diff --git a/app_sat.go b/app_sat.go
index cc77e51..8cc4805 100644
--- a/app_sat.go
+++ b/app_sat.go
@@ -339,8 +339,15 @@ func (a *App) SaveSatSettings(s SatSettings) error {
 func (a *App) satObserver() (sat.Observer, error) {
 	set := a.satSettings()
 	grid := set.Grid
-	if grid == "" && a.settings != nil {
-		grid, _ = a.settings.Get(a.ctx, keyStationMyGrid)
+	if grid == "" && a.profiles != nil {
+		// The station locator lives on the ACTIVE PROFILE, not in a settings key.
+		// keyStationMyGrid is a legacy key that EnsureDefault migrated into the
+		// profile years ago and nothing writes any more — reading it told an
+		// operator with a perfectly good locator on screen that he had not set
+		// one.
+		if p, err := a.profiles.Active(a.ctx); err == nil {
+			grid = p.MyGrid
+		}
 	}
 	grid = strings.TrimSpace(grid)
 	lat, lon, ok := gridToLatLon(grid)
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/SatellitePanel.tsx b/frontend/src/components/SatellitePanel.tsx
index d7b8d2b..a45c1a3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/SatellitePanel.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/SatellitePanel.tsx
@@ -415,8 +415,12 @@ export function SatellitePanel({ myGrid }: { myGrid: string }) {
       {err && <div className="px-2 text-[11px] text-danger shrink-0">{err}</div>}
 
       <div className="flex gap-1 flex-1 min-h-0">
-        {/* The map. */}
-        <div className="flex-1 min-w-0 rounded-lg overflow-hidden border border-border">
+        {/* The map. isolate is load-bearing, not tidiness: Leaflet stacks its
+            own panes and controls up to z-index 1000, which without a stacking
+            context of their own float over Preferences and every dialog in the
+            app — the map ends up on top of the very buttons that would close
+            it. */}
+        <div className="relative isolate z-0 flex-1 min-w-0 rounded-lg overflow-hidden border border-border">
           <div ref={divRef} className="h-full w-full" />
         </div>