fix: power is RM5, not RM4 — the CW keying was the experiment

An FM carrier could not answer it: constant by definition, so nothing to
correlate. CW at 100 W did, because the keying itself varies the output:

  key down: RM4=25 RM5=207 RM6=13
  key up:   RM4=25 RM5=0   RM6=0

RM5 follows the RF envelope exactly — it IS the power meter. RM4 sits near 25
whether the key is down or up, so it is not measuring output at all, and reading
it as power is what showed 8 W on a 100 W transmission. The operator's hunch was
right and my first reading of the ramp was wrong: what I took for a needle
rising was RM4 drifting, not tracking.

Watts are now derived from that meter (207 = 100 W, measured) instead of the
power SETTING scaled by a percentage — the setting says what was asked for, the
meter says what left the radio.

The bars also hold their peak with a gentle decay. In CW the meters genuinely
read zero between elements, so following the raw value made them flash to nothing
several times a second; a needle has inertia, and this only ever holds a value
the radio really reported.
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"version": "0.21.9",
"date": "2026-07-28",
"en": [
"Yaesu console: the SWR bar showed about 80 on a perfect match — it was reading a meter unrelated to the antenna. It now reads the right one and shows the ratio itself (1.0, 1.5…) as the rig does, not a percentage.",
"Yaesu console meters are right: power now reads the meter that follows the RF (in watts, measured, not the power setting) and SWR shows the ratio itself. Both were reading the wrong index — the SWR bar sat near 80 on a perfect match. The bars also hold their peak, so CW keying no longer makes them flash to zero.",
"CW speed is now one setting wherever you change it: the Yaesu console slider and the CW panel drive the keyer that is actually sending, and the rig own keyer follows so its front panel agrees.",
"Antenna Genius: port A no longer jumps onto port B antenna a few seconds after a change. Only one port can hold the transmit antenna, so the switch reports the same one on both — the display now follows each port own receive antenna.",
"CW through the Yaesu keyer: a fifth CW engine sends your macros with the radio own keyer (CAT \"KY\"), for the FTDX101 / FT-991A / FT-710 family. An FTDX10 does not accept it — DAKY included — and OpsLog says so, pointing to the serial DTR keyer on the rig second COM port, which works.",
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"CQ and ITU zones you correct by hand in your profile stay corrected. They are derived from cty.dat, which gives the zones of the whole entity — in a country spanning several, the automatic value is wrong and it came back at every restart. They now only fill in when empty, and recompute when the callsign or grid changes."
],
"fr": [
"Console Yaesu : la barre de ROS indiquait environ 80 sur une antenne parfaitement adaptée — elle lisait un instrument sans rapport avec l'antenne. Elle lit désormais le bon et affiche le rapport lui-même (1,0 ; 1,5…) comme la radio, au lieu d'un pourcentage.",
"Les mesures de la console Yaesu sont justes : la puissance lit l'instrument qui suit la HF (en watts mesurés, et non le réglage de puissance) et le ROS affiche le rapport lui-même. Les deux lisaient le mauvais index — la barre de ROS restait vers 80 sur une antenne parfaite. Les barres retiennent aussi leur crête : la manipulation CW ne les fait plus clignoter à zéro.",
"La vitesse CW est désormais un réglage unique où que vous la changiez : le curseur de la console Yaesu et le panneau CW pilotent le manipulateur qui émet réellement, et le keyer interne de la radio suit pour que sa façade affiche la même valeur.",
"Antenna Genius : le port A ne bascule plus sur l'antenne du port B quelques secondes après un changement. Un seul port peut porter l'antenne d'émission, le switch renvoie donc la même sur les deux — l'affichage suit désormais l'antenne de réception propre à chaque port.",
"CW par le keyer Yaesu : un cinquième moteur CW envoie vos macros avec le keyer de la radio (CAT « KY »), pour la famille FTDX101 / FT-991A / FT-710. Un FTDX10 ne l'accepte pas — DAKY compris — et OpsLog le dit en renvoyant vers le keyer série DTR sur son second port COM, qui fonctionne.",