Grid Tracker & Map

The Grid Tracker chases new Maidenhead grid squares, and the Grid Map window visualises which grids you've worked and confirmed.

Grid Tracker (reply logic)

In Settings → Grid Tracker you can enable:

• "Enable grid tracker to reply to callsign if new grid regardless of band" — when on, a station broadcasting a grid you haven't worked becomes a reply candidate, independent of band. A reply chosen this way shows the / GRID suffix in the focus label.
• A per-band button grid to scope which bands participate.
• "Reply to callsign if grid not yet confirmed and not worked before" — extends the trigger to grids that are worked but not yet confirmed, so you can chase confirmations too.

Grid need is derived from your ADIF log, where worked and confirmed grids are tracked separately. A "confirmed" grid is one where any QSO carries a positive QSL status (LoTW, paper, or eQSL).

Grid Map window

Open it with View → Grid Monitoring (Ctrl+G). It is a map painted over OpenStreetMap raster tiles.

What it shows

• Maidenhead grid overlay that refines as you zoom: fields → squares → subsquares.
• A day/night terminator (grey line) showing where it's dark.
• A signal-density heatmap built from live decodes.
• Worked vs confirmed colouring for the current operating band:
  • Pink — worked grids.
  • Blue — confirmed grids (painted on top of worked).
  • Blinking — a brand-new grid just pounced.

Context menu

The grid map supports a right-click context menu (e.g. to set an Excluded trigger), the same one available on the main table.

Data source

The map reads its per-band worked and confirmed grids from your logbook, so its colouring stays in sync with what you've worked.