The Toolbar

 

 
The Toolbar contains the menus: FILE, LOG, TOOLS, PRINTINGS, AWARD MANAGER e ?
 

The menu FILE opens the FILES MANAGER that allows to make operations on files in  ADIF format. Running the software for fisrt time you could need to import your existing log from another logging software. We assume you already created your log on BBLogger and have an ADIF file exported with your old software.You can easily import it in BBLogger. If in your ADIF log a DXCC code is found, the software imports the QSOs and the Country is assumed to be that recorded in your old log. Otherwise, selecting AUTOMATIC DXCC CHECK, the software will import the QSOs with DXCC Country sure, on the base of the internal DXCC database, and will write a secondary ADIF file containing the QSOs with ambiguous Country (e.g. GB, VP8, ZK1, etc.) Later you can import this second file but with the option MANUAL DXCC CHECK. In this way, looking at the QSL cards or to your old log, you will be able to assign the correct Country to your QSOs. If the ADIF file does not contain the DXCC code, the procedure of importation cannot detect the Country on the base of the Country Name of your old log: Italy is always Italy, but Germany could be Germany, or Federal Republic of Germany, or F.R. Germany or BRD and so on. So it is impossible to transfer the Country from a log to BBlogger as it is. The only way is to resolve the callsign. 

 

 

The function EXPORT LOG IN ADIF allows to export a log in ADIF format. Also in this circumstance a date range is selectable and it is possible to copy the content of various fields linked to the various Awards managed, for different purposes. The function IMPORT CREDIT FILES has been contemplated to import the "Credit files" of some Awards like DCI or DAI and sent to the users by the Managers of these Awards,  to automatically update the records of BBLogger like that happens with dedicated softwares.

 

 
LoTW/eQSL/DM780/QRZ.com is the section to enable the links to these services or softwares:
 

 

The menu LOG allows to ADD A NEW USER e.g. if you want to use your log to manage different callsigns (special event calls, contect calls, etc. or any callsign you manage as Manager of that Station), to EDIT USER (DATA), to CREATE NEW LOGS, OPEN THEM, MODIFY THEM, DELETE THEM, and MAKE FILTERED LOGS: as example you could wish to extrapolate from your log all contacts had in a determinated time, or all the contacts had with a determinated callsign, and more. To do that, you need to select first the ORIGIN LOG and the applique the appropriate FILTERS:

 

 

Choose the field to filter and the kind of filter to applique, then enter the value in the right box. As example you can select CALLSIGN = IK2UVR and select a range of date, e.g. 06/08/2008 - 06/09/2009 to create a new log containig only the QSOs had with IK2UVR in the selected period of time. Also in this circumstance it is possible to apply the wild card $ (Dollar) to get also the callsigns containing the selected string, like slashed calls (IK2UVR/IS0, F/IK2UVR, and so on).

Last option is MERGE LOG/LOG that allows to copy a log upon another log, selecting the ORIGIN LOG and the DESTINATION LOG among those existing. There is the option DELETE ORIGIN LOG in case you want to delete the origin log after the merging.

 
IThe menu TOOLS contains the options CONFIGURATION/MAINTENANCE (see Impostazioni page) QSL MANAGER (see QSL Manager page), MANAGER to manage the Manager database :

 

 
It is possible to perform seeks by call and by manager. The database is updatable by the user:
 

 
Other utilities of the menu TOOLS are: DXCC: show the content of the database DXCC. You can edit it (be very careful) e.g. to insert new prefixes or new Country when elegible.
 

 

ON-LINE PROPAGATION is an utility of the menu TOOLS that provides info about the propagation predictions, on based on the present conditions of solar flux. Indispensable a web connection:

 

 

APRS ON LINE is an utility of the menu TOOLS that opens a browser window with the APRS data of the stations operating in that area. To close the window simply click on the X in the upper right corner of the window.

 

 
It can be centered on a WWLocator or on a town through the functions menu in the right side of the window:
 

 

HAM MAPS is an utility of the menu TOOLS that provides various HAM maps, with Countries, CQ zone, ITU zone,  WW Locator.

 

 
AWARD DATA VIEWER is an utility of the menu TOOLS that allows to view, search, and in some circumstance edit/add the data of the various databases related to the implemented Awards.
 

 

QSL MANAGEMENT is an important utility of the menu TOOLS that allows to control the situation of the QSL cards. See QSL Manager please.

 

From the TOOLS Menu it is possible to launch the BB Terminal, based on MMVARI engine by JE3HHT and the BBLCAT, that can manage Omnirig by VE3NEA and the CAT Control programs by Mauro IZ2BKT. They are downloadable from his website: www.iz2bkt.com These programs are independent: BBLogger can interface them through BBLCAT but they are not essential for a correct work of BBLogger.

 
The menu INFO contains the icon "i" - Info on that shows the info about the Version, the icon "?" - Help that launches this HELP written in HTML and CHECK THE UPDATES that allows to manually check the web to see if there are updates available. The command ALT+H open a browser window to an Help-on-line (Internet connection needed) in 52 different languages.
Other menus of the Toolbar are Stampe and Award Manager , plese see their pages.