Big update went live today, and your support helped make it happen.
If you've ever worked the same POTA activator at two different parks in the same day and gotten hit with a duplicate penalty, that's now fixed. Add POTA and the park reference to your WSJT-X comment (like POTA US-1012 or POTA US1012) and FT8BR will treat each park as its own activation event.
What that means in practice:
- No more duplicate penalty when an activator hops between parks - Point stealing is scoped per park, so each new park is a clean slate
- The +4 First Contact bonus resets at every new park, so there's a fresh prize to claim each time the activator moves
The system validates the park automatically against live POTA spots and recent FT8BR activity, so it can't be gamed. Forget to add the park reference and you fall back to the standard duplicate rules, so make a habit of including it.
Bonus fix that shipped at the same time: cleaned up a quirk where duplicate-penalty rows could get rolled into MULTI-STEAL displays. Stealing now only grabs legitimate positive-point holders.
Updated docs are on the rules and how-it-works pages, and the Discord bot now shows the park reference on every POTA QSO so you can confirm the system picked it up.
Thanks for keeping this thing alive. Every coffee helps me keep the listeners running, the database fed, and the features coming and coffee...coffee.
Thanks, all!
