About
What ECTLogger is
A web-based net logger for amateur radio, built for emergency communications teams, SKYWARN spotter nets, and the clubs that run a weekly check-in. It is free, MIT-licensed, and developed in the open at github.com/bradbrownjr/ectlogger.
It exists because the work of running a net produces the same information four or five times over: the handwritten list, the spreadsheet somebody retypes it into, the message in the group chat, the ICS-214, the ICS-309. Every transcription is another chance for the record to disagree with itself. ECTLogger’s claim is narrow and it is the whole point: write it down once, while the net is happening, and let the paperwork come out of that.
Who maintains it
One person, KC1JMH, with help and bug reports from the operators who use it. That is worth saying plainly, because it sets expectations for how fast something gets fixed and why the roadmap is honest about what is not built yet.
The pages
Known issues — Things that are wrong right now, with workarounds where there are any. Check here before filing a bug.
Getting help — How to ask, what to include, and the Diagnostics tool that collects it for you.
Changelog — What changed and when, written for operators rather than developers.
Roadmap — What is planned, what is being worked on, and what was considered and rejected. It is the project’s working document rather than a marketing page, so it is long and it is frank.
Privacy — What is collected, why, who can see it, and what is never collected.
A note on the roadmap
The roadmap is a real internal planning document that happens to be public. It contains unflattering detail about bugs that reached production, decisions that turned out wrong, and features that were argued about at length. That is deliberate: a roadmap that only lists the good news is not much use for deciding whether to trust a piece of software with your net.
Nothing on it is a promise, and nothing on it is documented here until it ships. A page on this site describing a feature you cannot find is a bug, and worth reporting as one.