Welcome Matt HB9HWI! Thank you for your contributions to GridTracker2, including the new SOTA support!
Proudly presenting "The Kitchen Sink, Hail Mary, Pre-CABG Release"
Call Roster / Feed Roster
New Settings -> "Columns" tab in each roster: every column in one place, in the roster's column order
Change any column's color (Callsign, Grid, DXCC, State, Spotter, DE DXCC, Freq, Age, ...), with "Reset Colors" to return to the defaults
Drag a column onto another to move it, like the column headers; tick it to show or hide it
"Reset Column Order" moved here from the General tab
The Call Roster and Feed Roster keep their own colors; the hunting colors
(Callsign, Grid, DXCC, State, County, Cont, POTA, CQz, ITUz, PX, DXM, Calling) also color a wanted entry's background
Band and Mode keep using the band and mode colors from the main window: click Band to open Settings -> Colors there
The column headers stick at the top of the window while the roster scrolls; returning long lost behavior
Faster with long rosters
The SOTA column marks what a summit is worth to you with dots beside its reference
Two dots before it: you haven't chased a summit in that association yet; one dot: you've chased one there
A dot after it: you haven't chased a summit in that region yet
The DXCC column marks new ones, whatever the Logbook choice: ★ either side of an ATNO
(an entity you've never worked); after the name, ◆ a band you haven't worked it on, ● a mode you haven't worked it in; its hover says which
In the Feed Roster, click a park or summit in the POTA / SOTA column to log the QSO by hand (CW, SSB), while no logger such as AC Log is connected and no WSJT-X / JTDX is on its band and mode
A park QSO is spotted to POTA, as for a logged decode
Call Roster
With SOTA Chasing on, a decoded station that DX Feeds spots on a summit gets that summit
A new "SOTA" column (off by default; turn it on in Settings -> Columns) and a "SOTA" Wanted, like the Feed Roster's
A QSO logged with them gets the summit's SOTA_REF
The station's grid stays the one it transmits; with none sent, the summit's square is shown, not qualified (◇)
Feed Roster
New Settings -> Features -> Online -> "SOTA Chasing" (shown while DX Feeds is on): Summits on the Air activators from DX Feeds spots
A "SOTA" column (off by default, like POTA), right of POTA, shows the summit named in the spot; its hover gives the summit's name, height and points
A "SOTA" Wanted highlights summits you haven't chased today (from SOTA_REF in your logs), also in Settings -> Audio Alerts -> Feed Roster ("Wanted Feed Summit" / "Many Feed Summits")
A spot on a summit is placed there: its grid becomes the summit's (Feed Roster, distance, and a logged QSO that has no grid)
On the map, on their own layer with a new SOTA button in the button panel (shown while SOTA Chasing is on): one snow-capped double-peak marker per summit, black with an orange outline, or orange, for the same three states as the DX Feeds markers; its tooltip lists every spot on it
Like POTA Hunting, it turns on the GT backup log, and a QSO logged with a spotted activator gets the summit's SOTA_REF
A spot saying "QRT" ends that activation: the activator's spots on the summit leave the Feed Roster and the map until they're spotted again
So does a spot with no frequency
An activator spotted on another summit leaves the old one at once
An activator still being decoded keeps their summit, even after the last spot of them ages out
A spot of an activator that doesn't name the summit (a skimmer's, say) gets the summit they're on
An activator you decode is shown on their summit's marker as a spot from you, like POTA's
New "Auto Band" and "Auto Mode" exceptions (in the Feed Roster and Settings -> Audio Alerts -> Feed Roster): only spots on a band / in a mode one of your rigs is on (WSJT-X, JTDX, AC Log or Log4OM); with both, a rig on the spot's band and mode
With no rig connected they show everything
The roster's Feeds settings tab (Modes, Bands, "Allow Alert Script", "Allow Notifications") moved to the main window's Settings -> Feeds, under Feed Spots Max Age and Clear All Feeds
