feat(sat): the uplink keeps the correction the operator makes
A transponder does not translate by exactly the published difference — the oscillator on board is decades old on some birds and a kilohertz or two out. So an operator who sounds right to themselves comes back off frequency, corrects it on the transmit VFO, and the tracker put it back one second later, every second, for the rest of the pass. Reported on an IC-9700 against HRD, which keeps the shift the operator sets. The tracker already worked this way for the RECEIVER: it reads the dial back and treats a move as the operator choosing a new station. The transmitter had no equivalent — its comment even said so, "derived from the nominal and never argued with". Now it is read back too, and the difference becomes a standing trim on the nominal uplink. Applied to the nominal rather than the corrected frequency, because a translation error is a fixed offset in the uplink band and not something that scales with the Doppler. Read only while not transmitting: mid-over nobody is turning the knob, and on an Icom this read switches to the SUB band and back, which is the same path TuneSatellite already uses to write the uplink and not something to do under a carrier. Kept per satellite AND per transponder, because that is what it belongs to: the error is a property of the hardware in orbit, stable from one pass to the next. Capped at 20 kHz so a bad stored value cannot put the station outside the passband for ever, and shown in the tune panel with a reset — an offset taken silently from the VFO has to be visible, and the VFO alone cannot bring it back to zero once the operator has drifted somewhere wrong. SatTuner gains SatTransmitHz, implemented for the native Icom satellite mode and for the Flex uplink slice; anything else reports nothing and the uplink is left to the arithmetic, as before.
This commit is contained in:
+4
-2
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
|
||||
"The decode panel no longer warns about band drift on a second slice: it now compares against every band the radio is receiving on, not just the transmit band.",
|
||||
"OpsLog appears again after an update. The relaunch was starting the new build with its window hidden, so it ran with no window at all.",
|
||||
"Each satellite slice now gets both of its antennas, RX and TX, from its own band — the downlink slice was left with no transmit antenna at all.",
|
||||
"The satellite ground track no longer draws a straight line across the map when it crosses the antimeridian."
|
||||
"The satellite ground track no longer draws a straight line across the map when it crosses the antimeridian.",
|
||||
"A correction you make on the transmit VFO is now kept for the whole pass, and remembered for that transponder. Doppler tracking used to undo it a second later."
|
||||
],
|
||||
"fr": [
|
||||
"Le tracé du ciel et la position passent dans leur propre colonne, à gauche de la carte. Largeur réglable, et la colonne se replie comme celle de droite.",
|
||||
@@ -21,7 +22,8 @@
|
||||
"Le panneau de décodages n’avertit plus d’une dérive de bande sur une seconde tranche : la comparaison porte sur toutes les bandes reçues, pas seulement celle d’émission.",
|
||||
"OpsLog réapparaît après une mise à jour. La relance démarrait la nouvelle version avec sa fenêtre masquée, donc sans aucune fenêtre.",
|
||||
"Chaque slice satellite reçoit désormais ses deux antennes, RX et TX, depuis sa propre bande — la slice de descente restait sans antenne d’émission.",
|
||||
"Le tracé au sol du satellite ne trace plus une ligne droite en travers de la carte lorsqu’il franchit l’antiméridien."
|
||||
"Le tracé au sol du satellite ne trace plus une ligne droite en travers de la carte lorsqu’il franchit l’antiméridien.",
|
||||
"Une correction faite sur le VFO d’émission est désormais conservée pour toute la passe, et mémorisée pour ce transpondeur. Le suivi Doppler l’effaçait une seconde plus tard."
|
||||
]
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user