feat(sat): Doppler tracking on the radio

The hard part of satellite tuning is not the arithmetic, it is deciding
who owns the dial. A tracker that forces both frequencies fights the
operator every time they turn the knob to follow a station across a
linear transponder; one that never touches the receiver leaves them
chasing a signal that slides nine kilohertz across a 70 cm pass.

So the operator owns the receiver and the tracker follows them. Every
second it asks the radio where the receiver actually is. Where it put it,
nothing has changed. Further than a dial-turn's tolerance, and the
operator has chosen a station: what they landed on is converted back into
a nominal frequency, and the transmitter is derived from that. Which is
the division of labour on a linear bird — the operator listens, the radio
does the sums.

Three ways to reach the radio, because a satellite pair is a shape of
operating rather than a manufacturer's feature. An IC-9700 or IC-9100 is
asked for its OWN satellite mode: it pairs main and sub, gives full
duplex, and keeps the dials linked the way its designers meant, which is
always better than an imitation built out of split. A Flex gets two
slices, A the downlink and B the uplink, created when missing, because
"slice B does not exist" is not something to make an operator fix at the
start of a ten-minute pass. Everything else gets the downlink, and is
told so — half the job announced beats half the job hidden.

What goes in the log is the NOMINAL pair. Two stations working each other
through a transponder read different numbers off their dials at the same
instant; the only figure they can both agree on is the transponder's own.
FREQ is the uplink and FREQ_RX the downlink — the one place a satellite
QSO differs from every other kind, and the reason FREQ alone cannot
describe one.
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@@ -4136,6 +4136,42 @@ export namespace main {
return a;
}
}
export class SatTrackStatus {
on: boolean;
name: string;
transponder: string;
mode: string;
nominal_down: number;
nominal_up: number;
down_hz: number;
up_hz: number;
az: number;
el: number;
visible: boolean;
radio: string;
error: string;
static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
return new SatTrackStatus(source);
}
constructor(source: any = {}) {
if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
this.on = source["on"];
this.name = source["name"];
this.transponder = source["transponder"];
this.mode = source["mode"];
this.nominal_down = source["nominal_down"];
this.nominal_up = source["nominal_up"];
this.down_hz = source["down_hz"];
this.up_hz = source["up_hz"];
this.az = source["az"];
this.el = source["el"];
this.visible = source["visible"];
this.radio = source["radio"];
this.error = source["error"];
}
}
export class SatTuning {
name: string;