The map's DX Feeds and SOTA markers now follow the same Modes and Bands as the Feed Roster
Logbook choices say "Spots" instead of "Live" (e.g. "Spots Band & Mode"), in the Feed Roster and Settings -> Audio Alerts -> Feed Roster
New Logbook choices for Phone and CW, beside the Digi ones: "Spots Band, Phone Modes", "Spots Band, CW Mode", "Mix Band & Phone Modes" and "Mix Band & CW Mode" (Feed Roster and Settings -> Audio Alerts -> Feed Roster)
"DE DXCC" and "DE Cont" columns are now shown by default
Clicking a callsign works the spot from the right place
A rig already on the spot's band and mode (WSJT-X, JTDX, AC Log or Log4OM) gets it, as before
Otherwise a connected AC Log gets it, on any band and mode: its entry tab is cleared and filled with the spot's frequency, band, mode, call and grid
With "Enable Rig Control" (Settings -> Logging -> N3FJP Loggers), AC Log tunes the rig to the spot's frequency and mode instead
Without AC Log, it goes to Gen Msgs on the active WSJT-X / JTDX
The ▲ before a callsign now only marks spots on the band and mode one of your rigs is on
A callsign in a rig's DX Call (WSJT-X, JTDX, or AC Log's entry tab) is highlighted green, like in the Call Roster
"Hide Self-Spotters" is now "Hide Self-Spot"
Map / UI
Overlapping POTA, SOTA and DX Feeds markers in the same DXCC entity are grouped into one marker, at their averaged position
A grouped tooltip is a compact table ("POTA Spot × 3", "SOTA Spot × 2") with the park / summit reference after the grid
New Settings -> Map -> "Group Overlapping Spots" (on by default): turn it off to show every marker on its own
The POTA tooltip has a new header, like SOTA's: the park reference and name, its location, and distance / bearing
Callsigns in a popped-out tooltip can be clicked to look them up
Right-click a POTA park to pop out its tooltip
POTA parks are drawn above DX Feeds spots, and SOTA summits above both
Left-click a POTA, SOTA or DX Feeds marker to work the spot, like a Feed Roster callsign: a rig on its band and mode, else a connected AC Log (and its rig, with "Enable Rig Control")
A marker for several spots works the first one its tooltip lists
Where markers are stacked, only the top one is worked
A POTA, SOTA or DX Feeds marker of a callsign in a rig's [DX Call] is ringed for easy finding on the map
DX Feeds and SOTA markers leave the map once their spots expire, even while no new spots arrive
The GridTracker Spotters button's hover shows how many spotters are on the map, with the map's band and mode filters applied ("Spotters: 42")
Settings -> Map is regrouped into Base Map, Paths, Grayline, Overlays and Display boxes: day and night side by side, each path's width and colors on one row, and the colors shown as swatches
The Night column shows while "Auto Night Map" is on
More options have hover help
"Merge Award Overlay" is now "Keep Other Layers With Award View", and "'CQ' Highlighting" is now "Outline Directed CQ Areas"
The Grids tab is now a Grids box in Settings -> Map: its three sliders with their values, Split QSL Grids and Auto Mouseover Grids
So does Settings -> Audio: an Audio box (Device, notification sound, volume) and a Text-To-Speech box (Voice, rate, pitch, volume, phonetics)
And Settings -> Lookups: Callsign Lookup Service, Lookups and Callsign Databases boxes
And Settings -> Features: Operational, Service and Online boxes, with options indented under the one they depend on; the Simplepush and Pushover boxes show while each is on
"Clear on CQ" is now "Clear WSJT-X / JTDX On CQ"
And Settings -> Logging: Logbooks On This Computer beside Logging Programs, above Online Logbooks, each with only the columns its services use; PSK-Reporter 24 Hour History has its own box at the bottom; no more scrolling to reach HRD Logbook
The columns are now "Connect", "Menu Button", "Load At Startup" and "Log QSO"
And Settings -> Logbook: a QSL Location Authority box and a Logbook Filters box (Working Callsign(s), Grid(s) and Date, each with its Enable tick, and Apply Changes)
