Listen() succeeding is not the same as being reachable. OpsLog binds 0.0.0.0,
and Windows lets a second program bind the SAME port on the specific address
127.0.0.1. Connections to localhost then go to the more specific listener, so
every client reaches the other program while ours sits there having logged
"sharing CAT on port 4532" and never seeing a single connection.
Found with Nexus, which starts its own rigctld on 127.0.0.1:4532 and talks to
it. Neither side reports anything wrong: the operator gets a CAT timeout from a
daemon with no radio behind it, and OpsLog's log is silent because nothing ever
arrived. Three exchanges went into establishing that the connection simply never
reached us — the port table was what settled it, not the code.
So the server now dials its own port at startup and checks the connection lands
on its own accept loop. If it does not, it says which program will be receiving
the CAT connections and what to do. The counter it compares can only be raised
by our own accept loop, so a real client arriving during the probe makes the
check pass, never fail wrongly.
A client set to a RIG MODEL (Kenwood, Yaesu, …) pointed at the CAT-sharing port
speaks raw rig dialect: "ID;", "IF;". That is not rigctl, so it fell to the
unknown-command branch and got RPRT -11 like anything else.
The symptom hides the cause completely. RPRT -11 has no ';' for the client's
parser to terminate on, so it waits out its timeout and reports "reply
incomplete, got nothing" — a hard failure that reads as "OpsLog's CAT sharing
does not work", when it is one setting in the other program.
A frame ending in ';' with no space in it cannot be a rigctl command, so the log
now says what it is and what to set instead. Reported from Nexus, whose Hamlib
error named kenwood_transaction — the one word that gave it away.
cfdd24d shipped the "?;" tolerance with no changelog entry, against the
project's own rule. Placed before the CW entry: the link had to survive being
busy before anything keyed through it could matter.
CW over CAT never worked on a Kenwood. The KY implementation was written against
Elecraft's, which accepts a string of any length, so "KY OH5CX;" went out and a
TS-590SG answered "?;". OpsLog read that as "this radio refuses CW over CAT" and
told the operator to fit a serial keyer — advice that was wrong, and expensive.
The TS-590 manual is explicit: P2 has a fixed length of 24, blanks are filled
with spaces, and those spaces are not keyed. So the fix costs nothing on air; it
is simply the shape the command has. Elecraft stays variable-length, where
padding would key the trailing spaces as word gaps.
The semicolon is also gone from the allowed CW characters. It TERMINATES a CAT
frame, the manual forbids it in P2, and one in a macro would have closed the
command early and left the rest of the message to be read as commands.
Found from a log and a manual page, not from a rig: nobody here owns a Kenwood.
What is proven is the frame shape; that a TS-590SG then keys it still needs the
operator to confirm.
N0CALL is what WSJT-X transmits under when its owner never set a callsign. It
has a letter, a digit and an ordinary shape, so nothing rejected it: it was
spotted, coloured, counted as a new WPX prefix, and now that CQ grids are read
it would have put a grid into the worked index under a callsign nobody holds.
The obvious fix - adding it to looksLikeCall's reject list - was wrong, and the
test caught it before it shipped. That function answers "could this token be a
callsign at all", and the CQ grammar uses it to decide whether the word after CQ
is a modifier (DX, NA, a zone) or the call itself. Teaching it that N0CALL is
not a callsign made "CQ N0CALL JN36" skip a slot and return JN36. Shape and
policy are different questions and now live in different functions.
Chasing that turned up the real defect behind it: ANY unrecognised word after CQ
made the parser skip a slot, and a four-character grid passes every shape test a
callsign does. "CQ FOO JN36" returned JN36 as the sender - logged, spotted and
coloured as a station. A grid in the callsign slot is now refused outright.
Finishes the half of this that was already computing on the backend and reaching
nobody. A Grid column in the Geo group, NEW GRID as a badge in Status, a filled
cell in the marker's own colour, and a filter chip.
new_grid joins lib/spotMarkers rather than getting colours of its own, so the
badge, the cell fill and the chip cannot drift apart - and the per-marker colour
setting will drive it with the rest from one table. Magenta: the last hue in the
categorical set not already spoken for, and one that does not read as a status,
because a new square is never urgent the way a new entity is.
The band map leaves it to the cluster, as it already leaves the prefix. The pill
is 22 px tall and its accent strip stops being readable past three segments.
A row carrying a new grid is no longer "dull", or the dimming would grey out the
one thing worth looking at.
The column is off by default, like the other Geo columns: it is only ever filled
for stations this receiver decoded over the UDP link, so for an operator who
does not run digital it would be a permanently empty column.
