Wanted / Monitored / Excluded

Your targets are the heart of the configuration. Each band tab has six comma-separated input fields. Everything is per band — TX5S wanted on 20 m does not affect 40 m.

Your changes are applied live as you type — there's no Save button. The lists are remembered between sessions.

The six fields

Field	Accepts	Effect
Wanted Callsign(s)	calls, wildcards	Actively work / auto-reply.
Monitored Callsign(s)	calls, wildcards	Alert only (sound + highlight); not auto-worked.
Wanted CQ Zone(s)	numbers	Auto-reply to any station in these CQ zones.
Monitored CQ Zone(s)	numbers	Alert only for these zones.
Excluded Callsign(s)	calls	Never reply, regardless of any other rule.
Excluded CQ Zone(s)	numbers	Never reply to these zones.

Wanted vs Monitored

• Wanted = "work this for me." A match becomes a reply candidate and the engine will transmit.
• Monitored = "tell me, but don't transmit." A match plays a sound and highlights the row so you can decide whether to act. Useful for nets, skeds, or watching a call without auto-pouncing.

Wildcards

Wanted/Monitored callsign fields accept wildcards, so you can chase whole prefixes:

3D2*        → any Clipperton/Fiji-style 3D2 call
VP8*, VP6*  → South Atlantic / Pitcairn
*/MM        → maritime mobile suffix

When a reply is chosen via a wildcard match, the focus label shows the / WILDCARD suffix.

Excluded — hard vs temporary

There are two kinds of exclusion:

1. Hard exclusion — anything you type into Excluded Callsign(s). The engine will never reply to it, overriding wanted/marathon/grid and even the watchdog.
2. Temporary exclusion — added automatically by the Watchdog, or manually via the context menu (Temporarily add to Excluded). It auto-expires.

Adding a temporary exclusion manually

Right-click a decode → Temporarily add <call> to Excluded. A small window offers a row of durations:

2 min · 10 min (default) · 1 hour · 1 day · 1 week · 1 month

The call is suppressed until the timer expires, then silently removed. The Excluded field's tooltip shows the remaining time for each temporarily-excluded call.

A station answering you is never blocked

If a temporarily-excluded station replies directly to your callsign, the exclusion is lifted immediately so an in-progress QSO is never dropped.

Editing quickly

• Type into the fields (comma-separated). Edits apply live and, in Master/Slave mode, sync to the paired instance.
• Right-click a decode to add/remove without typing.
• "Make <call> your only Wanted Callsign" clears the Wanted field and sets just that one call — handy when you want to lock onto a single DXpedition.

Next: how the app turns these matches into a single reply — see Choosing Who to Reply To.