wfview sends a ping (0x07, 0x15 bytes, its own seq and a monotonic
timestamp) every 500 ms on every stream, and so does RS-BA1. OpsLog only
ever REPLIED to the rig's pings — and the loaner IC-7760 stopped serving
CI-V data about a minute into nearly every session while the transport
stayed alive: the rig had concluded nobody was listening. Scope, TX audio
and idle numbering were each eliminated in turn before wfview's source
settled it. Pings now go out on control, CI-V and audio alike.
A 7760 switched fully off takes its LAN server down, and no session means no
console and no ON button — the one thing remote operation cannot tolerate.
The rig's MAC is learned from every login and persisted; when a dial finds
nobody home, the magic packet goes out to it before the next attempt. The
rig wakes into standby, the session opens, and the ON button does the rest.
Every idle went out with seq 0, seven a second, interleaved with
properly-numbered data — where RS-BA1 and wfview draw idle sequence numbers
from the same counter as everything else. A rig that follows the sequence
tolerates the zeros for a minute or so and then stops serving CI-V data on
the stream: the shape of every dropout the loaner IC-7760 has shown, with the
scope and the TX path both since eliminated as causes. Idles now take the
next tracked seq and sit in the retransmit buffer like any other packet.
A radio in standby is silent on CI-V by design; only the transport chats.
The quiet-recovery added for the mid-session deafness treated that silence
as the fault it usually is and tore the session down every 15 s — taking the
console and its ON button with it, so a radio that was off when OpsLog
started could never be turned on. The recovery now arms only once the
session has heard at least one CI-V payload.
The talk button learns the network road the voice keyer already took: when
To-radio is the radio itself, the microphone is captured and re-framed into
the rig's 320-sample packets, the capture callback serving as the clock — the
mic delivers in real time, so no ring and no pacer. Counters and the frame
remainder live on the audio stream, so a talk session spans calls. PTT keys
before and releases after, through the same code as the USB path.
With this, a network Icom is a complete remote station over three UDP ports:
RX audio to the headset, live voice and recorded messages back, CW through
the rig's keyer, CAT for everything else.
The audio session opens its TX side alongside RX (txenable in the conninfo,
16 kHz both ways), the stream gains a paced sender — 320 samples every 20 ms,
the frame mirroring what the rig itself sends on this socket, IDs swapped —
and the network Icom takes the same NetworkPlayer slot a TCI radio does: pick
'Radio (network audio)' as the To-radio device and the voice keyer needs no
cable and no virtual sound card. PTT brackets the message through the same
code as every other audio path.
The capture shows the spiral: a session goes deaf on CI-V (28 unanswered
commands, transport alive), the fast-fail rebuilds it, the new session answers
for one second — one state read got through — and is then strangled when the
rig purges the half-open old one. Twenty seconds a lap, no audio throughout,
and only the third or fourth session survives. When the previous session died
less than 90 s after connecting, the redial now pauses 20 s so the purge
happens BEFORE the new session, not on top of it. A long-lived session still
reconnects immediately.
The operator's counter-hypothesis deserves an answer: RS-BA1 shows no such
dropouts, so are we sure the rig stops answering — or do we stop asking? The
quiet log now carries the number of CI-V commands sent since the last answer.
Zero would convict our own poll loop; a healthy count convicts the rig.
The capture settled it: the 7760 keeps the transport chatting (pings answered,
no socket error, no loss) while CI-V data simply stops, the in-place reopen is
ignored, and only a fresh session brings it back. So: one reopen attempt at
10 s — kept, it is free and the log will say if a firmware ever honours it —
and at 15 s the link is failed deliberately so the manager rebuilds it,
halving the outage. Also: the recovered-acknowledgement now sits on the DATA
packet, not on any packet — pings were toggling the detector, 160 reopens in
thirty seconds all logged as recoveries that never happened.