"No colour on worked" blanked the spot status as well as the worked-call flag,
on the theory that a spot bringing no novelty should stop painting entirely.
But the status is exactly what the cluster list reads to DIM a row. Blanking it
made isDull() fall through its "unresolved, never dim" guard, so every quiet grey
row came back at full brightness. The option meant to calm the list was the one
making it shout. It also forced a `muted` flag to exist purely so tooltips could
say that an empty status did not, this time, mean "entity not resolved".
It now removes the blue already-worked mark and nothing else, which is all it
ever needed to do: a worked entity already renders with no colour of its own and
is already dimmed. The flag, its two tooltip strings and the special-cased band
map styling all go with it.
The amplifier PUSHES status frames ("S0|state=…") on the same socket it answers
commands on, and it pushes them constantly once in OPERATE - power, SWR and
temperature all move while transmitting.
command() read exactly one line and took whatever arrived first as its answer.
One pushed frame therefore put the stream permanently one reply behind: every
later command read the PREVIOUS command's answer, and eventually one waited out
the 3 s deadline, failed, and dropped the connection. Hence a fresh TCP
connection and a fresh authentication every few seconds in the log.
The stall in transmit is the same defect seen from the other side: command()
holds the connection mutex across that whole dead wait, so SetOperate and every
other control queued behind up to three seconds of nothing.
It only appeared remotely and in OPERATE because that is when there is anything
to push - on a LAN with an idle amplifier the race hardly ever opens. Which is
why it did not do this yesterday.
readReplyLocked now reads until the R<id>| that belongs to the command, feeding
every frame it passes to parse() on the way - a pushed status is fresher than
the one we were about to ask for, so nothing is wasted.
authLocked used the same one-line read and worked around this by re-sending the
whole handshake, which is visible in the log as "auth reply=S0|state=IDLE
(try 1)" followed by a second attempt. It goes through the same reader now.
IOTA is an official ADIF field, and almost everything for it was already here:
the qso table has carried my_iota since the first migration, the insert and scan
handle it, and both ADIF import and export write it. The one missing link was
the station profile, so the reference had to be typed on every contact of an
island activation, or added afterwards in a bulk edit.
Migration 0025 adds the column; it joins my_sota_ref and my_pota_ref in the
profile, in the Station Information panel, and in the same stamp-if-empty block
that fills the other My* fields on a logged QSO.
Uppercased and trimmed on save. ADIF spells it EU-005, and an operator typing
"eu-005" would otherwise put a reference no award matcher recognises on every
QSO of an activation - the kind of mistake you only find months later.
AddQSO emitted qso:logged but never invalidated the cluster status snapshot.
The frontend did its part - it re-queried every visible spot two seconds later -
and ClusterSpotStatuses answered out of a snapshot built before the contact, so
it returned exactly the same "new band" as before. For ever, until an import, an
edit or a profile switch happened to invalidate it for another reason.
Reported twice: an E51 and then a ZD7 that stayed yellow on the band map with
the QSO plainly in the log. The first report was answered by fixing the
visibility gate, which was a real bug of its own and hid this one.
Confirmed against the operator's MySQL logbook rather than guessed: ZD7BG has
dxcc=250 on all eleven QSOs and 0 of 29579 rows lack a DXCC number, which ruled
out the missing-entity-number theory and pointed here.
Deliberately not invalidateAwardStats(): that also drops the award matrices,
which are expensive on a large log, and a contest run would pay for it once per
QSO. This index is a few DISTINCT scans and it is what the spot colours read.
Also fixes the new worked-grid query, which asked for a column named
"gridsquare". The column is "grid" - gridsquare_ext is a different one - so NEW
GRID could never have worked on either backend. Verified against the real
database: 12516 distinct grid|mode pairs.
RBN spotters report as "VU2OY-#" and cluster nodes as "DL1ABC-2". That string
went straight into the DXCC prefix matcher, which saw an unknown callsign and
gave up, so every spot came back with an empty continent.
The filter then matched nothing at all - and worse, silently: unresolved spots
are deliberately never dropped, because the status arrives a moment after the
row and filtering meanwhile makes the list flicker. So selecting AS left the
Europeans and the Americans exactly where they were, with nothing to say why.
A real callsign never contains a hyphen, so cutting at the first one is safe.
The panel had grown two shapes for the same kind of choice. Some filters were
checkboxes, some were chips, and New counties only was a checkbox duplicating a
chip - which I added, and which was the worst of it: a control that exists twice
is not more discoverable, it is one control the operator has to recognise twice.
