What's New

Wait and Pounce keeps improving. This page lists the latest releases and then summarises the main capabilities the program offers — written for users, not a line-by-line changelog. The current version is 2.30.

Latest releases

Version 2.30

• Parks On The Air (POTA) hunting. A new Parks On The Air settings tab with a single Enable reply to POTA switch. Wait and Pounce fetches live activator spots from pota.app, highlights matching decodes in green, and shows the park reference in the focus label. The same operator is called again whenever their park reference changes, and a POTA entry appears in the Priority Manager so you decide where park activators rank. See Parks On The Air.
• Antenna rotator control (PstRotator). A new Antenna Rotator settings tab steers your rotator (via PstRotatorAz) to point at the stations you reply to — with a per-band selector, a movement threshold, an automatic return to the previous azimuth, an hourly azimuth schedule, and a live azimuth read-out in the status bar. See Antenna Rotator.
• DXCC Program. Hunt DXCC entities you haven't worked on the selected bands (all-time), with an option to keep calling an entity until it's confirmed, plus an Unlimited any-band mode. See DXCC Program.
• Double-click to reply. Double-click any decode row to reply to that station immediately — this works from an extra (receive-only) instance too, routed through the main copy.
• Separate LoTW upload and download. Upload and download are now independent switches, so you can request an upload, a download, or both from a given instance. See Logbook of The World.
• Ignore satellite QSOs when analysing your logbook, so they don't skew your HF tracking.
• Exclude by callsign length — a setting to skip callsigns longer than a maximum you choose.
• Time / Age hint. A small symbol on the Time column header reminds you that you can click to switch to Show age mode, and back.

Fixes: a wanted callsign entered without a wildcard is always callable again even when worked before (great for POTA chasers re-working the same activator); several Master/Slave sync fixes; Club Log real-time upload; smoother grid-map zoom; and the harmless temporary-folder warning on shutdown (Windows) is gone.

Version 2.20

• Watchdog & retry settings. Enable the watchdog, set the number of attempts and the retry time; a station that can't be completed is set aside and the radio is told to stop transmitting.
• Automatic LoTW download. New confirmations are pulled from LoTW and your logbook backup is updated automatically.
• QO-100 satellite support.
• Open log folder button to jump straight to where the logs are saved.

Fix: don't reply to a directed CQ (e.g. "CQ EU", "CQ NA", "CQ USA") unless your callsign matches what the caller is asking for.

Full official changelog

The complete release notes for every version live in the application's README, also published at f5ukw.com/public/readme.txt.

Award hunting

• DX Marathon — chase every DXCC entity once per year, per band or across all bands.
• DXCC Program by band — track which bands still need a given entity.
• Parks On The Air (POTA) — reply to activators currently spotted on pota.app, re-calling the same operator each time their park reference changes.
• Grid Tracker & map — chase new grid squares regardless of band, with an interactive map that shows worked vs confirmed grids, a day/night line, and a live signal-density heatmap.
• Worked-Before rules — flexible per-year logic so you never waste time on dupes, while still being able to re-work a station for a new year.

Smarter replying

• Configurable priority — decide the order in which wanted callsigns, CQ zones, marathon entities, new grids and politeness replies are chosen.
• Best-of-the-batch selection — when many stations decode at once, the best one is picked rather than whoever decoded first.
• Double-click to reply — override the automatic choice and call a station instantly.
• Politeness reply — never ignore a station that's calling you.
• Clear-frequency finder — automatically move your transmit slot to an open frequency.
• Filters to skip weak signals, invalid prefixes, or stations beaming at another continent.

Station control

• Antenna rotator — point your beam at the station being worked, on a schedule or automatically, via PstRotator.
• QO-100 and a wide range of HF/VHF/UHF bands, including 4 m, 2 m, 70 cm and 13 cm.

Logbook & confirmations

• Reads your ADIF logbook continuously, so new contacts count immediately.
• Built-in logbook analyzer showing your worked totals per year and band.
• Club Log real-time upload.
• Logbook of The World upload and automatic confirmation download.

Awareness & comfort

• Colour-coded decodes, a focus display telling you why a station was chosen, and a live activity bar.
• Sound alerts for wanted, monitored, and directed-to-you messages.
• Grid map, Active Users window, and a status bar that shows connection health at a glance.
• Five languages — English, Français, 中文, 日本語, Українська — and Light / Dark / System themes.
• Compact and alternate views, always-on-top, and a tray / menu-bar icon.

Multi-station operating

• Run several copies — one main copy keys the radio; extra copies mirror its wanted lists and stay in sync without ever transmitting, ideal for multi-rig stations or a second monitoring screen. Double-click reply works from the extra copies too.

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For downloads and the official release notes, see the SourceForge project page.