What's new in each version

Version 1.18 7 November 2026

Awards between Bitácora 26 users

• When you create an award, if the contact uses Bitácora 26 it is also sent through it (and saved in your folder, as always).
• Awards sent to you arrive automatically and are saved in Documents\Libro de Guardia\Diplomas recibidos (QSL menu → Diplomas recibidos).
• 2 MB maximum per award: if it is bigger, the program warns you and you will have to send it another way.
• QSL cards and awards are kept on the server for 2 days only: open Bitácora 26 often so you don't miss any.

Version 1.17 6 November 2026

Cluster: all clusters in one window

• New Cluster window with one tab per cluster: Bitácora 26, URE, DXFun and DX Spider (and RBN if you choose it in Elegir clústeres…). Each tab shows whether it is connected and how many spots it has.
• The Todos (All) tab merges the spots without repeating stations and shows which clusters spotted each one.
• Filters: band (CB included), mode (Phone, CW or Digital), continent, search by callsign or country, only countries you still need, with eQSL, with LoTW, only Bitácora 26 users, and spot age.
• Mode shown as coloured badges, with the country flag and a NEW COUNTRY mark.
• Click a column name to sort the list; click again to reverse it.
• Click a spot: the contact is prepared (and, with CAT, the radio goes to that frequency). Double-click: opens it on QRZ.com.
• Clusters are only read while the window is open, using your operator callsign. Nothing is sent in your name.
• Under the map, the button is now called CLUSTER BITÁCORA 26, with a Ver todos los clústeres… button.

Version 1.16 6 November 2026

Bitácora 26 account (free and optional)

• Create your account from Mi Estación → Operador or at bitacora26.es. One account per person, with your amateur radio and/or CB callsign.
• You need a callsign, full name, QTH, locator (you can pick it on the map), email and password, and to accept the terms of use and the privacy policy.
• Confirmations: contacts between Bitácora 26 users are confirmed automatically.
• QSL: design your QSL card freely and send it to anyone with an account.
• Filling in contacts: when you type a callsign, your own data is used first; then the Bitácora 26 user details and, finally, QRZ.com and HamQTH (QRZ.com is never queried on CB).

Cluster and ON AIR (testing)

• Press ON AIR and you appear in the Bitácora 26 Cluster with your frequency, band, mode and a comment.
• Account only: only Bitácora 26 users see the Cluster and nobody can appear with someone else's callsign. Your name, QTH and locator come from your account.
• Older versions can no longer use the Cluster: update to 1.16.

DIGITALES: FT8 and FT4 inside Bitácora 26

• Receive and transmit FT8 and FT4 without other programs, with automatic sequencing and saving to the LOG.
• PTT via CAT, VOX, RTS or DTR, and transmit mode (USB or Data).
• Band buttons (including 70 cm) and clock: clicking it checks the time over the internet and can set the Windows clock.
• For now it does not transmit on CB.

Also

• Operator details and My account in one window; new menus: Archivo (File), Mi Estación (My station), Actividades (Activities), QSL, Cluster and Ayuda (Help).
• Online services: a Test button for each service, without opening its settings.
• Radio club: management by sections, members and fees inside Radioclub, change the radio club password.
• Mis actividades (My activities): edit and delete activities.
• Faster with large LOGs.
• Help menu: Guía de Uso opens the user guide.

Version 1.15 1 November 2026

• Update contacts: new button to the right of Buscar (Search). It fills in missing name, QTH or locator in the open log or activity (only empty fields), from your data, the CITIZENS BAND list (on CB) and QRZ.com and HamQTH.
• If QRZ.com cannot find a callsign, it is also looked up in HamQTH (with your HamQTH account in Online services).
• Move to another activity: right-click to move the selected contacts from any log or activity to another activity (or out of it).
• Radio club activities also share contacts imported from an .adi before they were marked as radio club activities (without duplicating the radio club LOG ones).
• Award settings (previously Generate award): each activity keeps its award, and you can choose to create it automatically as each contact is added, or all at once.
• The award generator has a scroll bar when the window is small.
• Small screens (older computers): the top part is no longer squashed; it can scroll sideways.
• Waterfall: no longer lags on slow computers or draws misplaced lines when changing frequency.