An empty Working Callsign(s) / Grid(s) field shows the callsigns / grids found in your logs, faintly, until you type there
A new QSL Location Authority is applied with its own Apply Changes button (it reloads your logbooks), no longer at once
And Settings -> Colors: Gridsquare Colors and Band Colors boxes, each with its Reset Colors button in the title, and smaller swatches beside their names
And Settings -> Feeds: a DX Feeds box (Max Age, Clear All Feeds, the Allow options) above Modes and Bands boxes side by side
And Settings -> General: the three UDP boxes, Station, Display and Settings boxes, and an On QSO Reply box shown while more than one WSJT-X / JTDX instance is open (it now hides again when you're back to one)
Logbook
The whole logbook is one scrolling list instead of pages, and even very large logs scroll smoothly
The search boxes and column headers stay at the top while the list scrolls
The sorted column shows an arrow with the sort direction, like the rosters
Sorting by another column keeps the current direction; click the same column again to reverse it
New "SOTA" column with the summit of each QSO (SOTA_REF), with its own search box
The POTA and SOTA columns are shown when your log has POTA / SOTA QSOs, whether or not POTA Hunting / SOTA Chasing is on
New "Export SOTA Chaser Log…" button (shown when your log has SOTA QSOs): your SOTA chases as a CSV file for the SOTA database's chaser log upload
Pick the From and To times (local time; the file is UTC); each export starts where the last one ended
The QSOs are listed first: edit any field or leave a QSO out (possible duplicates are flagged); this only changes the file, never your logbook
Logging / AC Log
Settings -> Logging -> N3FJP Loggers: a green / red dot right of "Connect" shows whether AC Log is connected
New "Enable Rig Control" under the N3FJP Loggers details (shown while Connect is on): clicking a Feed Roster callsign tunes the rig through AC Log
AC Log's band and mode follow its entry tab when it has no rig frequency, and a rig frequency is shown in the main panel when it has one
The call and grid in AC Log's entry tab show in GridTracker even before tabbing out of the call, and clear with the entry tab
The status bar shows "CONNECTED" instead of "RECEIVE" while AC Log is the active rig
Clicking a spot also fills AC Log's Other fields titled POTA_REF / SOTA_REF with the spot's park / summit
QSOs logged in AC Log reach GridTracker more reliably: even several logged in quick succession
A QSO logged in AC Log with a park (its Other field titled POTA_REF) is spotted to POTA, like one logged from WSJT-X (with POTA Hunting on)
A QSO a logger broadcasts back is no longer logged and sent out a second time
Logging / Log4OM
New "Connect" in Settings -> Logging -> Log4OM, through Log4OM's UDP remote control, with a green / red dot showing whether Log4OM is connected
Log4OM's rig frequency, band and mode show in the main panel, and the status bar shows "CONNECTED" while Log4OM is the active rig
With Log4OM on the same PC, its station callsign and locator are read from its settings when connecting
Clicking a Feed Roster callsign, or a POTA, SOTA or DX Feeds marker, sends the spot's call to Log4OM's QSO entry (not over a call you typed there yourself)
The main panel shows the call and grid sent
New "Enable Rig Control" (shown while Connect is on): clicking a spot also tunes the rig through Log4OM to the spot's frequency and mode
App
New Settings -> General -> Station -> "Callsign": your callsign while no WSJT-X, JTDX, AC Log or Log4OM is connected; a callsign they report is always used for them
While it's blank, it takes the callsign WSJT-X / JTDX gives; you can change it, and it's never replaced
Settings -> General -> Forward UDP Messages accepts hostnames (e.g. ft8battle.com) as well as IP addresses, several comma separated: "IP(s)/Hostname(s)"
A hostname that can't be found (a typo, or no internet) is reported under the field
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