Amateur Radio Log Analysis Tools and Software
Find software and online tools to analyze your ham radio contacts, contest logs, and operating statistics.
Analyzing amateur radio logs helps operators understand their on-air activity, improve contest performance, and visualize their DX achievements. Log analysis tools process QSO data from various logging programs, providing insights into operating patterns, band usage, and geographic reach. This process is essential for hams looking to refine their station setup or operating strategy.
Operators can use these tools for detailed statistical reports, often generating DXCC charts, QSL charts, and QSO maps to visualize contacts. Many resources focus on contest log analysis, helping contesters check their Cabrillo logs for errors, identify band passes, and evaluate claimed scores against actual results. Popular platforms like ClubLog offer online log analysis, while dedicated software such as Contest LogChecker and SH5 provide in-depth post-contest processing for events like the CQ WW DX contest.
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The Amateur Radio Logbook ADIF File Analyzer available at loganalyzer.sv5fri.eu is a convenient web-based tool that allows you to upload your ADIF log and instantly generate a visual map of your QSO contacts along with detailed statistics—by band, mode, time, grid squares, DXCC, and more. It provides an intuitive overview of your operating patterns and performance without requiring any software installation.
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Contest log checker to detect QSO band passes. The PASS program reads a Cabrillo log and reports the QSOs that were passed (moved) from one band to another. The program is not graphical and it is meant to be run at a DOS prompt or in a CMD window under Windows.
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Contest adjudication software scores Cabrillo logs. Auto evaluates up to 2000 logs with duping, claimed score, actual score, cross checking, N-QSO rule, 5-min delta QSO rule. Support including code changes, non-scoring logs troubleshoot and summary output requests.
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This spreadsheet is designed to perform a statistical analysis of the results of a competition among amateur dumps in the standard format Cabrillo.
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Club log, the popular online logbook service, offer an online general pourpose contacts log analysis including DXCC Charts, QSL Charts, log inspector, and many statistical reports with charts and log matching with other clublog users.
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Contest LogChecker is a set of contest tools for Microsoft Windows, combining advanced text editing with keyword highlighted, and the ease and flexibility of import, export, statistics and charting utilities. With LogChecker you can edit, fill in the log, check Cabrillo Format and Header, convert files from the most popular logging software to Cabrillo, print customizable files, calculate statistics and export logs to RTF, PDF or HTML for publishing. You can examine a log in many different ways by highly interactive methods. LogChecker includes a Master Callsign Database tool for managing databases, which have been generated from actual contest logs. Commercial
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A free application that displays location information determined from a callsign, displays translations of common "QSO words and phrases" in the languages used in the callsign's DXCC entity, displays beam headings and SpotCollector DX Spots on a world map, displays country maps, and provides point-and-click control of antenna rotators from AlfaSpid, ARSWIN, Heath, Hygain, M2, Prosistel, SARTek, TIC, Trackbox, and Yaesu
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Amateur Radio Web based logbook, initially linked to ham radio deluxe log and now supported by other popular log book programs, permit to publish a searchable contacts log, maps logs, and display a timeline of contacts.
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LM is a program to edit contest logs afterwards, a so-called contest post processor. With help of LM you can convert row data to many different file formats. Allow a quick input interface, and contest score for several contest. Can import & export a batch of logs and to create result lists.
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LogView is a free post-contest log-visualisation tool, for analysing contest performance. It plots the QSOs in a Cabrillo-format contest-log on to one of 8 different maps by finding the position of each QSO from an online database of about 970,000 W/VE callsigns.
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QSO Map Deactivated Due to a new pricing structure for Google Maps APIs (since March 1, 2025), the map function is no longer free to use. For this reason, the QSO Map has been deactivated.
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QScope.org is an advanced statistics online application with innovative features for HAM Radio operators logs. While designed with amateur radio contesters score improvements in mind, it can help any HAM to have a better visibility over its logbook. You can import ADIF or Cabrillo logs and have various statistics like QSOs per band, mode, operator; QSOs Rate; Operating Time...
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SH5 is easy to use contest logs analyzer which creates a variety of HTML statistics from the Cabrillo format log generated by most popuplar contest log software (N1MM Logger+, Win-Test, Writelog, TR4W and others). SH5 allows you to upload contest results to your web site.
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WorkedFields is a windows free software to displays a map showing the amateur radio field squares contacted and logged in using a third-party logging program.
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ARTIC is a contest log checker software, primarily in Italian, supporting VHF contests like IAC in Italy and SWAC in Switzerland.
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CBS is a program that produces statistical data from a Cabrillo file by K5KA and CBSW windows version by N6TV
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The complete software suite to Edit, Analyze, Generate Statistics, View multiple logs simultaneously, Map QSOs, Import and Export to Cabrillo or ADIF files. The Contest Log Analyzer has been developed as a complete database management application, where you can create separate Databases, containing several Logs, a convenient way to save, in one place only, all your log files that accumulate over the years. It runs on Mac and Windows, and it is a commercial product.
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You can upload your adif-file It then checks the qso for specified band and if a maidenhead locator is specified. It then builds an array and plot a graph.
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GridTracker listens to live traffic from WSJT-X or JTDX and displays it on a map. It can also load ADIF log files, load clublog, lotw, hrdlog.net and other sources to diplay your logbook statistics and map your QSOs. GridTracker is a free application for windows Linux and MacOS.
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LogView for WSJT-X is an external utility designed to parse _WSJT-X_ logs, enabling users to efficiently check for duplicate contacts and perform additional QSO
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Master Callsign Database Editor allows to create and modify Super Check Partial database files used by many contesting programs in DTA and SCP formats. The files produced by Master Editor in DTA format can be used with CT, WriteLog, TRlog, SD, and others. The SCP versions of the produced files are for use with Win-Test, N1MM+, and others. Master Editor allows to create a callsign database from a separate log or from a set of logs in the Batch Import mode.
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SH6 is a versatile, browser-based utility designed for the detailed analysis and visualization of amateur radio contest logs. Supporting standard formats such as Cabrillo and ADIF, the tool allows operators to upload personal files via drag-and-drop or access a searchable public archive containing over one million logs. Key capabilities include comprehensive performance metrics, offering summaries of band breakdowns, QSO rates, and beam headings. Furthermore, SH6 provides advanced geographic visualization through interactive maps, analyzing contacts by country, zone, and continent. A standout feature is the side-by-side comparison mode, enabling users to contrast two distinct logs for strategic assessment. SH6 transforms raw log data into actionable insights regarding operator performance without requiring software installation.
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A log utility for WSJT-X and JTDX Provides functionality missing from WSJT-X and JTDX and more