The rule now:
SWITCH a behaviour that is on or off, and narrows nothing by a property of
the station: hide worked, group duplicates, the two display options,
LoTW users only.
CHIPS pick any number from a set; none picked means all. Status, mode,
spotter continent. Selected is solid, unselected is the same chip
faded, so the palette keeps teaching the colour code while switched
off.
Nothing appears in both shapes. The duplicate county checkbox is gone.
Spotter continent became a chip row: seven two-letter codes fit on two lines,
they read as a set the way Status and Mode do, and several can be picked at
once - which "EU or NA" needs and a dropdown cannot express.
Both Lock buttons now sit in the heading of the section they lock, instead of
floating between sections, and every multi-select section clears the same way
through the same heading slot. One section helper and one chip helper, so the
next filter cannot drift.
The panel was also entirely hardcoded English - Search call, Hide worked, Bands,
Status - against the project's own bilingual rule. All of it goes through t()
now, both locales.
The L badge is a single letter, not a word: the call column is 120 px and holds
a callsign. It keeps the muted blue of a confirmation and never a status colour,
because whether a station uploads to LoTW says nothing about whether the spot is
worth chasing - those are different questions and must not share a palette.
The spotter's continent is not the DX's. It asks whether anyone near you is
hearing the band at all, which is why it earns its own control rather than
reusing the existing Continent column. The spotter callsign now travels with the
status query so the backend can resolve it against the one DXCC prefix table,
instead of a second continent rule appearing in the frontend.
Both AND with the status chips rather than joining their OR: "a new band, and
from Europe" is the question being asked. An unresolved spot is never dropped by
them - the status arrives a moment after the row, and filtering meanwhile made
the list flicker.
New counties only is the SAME state as the NEW COUNTY chip, reached a second
way, not a second filter. County chasing is a mode you switch into, and hunting
for one chip among eight is not how you switch into it.
parseFloat accepts a numeric PREFIX. "2026-08-10" therefore became the number
2026, every date in the same year compared equal, and since the sort is stable
nothing moved: the Date column looked as though it were simply not sortable.
The same trap caught every callsign starting with a digit - 8B81SU and 8P9AB
both read as 8 - and the times, where "09:56" became 9. The numeric test is now
anchored to the whole cell, so anything that is not entirely a number is
compared as text, which is exactly right for an ISO date.
Sorting had no way back either. Each row now carries the index it was published
at, and a third click on a header restores that order. Headers also show an
arrow: with no indicator, a column that silently refused to sort was
indistinguishable from one that had sorted into the same order.
Blank cells sink in both directions rather than leading the ascending sort. An
empty field is missing data, not the smallest value.
Tested where it can be: the page ships its own script, so a regression is silent
- the table still renders, it just sorts wrongly.
Colour moves from the text to the CELL. A filled Band cell means new band, a
filled Pfx cell means new prefix, a filled County cell means new county. This is
not the pills coming back: a pill is a box inside the cell with its own height
and padding, so it pushed the text off the row baseline. A background has no
geometry - the text does not move a pixel - and it reads from across the room,
which a tinted glyph does not. Worked-call stays text-only: it is not a novelty,
and filling it would wash most of the rows.
The colours still come from the semantic tokens and lib/spotMarkers, so a fact
keeps one colour across the grid, the band map and the filter chips - and the
per-marker colour setting will drive all of it from one table.
US County column. The backend already resolved the county from the offline ULS
store to decide NewCounty and then threw it away; it now returns it, which costs
nothing.
The Locator column is renamed Spotter locator. It always held the SPOTTER's grid
- cluster.go says so - so a column labelled Locator next to a DX callsign was
reading as the DX's grid and was mostly empty besides. The DX grid is not in the
feed at any price worth paying under an RBN firehose.
Both display options move out of Preferences into the cluster filter panel,
beside Hide worked. They are changed while working a run, not set up once, and
a preferences dialog reopened every ten minutes is a filter in the wrong place.
Two options that change what the eye is pulled towards, both applying to the
cluster list AND the band map.
Mute worked before: a spot that brings nothing new loses its colour and its
badges. It stays in the list - the operator asked for less noise, not less
information. "Brings nothing new" reuses the dimming rule the cluster list
already had rather than inventing a second notion of done, so it keeps obeying
the same-slot option and the digital-mode grouping for free. A new-band or
new-slot status is NOT muted: having worked that callsign once on another band
says nothing about the band in front of you.
Highlight unworked in this slot: colours any callsign not yet worked on this
band and this mode, whatever the entity says. For an operator filling slots a
common entity on a fresh band+mode is the whole point, and the entity-level
status flatly calls it worked. It reuses the existing new-slot status, so no new
colour, no new legend, no new badge - both panels already knew how to draw it.
