📡 By VE6KIX · Free · Portable · Windows

PropDeck Companion

The desktop companion for FT8 & FT4 — live roster, DXCC & grid hunting, activation spotting, alerts, logging and uploads. Everything between your decoder and the world.

⬇ Download for Windows See how it works

One portable .exe — no installer, no runtime, nothing else to set up.

PropDeck Companion — ROSTER

Callsign	Calling	Stage	DXCC	Grid	Activator	km	dB	Age
JA3ABC	CQ	CQ	Japan	PM74		8.1k	-14	2s
VK2XYZ	VE6KIX	Exchange	Australia	QF56		13k	-21	5s
K5PGW	N7QQQ	Ending	United States	EM12	US-0016	2.7k	-09	17s
W1AW	CQ	CQ	United States	FN31		3.0k	-05	31s
DL2XX	CQ	CQ	Germany	JO31		7.4k	-18	45s
EA8QQ	CQ	CQ	Canary Is.	IL18		7.9k	-16	98s

inverted DXCC = never-worked entity inverted grid = never-worked square blue = they're calling you red ring = you're working them yellow = on your watch list strikethrough = dupe today

Plug in anything

Speaks your decoder's language

Built on the standard WSJT-X UDP protocol — stock messages only, no plugins, no patched builds. Point your decoder's UDP server at it and go.

WSJT-XJTDXMSHVDecodium 4

One window, whole session

Built for the way you actually operate

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Hunt new ones, automatically

Checked live against your master logbook: a DXCC entity or grid square you've never worked lights its cell the moment it's decoded — and the highlight clears itself the moment you work one.

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A roster that reads at a glance

GridTracker's own colour language, taken from its source: each signal owns a cell, so a watched dupe calling you from a new country shows every mark at once, each in its place.

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POTA · SOTA · WWFF aware

Live activation references spotted in the roster and written into your QSO comments automatically — CQ POTA is understood even before the spot caches catch up.

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Made for FT8 Battle

Forwards every fresh QSO to FT8 Battle in stock WSJT-X format, blocks the UTC-day dupes that would cost you points, and carries your /name tag. Dupes are struck through in the roster — and still land in your local log.

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Watch list with real alerts

Callsigns you care about flash and sound the moment they appear. Sounds queue politely around your transmit periods — nothing ever fights your decoder for the audio device.

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Logs everywhere they belong

Local daily ADIF, uploads to QRZ.com and LoTW, and ADIF relays to up to three other programs at once — GridTracker, JTAlert, whatever your shack runs.

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Review before it counts

Optional manual-submit mode holds every QSO for review: fix a grid, edit a comment, then submit — and the correction lands in your log and everywhere downstream.

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Live maps via PropDeck.net

The bridge streams your session to PropDeck.net, and the deck lights up with your propagation in real time. Made for each other — literally.

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Portable, honest software

One .exe you can carry on a thumb drive. Your config and logs live beside it in plain sight. It reads your master logbook and never, ever writes to it.

The architecture

Everything between your decoder and the world

Companion sits in the middle of your shack's traffic — one hop, zero friction, every QSO enriched on the way through.

Your decoder

WSJT-X · JTDX · MSHV
Decodium 4

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PropDeck Companion

live roster + hunting
UTC-day dupe filter
POTA/SOTA/WWFF enrich
watch alerts + review

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FT8 Battle

dupe-filtered forwarding

PropDeck.net

live map & propagation

QRZ · LoTW

logbook uploads

Local ADIF + relays

daily log · 3 forwards

Better together

PropDeck in the browser.
Companion in the shack.

Two halves of one deck. Run either on its own — together they're the whole picture.

propdeck.net · any browser

PropDeck

The live view of your world on the air.

Real-time propagation mapping
See your session as it happens
Anywhere you have a browser

your shack pc · windows