1.41
2026-07-01
Map view and path calculations
Band and Frequency Detection per Chatmember, Band alert, Win-Test SKED Push via UDP,
Win-Test Broadcast Defaults and SKed Workflow, Chat History at Startup, Station Map / Map View
Local Leaflet /-TileProxy Backend, Maidenhead /-Grid Overlay, Path calculation, path profile,
Reachability filters, NAC filters (grid sqaure marking)
button housing, it works now on smaller screens / plus: detecting maximum screen size
9A2HM reported that 23cm qsos with N1MM are not marked correctly, ist fixed
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
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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
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The buttons stay now colored, if activated
1.264
2025-08-02
Changed the callsign recognition pattern for Simplelogfile
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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
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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
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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