WorkedSlot is computed independently of the same-slot preference: it is what
this option reads, and it must not change meaning because a different option was
toggled. The slot index is now built when either option needs it, and the status
cache is keyed on both so a toggle invalidates it.
The rules live in one module used by both panels. Marker colours already taught
us what happens when the two derive the same thing separately.
Observation, not prediction, and it needs no new data source: the cluster event
worker already enriches every spot with the great-circle distance and bearing
from the operator's grid, which is exactly what a single-hop Es detection rests
on.
The signature is four or more DISTINCT stations at 500-2400 km inside a 90
degree bearing sector within twelve minutes. Each constraint earns its place:
distinct callsigns because one station spotted by six skimmers is six spots and
one station; the lower bound because a 6 m contact under 500 km is ordinary
tropo and says nothing about the ionosphere; the upper bound because past one
hop the bearing test stops meaning anything; and the sector because a real Es
cloud illuminates a direction, which is what separates an opening from a merely
busy evening.
Fed AFTER the Historical guard in the worker. A SH/DX reply replays a hundred
past spots in a second - precisely the shape of a burst - and would announce an
opening that ended hours ago.
Season LABELS, it never gates. Both hemispheres get a summer peak and a lesser
winter one, and an opening outside those is announced with "unusual for the
season" attached: the rare one is the one an operator must not hear about last.
One announcement per band per opening (45 minute quiet period). An opening runs
for hours and produces hundreds of spots; one alert is information, forty is
noise.
Opened as soon as 0.24.2 is tagged, so the next change has somewhere to go and cannot end up described under a version that already shipped - which is exactly what happened to 0.24.1. Invisible until the build reports 0.24.3: GetChangelog drops every entry newer than appVersion.
v0.24.1 was tagged and shipped mid-session; the six commits that followed kept appending to its block, so the released version appeared to describe changes it does not contain. 0.24.1 is restored to exactly the five entries that shipped - verified against git show v0.24.1:changelog.json - and the five later ones open 0.24.2.
The band row was hardwired to 160-6 m, so an IC-9700 - the one radio in the range with no HF at all - showed ten dead buttons and none of 2 m, 70 cm or 23 cm. bandsFor(model) follows the model, exactly as attOptions already did for the attenuator steps. bandOfHz's labels had to move with it: it returned '70' where the button says '70cm', so the current-band highlight could never have matched, and it knew nothing of 23 cm.
The post-QSO status refresh was gated on the DX-cluster list being on screen; the band map draws the same statuses and was left out. Working a station in the ordinary layout - Recent QSOs left, docked band map right - left its pill NEW until the cluster tab happened to be opened. Reported on an E51 that stayed orange with the QSO already in the log.
A new county and a new park both drew --success, so the two were the same green
in the cluster list and, since the band map copied it, in the band map too.
County takes violet; POTA keeps green, the association being worth something.
Violet is a chart hue rather than a semantic token because every token was
already spoken for: red, orange and yellow are the entity statuses, blue is
"callsign already worked", green is now POTA. It is defined in both the light
and dark chart groups, so all eleven themes have it.
Changed in BOTH panels at once — separating them in one place would have left
the two views contradicting each other about the same fact, which is worse than
sharing a colour. To make that impossible to get wrong again, the marker
definitions move to lib/spotMarkers: key, colour and label in one table that the
cluster list and the band map both read. That table is what a per-marker colour
setting will drive, which is why it is a table and not three constants.
The band map deliberately shows three of the four markers. A new PREFIX stays a
cluster-list badge: the pill is 22 px tall and a fourth segment on its strip
turns it into a colour code nobody reads at a glance.
The band map coloured only the entity status and dropped the other three
markers on the floor — not for want of data: they were already in the status
entry it receives, the local type simply never declared them, so a new park on
an entity you have worked was indistinguishable from any other worked spot.
Colours are the DX-cluster list's, taken from it rather than chosen: --info for
a worked callsign, --success for a new county and a new park. The same fact must
not be blue in one panel and green in the next.
They STACK, they do not replace. These markers are orthogonal to the entity
status — worked entity plus new park is an ordinary combination — and the
cluster list already spells them out side by side rather than letting one win.
So the pill keeps the status colour and the markers take its left strip, split
into one segment each. That strip previously repeated the pill's own colour and
carried no information at all, which is what made it the right place.
Note that a new county and a new park share --success in the cluster list, so
they share it here too. Splitting them means changing both views together, which
is the moment to do it — when the per-marker colour setting arrives.
