Saku,
I see that Alpha 139 is out as of a couple of days ago.
I'm running an 'early' 139 from a few weeks ago that you sent me to fix the PSK adif output problem.
Is there anything that is critical in the new 139 which would make it important to upgrade?
73 Colin
I downloaded and installed Alpha_(139) yesterday (01-02-2026) (moving from Alpha 130), along with an update to HamLib (from v 4.6 to v 4.6.5). Everything went well, except I now have a startup error message related to rotator control. I don't use rotator control and never have in the past. It takes about 25 - 30 seconds to get past the opening window about connecting to the local database, until the error window pop's up. I just hit the OK button in the error message window and then CQRLog starts as usual. I have not noticed any other issues.
File:
Hi!
If you do not have rotor set preferences/ROTcontrol/Host column empty. Then CqrlogAlpha knows that there is no need to seek rotor.
Same goes with TRXControl if you do not have rig with CAT control.
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Saku
OH1KH
Hi Colin!
Check the changelog and compare it to your current versions one.
NewQSO/Help/Help index/Quick start/Changelog V.S. https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/OH1KH/CqrlogALpha/blob...
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Saku
OH1KH
Hi Saku,
Thanks, I should have thought of that. There were a couple of changes that looked useful and nothing that looked scary :) so I did the update anyway - it really only takes about 1 minute!
73 Colin G8TMV
Thanks for the update, Saku.
I'm hoping that you can make a small change to the first time startup routine. This change would prompt the user at first startup after install, and ask if there is a rotator attached, and also if they intend to use PC control of the radio. If the user responds Yes, then the rotator setup menu would start and walk the user through the setup process. If the user responds No, then the user would be taken to the normal startup and run routine. This makes more sense to to me. If a brand new user were to see the rotator error message at first startup, they may get discouraged that CQRLog is unfinished and not reliable. Giving the user a selection upon startup would show the user that CQRLog is a polished, finished, good working product. Or perhaps, just a pop-up window on startup that tells the user to configure the program for PC control of the radio, and configure the program for rotator control. Having an error message on startup is a little bit scary.
Thanks again for helping to maintain such a wonderful program. It is quite literally the main program I use every day.
Bob, WG9L
HI!
Perhaps easiest way to fix rotor problem would be to add a line to timeout splash telling that if you have no rotor you should check that "host" column is empty.
Same with rig error splash "if you do not have CAT controlled rig check 'host' column to be empty".
I think the root reason is that if you install Cqrlog form package (original old Cqrlog) and then test it and upgrade to CqrlogAlpha the original install will
default "host" to be localhost.
CqrlogAlpha/preferences will default rig and rot "Host" to be empty.
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Saku
OH1KH