diff --git a/changelog.json b/changelog.json
index 18fbaaa..5af26d4 100644
--- a/changelog.json
+++ b/changelog.json
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
     "date": "2026-07-27",
     "en": [
       "Column layouts (widths, order, hidden columns) now stick — five faults were undoing them.",
+      "Recent QSOs keeps a separate column layout in the Main tab and in its own tab — the pane is half as wide there.",
       "ACOM and SPE amplifiers can follow OpsLog's frequency, on a second COM port (Settings → Amplifier)."
     ],
     "fr": [
       "Les dispositions de colonnes (largeurs, ordre, colonnes masquées) tiennent enfin — cinq défauts les défaisaient.",
+      "Les QSO récents gardent une disposition de colonnes distincte dans l'onglet Principal et dans leur propre onglet — le volet y est deux fois moins large.",
       "Les amplificateurs ACOM et SPE peuvent suivre la fréquence d'OpsLog, sur un second port COM (Réglages → Amplificateur)."
     ]
   },
diff --git a/frontend/src/App.tsx b/frontend/src/App.tsx
index c05040e..eb457e0 100644
--- a/frontend/src/App.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/App.tsx
@@ -4200,6 +4200,11 @@ export default function App() {
           <div className="h-full w-full min-h-0 flex flex-col bg-card border border-border rounded-lg overflow-hidden">
             <RecentQSOsGrid
               key={`rqg-${activeProfileId ?? 'x'}`}
+              // Its OWN layout, separate from the full-width Recent QSOs tab.
+              // This pane is roughly half as wide, so it wants fewer columns and
+              // narrower ones; sharing one key meant whichever was opened last
+              // rewrote the other's widths.
+              storageKey="mainpane"
               rows={qsosWithAwards as any}
               myGrid={station.my_grid}
               total={total}