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fix(bandopen): drop the distance ceiling

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The detector refused any path over 2400 km, reasoning that past a single hop the
bearing test stops meaning anything. That was wrong, and it discarded exactly the
openings worth announcing: Nexus flagged a 6 m opening at 5477 km that OpsLog
never saw, because the spots were thrown away before any test ran.

Multi-hop Es is ordinary on 6 m — 5000 km paths are common, 10000 km happens —
and it stays directional: a second hop leaves the sector the first one entered.
So the sector test, which is what does the real work here, holds perfectly well
at any distance. The ceiling was standing in for a judgement it could not make.

The floor stays at 500 km: a short 6 m contact is tropo or ground wave and says
nothing about the ionosphere. Both are now pinned by a test.
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2026-08-11 12:30:51 +02:00
parent 29bdea1e43
commit 2d3bfa704e
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@@ -36,24 +36,31 @@ type Spot struct {
type Config struct {
Window time.Duration // how far back a burst may span
MinCalls int // distinct DX calls before it counts as an opening
MinKm, MaxKm int // single-hop Es range
MinKm, MaxKm int // path length accepted; MaxKm 0 = no ceiling
BearingSpread int // widest arc (degrees) the spots may cover
Requiet time.Duration // silence after announcing a band, so it is announced once
}
// DefaultConfig is the single-hop Es envelope.
// DefaultConfig is the Es envelope.
//
// 500–2400 km: below ~500 km a 6 m contact is ordinary tropo or ground wave and
// says nothing about the ionosphere; beyond ~2400 km it is no longer one hop, so
// the bearing test stops meaning anything. 90° of spread because a genuine Es
// cloud illuminates a sector, not the whole horizon — the constraint that
// separates an opening from a merely busy evening.
// Below ~500 km a 6 m contact is ordinary tropo or ground wave and says nothing
// about the ionosphere, so that floor stays.
//
// There is NO ceiling. There used to be one at 2400 km, on the reasoning that
// past a single hop the bearing test stops meaning anything. That was wrong, and
// it silently threw away exactly the openings worth hearing about: multi-hop Es
// is ordinary on 6 m, 5000 km paths are common and 10000 km happens. Those are
// still directional — a double hop leaves the same sector it entered — so the
// bearing test holds perfectly well, and it is the test doing the real work here.
//
// 90° of spread because a genuine Es cloud illuminates a sector, not the whole
// horizon: the constraint that separates an opening from a merely busy evening.
func DefaultConfig() Config {
return Config{
Window: 12 * time.Minute,
MinCalls: 4,
MinKm: 500,
MaxKm: 2400,
MaxKm: 0, // no ceiling — see above
BearingSpread: 90,
Requiet: 45 * time.Minute,
}
@@ -107,7 +114,7 @@ func (d *Detector) Add(s Spot, lat float64) *Opening {
}
// Out-of-range spots are dropped rather than stored: they can never be part
// of a single-hop detection, and keeping them only grows the window.
if s.DistKm < d.cfg.MinKm || s.DistKm > d.cfg.MaxKm {
if s.DistKm < d.cfg.MinKm || (d.cfg.MaxKm > 0 && s.DistKm > d.cfg.MaxKm) {
return nil
}
d.recent = append(d.recent, s)