1.411 - Score of Top-Priority Candidates in the user section - Broadcast Messages (To ALL Station in Contest) in seperate Window https://github.com/praktimarc/kst4contest/releases/download/v1.41.1/praktiKST-v1.41.1-windows-x64.zip nothing Cyclic update of own name in chat to actual QRG 2024-02 open Acoustic warnings 2023-12 added Airscout support 2023-03 added cyclic beacon messages in public chat 2023-03 added stations like ol7c-7 and ol7c-2 will not be marked as worked if only "ol7c" is in the log. Need to interprete that. May ignore suffix starting with "-" solved worked callsigns table is updated only once after connected to chat Should be available directly after program started. But Reset works all time open feature request: language-specific strings, maybe based to an xml file open feature request: Macros added feature request: Automatic elimination of calls already connected from the log added feature request: Limitation of users beyond a certain QRB added feature request: User division for QTF perhaps settable based on the antenna lobe added feature request: Notification of new incoming users added feature request: Evidence of a call which was written but not responded to. added feature request: direction based reachable-warnings: if the chatclient detects a realised qso between two stations which both must have directed their beams to my station, there should be an instant warning to me for working at least one of the stations at the detected qrg open feature request: implement ASShowpath message to airacout; by doubleclicking a callsign in the chatmember list, the path and plane state should be provided by airscout open feature request: make chatlines copyable to the clipboard... open feature request: adding an activity detection for sensing if another chatmembers alive-state added On sql error close the connection to make a clean exit open SETNAME /MYQRG in options menu doesnt work solved Disconnect button does not work (DL5ZK) solved Password-wrong error not displayed (DO5SA) solved /CQ isnt written on own PMs solved rightclick-textsnippets arent available in cq-table solved 1.411 2026-07-08 Release v1.41.1 Hotfix of Bug #56 1.41 2026-07-01 Release v1.41.0 - Score of Top-Priority Candidates in the user section - Broadcast Messages (To ALL Station in Contest) in seperate Window Migration to Github - Band and Frequency Detection per Chatmember — KST4Contest identifies which bands or frequencies a station appears active or reachable on based on chat data. This information is integrated into the display and prioritization. - Band Alert — If a logged station could be of interest on other locally active bands, KST14Contest can alert the user. - Sked Reminder ALERT — New reminder function for planned Skeds to ensure that agreed contacts are not forgotten during contest operation. - Skedfail Button — Failed Skeds can be marked; this allows the station to be handled differently in terms of score and workflow. - Win-Test SKED Push via UDP — Skeds can be passed to Win-Test via a LOCKSKED/ADDSKED/UNLOCKSKED sequence. This feature is configurable in the preferences and disabled by default. - Win-Test Broadcast Defaults and SKed Workflow — Improved broadcast addresses, frequency formats, mode selection, and notes including locator/azimuth. - PSTRotator Interface — KST4Contest received an interface to PSTRoter to better integrate antenna direction and rotator workflow. - QSO /-Callsign Sniffer — Callsigns or QSO-relevant information can be detected and utilized for further workflow. - Chat History at Startup — Historical chat data can be loaded upon startup, allowing the client to quickly gain relevant context for scoring, activity, and station identification. - Station Map / Map View — New map view with station markers, your own location, locator/Maidenhead reference, connection line, and antenna/beam representation. - Local Leaflet /-TileProxy Backend — The map function utilizes embedded Leaflet resources and a local TileProxy approach, making the map more portable and independent. - Maidenhead /-Grid Overlay — The map can display locator/grid information; recently added Grid-Square coloring. - Path /-Terrain /-Horizon Profile — Map documentation describes a path profile with terrain, Fresnel, and horizon information for the selected link. - Tropo /-AS Reachability Filters — New filters and sorting were added for Tropospheric reachability, AirScoop availability, large locator fields, and priority. - Reachability Band Selector — Added a band selection for range/Troposphere calculations. - 4-Char Locator Filter — Locator evaluations can be reduced to 4-character fields; this improves overview and performance. - KST Testserver Support — A KST server test server was added into the Source. @praktimarc and @Rsclub22 - [BUG] - [BUG] Programmstart kann ohne selektieren keine Nachrichten senden - KST4Contest crashes after to many messages or to much RAM Usage - Scaling Problem at 1280x800 screen resolution 1.40 2026-02-16 Much changes and fixes - win-test support (not deactivable yet, beta) - QSO sniffer which filters changable callsigns lists messages to your pm window - Chatmember Score system. Each chatmember gets a score depending to antenna direction, activity time, activity msgcount, positive signals, active bands, active frequencies, his sked direction (degrees), self handed rate, sked-made-rate and some others - Chatmember Band and frequency recognition: now we list all active bands of each other chatmember - Band alert for logged stations - Sked reminder ALERT with automatic messages in 2+1 / 5+2+1 / 10+5+2+1 minutes - PSTRotator interface - AirPlane Timeline - Skedfail button in furtherinfo panel - Wintest logsynch interface can now be activated and deactivated in the preferences - load chat history on startup - added save option: ServerDNS / Port - added save option: activate/deactivate pstRotator interface - added save option: activate/deactivate wintest interface - added save option: callsign sniffer - added save option: boolean GUI_darkModeActiveByDefault = false - added