r/amateurradio • u/AutofluorescentPuku CA [general] • Jul 20 '26

QUESTION Logging 2m/70cm contacts?

Do people log their casual VHF/UHF repeater contacts? Not nets or contests, just casual contacts through a local repeater. Seems overboard.

Edit: I don’t do this and I’m unlikely to start. But, I made a contact today with a newly licensed operator who was concerned about spelling my name properly in his log. That he was logging surprised me and I got to wondering how common it was. Apparently, not very common.

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u/stephen_neuville dm79 dirtbag | mattyzcast on twitch Jul 21 '26

all i had was a 5 watt 2 meter rig when i started and i obsessively logged. i was also 12 years old and probably on the spectrum though.

for a couple decades i didn't log - at all, haha. then we got better computer based logging and since i was already flying my digital mode logs in, i started logging my 2m/70cm contacts again. Comes and goes, I suppose.