The input was bound straight to the number and committed on every keystroke, so
it could not be EMPTIED: clearing it yields "", Number("") is 0, 0 fails the
"> 0" guard, the state never moved, and value={qsoLimit} snapped the old figure
straight back. Going from 200000 down to 100 was a fight against the field — and
read as the setting refusing to persist, which it was not: writeUiPref stores it
and syncPortablePrefs makes the database authoritative at boot. It also wrote
the preference once per keystroke (1, then 10, then 100).
Raw text in local state, committed on blur or Enter, per the controlled-input
note in CLAUDE.md.
Opening the Awards panel pulls every QSO into a cached slice and kept it for the rest of the session: the cache was only ever invalidated by a logbook change, never by disuse. Each cached QSO is a 1896-byte struct plus its strings AND a decoded map of its ADIF extras - one map allocation per QSO. Harmless at 30k rows, several hundred megabytes at 132k, which is where it was reported. A janitor drops it after 15 minutes without a reader and calls FreeOSMemory, because Go hands pages back lazily and the whole point is that the operator sees the memory return. 15 minutes is deliberately generous: an awards session recomputes every few seconds and re-pulling a large remote logbook costs seconds. The heap size is now logged when the snapshot is built and when it is released - a memory report was unanswerable without a number.
Every line of cluster traffic went straight to state: a spread copy of a 2000-element array, a slice copy, and a React render, per line. An RBN feed sends hundreds a second, so that was tens of MB/s of garbage in the renderer and hundreds of re-renders - and it ran whether the console was open or not, so the cost was paid for a panel nobody was looking at. Reported on an old PC where the UI had stopped responding. Lines are staged in a ref and flushed on a 200 ms timer, the same shape the spot handler already uses. The staging buffer is bounded too, so a burst longer than the console can show is not carried in full just to be sliced away on commit.
Several operators hit "stage current exe: rename …\OpsLog.exe …\OpsLog.exe.old:
Accès refusé" and could not update again. Two separate causes, both ours to
handle.
The staging name was fixed. os.Rename replaces its target, so a single leftover
".old" that could not be deleted — a scanner holding it open is the usual
reason, and the pre-existing os.Remove was best-effort and ignored — made every
later update fail with that error, permanently, recoverable only by deleting the
file by hand. Staging now uses a unique ".old-<nanos>", which no leftover can
block, and the startup cleanup sweeps the pattern instead of one name.
Renaming a running image is legal on Windows, but some endpoint protection
(Bitdefender's ransomware remediation among them) blocks it outright, and no
retry gets past that. So the swap is deferred: the new build is parked beside
the old one and a detached helper moves it into place after this process exits,
when the file is no longer a running image. It keeps trying for ten seconds,
since a scanner tends to let go a beat after the process dies.
A short retry stays in front of both, for the ordinary case of a scanner holding
the file it has just watched being written.
If even the deferred move fails, OpsLog restarts on the CURRENT version rather
than leaving the operator with nothing — someone mid-QSO losing their logger is
worse than an update that waits — and only a successful swap passes
--post-update, so the download survives for the next attempt instead of being
swept by the cleanup.
Both band maps were pinned to a hardcoded width — 300px docked beside the
tables, 260px per card in the Band map tab. On a busy band the map could not be
given more room, and on a quiet one the log could not take it back.
The docked map becomes a resizable grid column with the grip in the gap between
the panes, so the handle costs no space; the tab cards share one width with the
grip on their right edge. Side-by-side columns of different widths read as a
mistake rather than a choice, which is why the tab has one width and not one
per card. Double-click either grip to return to the default.
The drag measures from the pointer's START position rather than the container,
so the same helper serves both edges — the docked map sits on the left or the
right depending on the operator's setting, and the grip is on its inner edge
either way. Pointer capture, like the main splitter: without it the map or the
grid under the cursor swallows the moves.
Both widths are persisted through writeUiPref and registered as portable, so
they travel with the data folder like the main splitter and the rest of the
layout.
The seven existing themes are warm beige, cool grey, sage grey, slate, warm
dark, graphite and black — every one neutral, six of the seven accented orange.
Picking a theme changed the shade of grey and little else.
These colour the SURFACES, not just the accent, and each takes a different
primary so the picker tells them apart at a glance: violet on deep indigo, cyan
on deep teal, magenta on aubergine, indigo on a crisp cool white.
