Log Plotting
The 'Log Plotting' tab-page enables you to visualize the Counties, States, Sections, or Grid Locators in your ADIF or Cabrillo logs by highlighting each region identified in each QSO on a map.
In addition, as you might have worked the same County, State, Section or Grid Locator a number of times on a number of bands or modes, you can quickly switch the view from counties worked on all bands to counties worked on one individual band. You can also do the same thing using modes, or the confirmed-status of each QSO.
Plotting a log is very simple. Go to the 'Log Plotting' tab-page, and select the required log in the 'Select Log for Map Plotting' panel.
Choose the Map Scale in the 'Selected DataSet Scale' panel, and then choose whether your map will highlight the Counties, States, Sections, or Grid Locators in the 'Plot Counties, States, Sections, or Grid Locators in the Log' panel.
Choose how you wish the unworked entities to be shown in the 'Unworked Fill Type' panel.
Choose how you wish to separate the data into selectable columns by selecting 'Bands', 'Modes', or 'Confirmed' in the 'Column Definitions' panel. You can't choose how many columns there will be: this is determined by the actual number of Bands or Modes found in the log, up to a maximum of 6.
When plotting Counties in your log, you can choose whether you want to plot those counties in a Continental Map, or a single isolated State, or within a Joint Region selected from a list of useful region-definitions. Make this choice in the 'Continent, State, or Region Map for County Plotting' panel. When you are plotting States or Section, the choice of map is made automatically. When you are plotting Grid Locators, the map is normally a State map, though this can be changed in 'Help > Options > Grid Loc > Grid Locator Background Map'.
Click 'Plot the Log', and the 'Vector Map' tab-page will be shown, with the chosen log-entities highlighted on the map. You can also switch to the 'Online Map' page and see the same entities superimposed there.