GridTracker

GridTracker is a companion program for WSJT-X. It listens to WSJT-X or JTDX decodes and displays them on a map for Linux, Mac, and Windows .

Display on a large second monitor in your amateur radio club, hamfest or as a demonstration in a classroom. Everyone gets excited when they can see what you’re doing!

Features:

Realtime Traffic Decoding to world map.
Audio / Visual / Text-to-Speech Alerts on Callsign, DXCC, CQ Designator, Grid and more.
ADIF Log parsing
QSO log reporting
Complete DXCC, Country, Callsign Prefix recognition
Band activity from PSK-Reporter
Maidenhead 4 and 6 wide views
100% offline mode available for field-day use.
UDP Multicast message support
UDP message forwarding
State / Province / Locality information
Decode history charting for propagation and radio performance analysis
Active development with you in mind, tell us what you’d like to see!

Update: April 6th, 2018

Reversed Right-Click and Shift-Right-Click on grid behavior (Thanks ZL1RPL)
Renamed Countries list to DXCCs
Fixed station-flags from re-appearing after disabled
Fixed station-flag info sometimes following the mouse pointer
Fixed path-width not saving across sessions
Fixed issue while ignoring messages and switching between offline/online would allow messages again
Added Country Flag compiled for DXCCs by N2VFL
Added UTC / Local time toggle (press the timestamp on the menu to toggle)
Added Multicast UDP Support! (224.0.0.1 – 239.255.255.255)
Added ability to turn off legend in map settings
Added France and German states to DXCC lookups
Added ability to hide menu (press menu header)
Added loading of Callsigns from WSJT-X logfile for ‘worked’ info
Moved Night-shadow toggle back to menu
Moved all settings to tabbed panel
Moved all informative lookups except “Current Conditions” to tabbed panel
TODO: Add ‘CQ’ Zones, Stats view, New Alert types, QRZ.com callsign lookups for QRZ.com members

DOC´S

GridTracker Quickstart v.1.18.0406 3.54 MB

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