Wait and Pounce FT8 Files

Wait and Pounce is published by Cédric Morelle, F5UKW. 

Notes: Wait and Pounce is experimental. Cédric Morelle is not aware of any adverse effects. However, use it at your own risk!

CHANGELOG

v2.11.5
[features]
- Show message with a strike through when being excluded
- Tooltip on Grid Monitoring is showing without delay
- ADIF analysis in a separate process to prevent from having unresponsive application
- The "Ignore call sign if targeting another continent" setting, if enabled, will ignore the station if it calls CQ DX and our station is on the same continent (request from F4BKV)
- Minimum dB signal is checked for FT8 or FT4 modes only (disabled for JT65, Q65, MSK144, JT9 and WSPR)
- SNR or DT columns are colored if SNR or DT are not compliant with settings (FT8 and FT4 modes only)

[fixes]
- Tooltip not showing on the secondary monitor while running Grid Monitor on separate monitor(Thanks DK1FW)
- Clean Q65 messages

v2.11.4
[fixes]
- Crash when grid is invalid in parsed log file (Thanks DG3NAB)

v2.11.3
[features]
- Detect directional CQ and ignore station if continent does not match with your own continent
- Speeded up ADIF analysis just after logging a new QSO
- Improved station selection for the Marathon

[fixes]
- Ensure Wait and Pounce do NOT reply to any station if Enable Reply is disabled (Thanks DU6/PE1NSQ)
- Panning issue on Grid Monitor 

v2.11.2
[features]
- Ensures to check the validity of callsign to reply to (Thanks ON7NQ)
- Try to stabilize mouse wheelEvent behavior on Grid Monitor

[fixes]
- Show Wait and Pounce icon in Task Manager for Grid Monitoring (Microsoft users, thanks F4BKV)
- Do not reply to callsign for Marathon if we set to not never reply to callsign worked before
- Add explicit safety bounds to ensure we never exceed the frequency limit (Thanks 9A3K)
- New error when decoding unexpected message format from JTDX

v2.11
[features]
- Added tooltip for latest decoded Maidenhead grids on Grid Monitor
- If callsign matches exactly with one wanted callsign, ignore worked before settings
- "Compact Mode" renamed to "Compact View"
- Enhanced version of Compact View and adding "Alternate Compact View" (request from F4BKV)
- Added status bar to Grid Monitor
- LoTW support calculates priority and selects message to reply to in case of multiple messages in the same period
- Redesigned settings panel
- New "Logbook of The World" setting panel
- Added Grid Tracker and band selection to reply to new grids
- Added "New Grid" to Priority Manager
- Use Win-Test Country files (CTY_WT_MOD.DAT) for callsign lookup

[fixes]
- Unexpected behavior when buffer size reach it's maximum
- Critical error when decoding unexpected message format (Thanks G0JHC)
- Stability of grid monitoring during date change at midnight
- Grid Monitoring (macOS users)
- CQ Zone calculator (Thanks G0JHC)

v2.10.4
[features]
- Added tooltip to worked Maidenhead grids (loaded from your ADIF file)
- Download LoTW official users list by the ARRL
- Add symbol next to Country if decoded message comes from LoTW user

v2.10.3
[features]
- New priority tab in setting dialog
- New setting to define what minimum signal repport is needed before reply (request from G0JHC)
- Heatmap replace nowcast for Grid Monitoring
- Setup comprehensive error handling for silent crash detection
- Restore heatmap and last decoded Maidenhead grids if Grid Monitor is temporarily closed

[fixes]
- Toggle button for Grids when closing manually window
- Reduce height of main windows for compact Mode (Thanks F4BKV)
- Reduce height of setting window (request from HK3W)
- Wrong or inaccurate locator saved for logging (Thanks G0JHC)

v2.10.1
[features]
- Added Grid Monitoring
- Synchronizes wanted zones between master and slave instances
- Restore wanted zones once disconnected from master instance
- Added compact mode to the Windows menu (request from XW4KV)
- 4m band support (70,000‐70,500 MHz, request from G0JHC)
- Added Priority Manager group, in General Tab of the settings
- Added polite reply setting to reply to unwanted callsigns but calling you (request from IU1TEU)

[fixes]
- Better sound management
- Tooltips
- Improved filter with bad JTDX message such as "<...> P5DXU 549 2284"
- Complete the ongoing QSO even if DT is above normal (set to 1.9s) (Thanks XW4KV)

v2.9.6
[features]
- Scroll to the bottom of the main table when the filters return to their default values
- Added "Wanted CQ Zones" to band settings

