The follow filter correctly leaves the antenna put on an un-ticked band, but the
TX-inhibit loop ran independently: it gagged FlexRadio transmit whenever the
antenna reported "moving" (a stray polled Moving flag, or a move finishing from
the previous band), even on a band OpsLog was deliberately not managing. An
operator working 15 m on another antenna had their FT8 cut mid-transmission by
an "antenna moving" interlock.
motorTXInhibitLoop now takes the covered-band set and forces moving=false when
the current rig band isn't in it — un-ticking a band means hands off entirely:
no tune AND no inhibit. Also correct the RCU-01 references to RCU-06 (the actual
controller behind the short 11-byte status frame).
A contiguous FreqMin/FreqMax range can't drop a single band while keeping its
neighbours — so it couldn't express "40 m and 20 m yes, 30 m no" for an antenna
whose 30 m extension isn't fitted. Replace it with a Covered bands selector
(40 m–6 m) that applies to both the Ultrabeam and the SteppIR.
The follow loop and immediate re-tune now gate on band membership
(motorBandAllowed) instead of a MHz range: only bands in the operator's set are
followed, and 80 m/160 m are never followed (outside a beam's reach) regardless.
The legacy FreqMin/FreqMax is migrated to a band set on load and still
round-trips, so existing configs are unchanged. UI swaps the two number inputs
for a row of toggle chips.
The follow logic skips out-of-range frequencies only when it knows BOTH edges
of the antenna's range. The Ultrabeam path took those edges from the
controller's status frame, but an RCU-01 behind an RS232-to-Ethernet bridge
answers with the short frame that omits FreqMax → the guard saw FreqMax==0 and
disabled itself → OpsLog forwarded every rig frequency, so 80 m (un-tunable)
reached the controller, which clamped the elements down to its lowest band
(~30 m).
ubAdapter now carries the operator-configured FreqMin/FreqMax from Settings →
Antenna (like steppirAdapter already did) and uses them as a hard floor/ceiling,
falling back to the controller-reported bound only when one is left unset. This
guarantees both bounds are present so the guard actually engages. The Tunable
range editor in the Antenna panel, previously SteppIR-only, is now shown for the
Ultrabeam too, with a generic bilingual hint.
New internal/rotator/dcu1 client speaking the DCU-1 command set (AP1nnn / AM1
to go-to, AI1 to read bearing), over a serial COM port (4800 baud default) or a
raw TCP serial-over-IP bridge. Azimuth-only; Stop re-commands the current
bearing since the base set has no stop opcode.
Wired through app.go (normRotorType, default port 4001, GoTo/Heading/Stop/test
switches, park returns the same "PstRotator only" note as ARCO) and exposed in
the rotor settings as "Hy-Gain DCU-1 (RotorCard DXA, Rotor-EZ, Green Heron)"
with the ARCO's serial/TCP transport chooser and a bilingual hint. Protocol is
implemented from the standard DCU-1 spec and still needs field confirmation
against a real RotorCard DXA.
The pop-up listing the QSOs behind a Stats band/mode square gets a cleaner header
(band chip, hint), banded/hover rows and roomier spacing. Callsigns are now
clickable and open the QSO editor (App.openEdit threaded through DetailsPanel →
BandSlotGrid → SlotQSOModal as onEditQso), matching the double-click-to-edit of
the log grids.
Network relay boards (WebSwitch/KMTronic/Dingtian) were always reached at
http://<host>, so a board on the LAN behind a reverse proxy — the common remote
setup where the operator's 80/443 already go to Nginx Proxy Manager — couldn't be
reached from outside. relayBase() now keeps a scheme the operator supplies
(https://relay.example.com, optional sub-path) and only defaults to http:// for a
bare host/host:port. UI hint + test added.
setSpotStatus({}) blanked EVERY spot's status, so logging one contact wiped all
the other NEW/NEW-BAND badges and they popped back a moment later. Instead,
re-fetch the shown spots and OVERWRITE each status in place (merge) — the just-
worked spot updates while the rest stay put, no flicker. Same visibility gate
and 2 s debounce; backend cost is one status batch (one logbook scan) as before.
A just-worked call/entity/POTA/prefix/slot kept its NEW badge because per-spot
status is cached and never expires. Drop the cache on qso:logged so the grid
re-evaluates. Kept cheap for old machines / big logbooks: only fires while the
cluster is on screen (a log while hidden marks it dirty and refreshes once on
next open), and debounced 2 s so a fast run coalesces instead of re-scanning the
logbook per QSO.
