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DX Cluster and Spots
Servers
Add multiple cluster servers (Settings). They auto-reconnect; one is the master used for sending commands. A quiet node is not treated as a dead one — silence keeps its session, login and filters. The Cluster tab and the Main-view cluster pane share the same live feed.
Filter sidebar
A show/hide filter sidebar (shared by the Cluster tab and the Main pane):
- Callsign search, hide worked, group duplicates.
- Filter by band / mode / status / source, plus NEW POTA and NEW COUNTY chips.
Per-spot status and tuning
Each spot is coloured by status relative to your log:
- new (entity never worked), new-band, new-mode, new-slot, worked.
- Settings → General → Group digital modes as one (DXCC-style) makes FT8/FT4/RTTY/PSK count as a single Digital mode for the colouring and the matrix badges, matching how DXCC counts.
Click a spot to tune the rig (fills the callsign into the entry strip). A multi-band Band Map shows panadapter-style strips per band — its CW / data / phone sub-bands use their own colour-blind-checked hues, and Ctrl+↑ / Ctrl+↓ jumps to the next spot above/below the current frequency and tunes it.
POTA spots are tagged with their park reference (via api.pota.app).
The entry strip's band matrix can also show the ClubLog Most Wanted rank
(Settings → General): an MW #rank pill next to the entity name, personalised
to your callsign, refreshed daily.
Sending a spot
Use the Send Spot window to announce a DX spot on the master cluster: callsign + frequency + a message. The frequency defaults to the live CAT frequency (full resolution, including sub-kHz).
Spot alerts
Tools → Alert management — Log4OM-style alert rules on call / country / band / mode / spotter, with sound, visual and e-mail notification. Active alerts appear as a discreet bell in the entry strip; click it for the list.
External spot sources
A DXHunter remote-call UDP packet fills the callsign, and when it carries
<FREQ> and <MODE> it also tunes whichever CAT backend is active. See
Settings and Data for the UDP configuration.
See also: Maps and Antennas for turning the beam to a spot.