JAGUAR PRO ONLY

CATBOOK ("Captain's Logbook") is a "collection database" used for documenting user's DX history (= QSLs, loggings, own offsets, audio clips, etc). The main display for presenting the CATBOOK data is CATMAP ("Captain's Logmap") but some data saved in CATBOOK (especially the own offset values that user has collected) can be seen also using other Jaguar features.

Every CATBOOK row (station) is connected to a user-specified colour code called P-TAG (see P-TAGS for details). This tag is added to all stations that are saved in CATBOOK and they are used to define how the station will appear not only in CATBOOK but also on standard MAPS and TURTLE displays.

CATBOOK is created automatically when user makes the first logging / offset logging. After that a new station is added automatically to CATBOOK when it is logged - also other Jaguar functions can be used to add stations to CATBOOK. CATBOOK data can be edited (and new data added to already saved stations) by using CATBOX tool window.



CATBOOK file itself is a simple text file ("CATBOOK.txt") and it is located in the Jaguar installation folder.

HOW TO

CATBOOK stays mostly "out of sight", it just serves as the background data source for several Jaguar displays.

More information about maintaining the CATBOOK data can be found in the CATBOX help. In fact you can edit CATBOOK.txt also directly (for example using Notepad++), but it is not recommended because all the column positions must be exact and all the line breaks must be exactly at the end of the data row. If not, CATBOOK will get corrupted (it happens easily if you edit it manually and are not careful enough).

At the moment there are no conversion tools for converting your old documentation (QSL statistics etc) to the CATBOOK format, but there are tools for a quick setting of the colour code for a bunch of stations (see STATION MENU > TAGGER for more information) and this way you can easily copy a larger amount of stations from TURTLE to CATBOOK.

More details of CATBOOK's own graphical presentation can be found in the CATMAP help.