Version 1.14 29 October 2026

• Members with only a CB callsign (or only HF) appear in radio club management, with the other callsign blank.
• When creating an invitation key for a new member, the program asks whether the callsign is HF or CB.
• Updates only replace the files that changed (avoids the error "jacob-1.21-x64.dll could not be replaced").

Version 1.13 29 October 2026

• The right-hand panel (map and CB channels) has the same height in all activities, with the waterfall open or closed.

Version 1.12 29 October 2026

• Fixed: with the waterfall open in CITIZENS BAND, the channels and map on the right are no longer squashed.

Version 1.11 29 October 2026

• A single permission for the CITIZENS BAND list: Remove and modify callsigns in the CITIZENS BAND list for everyone. Without it, a member can only add new callsigns.
• Unauthorised changes to the CITIZENS BAND list do not reach other computers, even from older versions.
• Ready for mandatory updates: if a version says so, older ones stop syncing with the radio club until updated.

Version 1.10 29 October 2026

• New members' operators are only added on the radio club PC (they no longer appear on everyone's computers).
• Super Admins can also manage permissions.
• New permission: Change and delete contacts in the CITIZENS BAND activity. Without it, a member can only add new callsigns.
• Radio club settings text updated with the permissions.

Version 1.9 29 October 2026

• Radio club members: a reinstalled computer no longer counts as a new computer (it is recognised by its Windows name).

Version 1.8 29 October 2026

Renewed radio club management

• 4 roles: radio club PC (the master), Super Admin, Admin and Member.
• New Radio club members window: each member appears once even if they use the program on several computers.
• Manage permissions: the radio club PC decides what each role can do.
• Roles go with the member: they are activated once on each computer with the role password.
• The radio club PC is fixed; handing it over requires the radio club password.

Personal invitation keys

• Each member has their own key, valid only with their callsign.
• When joining, their details and the radio club's are filled in automatically.
• When opening the program for the first time: Tengo clave del radioclub (I have a radio club key) button.

Radio club logo

• The radio club PC logo reaches all members automatically when syncing.

Version 1.7 28 October 2026

• When a CB contact is removed from the radio club LOG (or a radio club activity), its callsign is also removed from the CITIZENS BAND list if no other radio club contacts with that callsign remain.
• When a CB contact is changed in the radio club LOG (or a radio club activity), the CITIZENS BAND list is updated: if the callsign changes, the new one replaces the old one.
• These changes also reach the other radio club computers.

Version 1.6 28 October 2026

• CITIZENS BAND: new "Import database" button (from an .adi file).
• CITIZENS BAND only appears if you belong to a radio club, and only CB contacts from the radio club LOG and radio club activities are added to the list.
• If the radio club computer or a Super Admin removes a callsign from the list, it is removed on all computers (except where the operator has contacts with that callsign).
• Changes to a contact in the list are updated everywhere; it is no longer added as new.

Version 1.5 28 October 2026

• New "Export database" button in CITIZENS BAND: saves the CB callsign list (callsign, name and QTH) to an .adi file.

Version 1.4 28 October 2026

• The CITIZENS BAND list is shared among all radio club members: the CB contacts each member logs (in their LOG, the radio club LOG or any activity) are added to everyone's list.

Version 1.3 28 October 2026

• In the Activity list, your own and radio club activities are shown separately, each group with its title. Citizens Band always comes last.
• The program version is always shown in About.

Version 1.2 28 October 2026

• Automatic updates: when the program opens it tells you if there is a new version and updates itself. Also with the "Buscar actualizaciones" (Check for updates) button in About.
• Sync my computers: your contacts and activities on several computers, through a cloud folder or FTP.
• Syncing with the radio club and between your computers happens when opening and closing the program, or with the "Sincronizar" (Sync) button.