Oliver I am also an 'old ham' - been licensed since 1969 and use logging software for day-to-day and contesting. For ordinary shack work I use turbolog. It has recently been 'upgraded' to version 4 which is based on the Windows platform and I haven't yet tried this but I know that the authors were liaising with GW to try and get it to work with access technology. For contesting I use TR written and maintained by N6TR. This is complex to set up but its use can be simple once done. I also use this program to switch filters and VFOs on my ft1000mp. I gave up on using Windows base programs and use a couple of old machines using DOS. access is with an old Juno speech Synthesizer and Hal, also an old Navigator using Track. Which software have you tried? 73 de Dave - G3YXX