Special Tips How to Use ILGRadio

ILGRadio - How to Use and easy way to find wanted data

ILGRadio full version can be displayed with various software e.g.:
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Access
BDASE Reader
PARADOX shouls also work
The are much more software on the market which can read with dBASE files
HTML Browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and others)
Text Reader Software (PSPad Freeware Editor)

ILGRadio special files are available for various SDR receivers:
SDR Console
WiNRADIO
PERSEUS SDR
ELAD FDM
ERGO
HDR Ham Radio Deluxe
RLDB FineWare
SDR Duo / SDR Uno
and some more


ILGRadio is a very big database and with the above listed software you can
select data fields to display on your screen.

The most important handling of large data is the FILTER function were you can
reduce visible data for e.g. some examples:
- too mutch data fields, no problem, in most software programmes you can reduce the number of data fields
  by deleting the fields or select to display data fields you want to display on the sceen
- languages (give name of the language in LANGUAGE data field)
- broadcasting or UTILITY
  set in LANGUAGE field equal "DATA" for UTILITY or not equal "DATA" for broadcasting data
- hours when stations are on-air
  there are 24x data fields for each hour (G00 ... G23)
  you can set filter function on G18 with not equal ". " to display only transmissions
  which are on air between 1800 -1900 UTC
- if you are looking for a special call sign there is no problem at all:
  set in data field CALL equal "OFF" to display all entries with call signs starting with "OFF"
  or equal "OFF " to display strictly only call sign entries with only "OFF".
  this is helpful if you have received an unlisted new call sign
- ILGRadio contains detailed data of UTILITY networks with dozen or hundred of different
  call signs on one frequency. If you don not want to display all this set in data field
  REMARKS not equal "INFO DATA". For each network a header data set entry remains and
  in the CALL data field is the structure of used call signs given e.g."***** (3-5x characters)"
- for the UTILITY receiving useful filter options can be used:
    - ALE MIL-STD-188-141: set filter to field NOTES with wording "ALE MIL-STD-188-141"
    - STANAG 4285: set filter to field NOTES with wording "STANAG 4285"
    - TELEX: set filter to field LANGUAGE with wording "DATA:TELEX" or field MODTYP with "F1B"
    - FAX (Weather Fax): set filter to field LANGUAGE with wording "DATA:FAX" or field MODTYP with "F1C"
    - METEO/WEATHER: set filter to field NOTES with wording "METEO"
    - MORSE: set filter to field LANGUAGE with wording "DATA:MORSE"
        you can increase displayed data if you put a second filter to the country (ADM), e.g. "USA"
    - various others with NOTES field filter e.g. MWARA, "DSC", "HFDL", "BEACON", "SITOR",
        Russian "CIS-75", "T-206", "MPSK12" or Chinese "QPSK PRC-4", "PSK MODEM PRC-4+4",
        SPY Radio with BRC field "XSP" with the special type e.g. in field REMARKS as "F06", "P03"...  
    -NETWORKS (e.g. US Coast Guard): set filter to field STATION with wording "USCG" for all entries
       or for mobile units (ships,aircraft): use for the field STN only "USCG"
       or for ALE of Australia you give filter NOTES with wording "ALE MIL" and ADM field with "AUS",
          same with "Turkey" with wording "ALE MIL" and ADM field with "TUR"
    - latest monitoring of the month can be filtered out in the field YEAR with "2412" for December 2024
- for the BROADCASTING receiving useful filter options can be used:
    - broadcasts in English you give the LANGUAGE field with "Enlish" and. STN field with e.g. "BBC"
- there are so many functions according to your choice available which I cannot mention here...

I would also like to mention that there is one data field YEAR were I have given the last
date (YYMM) of monitoring included. Always the last date is given and older data overwritten.
The daily frequency monitoring are indicated by a time-stamp marked by year and month (YYMM).
Here you can see if the data entry is old or very new and up-to-data.
If there are old data given this does not mean that the entry is old and out dated.
There are some old entries but these stations are still on air and the call signs are still valid.
Many digital signals of e.g. "ALE MIL-STD" are not on the air the full time. Some are on the
air every few minutes, hours or days and some other stations are on air every few months only.
So not everything can be simply received easily the whole time.
This means there is always something to do the whole year...

The latest monitoring statistics on top of each web page (below UPDATE INFO) shows how much
monitoring work is done during the month to update the ILGRadio database.


The main improvement of last year is the nearly daily publishing of the ILGRadio files.
You don't have to download the data every day, but whenever you need it
these currently data are available for you.
Publishing dates with upload time are displayed on the top of each ILGRadio web page.

If there are questions or suggestions, please write.