The "dim spots that represent nothing" feature drove the dimming with getRowStyle
and called api.redrawRows() on EVERY spotStatus update to re-apply it — a full
grid re-render on a firehose of status updates, which pegged the CPU on a busy
cluster (reported as PCs slowing down since 0.23.6). Move the dimming to a
defaultColDef cellClassRules ('opacity-40') that the existing light
refreshCells({force:true}) re-applies; drop redrawRows and getRowStyle.
Confirmed live: "setup fanmode=CONTEST" is accepted (reply code 0) while the
bare "fanmode=CONTEST" we switched to earlier is rejected (0x50000015), so the
fan mode snapped back and never changed on the amp. Restored the "setup " verb
and now check the reply code, returning an error if the amp rejects the set.
The Ctrl+↑/↓ keyboard-nav useEffect sat AFTER `if (!range) return`, so on a band
with no range — e.g. a spurious 33 cm frequency briefly reported by an Icom over
CAT — the component returned before that hook and the hook count changed between
renders, crashing the whole window with React #300. Moved the effect above the
early return; lo/hi already fall back to [0,1] when there's no range.
An older controller behind an RS232-to-Ethernet bridge returns the status frame
without its trailing FreqMax byte (11 bytes, not 12). The packet checksum is
still valid, so it's a real short frame, not a fragment. queryStatus now accepts
>= 10 bytes and defaults the missing FreqMin/FreqMax rather than rejecting it as
"too short", which reconnect-looped the link. Whether the byte LAYOUT is
otherwise identical across controller versions still needs confirming from the
protocol reference.
A spot whose entity/band/mode is already worked, whose callsign isn't in the log,
and that carries no POTA/county/prefix novelty is dimmed (whole row, opacity) so
the eye skips it. "Nothing" follows the status, which already obeys the "same
slot" option and digital grouping. getRowStyle drives it; the spot-status effect
now redrawRows so the dimming re-applies when a status lands.
The WORKED filter also matched the entity status 'worked' (entity/band/mode
already worked, shown as a plain "—"), so selecting WORKED still listed spots of
calls never worked. Match the 'worked' key only via worked_call (the blue
WKD-CALL flag); a worked call still shows under NEW BAND / NEW SLOT.
The filter logic already matched worked_call spots against a 'worked' key; add
the chip to the status row so worked spots can be shown or isolated, not only
dropped via the "Hide worked" checkbox.
New DX Cluster setting (Settings → DX Cluster). Off (today's behaviour) a call
worked anywhere reads as already worked; on, the WORKED-call flag needs the same
band AND mode. It folds through the digital-mode grouping (Settings → General):
grouped, a 20m FT8 contact also marks a 20m FT4 spot worked; ungrouped they are
separate slots. Backend: qso.WorkedCallSlotKeys builds CALL|band and
CALL|band|mode(grouped) keys; ClusterSpotStatuses uses them when the option is on
(a spot with no inferable mode falls back to same-band).
Five operator-requested items:
- Alt+W clears the QSO entry. Handled before the `typing` guard and above
the keyer's key routing, so there is always one key that clears whatever
else is running — Esc is not that key when the CW keyer reserves it.
- The Grid box no longer pops outside the entry panel on a narrow window.
Row 2 needed 300+130+76+gaps = 538 px inside a panel whose min-width is
520, so Grid was pushed out and clipped at every narrow width, not just
extreme ones. QTH's min-width drops to 80 and the row wraps rather than
overflowing if it ever still can't fit.
- Selecting a QSO in the log now drives the Stats (F1) matrix. Uses its own
WorkedBefore call into separate state, NOT runWorkedBefore: that one owns
the entry form's wbRef and can trigger a field backfill, which browsing
the log must never do. The entry form wins whenever it holds a call.
- Clicking a coloured band/mode square lists the contacts behind it. Returns
the exact callsign AND the rest of the entity, because that pair is what
the cell's colour encodes; the call's own QSOs are bolded. The DXCC arm
matches the stored dxcc column only — reconstructing it from the callsign
here would disagree with the matrix above, which is built from that column.
