. Near the bottom, Select Available Station Locations lists the locations you have not linked yet. Choose yours and press Link Location. It appears under Linked Locations.

Picture needed: station-logbook-link.png The edit page for a logbook, showing the location dropdown, the Link Location button, and one location already listed under Linked Locations.

Then set that logbook active. On the list, the active row is marked Active Logbook. The line under the table says you can click to set a logbook as active.

The dashboard warns you while you have no logbook. Same idea as the station location warning. Create one, link the location, set it active, and the warning goes.

What people usually do

One logbook, with every location you operate as yourself, is enough for almost everyone. Add a second logbook when you genuinely want a separate set of awards, for example a club call, or a year you want to keep apart from the main log.

A location can be linked to the logbook you want to view. If you operate from a new place, create the location first, then come back here and link it. Until you do, those QSOs will not show in the logbook view.

Sharing the log with other people

This part is optional. Skip it until you want a public page.

Public slug is a short name made of letters and numbers. Cloudlog turns it into a web address anyone can open, and that page shows this logbook. Public name is the title visitors see. Leave the slug empty and there is no public page.

Public search puts a callsign box on that page. It only searches this logbook.

There is a separate switch for showing your radio's status on the public page. Leave it off unless you are happy for visitors to see what the radio is doing.

That same public logbook can be embedded on another site. Widgets covers the recent-contacts table and the on-the-air badge.

Picture needed: station-logbook-public.png The public slug and public name boxes on the logbook edit page. A filled-in example such as 2m0sql makes the address easier to understand. No need to show a live public page.

Changing logbook during a session

Change Logbook & Location is the short way across. It asks for the logbook, then the location, then sets them active. Use it when you sit down at a different station and do not want to walk through both menus.

Picture needed: logbook-quick-switch.png The Change Logbook & Location window, on the step where you pick the logbook.