Logbook & Search

The Logbook tab displays your recent QSOs and includes a smart search bar for quickly finding contacts.

Recent QSOs Display

QSOs are listed newest-first (sorted by timestamp, descending). Each row has a collapsed summary and an expandable detail view.

Collapsed Row

The summary row shows at a glance:

Element Position Description
Callsign Left, bold The contacted station
Name After callsign, muted Operator name from QRZ lookup
Preferred name After name, italics (a.k.a. "Sparky") if a preferred name is set
Country flag After name Flag via flagcdn.com (hidden if no country code)
State flag After country flag US state flag (only for US contacts)
Band badge Inline Color-coded to match the QSO Map band colors
Mode badge Inline Yellow badge (e.g., SSB, CW, FT8)
Grid badge Inline Blue badge with grid square
POTA badge Inline Green badge with tree icon (e.g., POTA: US-3094)
SOTA badge Inline Blue badge (e.g., SOTA: W7W/KG-001)
WWFF badge Inline Green badge with flower icon
QRZ import badge Right side Blue cloud-download icon (if imported from QRZ)
QRZ upload badge Right side Green cloud-upload icon (if sent to QRZ)
Time Far right, muted UTC time (HH:MM:SS)

Date separators appear between QSOs from different days, making it easy to scan by date.

Expanded Detail View

Click a row to expand it. The detail view shows:

  • Operator photo (if available from QRZ, displayed as a rounded thumbnail)
  • Contact details: name, state, grid square, date (UTC), time (UTC)
  • Technical details: frequency (MHz), band, mode, RST sent, RST received
  • Program references: POTA, SOTA, and WWFF references with icons (if any)
  • Edit and Delete buttons

Pagination

The logbook shows 30 QSOs per page. When you have more than 30 (or any active search filter), pagination controls appear at the bottom:

  • Previous / Next buttons
  • Count label: "Showing 1-30 of 150 QSOs" or "Showing 1-30 of 45 matching QSOs (150 total)" when a search is active

Search Power Bar

The search input auto-detects what you're looking for based on the format of your query. Just type — no need to specify a field.

Auto-Detection Rules

You Type Detected As How It Matches
W1AW Callsign Matches against callsign field
20m or 20 Band Exact match on band (normalized to lowercase)
FT8 Mode Exact match on mode (case-insensitive)
CN87 or FN31pr Grid square Prefix match — CN87 matches CN87ab, CN87xx, etc.
US-3094 POTA reference Matches against pota_ref field (supports comma-separated refs)
W7W/KG-001 SOTA reference Matches against sota_ref field
KFF-1234 WWFF reference Matches against wwff_ref field
qrz QRZ import status Shows only QSOs imported from QRZ

Detection uses your actual QSO data to validate — for example, 20m is only recognized as a band if you have QSOs on 20m. This prevents ambiguous inputs from matching the wrong field.

Wildcards

Use * as a wildcard to match any characters:

Example Matches
K7* All callsigns starting with K7 (K7ABC, K7QAS, etc.)
US-* All US POTA references
W6/* All W6 SOTA references
FN31* All grid squares starting with FN31

Grid searches without a wildcard automatically get * appended, so typing FN31 matches FN31pr, FN31ab, etc.

Negation

Prefix with ! to exclude matches:

Example Effect
!FT8 All QSOs except FT8
!20m All QSOs except 20 meters
!US-* All QSOs except US POTA parks
!qrz All QSOs except those imported from QRZ

Programmatic Filtering

The search bar is also used by other features:

  • QSO Map click-to-filter — clicking a map marker fills the search bar and switches to the logbook tab
  • POTA spot click behavior routes through the same system

A clear button (X) appears when a search is active. Clearing it restores the full unfiltered logbook.

Band Badge Colors

Band badges in the logbook use the same color scheme as the QSO Map:

Band Color
160m Purple
80m Light blue
60m Dark purple
40m Rose
30m Deep blue
20m Teal
17m Violet
15m Cyan
12m Maroon
10m Sage green
6m Dark teal
2m Gold
Other Gray

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