SpotLink is a lightweight, cross-platform application designed to display your bidirectional matches from PSK Reporter in real time.
By leveraging PSK Reporter's MQTT stream, SpotLink monitors for your callsign in both incoming and outgoing signal reports, displaying bidirectional matches in a clean, easy-to-read list.
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Real-Time Stream: Uses MQTT to catch spots instantly.
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Rolling 5-Minute Window: Reports are kept for 5 minutes before being automatically cleared, ensuring you only see active, recent matches.
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Top Matches: Stations with strong signal reports—indicating a high probability of a successful QSO—are automatically marked with a star (⭐).
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Ultra-Lightweight: Designed specifically not to slow down or interfere with older machines running WSJT-X. It can be run on your radio PC or any other machine.
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Note: The goal of SpotLink isn't to replace the PSK Reporter map, but to complement it by giving you a quick, glanceable count of how many stations you hear, how many hear you, and how many matches go both ways.
The only requirement is that you must be actively uploading your spots to PSK Reporter so the system can log the stations you see. Make sure "Enable Spotting" is turned on in your WSJT-X settings!
Try it out by downloading the latest release for your operating system from the Releases page.
Windows has an installer or a portable version available.
Linux has packages for Debian/Ubuntu(.deb) and Fedora(.rpm) along with an AppImage. AUR support can be added if there's further interest.
The iOS builds require SideStore for sideloading on your iOS device.
Theres currently two iOS options available:
The stable version can be downloaded here.
The beta version can be downloaded here.
💡 An official version for the Apple App Store will hopefully be available down the road once I can justify paying Apple $99 a year for the developer license!
Theres no reason why SpotLink shouldn't work on Android and MacOS, I just don't have a device for either to test them on. As soon as I get a chance to test and confirm that everything works, I'll put out an official release for each.
Bug fixes will come as needed, but I don't plan on going crazy with features since my main goal for SpotLink is to be as lightweight, fast and simple as possible.
However, there is two features that I do plan on exploring:
- The ability to view the incoming and outgoing callsign streams, not just the bidirectional matches.
- A CLI/TUI version of the app for those of us who live in the terminal.
I'm also open to suggestions! Feel free to open an issue or reach out with your ideas.
This app would not be possible without the mqtt service provided by Tom, M0LTE. If you use SpotLink (or any other app that uses the PSK Reporter MQTT stream), please consider supporting Tom's efforts to keep the service running!