The Main Window
The main window is where you watch decodes and steer the pounce engine.
Focus + clock bar
- Focus label (left): the decode currently being worked, plus a reason suffix (
/ WANTED,/ ZONE,/ MARATHON,/ GRID,/ WILDCARD,/ POLITENESS). - UTC clock (right):
HH:MM:SS. Its background alternates colour every FT8/FT4 period, giving you a visual EVEN/ODD cadence cue at a glance.
Band tabs
One tab per amateur band: 160, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, 10, 6, 4, 2 m and 70, 13, 3 cm. The tab matching the radio's dial frequency auto-selects; the active "operating" tab is highlighted while monitoring. In Slave mode the synced input fields are greyed out (the Master owns them).
Per-band input fields
Six comma-separated fields, each scoped to the selected band — see Wanted / Monitored / Excluded for full semantics.
Worked Callsigns history
A panel on the right listing completed QSOs (call · band · time). It is persisted between sessions. Right-click an entry to remove it; View → Clear Worked Callsigns History wipes it.
The decodes table
Each row is one decoded message. Columns:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Time / Age | Decode timestamp, or elapsed age — click the header to toggle. |
| Band | Band of the decode. |
| Report | SNR in dB. |
| DT | Time delta (sync offset) in seconds. |
| Freq | Audio offset in Hz. |
| Message | The raw decoded text. |
| • | LoTW indicator — the station uploads to LoTW. |
| Country | Resolved DXCC entity. |
| CQ Zone | Resolved CQ zone. |
| Cont | Continent. |
| ★ (WkB4) | Worked-before marker / year (hidden when WkB4 mode = Always). |
Row colours (priority cue)
| Colour | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Highlighted (top) | Station is directed at your callsign (answering you). |
| Black on yellow | Wanted callsign. |
| Salmon | Wanted CQ zone. |
| Yellow | Wanted grid. |
| Purple | Monitored callsign. |
| Cyan | Monitored CQ zone. |
| Green | POTA activator currently spotted on pota.app (see Parks On The Air). |
| White on blue | A wanted call being called by others. |
Double-click to reply now
Double-click any row to reply to that station immediately, overriding the automatic choice — handy when you want to grab a specific decode right away. This works even from an extra (receive-only) instance: the request is routed through the main copy that keys the radio. The station you double-clicked is shown in the focus banner.
Right-click / left-click context menu
The context menu is band-scoped ("Apply to <band> band") and offers:
- Add / remove call to Wanted, Monitored, or Excluded
- Make <call> your only Wanted Callsign
- Temporarily add <call> to Excluded → opens the time picker (2 min … 1 month)
- Add / remove CQ zone to Monitored
- Open QRZ.com for <call>
- Copy message to Clipboard
- (history table) remove from Worked History
Status bar
Click it to open Settings. It shows: mode (or "Waiting for data packets…"), frequency, buffered packet count + memory usage, time since last decode, heartbeat status, and Master/Slave connection info. The background colour reflects health:
- Red — connection lost
- Yellow — connected, no decodes yet
- Green — healthy, decoding
- Blue-violet — running as a Slave instance
When an antenna rotator is connected, the status bar also shows the antenna's live azimuth (and, if the return-to-previous timer is running, the countdown until it swings back).
Activity bar
A thin vertical histogram on the far right showing live decode density / band busyness.
Tray / menu-bar icon
- Windows — a blinking tray square indicates monitoring is active; right-click to quit.
- macOS — a status-menu agent; clicking raises the window and scrolls to the latest decode.
Bottom bar buttons
- Clear / Erase — clear the decodes table.
- Start Monitoring — start the engine (cycles Monitoring → Decoding → Transmitting).
- Stop all — stop monitoring and any TX.
- Restart (macOS) — restart the app.
See the full menu reference and shortcuts.