Michael K Johnson<p>Thanks to at least <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.darc.de/@DJ3CE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DJ3CE</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.radio/@hb9hox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hb9hox</span></a></span> for suggesting that I try <a href="https://social.makerforums.info/tags/wavelog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wavelog</span></a> for my <a href="https://social.makerforums.info/tags/HamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HamRadio</span></a> logging needs.</p><p>Yesterday, I accidentally completed <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@hamchallenge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hamchallenge</span></a></span> HC14 (which I had completely forgotten about) by implementing <a href="https://www.wavelog.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wavelog</a> in a <a href="https://github.com/wavelog/wavelog/wiki/Installation-via-Docker" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">docker installation</a> running on top of local RAID on SSD in an AlmaLinux 9 VM on a Fedora 41 server, transferring all my various logs into it, and setting up restic to do daily backups of <code>/var/lib/docker/volumes</code> offsite about 1000 miles away. The restic encryption key is also backed up encrypted offsite. I also set it up to export my logs to the log aggregators I use.</p><p>To make the backups more robust, I also have wavelog set up to create adif log backups, and I modified the docker-compose.yaml file to put them into a system volume so that they are included in the offsite backups:</p><pre><code> volumes:<br> - wavelog-config:/var/www/html/application/config/docker<br> - wavelog-uploads:/var/www/html/uploads<br> - wavelog-userdata:/var/www/html/userdata<br> - wavelog-backup:/var/www/html/backup<br>...<br>volumes:<br> wavelog-dbdata:<br> wavelog-uploads:<br> wavelog-userdata:<br> wavelog-config:<br> wavelog-backup:<br></code></pre><p>I used it with WaveLogGate to log my massive 12 — <strong>12 I tell you</strong> — QSOs in the <a href="https://cqwpx.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CQ World Wide WPX Contest</a> (SSB) on Sunday. (Was fun taking serial numbers in the thousands and responding with a single-digit serial. "Seven? Please confirm, seven? Zero zero seven?")</p><p>I'll expect to use <a href="https://polo.ham2k.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Polo</a> for logging when activating <a href="https://social.makerforums.info/tags/POTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTA</span></a> — its logs import fine into wavelog, and maybe someday that will get automated too.</p><p>I set up one Wavelog station for each park I've activated so far, and at this point, I have set up only a single log linked to all my stations. I might later set up a POTA logbook linked to just the park stations.</p><p>And as of today that Wavelog instance hosts <em>two</em> family members' logs so far. So that HC14S counts for two hams.</p>