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

v2.10.4
[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
- Save in local storage Worked Callsigns whenever adding one

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