The semantic colours stay recognisable as themselves. A logger is read for
hours and "red means a problem" cannot become a decorative choice, so the hue
budget went on the surfaces and the primary. Where a theme's primary would have
collided with a meaning, the MEANING kept its identity and the ornament moved:
Ocean's info is blue rather than cyan, Plum's danger is red rather than rose,
and the matrix entity ramp shifts to cyan under Indigo and teal under Nordic so
a "confirmed" cell never reads as a button.
Everything else follows for free: the grids resolve var(--…) at runtime, so
they re-skin with no re-render. The three shared registrations that do NOT
follow automatically are done — the chart palette (light vs dark ramp) and the
date-picker icon inversion, which is keyed on an explicit list of dark themes.
Prefix exists so a field holding a bare value counts for an award whose codes
carry a letter: a French operator writes "74" in STATE, DDFM's codes are "D74".
Def's own doc says exactly that. But searchOne applied the prefix AFTER looking
the token up in the reference list — after the step that had just failed — so
the bare form matched nothing and the prefix decorated an empty result. The only
way through was a regex, in a mode where the operator had chosen "code" and
explicitly not "pattern".
The token lookup now tries the prefixed form when the bare one is not a known
reference. The list stays the authority: an unknown number still matches
nothing, so the prefix completes references rather than inventing them.
Second bug in the same pass: the blanket prefix also hit codes that came
straight OUT of the list, so a field already holding "D74" produced "DD74" as
soon as a prefix was configured — for both the token lookup and the
description matcher. Branches that yield whole codes are now excluded from it;
the ones that yield a raw capture (regex, whole-field split) still get it.
A forwarder (W&P, seen in the field in front of MSHV) prepends the origin as
plain text before re-broadcasting:
"127.0.0.1:2237|" + <the original, untouched WSJT-X packet>
That puts the magic 15 bytes in, so every datagram failed on "bad magic
0x3132372e" — those four bytes being ASCII "127." — and an operator running
MSHV behind the relay saw no decodes, no callsigns and no auto-logged QSOs.
No new service type: what follows the header IS a WSJT-X packet, so the parser
and everything downstream apply unchanged, and a separate type would duplicate
decode, status and logged-ADIF handling to strip 15 bytes. ParseWSJT skips the
header instead, which also covers any other relay that wraps traffic this way.
The match is deliberately narrow — the magic must fall within the first 64
bytes AND every byte before it must be printable ASCII. A corrupt or truncated
packet that merely contains those four bytes somewhere is not resurrected into
a QSO; it fails exactly as it did before.
Test data is the real captured datagram, header included.
"WSJT parse error: bad magic 0x3132372e" named neither the sender nor the
payload, so there was nothing to act on — even though those four bytes are
ASCII "127.", i.e. some program broadcasting an address on a port expecting
WSJT-X binary.
The line now carries the remote address, the size, a printable preview and a
hex dump of the first 96 bytes. Text senders are readable at a glance; a
genuinely binary payload still shows its bytes.
And it stops after five. The reported case wrote that line about 150 times a
second: a permanently misconfigured port would fill the 10 MB rotating log with
one repeated sentence and bury every other piece of evidence — the log's whole
purpose. The fifth line names the two things worth checking, the sender and the
service type.
N1MM's parse error goes through the same path; it had no packet detail either.
The award editor offered five confirmation sources and Def's own doc comment
named five, but confirmed() had cases for three. "qrzcom" and "custom" fell
through the switch, so ticking either marked nothing as confirmed — the exact
failure the GrantCodes comment in this struct warns about: a checkbox that does
nothing is worse than no checkbox, because it is trusted.
QRZ.com reads qrzcom_qso_download_status, not the upload one: uploading a QSO
is us telling QRZ about it, which confirms nothing.
Custom names a field. Rather than a checkbox per external source, the Def gains
ConfirmField + ConfirmValue: any QSO field or ADIF extras key, and optionally
the comma-separated values that count. That one shape covers the three cases
asked for — the OpsLog card marker (APP_OPSLOG_QSL_RCVD), an arbitrary ADIF
tag, and a tag stamped by an imported club list — because all three end up as a
field on the QSO.
An empty ConfirmValue means any non-empty content confirms: the OpsLog marker
stores the date the card arrived, not a Y/N flag. A custom source naming NO
field confirms nothing, deliberately — the opposite default would silently mark
a whole logbook confirmed.
Windows parks a minimised window at -32000,-32000 with a stub size and reports
it as not-maximised, so closing OpsLog from the taskbar while minimised stored
exactly that. Seen in a log: "window: saving -32000,-32000 237x39
maximised=false".
