Recent QSOs and Filters

Recent QSOs and Filters

The Recent QSOs grid

The main log table. Double-click a row to edit; right-click for everything else (see The right-click menu below). Columns are configurable — click Columns to choose which are visible; widths, order and hidden columns are saved (per profile), with a separate layout for the narrower Main-tab pane.

• The selected-row count is always visible at the top, and a Select all / Unselect all button takes every displayed row.
• QSL and upload status columns are coloured: Y green, N red, R blue, V (verified) green — a LoTW contact marked V counts as confirmed everywhere, like Y.
• A Distance (km) column (also in Worked-before) is computed from the QSO's own locator pair.
• There are no per-column header filters — they only ever searched the rows on screen, which made a QSO further back in the log look missing. Use the advanced filter, which queries the whole logbook.

A QSO logged from WSJT-X, MSHV, JTDX or a net appears here immediately, not when its auto-upload eventually goes out. That matters if you use a delayed upload to leave yourself time to correct a contact before it is sent.

Award columns

Each defined award can show a column with the reference the QSO counts for. These columns are hidden by default and opt-in from the Columns picker.

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The right-click menu

Select one or more rows, right-click, and the menu acts on the whole selection. Right-clicking a row that is not selected selects it first, so a single right-click on one QSO always does what it looks like it will.

Entry	What it does
Fix country & zones from cty.dat	Re-derives DXCC, continent, CQ and ITU zones from the prefix database. Use after a cty.dat update, or on QSOs imported without zones.
Update from the callsign databases	Re-queries QRZ.com / HamQTH per QSO. A network round trip each — a progress bar appears.
Update from ClubLog (exceptions)	Applies Club Log's exception list: callsigns whose real entity is not what the prefix says.
Update US county from the ULS database	Re-derives the county of US contacts and replaces what is stored. Only appears once the county database is downloaded — see Awards.
Send OpsLog QSL by e-mail	Renders the QSL Card Designer card for that QSO and mails it.
Bulk edit field…	One field, one value, on every selected QSO. Leaving the value empty clears the field.
Export selected to ADIF / Cabrillo	Just the rows you picked.
Export selected — choose fields…	Same, but you pick which ADIF fields go in the file.
Export filtered view to ADIF / Cabrillo	Every QSO the current filter matches — not only the rows on screen, and with no row limit.
Send to QRZ / Club Log / HRDLog / eQSL / LoTW	Uploads the selection now, whatever the automatic upload mode is.
Delete…	With a confirmation naming the count.

Exporting a filtered search is two different entries. Export selected takes the rows you highlighted. Export filtered view takes the whole result of the filter, including the QSOs scrolled off the bottom. When you have just built a filter and want the lot, it is the second one.

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Advanced filter builder

Click the filter button to open the QSO filter builder (Log4OM-style).

• Add one or more conditions: field · operator · value.
• Operators: equals, not-equal, contains, starts/ends with, greater/less (or equal), is empty, is not empty.
• Fields include every confirmation status and date (sent / received, before / after) for paper QSL, LoTW, eQSL, Club Log, HRDLog and QRZ.com. Field names stay in English — they are ADIF names, a standard vocabulary.
• Join the conditions with ALL (AND) or ANY (OR).
• Save named presets (they travel with the data/ folder).

A filter shows every match — the on-screen row limit only applies to the unfiltered log (safety cap 10 000).

Worked examples

Each of these is a few clicks in the builder. The point of the last column is what you then do with the result.

1. Everything worked on 20 m in FT8 that is still unconfirmed on LoTW

Join	Field	Operator	Value
ALL	band	equals	20m
	mode	equals	FT8
	lotw_qsl_rcvd	is empty

→ right-click → Export filtered view to ADIF, and you have the file to re-upload or to check against LoTW.

2. Paper cards sent but never answered, older than a year

Join	Field	Operator	Value
ALL	qsl_sent	equals	Y
	qsl_rcvd	is empty
	qso_date	less than	20250816

→ select all → Bulk edit field to mark them for a bureau chase, or export them for a follow-up list.

3. Every contact with one entity, on any band, in a date range

Join	Field	Operator	Value
ALL	dxcc	equals	291
	qso_date	greater or equal	20260101
	qso_date	less or equal	20261231

→ this is the shape for an award submission. Save it as a preset so next year is one click and a date change.

4. Anything that might be a duplicate of tonight's run

Join	Field	Operator	Value
ALL	call	contains	DL
	band	equals	40m
ANY	qsl_sent	equals	Y
	lotw_qsl_sent	equals	Y

Note the mix: the ALL block narrows to the contacts you care about, the ANY block accepts a QSO confirmed by either route.

5. US contacts with no county recorded

Join	Field	Operator	Value
ALL	dxcc	equals	291
	cnty	is empty

→ select all → right-click → Update US county from the ULS database.

Tips

• Dates are ADIF dates: YYYYMMDD, no separators. 20260816, not 16/08/2026.
• is empty is not the same as equals N. A QSL that was never sent is empty; one explicitly marked not sent holds N. Filters on confirmation usually want is empty.
• To find what a field is called, show its column in the grid: the Columns picker and the filter builder use the same ADIF names.
• A preset saves the conditions, not the results — it re-runs against the log as it is today.

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Worked-before matrix

As you type a callsign, the worked-before grid shows prior contacts with that entity, arranged by band/mode slot, so you instantly see what's new (new DXCC / new band / new slot) versus already worked. Its right-click menu offers the same bulk edit and export as the main grid.

Searching by callsign

A plain word matches the start of a callsign: 4S finds 4S7AB.

Pattern	Matches
4S	starts with 4S
*4S	ends with 4S
*4S*	contains 4S anywhere
F?BPO	F4BPO — ? is exactly one character

* stands for any run of characters, ? for exactly one.