SkookumLogger Downloads

Release 5.3 (40114)

Beta 5.4 (40116)

Build Notes

See History for previous build notes.

5.4 (40116) Beta 2025-06-26

Fix: K4 Sub Mini-Pan wasn't reopening cleanly at startup.

Fix: Panadapter leaf menu item titles for toggling toolbar were not being initialized by saved toolbar visibility state.

Fix: Panadapters > Sub Receiver > Mini-Pan > was missing for K4 Radio 2.

Fix: All Asian Contest Outside wasn't identifying zero-point QSOs.

Fix: Log > Reset Log wasn't reseting the internal exchange database containing records from the log being reset. Thanks W2RU.

Fix: Dragging the splitters in Panadapter windows and the DXCluster windows was doing nothing in Tahoe.

Fix: Crash when creating a Practice mode spot for a callsign longer than 9 characters.

Fix: Crash when a DX announcement was missing the colon or the colon appears beyond character 14 in the announcement.

Fix: Crash when clicking a Fonts and Colors color well in Logging Settings on Tahoe.

Fix: The passband extension into Panadapter Sub Receiver waterfall was not being hidden after frequency is stable for a bit.

Change: Help > DXSpider Spot Filtering now opens a W3BG/N3RD tutorial.

Change: Modified the default (new user) spot filter definition.

Change: Rewrote the Spot Filters section in the SL Guide.

Change: Increased the width of spot lines in Waterfall displays to increase visibility.

Change: Waterfall color is now gray and signal intensity overlay opacity is now 0.25 to improve visibility of dark and black spot overlays.

Change: Revised the polling rate scheme for ICOM radios to accommodate older models.

Change: Updated the IARU Societies database: Added LCAS (5A) and SKNARS (V4), changed (4J) name and code, changed UBA name, disambiguated ARAS-4J and ARAS-6W. Thanks K1ZZ.

Change: Altered colors in Panadapter views to match K4 colors, except waterfalls are grayscale.

New: Lines in the DXCluster spot filter editor can be commented out by beginning them with '#'.

New: For General Logging, if you enter a valid Maidenhead grid in the QSO Info entry field, SkookumLogger sets the target point to that grid when you tab or spacebar out of the field.

New: CQ WW VHF Contest is replaced by separate contests for SSB/CW and for Digi.

5.4 (40115) Beta 2025-06-13

Fix: Wrong submittal address for Atlantic Canada QSP Party (ACQP).

Fix: VO1 and VO2 didn't appear as needed in ACQP Outside.

Fix: Mobiles outside ACQP appeared as possibly needed in ACQP Outside.

Fix: Was prefilling US stations outside ACQP with Canadian province.

Fix: Bonus point calculation for ACQP wasn't per-band and per-mode.

Fix: Practice spots were not displayed.

Fix: IARU practice showed Bad exch for a correctly copied QSO.

Fix: Weekly contests like CWT dates were sometimes initialized with the start date for the next week.

Fix: In 2BSIQ practice audio routing sometimes incorrectly listened to both radios while sending a CW message.

Improved ICOM responsiveness.