diff --git a/config/logback.xml b/config/logback.xml
index f52b54fe..693cab94 100644
--- a/config/logback.xml
+++ b/config/logback.xml
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
   <timestamp key="appstart" datePattern="HHmmss"/>
 
   <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
-    <file>${user.home}/SDRTrunk/logs/sdrtrunk_application.log</file>
+    <file>${user.home}/SDRTrunk/logs/sdrtrunk_app.log</file>
 	<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
 	  <!-- daily log rollover -->
-	  <fileNamePattern>${user.home}/SDRTrunk/logs/%d{yyyyMMdd}_sdrtrunk_application.log</fileNamePattern>	
+	  <fileNamePattern>${user.home}/SDRTrunk/logs/%d{yyyyMMdd}_sdrtrunk_app.log</fileNamePattern>	
       <maxHistory>10</maxHistory>
 	</rollingPolicy>
     <encoder>
-      <pattern>%-25(%d{ddMMyyyy HHmmss} [%thread]) %-5level %logger{30} - %msg%n</pattern>
+      <pattern>%-25(%d{yyyyMMdd HHmmss} [%thread]) %-5level %logger{30} - %msg%n</pattern>
     </encoder>
   </appender>
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
   <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
     <encoder>
-      <pattern>%-16(%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread]) %-5level %logger{30} - %msg%n</pattern>
+      <pattern>%-12(%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS}) %-5level %logger{25} - %msg%n</pattern>
     </encoder>
   </appender>