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A message from Tom, N3EQF:
I announced late last year (2009) that I'm retiring from further development of Win-EQF. Since then I've received many letters of thanks from loyal users who were sad to see their long-time logging friend leave.
I'm happy to announce that another ham who is a long-time programmer has agreed to continue the development of the Win-EQF program. Torkel Jodale, LA6VJA, will be taking over as the software developer of Win-EQF. Win-EQF is not a dead product. There will be continuing development and support, and you can be confident the basic Win-EQF philosophy of simple but efficient logging will continue on under Torkel's guidance.
Thank you again for all the years of support for the project.
73,
Tom N3EQF
EQF Software
Tom Dandrea - N3EQF, the creator of Log-EQF, provides one of the easiest logging programs to use while loading it with features. Log-EQF has been constantly improved and supported since 1989. The latest evolution of Log-EQF is the Win-EQF program, providing the same features as Log-EQF for the 32-bit Windows platform.
Tom's first ham radio license was earned in 1971, as Novice WN3QEI. When that 2-year license expired, Tom was off the air until 1985 when he obtained his current N3EQF callsign. When time permits (rare these days), N3EQF is on all the HF bands, both phone and CW, to put QSOs into the logbook.
Tom's educational background includes two Associate Degrees from The Pennsylvania State University - Nuclear Engineering Technology (2NET) in 1976 and Electrical Engineering Technology (2EET) in 1979, and a BSEET from Point Park College in 1998. Tom had more than 27 years of experience working on full flight simulators for a major airline near Pittsburgh, PA. This included maintenance and development of real-time software, acceptance and FAA qualification testing, computer and I/O hardware interfacing, and development of user-interface software for Instructor Operating Systems (IOS). Now relocated near sunny Orlando, FL, Tom is Senior Engineer for a worldwide simulator company.
This experience of course has had quite an effect on the development of the Log-EQF and Win-EQF logging software. At first, Tom avoided the temptation of writing his own logging software. But by the mid-1980's, many of the commercially-available PC logging programs had been tried and discarded at the N3EQF shack. None offered the right combination of features and ease-of-use desirable for daily logging purposes. Once Log-EQF was operational, Tom began sharing it with other hams. A free offering first published in October 1989 QST (pg 61), a review at the RSGB HF Convention in 1990, 1st prize in the "Applications Programs" category of a Public Brand Software contest in 1991, and various reviews in CQ, Radio Fun, Digital Digest, WorldRadio, National Contest Journal and other publications have helped make Log-EQF and Win-EQF extremely popular.
