Fair enough, I can give it a try before buying. MLDX is $95, but has a trial scheme in that you can use the non-crippled program as much as you'd like prior to buying, with the only limitation being that the program times out after 15 minutes. It's not a bad program at all, but I had had many recommendations to try MLDX, so I decided I would. There are things about RUMLog that remind me of Logger32, and as freeware, the price is right, so I decided to give it a try. Both applications have user forums online in which the developers participate, but the MLDX forum seems to have the larger and more active user base of the two. The two that seemed most interesting were RUMLog by Tom Lindner, DL2RUM and MacLoggerDX (MLDX) by Don Agro, VE3VRW. Keeping that as a fall-back solution, I wanted to run a native OSX application, so I began seriously looking for a logging program. I also knew based on personal experience and anecdotal reports that I could probably keep running Logger32 in a virtual machine on the Mac, but did not want to do it that way if I could help it. We converted to Macs at work about four years ago, so I'm fairly familiar with them, and have had my own Mac in my sights for a long time, so I'd done some research regarding logging software already, and knew there weren't nearly as many players as in the Windows world. As a DXer, it does everything I need a logging program to do.not as fancy as some of the programs out there, but the features it has are solid and useful. There is good documentation by a dedicated team of folks, as well as an active Yahoo group that includes regular participation by the program's originator Bob Furser, K4CY. Relatively complicated to set up, but once that is done, it works pretty flawlessly. I have used Logger32 for a long time, it has a decent feature set, and is highly configurable. With the acquisition of a Mac Mini to replace a very tired Windows XP laptop, came the need to convert my daily logging system from Logger32 to an OSX solution.
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