pyqso/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

1.1.0 - 2018-04-02

Added

• Support for the SAT_NAME, SAT_MODE, PROP_MODE, and GRIDSQUARE ADIF fields for the purposes of satellite QSO logging.
• Pinpointing of callsigns on the world map by looking up the latitude-longitude coordinates based on the value in the GRIDSQUARE field (or COUNTRY field if the GRIDSQUARE is not specified). A new right-click popup menu has been created for this purpose.
• A separate World Map tab in the Preferences dialog.
• A navigation bar for the World Map tool.
• The option of showing Maidenhead grid squares on the World Map, and the option of shading in worked grid squares.
• Basic copy/paste functionality for individual records.
• A requirements.txt file for the purpose of installing dependencies.

Changed

• Renamed the GreyLine class to WorldMap, since it now does more than just grey line plotting.
• Improved the section on dependencies in the README.

Fixed

• Updated the list of supported ADIF fields.

1.0.0 - 2017-08-02

Added

• Pin-pointing of QTH on grey line map.
• Default logbook.
• Continued support for Python 2.x modules. Thanks to @gaionim (IU2HDS) for this patch.
• Auto-filling of the Mode field using Hamlib.
• Glade design of main window and dialogs.
• Exporting of logs in the Cabrillo format.
• More unit tests.
• More tooltips.
• The option to enter the frequency in Hz, kHz, MHz, or GHz in the Add/Edit Record dialog. Frequencies are still displayed in MHz in the logbook.
• Record/QSO count feature.

Changed

• Using username and port information (in addition to hostname) when creating an identifier for a DX cluster bookmark.
• Pressing the Return key after entering a DX cluster command will send the command to the Telnet server.
• Pressing the Return key after entering QSO information via the record dialog will add the QSO to the log.
• Moved all unit tests to a dedicated tests directory.
• Duplicate QSOs are now defined as having the same CALL, QSO_DATE and TIME_ON values. FREQ and MODE are no longer considered.
• Improved the runtime performance of duplicate QSO removal.
• Logs are now printed on a landscape page so that more QSO details can be included. The page layout has been improved.
• Better handling of "\n" characters in the NOTES field.

Fixed

• Any characters in the DX cluster server's reponse that cannot be decoded are now replaced with a replacement marker in the DX cluster frame.
• Fixed the QSO index used in the Gtk.ListStore. Just before a QSO is added with add_record it was assumed that it's index would be max(rowid)+1, which is not always the case. This led to inconsistencies between the Gtk.ListStore and the database. Indices used in the Gtk.ListStore are now obtained directly from the database after insertion.
• Direction of sorting.
• IOTA data retrieval when looking up callsigns using hamqth.com.
• Use percent-encoding when connecting to a callsign database.

0.3 - 2016-05-28

Added

• Support for callsign lookups using the HamQTH.com database.
• Added a table of keyboard shortcuts to the documentation.
• More helpful messages regarding missing dependencies.
• Added the option of merging the COMMENT field with the NOTES field when importing records from an ADIF file.
• Bookmarking of Telnet-based DX cluster servers.

Changed

• Ported the codebase over to Python 3 using 2to3 (thanks to Neil Johnson).
• The Summary page now also contains the total number of QSOs in the logbook.
• Improvements to docstrings.
• Various code cleanups (thanks to András Veres-Szentkirályi).
• Brought the list of valid modes up-to-date.
• Updated the list of bands and their frequency ranges.
• Configuration files are now written to ~/.config to keep the user's home directory uncluttered.
• The codebase is now compliant with the PEP 8 Python coding conventions (except for E501,F403,E226,E402,W503).
• Updated the documentation.

0.2 - 2015-03-07

Added

• Travis CI configuration file for automated building and testing.
• Button to add the current date and time.
• Option to specify default values for the power and mode fields.
• Allow UTC time to be used when creating records.
• Allow prefixes/suffixes to be removed when looking up a callsign (e.g. "MYCALL" would be extracted from "F/MYCALL/QRP").

Changed

• Migrated the documentation to a Sphinx-based setup.
• Separate the Create and Open functionality for logbooks.
• In the record dialog, the labels "TX RST" and "RX RST" have been changed to "RST Sent" and "RST Received". The underlying ADIF field names remain the same (RST_SENT and RST_RCVD).

Fixed

• Logging debug messages to file.
• 'Z' characters in callsigns were being ignored when importing ADIF files. This has now been fixed.
• Specifed the Agg backend for matplotlib to workaround a bug in Ubuntu 14.10.
• Sorting the date and time fields in the correct chronological order.
• Removal of duplicate records.
• Error handling when looking up a callsign that does not have an entry on qrz.com.
• Handling of ConfigParser.NoOptionError exceptions when trying to load preferences.
• Handling of UnicodeDecodeError exceptions when parsing the output from DX cluster servers.

0.1 - 2014-03-22

Changed

• The 'Notes' column is no longer automatically resized.
• The BEL character is now handled properly in the DX cluster tool.
• QSOs can now be sorted in the correct chronological order.

Fixed

• Fixed the ADIF export functionality. Previously, only markers were being written and the actual record data was being skipped.

[0.1b] - 2013-10-04

Added

• Basic logging functionality.
• Import and export in ADIF format.
• Log printing.
• Basic support for Hamlib.
• Telnet-based DX cluster support.
• Progress tracker for the DXCC award.
• Greyline plotter.
• QSO filtering and sorting.
• Duplicate record removal.