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RE: Swisslog, WSJT-X and JTAlert
Hi Tom,
First of all if you work on realtime you don't need that JTALERT supports Swisslog at all! You have to configure Swisslog as clearly explained in the "Digital modes interfaces/Operating with WSJT-X" section in the Swisslog Help. Please read the yellow frame where the UDP connection is explained and also a special note for JTALERT users. This way, when you work with WSJT-X, JTALERT and Swisslog together the QSO is saved in all 3 programs at once:
WSJT-X sends QSO data to JTALERT which broadcast the QSO data to Swisslog
When saving the QSO, QSO data is saved in the corresponding ADIF file of WSJT-X and JTALERT and also in the Swisslog database. That's the reason there is no need that JTALERT supports logging to Swisslog. I could include an interface/API specially to save QSOs in JTALERT. But I insist that if you follow the instructions explained in the Swisslog help there is no need to implement anything. In fact, you could use WSJT-X with Swisslog without JTALERT. Swisslog provides you dupe, statistic, call membership and callbook information much better than JTALERT and supports realtime logging to all online logbooks supporting multicallsign configuration. Except some very specific options (which maybe you don't use it), you can avoid using JTALERT. JTALERT is very useful to be used with other logging programs which doesn't support WSJT-X directly and/or lacks of the Swisslog features.
I have created a special query to export QSOs to JTALERT implementing the required ADIF fields. Some fields are not included simply because are not supported by Swisslog such as BAND_RX, FREQ_RX, A_INDEX, K_INDEX, MY_CQ_ZONE, MY_ITU_ZONE. However, this should not suppose any problem.
Please unzip the attached file into the ADIF export folder located into the Queries folder. Use this query to export into ADIF from Swisslog giving the same name you gave to the Log ADIF file and replace. Remember that this query will automatically select all the digital modes supported by WSJT-X/JTDX.
You can explain Laurie that Swisslog allows to export any field into ADIF. It depends on the query definition. No other logging program allows this wide flexibility as Swisslog offers. I don't see any field in WSJT-X/JTDX to set/save the US State so I have not included it in this query. If you need it I can add it with no problems.
In the next version I will include this query (after you tell me that is working OK) and I will also modify the WSJT-X exportation query to include the Operator. DXCC field is already included in this query in 5.98b.