[fixes]
- Unexpected behavior when buffer size reach it's maximum
- Do not stop monitoring even if received Close Packet

v2.9.5
[features]
- Add Open QRZ.com for callsigns from context menu
- Add Unlimited Class for Marathon settings (request from K6FW)

[fixes]
- Clear buffer with first message
- Priority to handle expected sound alert

v2.9.4
[features]
- Play different sound when wanted callsign is decoded for the first time

[fixes]
- Sort band for filter
- Better multicast support
- Match with exact callsign set in wanted callsigns even if missing grid (Thanks DG3NAB)

v2.9.3
[fixes]
- Behavior while running Hound with WSJT-X (Thanks DG3NAB)
- Window title when running as slave instance
- Set HeartBeat in status bar to local time instead of UTC
- DecodePacket time calculation
- Callsign lookup with some prefix exception
- Setting desynchronization between slave and master instance when loosing connection

[features]
- Tooltip is no longer shown on input field but on label itself (F4BKV request)
- Does not trigger any sound alert if the callsign is in your excluded list

v2.9.2
[fixes]
- Clean log every hour instead of once at midnight
- Prevent app from crash when stop monitoring (Thanks IU1TEU)

v2.9
[features]
- Updated GUI to try to minimize used space
- Adding status bar
- Stop all or quit button send "Halt Tx" message to WSJT-X/JTDX
- Added new setting to ignore callsign if country is not set (G0JHC request)
- Enable auto start monitoring when program launched (WA4S request)

[fixes]
- Update frequency only if replying to wanted callsign (Thanks DU6/PE1NSQ)
- Issue related to marathon and check for worked before

v2.8.4
[features]
- Ignore decoded message with Delta Time above 2s

v2.8.3
[features]
- Handle combined message from WSJT-X (Thanks DG3NAB)
- Priority is set to callsign "never worked before" when decoding multiple wanted callsigns during same sequence (Thanks F4BKV)
- Added a time-rotated log file manager, keeps 7 days of backlog

[fixes]
- Issue when Wait and Pounce tries to record a QSO right after starting program
- Try to achieve QSO even if unexpected messages received
- Caps lock for filter fields

v2.8 (2025-03-22)
[fixes]
- Ends the ongoing QSO before rushing to the desired decoded call sign
- Show Wait and Pounce icon in Task Manager (Microsoft users, thanks F4BKV)
- Do not change DF if callsign is worked outside of Wait and Pounce monitoring (Thanks DU6/PE1NSQ)
- Issue when socket connexion is lost with WSJT-X
- Restore the state "Clear Call Sign History" action menu after using it (Thanks F4BKV)
- Managed a queue of sound alerts to avoid overlapping alerts
- Remove automatic updater

[features]
- Let user select JTDX's ADIF log as backup to bypass the impossibility to manage automatic logging of QSO while receiving UDP messages
- Updated Server settings panel 
- Added new setting to set dedicated server for logging purpose
- Allows Wait and Pounce to operate as a slave when connected to a master Wait and Pounce instance
- Synchronizes wanted callsigns between master and slave instances
- Restore wanted callsigns once disconnected from master instance
- Added network information if instance synchronized with another master or slave instance
- Added an action to the context menu to add or remove a callsign to the excluded callsigns 

v2.7.4 (2025-03-04)
[fixes]
- Prevent GUI to freeze if Monitoring is running
- Play all awaited sounds not only the one we reply to
- Log QSO even if the QSO start time is unknown
- Reset filter if panel closed

v2.7.1 (2025-03-03)
[fixes]
- Fix behavior for Marathon
- Prevent logging the same callsign twice in a row

v2.7 (2025-03-01)
[features]
- Priority management when decoding multiple wanted callsigns during same sequence
- Added a setting for marathon that allows user to select the desired bands where we need to check the callsign entity
- Automatically add a wanted callsign to band "Wanted Callsign(s)" if the callsign is needed for the marathon
- Added "Excluded CQ Zones" to band settings
- Added an action to the context menu to delete a callsign from whole Worked History
- Avoid replying to callsign from bad decode like "CQ DXDM6HK"
- Better Windows 10 & 11 support (Microsoft users)
- Speed up startup process

[fixes]
- Make sure we do not call unwanted callsign after band change
- Make sure to save band settings when using Restart button (macOS users)
- Better support for some ADIF file formats, and handling of mixed format files
- Issue if size of main data model reached its limit
- Missing sound issue when wanted callsign was detected, occurring randomly