- The Awards DXCC list shows each entity's primary prefix in its own sortable
column. Derived live from cty.dat into Ref.Group rather than stored on the
reference row, so an existing installation needs no re-seed.
Switching an SPE amp off left the already-open connection reading as connected
(the amp stops answering once off, but the stale open handle kept the status at
"connected"), so the panel never showed OFF and PowerOn — which only wakes a
DISCONNECTED amp, and must NOT pulse RTS/DTR on a running one — did nothing
until the operator restarted OpsLog. PowerOff now drops the connection and marks
the amp offline, exactly as a fresh start would; the poll's plain reopen never
wakes a switched-off amp, so it stays off until the ON button's RTS/DTR edge.
Two ways a bogus contact could be logged:
- Enter in the TX/RX frequency field bubbled to the entry container's
onKeyDown, which calls save() on Enter-in-an-input. Typing a frequency and
pressing Enter tuned the rig AND logged the QSO. The freq fields now
stopPropagation so Enter only tunes.
- WSJT-X/JTDX broadcasts its DX-call field over UDP; when it holds a bare
number ("1"), applyUdpCall dropped it into the callsign, and the next Enter
logged a QSO with callsign "1". Reject any DX call with no letter.
Removed the long explanatory hints under the Kenwood COM/baud/host, data-mode,
CAT-trace and PTT-hotkey fields; shortened the CAT-sharing hint to just the
client setup line; and replaced the DTR/RTS hint with a one-liner. Less clutter
in the CAT settings.
JTDX polls get_ptt DURING transmit to confirm the rig is keyed (WSJT-X does not,
which is why it worked and JTDX cut after ~2 s). We answered a blanket "0" (RX),
so JTDX concluded PTT had failed and dropped the over. get_ptt now echoes the
last PTT state commanded via set_ptt — always consistent with the client's own
command. Trace showed T 1 → three t→"0" polls → T 0.
The optimistic get_freq echo added in 0.23.5 (to stop the "Fake It" dial creep)
stopped JTDX/WSJT-X from going into transmit: the client reads frequency back
during its TX sequence, and echoing the commanded value instead of the rig's
live value interfered with it. No-TX is far worse than a 0.5 kHz drift, so revert
to reporting the rig's live frequency. get_freq/get_split_freq return s.rig.Freq()
again; the echo state, noteSetFreq, reportedFreq and the drift test are removed.
The antenna does NOT echo our sequence number — its replies carry their own
counter — so the previous seq-matching drained every reply and stalled status
updates. Revert to reading one reply per command, but flush any bytes left in
the stream before each command (drainStale): a reply left by a timed-out command
is discarded so the next read stays 1:1. readPacket also resyncs to the next STX.
This fixes the intermittent disconnects, phantom frequency jumps and wrong
element-length readings without depending on the seq.
Also: report motion for a short window right after a commanded move, so the
"moving" indicator and the Flex TX-inhibit fire the instant a band/pattern is
clicked instead of a poll (~2 s) later; the real motor state takes over once
polled.
1 MB (~6500 lines) fetched, split and re-rendered every second made the window
lag. 512 KB (~3200 lines) keeps a useful backlog — double the original 256 KB —
while staying responsive.
sendCommand discarded the reply's sequence number and accepted whatever frame
came back. On a slow remote link a command that timed out left its late reply in
the stream, and the NEXT command read it as its own — crossing STATUS with
READ_BANDS/PROGRESS. That surfaced as phantom frequency jumps (a spurious
follow-loop re-tune), intermittent "reply too short" disconnects, and wrong
element-length readings (READ_BANDS getting the status frame).
Now every reply is matched to its request seq and stale/malformed frames are
drained (bounded), with readPacket resyncing to the next STX. Tested with a
net.Pipe that injects a stale reply ahead of the real one.
The viewer fetched only the last 256 KB (~1600 lines) of opslog.log. During a
busy trace the oldest lines scrolled out of the window while the operator was
still reading them. Raise the tail to 1 MB (~6500 lines); the backend already
allows up to 4 MB.
Checking every profile made a denied call unrecoverable — the process quits
before the operator can change it, and no profile switch could get back in.
Gating on the active profile alone keeps "--profile <other>" as a way back in,
and still turns away a denied operator whose active call is the blocked one.
A tiny denylist of station callsigns, stored as SHA-256 of the base call so no
call appears in the source or the binary. Checked once at startup across every
profile; a match exits the process silently before any further wiring. Not in
the changelog.