The restore side already rejects both the impossible corner and the
below-minimum size, so nothing opened off-screen — but it fell back to the
default placement, and the operator silently lost the size, the position and the
maximised state they had set.
saveWindowState now keeps what was already stored when the window is minimised.
Two tests for that: the Wails flag, and the -32000 corner, because a window that
is mid-close can sit at that corner with the flag already cleared. A poisoned
window.json repairs itself on the next close of an on-screen window.
The stamp answers "PSE QSL", so it reads as its counterpart or not at all: a
bare "TNX" next to a QSL message says thanks for something unnamed.
Changed at the source of the {qso.pse_tnx} token, so every card picks it up
with no template edit. The live indicator in the QSO editor and the hint beside
it follow.
The OpsLog QSL marker sat under QSL Msg in "Contact's details", nowhere near
the channel it belongs to, while the QSL Info tab listed every other
confirmation — QSL, LoTW, eQSL, QRZ.com, Club Log, HRDLog — with a Sent and a
Received column.
It now has its own row in that table and the "QSL received" tick moved to the
same tab, keeping the PSE QSL / TNX indicator that is the reason the flag
exists at all: received prints TNX on the card, otherwise PSE QSL.
Written by hand rather than added to CONFIRMATIONS: that table maps QSO
columns, and this channel is backed by ADIF extras (APP_OPSLOG_QSL_RCVD, plus
the older APP_OPSLOG_QSL_CARD_SENT for the sent side). Sent stays read-only —
OpsLog stamps it when a card actually goes out, and a hand tick would record
something that never happened.
Typing RK3DWA found nothing while RK3DWA/3 found 21 QSOs, so a station's
history was only visible if you happened to type the exact form it had been
logged under — and an operator who worked it as /0, /P or /MM saw none of it.
The other RDA tools and Log4OM fold these together; this does too.
The predicate strips the suffix from what was typed and matches "call = base OR
call LIKE base/%", so it works from either end: the base call finds the portable
QSOs and a portable call finds the plain ones. Deliberately not a bare prefix
LIKE 'RK3DWA%', which would also match RK3DWAB — a different station. The '/' is
what makes it the same operator.
Settings -> General to turn it off. Default ON, hence the inverted storage: an
existing install has no key, and reading that as OFF would leave everyone with
the behaviour we were asked to change.
Contest dupe checking is untouched — it runs through ContestDupe, a separate
binding, and stays an exact match as a contest requires.
Settings -> DX Cluster: a toggle and an interval. When it is on, logging a QSO
announces the station on the master cluster — the QSO's own station callsign as
the DX, on the frequency the contact was made on — so callers find the run
without waiting for someone else to spot it. The node fills the DE field from
the login, so the spotter is us too: a self-spot.
It fires on the FIRST QSO of a frequency and then at most once per interval.
Both halves matter: announcing every QSO would flood the node and get the
station filtered out, while a pure timer would stay silent for minutes after a
band change. A drift of up to 500 Hz still counts as the same run, so nudging
the VFO mid-pileup does not re-announce.
Five minutes is the floor, clamped in SaveSelfSpotSettings as well as in the
input: the limit protects the node from us, so it must not depend on the
frontend. The interval input keeps raw text and clamps on blur — clamping per
keystroke rewrote "10" to "5" as soon as the "1" landed.
Wired into both log paths (manual entry and UDP auto-log) on the async side, so
a cluster that is slow or down never holds up logging. A send failure restores
the previous throttle state, so the next QSO retries instead of sitting out an
interval that produced no spot.
The Kenwood/Elecraft backend deliberately suspends its wire poll while PTT is
held — a K3 answers "?;" to IF; during transmit, and treating that as a fault
used to drop the whole CAT link. The consequence was that nothing watched the
transmitter: a client that crashed, was closed, or simply had its socket shut
under it left the rig on air.
And shutting the socket is routine. reloadCATShare tears the sharing server
down and rebuilds it on every settings save, so a Save while WSJT-X held PTT
was enough. A K3 operator's log shows exactly that: "TX;" at 17:53:09, no "RX;"
ever, the poll silent, and the rig still keyed 29 s later when the CAT link
happened to be rebuilt.
The server now drops PTT when a connection ends and when Stop() is called.
Stop() runs before reloadCAT restarts the backend, so the unkey still reaches
the radio. An atomic Swap keeps it once-only across the two paths.
MD6 is FSK on a Kenwood and DATA on a K3/K4. kenwoodModeToADIF decoded the
digit unconditionally as RTTY, so OpsLog contradicted the mode it had just
set: SetMode writes MD6 for a digital mode on an Elecraft, then ReadState
parsed the IF frame back as RTTY.
