And the fantastic customer service? I have been referred numerous times to the on-line community from my ticket requests. It seems the emphasis is on making my Logbook into Baseball statistics, like Sabermetics. Its like a time machine, I have really tried to like it as much, but I fail to see any real upgrades. I recently purchased a license thinking I'd move up in the world. So I was one of the earlier users of HRD at really loved it circa 2002-2005. They are free and JT-Alert will continue the support for version 5.This is an updated review in 2022, my 2004 review is below:

I'm using HRD myself and will continue V4 for main logging and V5 for digimode logging. Is this the downfall of Ham Radio Deluxe? Many will look for alternative loggers now. Since JT-Alert is the most used and most populair program to use bridging JT mode software with your own logger I guess this will affect HRD again.

I sincerely apologise to the affected HRD users. I will not be participating in any public or private discussions regarding this decision. Moving forward, all future JTAlert versions will not support HRD V6 logging. The free V5 of HRD will continue to be supported. I will not be able to provide any support for that version, however, if a future HRD release breaks the JTAlert/HRD integration. This comes into effect with the next public release of JTAlert (2.9.0).Īffected HRD users can continue to use the current version of JTAlert (2.8.7) for as long as they want. I will no longer be providing support for HRD V6 logging within JTAlert. There are some other issues as well that Laurie VK3AMA (the programmer of JT-Alert) made a decision not to support HRD V6 any longer in the newer versions. Now it seems HRD V6 deliberately shutdown JT-Alert (a program that supports the populair WSJT-X and many other JT digimode software) without any warning to the user. No good advertisement for a commercial software package. First of all the issue most of you heard of a while ago.īasically the user of HRD V6.* was blocked after some troubles in which he called for support. Lately some very unpleasant things happen regarding Ham Radio DeLuxe.

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