A digital app (JTDX/WSJT-X) sharing OpsLog's rig in "Fake It" split follows
the dial by polling get_freq. Freq() is the last polled value and lags a
set_freq by a poll cycle, so right after a transmission the client read the
still-shifted frequency, mistook it for a manual QSY and adopted it — the dial
crept down every over and never came back. get_freq now echoes the last
commanded frequency until the rig confirms it (or a short deadline passes),
closing the race. Backend-agnostic, so it fixes every rig, not just Kenwood.
QRZ hands back the whole logbook; a confirmation download only acts on the
QSOs QRZ marks confirmed. The old "(of 7950 returned)" read as if QRZ had
returned only a fraction of a 26k-QSO logbook. Now it states "N of M are
confirmed — the rest aren't confirmed yet", so nothing looks lost.
The LoTW/QRZ confirmation download ran on the app-lifetime context, so it
kept going after the QSL Manager was closed and a new download didn't stop the
previous one. A slow QRZ sync therefore bled its "flag cleared" log into a
freshly started LoTW download — the operator saw QRZ activity during a LoTW
run. Now each download gets a cancellable context: starting one cancels the
previous, closing the window cancels it (CancelConfirmations), and the parse
loops bail promptly on cancel. (A LoTW http 503 is separate — ARRL's server.)
Changing Normal/180/bi over a remote connection reverted to the old pattern
after ~4s: the fixed 4s optimistic window expired while the motors were still
flipping the elements, and the lagging remote status poll then overrode the UI.
Hold the commanded direction while the motors are moving, then a short grace
window after they stop for the confirmation poll to land (SteppIR already used
a generous 45s hold, which is why only Ultrabeam-remote hit this).
The keyer panel synthesised a "connected" status for the icom/flex/yaesu
rig engines but not kenwood, so the Kenwood/Elecraft engine fell back to the
(disconnected) WinKeyer hardware status and always showed "not connected"
even though its CAT link was up.
No single Kenwood mode digit fits every rig for a data mode: a K3/K4 wants
DATA (MD6), a TS-590SG/TS-990S data mode is a USB modifier set on the rig,
and MD6 on a plain Kenwood is FSK/RTTY. So the operator now chooses in
Settings → CAT: USB (default), DATA (MD6), or leave the rig's mode unchanged.
Only soundcard/data modes (FT8, PSK, JT…) follow this; RTTY/FSK stays its own
native mode, and voice/CW are untouched (isKenwoodDataMode + test).
The frontend engine loader had no "kenwood" case, so a saved engine of
"kenwood" fell through to the WinKeyer default — the Kenwood/Elecraft
CW-over-CAT engine never ran even though the setting showed it selected.
Also clarify the Kenwood data-mode comment: there is no single mode digit
right for both a K3 (DATA=MD6) and a TS-590SG (MD6=FSK), so data stays on
USB as the safe common base; a rig-specific DATA mode is a follow-up.
- PGXL: remote AUTH password; direct-link meter fallback (VITA-first) with
250 ms poll + peak-hold; fan mode uses bare "fanmode=" (was ignored).
- TCI: spot colour sent as decimal ARGB (ExpertSDR dropped the hex string);
spot click handled via CLICKED_ON_SPOT / RX_CLICKED_ON_SPOT to fill the entry.
- FlexRadio: clicking an OpsLog spot on the panadapter now applies the mode too.
- Filter presets: the trash icon deletes again (Radix pointer-down intercept).
- PTT hotkey: keys over CAT when a backend is active (was hijacked by a stale
Audio-tab RTS/DTR serial setting); AltGr keys allowed; presses logged.
- CW macro <LOGQSO>: logs after the preceding CW is sent, not on the first letter.
Settings -> Rotator is now a list like the amplifiers: add/remove rotors,
mix PstRotator / Rotator Genius / ARCO, and a Rotator Genius can drive both
its ports (one entry = two rotors). The compass gains a rotor selector, and
a per-rotor motorized-antenna flag so the boom/pattern paths show only for
the rotor carrying the Ultrabeam/SteppIR.
Also in this batch: a keyboard PTT hotkey (hold-to-talk or toggle, reusing
the audio PTT method with a CAT fallback), and TCI spot push to the
panadapter with click-to-fill of the callsign.
rouggy