A K3 running FT8 therefore showed RTTY in the status bar, logged its QSOs on
RTTY, and — through the shared CAT server — told WSJT-X/JTDX the rig sat in
RTTY while they had just asked for a data mode. Found in a K3 operator's log:
every cat:state line read mode=RTTY on 21.074 FT8, two lines after OpsLog's
own "MD6;".
The digit now resolves to the configured digital mode whenever MD6 means DATA
on this rig — the Elecraft backend, and the "DATA A - MD6" data-mode option
that exists for it. A plain Kenwood still reads MD6 as RTTY.
One station reaches the log SHOUTED by QRZ, lower-cased by a hurried
operator and in whatever case an imported ADIF carried, so the same name
appears three ways across a log. Name and QTH are now title-cased word by
word; Comment and Note only get a capital first letter, because the rest
routinely holds callsigns and modes ("TNX QSO F5ABC, FT8 59") that
lower-casing would destroy.
Normalised on blur, never per keystroke — rewriting the value mid-word
fights the typist (the controlled-input trap in CLAUDE.md). Applied in
both entry layouts and in the QSO editor, since leaving the editor alone
would just reintroduce the mess on the first correction.
The Recent QSOs box only ever searches callsigns, so it upper-cases as
you type and carries an inline clear button.
The Elecraft handling was buried in the Kenwood "data mode" option, so users
couldn't find it. Add "Elecraft K3/K4" as its own entry in the CAT backend
selector. It reuses the Kenwood-dialect transport and the Kenwood USB/network
settings (the K3 emulates the Kenwood command set — a separate transport would be
a near-total duplicate), with an `elecraft` flag on the client that forces
digital modes to DATA A (MD6+DT0) — no data-mode dropdown needed. RigState still
reports Backend "kenwood" so the CW-over-CAT keyer capability keeps working.
Integrates the fix/jtdx-kenwood-tx work onto main: the Kenwood/Elecraft backend's
"data" data-mode path now sends MD6 then DT0 so a K3/K4 lands in DATA A — the
audio sub-mode FT8 uses. MD6 alone could leave the rig in an FSK/PSK sub-mode
where it keyed but the rear sound-card audio never modulated ("transmits but
nothing comes out"). The data-mode option is relabelled "DATA A — MD6+DT0
(Elecraft K3/K4)". A shared Kenwood/Elecraft backend is kept (the K3 emulates the
Kenwood dialect); the Elecraft specifics live behind the data-mode seam rather
than a 7000-line duplicate backend.
Only OrRule had a Prefix ("prepended to each found reference", e.g. postal 74 →
D74); the primary search passed "" for prefix, so an award whose references are
D01/D02… couldn't prepend the D on its main rule — only on OR fallbacks. Add
Def.Prefix, pass it into the primary run(), and expose a Prefix input next to the
primary Leading/Trailing fields in the award editor.
Sub-option of "back up on every exit": when on, backup.Run/RunADIF stamp the
filename with the time (opslog-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.db) so each run is a distinct
file instead of overwriting the day's snapshot. Rotation still trims to the
newest N (raise Rotation for a longer history). Threaded as a `unique` flag
through runConfiguredBackup/backupLogADIF from BackupSettings.KeepAll
(keyBackupKeepAll); UI sub-checkbox shown only when EveryExit is on.
autoLogFromUDP (the inbound WSJT-X/JTDX/MSHV log path) inserted the QSO but,
unlike the manual LogQSO path, never called a.udp.EmitLoggedADIF — so a QSO
received from MSHV was not re-emitted to the outbound ADIF listeners (Log4OM,
N1MM, GridTracker…). Emit it in the same async goroutine. A pathological
self-loop is broken by the existing ±2-min dedup, which returns before the emit.
Received flag: new APP_OPSLOG_QSL_RCVD extra, toggled on the QSO edit window
next to QSL Message (immediate targeted write via SetOpsLogQSLReceived so it sets
AND clears reliably), plus a live PSE QSL / TNX indicator and a Recent-QSOs
column mirroring the sent one.
PSE/TNX card stamp: automatic — received → TNX, otherwise PSE QSL — exposed as
the {qso.pse_tnx} token (added to qslVars, so preview and send agree) and placed
in the default QSO-box footer; it can be moved to its own element in the designer.
Default QSL message: new qsl.default_message (QSLEmailTemplates.DefaultMessage),
edited under Settings → E-mail → QSL card e-mail. qslVars falls back to it when
the QSO's own QSLMSG is empty, so a per-QSO message always wins. Single choke
point covers both live preview and send.
rouggy