ADIF Logbook Analysis
Wait and Pounce reads your ADIF logbook to power Worked-Before, Marathon and Grid tracking, and provides a built-in analyzer to inspect what you've worked.
Loading a log
In Settings → Logbook Analysis (ADIF):
- Select new ADIF File for analysis — pick your master log export (e.g. from your everyday logger). You can add multiple files.
- The file appears in a table; click Summary to open the analyzer, or Clear to remove.
How monitoring works
Wait and Pounce polls each file's modification time and size every ~5 seconds:
- If a file only grew (new contacts appended), it does a fast incremental parse of just the new records.
- If a file changed otherwise, it does a full re-parse.
In addition to your files, the app always monitors its own backup log, so QSOs you make inside Wait and Pounce are folded into the worked-before / marathon / grid data immediately.
Parsing runs in the background so a large logbook never freezes the UI.
What gets extracted
For each record, the parser reads: callsign, band, QSO date and time, grid square (Maidenhead), mode/submode, RST sent/received, frequency, and the QSL confirmation fields (LoTW, paper, and eQSL). From these it builds three sets of tracking data:
| Tracking data | Powers |
|---|---|
| Worked-before | WkB4 |
| Entities (DXCC) | Marathon |
| Grids | Grid Tracker / Map |
The ADIF File Analyzer
After you load/test a file, the ADIF File Analyzer dialog opens. It shows a table of unique callsign counts per year × band, with:
- a Show all bands toggle, and
- a per-band totals table.
This is a quick way to see your activity profile — how many uniques you worked each year on each band — and to confirm the file parsed correctly before relying on it for pouncing.
Confirmed status
"Confirmed" is computed on the fly from the QSL fields: a QSO counts as confirmed when it carries a positive LoTW, paper, or eQSL confirmation. This feeds the worked-vs-confirmed colouring in the Grid Map and the reply-to-unconfirmed grid option. The LoTW sync writes confirmation fields back into the backup log so confirmations stay current.