GridTracker version 1.21.0322 has been released
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 / uploading
- QRZ.com , HamQTH, CALLOOK and QRZCQ.com Callsign lookups
- Band and Mode filtering
- Complete DXCC, Country, Callsign Prefix recognition
- Band activity from PSK-Reporter
- Maidenhead 4 and 6 wide views
- CQ and ITU Zone parsing from QSOs
- Worked All Continent and Worked All States parsing
- Contest Map Overlays
- 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
- Log4OM, N1MM+ local logger support
- Active development with you in mind, tell us what you’d like to see!
What’s new in version 1.21.0322
This is the first official open source release of GridTracker. It contains a number of bug fixes and a handful of new features.
- Cleaned up the title bar to show context information
- GT now recognizes JTDX on Mac
- PSK-Spot layer merged with Live/Logbook Grids by default
- Inputs in settings sanitized
- Fix spots when in realtime mode
- Added CQ zone name in reports
- Roster context menu active on entire window
- remote station distance and azimuth in lookup if available
- Changed layout of roster controls and made it simpler to hide and show them
- Allow roster window to be as narrow as WSJT-X narrowest window size
- Call Roster is now labeled “GridTracker” and contains partial layer information
- Fixed ordering of centimeter bands in stats window
- Clicking an unconfirmed DXCC in stats window now shows relevant log entries in pop up window
- New Callook preference setting. if checked, US callsigns will always be queried from Callook since it usually has more data than free QRZ lookup
- fixed CR alert script not being triggered for Awared Tracker hits
MacLoggerDX users note:
GridTracker offers a UDP relay facility, and you can use this to have GridTracker receive and inspect UDP packets and display its map, and then send the packets on to MacLoggerDX for further processing.
In GridTracker, use the Settings panel to set the UDP listening port to 2238. Turn on UDP forwarding, and set the destination port to 2237. Leave the IP address at 127.0.0.1.
Then, in WSJT-X Preferences, in the Reporting tab, set the UDP server port number to 2238. Leave the UDP Server IP address at 127.0.0.1.
That’s it. WSJT-X will send received data to UDP port 2238, where it will be inspected by GridTracker and then forwarded to port 2237, where it will be picked up as usual by MacLoggerDX.