AP notes at the internal DX cluster spots - Generic Autoanswer fires maximum once in 45 seconds per rx callsign - Userlist sort automatically on new member signon - Posonpill-messages now kills only exactly one Client instance (bugreport 9A2HM) - Crash of wtkst by disconnection of kst4Contest - wtKST crashes when kst4contest is running (many reporters) - wintest: logged per band excludes pre worked band (bugreport SM6VTZ) - PSTRotator SOCKET Close on DISCONNECT BUTTON works now - AirScout Map had not been updated (bugreport SM0RJV) - QTFDefault had been not saved correctly (bugreport SM0RJV) - Show path in AS button worked only with fixed server Strings (bugreport 9A2HM) - Version number had been displayed wrong - suffixes like /p, -2, etc. problem now fixed everywhere - Dark mode: passing for qrg fields fix - No more date display. Not needed. Saving space, only time is important 1.31 2025-12-13 Much changes and a hotfix - win-test support (not deactivable yet, beta) - pstRotator support (not deactivable yet, beta) - airScout fix (calculations depends to cpu load now) - QSO sniffer - DNS from www.on4kst.info to www.on4kst.org (hotfix, now configurable in preferences) - Endless loop in error case lets freeze the client - PSTRotator SOCKET Close on DISCONNECT BUTTON - Dark mode: passing for qrg fields fix 1.266 2025-10-03 Airscout interface did not work with multi-signons nothing nothing Fixed by using raw callsign (without -2 suffix etc.) when communicating with AirScout. Thank you very much for testing this, Kreso 9A2HM! 1.265 2025-09-28 Direction buttons stay now colored, if activated nothing nothing The buttons stay now colored, if activated 1.264 2025-08-02 Changed the callsign recognition pattern for Simplelogfile nothing nothing Callsigns like S53CC, S51A etc. are now correctly marked as worked in SimpleLogFile.txt. (bugreport Boris, S53CC) 1.263 2025-06-08 Airscout communication and Loginname nothing Only entries with QRB lower than max-QRB are sent to AirScout in 60s intervals (was 12s for all). - AS communication message count hugely reduced - Name in chat is now saveable - Fixed AS client name (was hard-wired to "KST") 73 / DO5AMF 1.262 2025-05-21 Freezes caused by getting messages before user login should be fixed now nothing nothing ON4KST delivers messages of stations not yet logged in. That caused a freeze at the message processing engine which is now fixed. 1.26 2025-05 Login to multiple Channels via single signon / spend some colors 1. UI: Dark mode. Switch in "Window -> use dark mode" 2. Usage of two Chatcategories at the same time 3. opposite station multi-callsign login-tagging 73 / DO5AMF - Coloring mechanic of the software. Modify colors via css by yourself... - Station tagging fixed completely 1.251 2025-02 BUGFIX of 1.25, tnx Steve Clements! - Steve spotted a problem in udp broadcast spot info reading, its now fixed! 73 / DO5AMF - Station tagging 1.25 2025-02 Wishlist-time - New configuration Tab: Messagehandling (auto-answering, CQ qrg auto-answer) - Coloured lines: new pm rows appear in red, fade rainbow-like to white over 30s (tnx Gianluca) 73 / DO5AMF - Users with suffixes like "-2 and -70" are now correctly marked as worked 1.24 2024-11 Wishlist-time - Button to show qrz.com profile of a selected station - Button to show qrzcq.com profile of a selected station 1.23 2024-10 DXCluster Server is now implemented - DXCluster Server (tnx OMAAO): KST4Contest now provides a DXCluster server to feed your log client with station-reachable warnings. 1.22 2024-05 Increase usability, fixed AS button - Variables (tnx OMAAO): MYLOCATORSHORT, MYQRGSHORT, QRZNAME - Sendtext-field focus on callsign click - Worked-station-filter (tnx Gianluca): filter is now live - Chatters list sorting by QRB (tnx Alessandro): fixed to numeric sort - Airscout showpath button now maximizes AS and shows the path 1.21 2024-04 Increase usability - Window sizes and divider positions are now stored and restored on next startup - Filters section is now a flowpane for lower resolutions 1.2 2024-04 Increase usability - Selectable bands - Unworkable tags for each callsign per band - QTF-Arrow on the "show path in AS" button 1.1 2024-03 Increased workflow - Reachable warning function - Variables FIRSTAP and SECONDAP for predefined texts - Marking new connected stations (bold) and away-state (brackets) - Activity-timer since last message of a chatter - QRB/QTF info in pm-window - Behaviour of messagefilter-radiobutton corrected (tnx Gian) - Error sending macros on selected stations in pm window (tnx Gian) - boot sound 1.0 2024-02 First stable release - audio notification support - update-available warning - changelog displaying - known-bugs displaying - message filters for selected station - stationlist-filters (show by qtf / textstring, hide by qrb, qtf, workedstate) - 10 macros (textsnippets available by hitting strg+numberkey) 0.9 2024-02 Now the chat is disconnectable without closing it disconnect-button, Textsnippets in CQ Window, "/CQ" at click on own sendtexts, setname "qrg" works now 0.8 2023-10 savesettings function and disconnect function added. MYCALL-Highlighting fixed savesettings function, disconnect function MYCALL-Highlighting 0.7 2023-07 Internal database for worked stations, shortcut and textsnippet editor database, shortcut-editor, textsnipped-editor 0.6 2023-07 Added periodically sent beacon function beacon to public channel 0.5 2023-02 Airscout interface, UDP interfaces for worked-station data and TRX info, shortcuts Airscout-interface, packetreceiver for ucxlog, n1mm, qartest 0.4 2022-12 Worked info by logfile via universal pattern matching logfile interpreter simple-logfile 0.3 2022-10 Added a GUI, chat was text based only Graphical user interface 0.2 2022-10 Pattern matching system for frequency information, frequency collection per chatmember frequency-extraction for every callsign 0.15 2022-09 Researched the Chatprotocol and developed the base communication with the chatserver 0.1 2022-09 Primary architecture of the chat, message bus system for handling the message queues