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[Jeff Lane <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this comes up from time to time, and I also know the answers can 
be defended/argued as strongly as vi v emacs ;-) but I thought I'd ask 
you guys what the cool kids are using for logging these days.

I've played with various logging programs over the years, none of which 
I've ever stayed with, mostly for one big reason... no way to easily 
store or sync the log data online somewhere.  Which means if I use a 
program on one laptop, that means it's yet another piece of data I have 
to remember to sync between systems.

So I was hoping to get an idea of what good general purpose logging 
programs are popular right now. I don't do a lot of contesting, so I 
don't need that kind of horsepower, but something good for general 
purpose logging.

Hopefully something that will sync on the fly or on demand with 
something online (looking at LOTW, I've never used it before but maybe 
that's the solution I'm looking for, even though their software doesn't 
appear to be linux friendly).

I do most of my logging still with pen and paper because I've never 
found a logging program that wow'ed me enough to stick with.  I even 
started writing my own at one point that was going to sync with a SQL 
database hosted along with one of my websites, or at the very least sync 
its data to one of my websites for backup purposes. But I got lazy and 
abandoned that because pen and paper still work well.

It would be nice to have something that could do QSL lookups on the fly 
but that's not necessarily required as I may or may not have internet 
connectivity when operating (portable, QRP, etc)

Anyway, it just occurred to me to ask that old familiar question as I 
sat here working today with the HF rig on behind me.  I've stopped and 
made a few contacts today, including an IOTA and a SOTA station on 20m 
and realized that sometimes my logs consist of scraps of paper that were 
handy when I needed something to write on :/

Cheers and 73,

Jeff