Preferences

PyQSO user preferences are stored in a configuration file located at ~/.pyqso.ini, where ~ denotes the user’s home directory.

General

Under the General tab, the user can choose to show the toolbox (see the Toolbox section) when PyQSO is started.

View

Not all the available fields have to be displayed in the logbook. The user can choose to hide a subset of them by unchecking them in the View tab. PyQSO must be restarted in order for any changes to take effect.

Records

The records tab allows users to choose if the UTC timezone is used when autocompleting the date and time fields, and whether the band should be automatically determined from the frequency field. Default values for the Power and Mode fields can also be specified here.

Callsign lookup

The user can enter their login details to access the qrz.com database and perform callsign lookups. Note that these details are currently stored in plain text (unencrypted) format.

If the Ignore callsign prefixes and/or suffixes box is checked, then PyQSO will perform the callsign lookup whilst ignoring all prefixes (i.e. anything before a preceding “/” in the callsign) and the suffixes “P”, “M”, “A”, “PM”, “MM”, “AM”, and “QRP”. For example, if the callsign to be looked up is EA3/MYCALL/P, only MYCALL will be looked up. If you get ‘Callsign not found’ errors, try enabling this option.

Hamlib support

PyQSO features rudimentary support for the Hamlib library. The name and path of the radio device connected to the user’s computer can be specified in the Hamlib tab of the preferences dialog. Upon adding a new record to the log, PyQSO will use Hamlib to retrieve the current frequency that the radio device is set to and automatically fill in the Frequency field.

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