The IC-7760 recurrently stops answering CI-V a few minutes into a network
session while the transport keeps chatting — pings answered, session alive,
commands unanswered — and the only recovery was the 30 s watchdog's full
teardown. At 10 s of CI-V silence the pump now says 'open' again on the
existing stream, which is all it should take if the rig quietly closed the
data flow; the watchdog remains as the backstop. The send counters gain a
mutex since the pump now transmits too.
The first detector counted any packet and never fired: pings and idles keep
flowing while the rig stops answering CI-V commands — which is what the 7760's
recurring silence turns out to be. Now it fires on 10 s without a CI-V payload
and reports the ages of the transport, the last scope frame and the last
socket error, so the next occurrence says exactly what the rig was still
sending.
A real IC-7760 keeps going silent on the CI-V stream two-three minutes into a
session while the control link stays alive. At 10 s of silence the pump now
logs the last real socket error and the retransmit backlog, and notes when the
stream resumes — the 30 s watchdog that follows cannot tell a dead socket from
a rig that stopped talking, and the next occurrence should.
The console gains a DATA mode button (USB-D, what FT8 and friends ride on);
the PSK button now maps to the rigs' native PSK mode (0x12) instead of erroring
as an unknown mode — rigs without one NAK it, exactly as RS-BA1's button does
there. The power meter shows real watts on the IC-7760, whose meter face runs
to 250 W where a 100 W rig's percentage was the watts. The clickable S-meter
gets a pointer cursor so it looks like what it is.
Network audio: rxcodec 0x04 — the experiments on the real 7760 settle the
codec table (0x10 = 16-bit stereo, 0x02 = 8-bit mono, both heard as garble),
and 0x04 is the 16-bit mono the playback path actually plays.
The first real radio on the 50003 stream (an IC-7760) settles the two guesses
the experimental audio path shipped with. The payload starts at 0x18 — the
packet carries a big-endian payload length at 0x14 (0x500 on every packet) —
not at 0x16, which swallowed two header bytes into the PCM and laid a 50 Hz
click track under everything. And rxcodec 0x10 asks for TWO-channel LPCM,
which the mono playback path rendered as double-speed garble; 0x02 asks for
the one channel the monitor plays.
A rig that answers something unrecognised (a newer model, another firmware)
and a rig that answers nothing are different faults; a silent timeout hides
which. Capped at a dozen packets so a working handshake cannot flood the log.
Prompted by the first IC-7760 network attempt — which turned out to be aimed
at the console's IP, where nothing listens; the remote server lives on the RF
deck.
OmniRig reports the VFO pair (AA/AB/BA/BB) on the whole Yaesu range and never
the single-letter form. Only the latter was honoured, so every rig in that
family stayed pinned to VFO A: pressing SUB moved the radio but not OpsLog,
and a QSO worked on SUB was logged on the main VFO's frequency. The first
letter of the pair is the VFO being listened on — Log4OM reads it and gets the
right frequency on the same rigs, which is what showed the data was there.
The enum now wins over the Yaesu Freq==FreqB inference, which is only a
fallback for a rig file that names no VFO at all (the stock FTDX10 one answers
neither VS; nor FR; usably — verified on the air).
Split: the ON flag is still latched to survive a rig file that flips it on its
own, but the latch is now ARMED only after 8 flips in 30 s. A first cut at
3-in-15s was armed by the operator toggling split while testing, imposing the
6 s clearing delay on a radio that did not need it; a misreading file flips a
dozen times in that window untouched, so the two cases separate cleanly.
Distance (km) column added to Recent QSOs and Worked before (shared catalog).
Computed from the QSO's OWN my_grid/my_lat/lon first, falling back to the
current profile's locator: a log spans years and portable outings, so the
station a QSO was made from is not necessarily today's.
Locator: a precise QRZ/HamQTH grid is no longer overwritten by the cty.dat
entity centroid. The lookup runs several times per QSO and the provider gets
2 s; a slow second answer fell back to cty.dat and downgraded JN05JG to JN16
while name and QTH survived (they are only written when non-empty).
The OmniRig diagnostic line now logs what OpsLog concluded, not just what
OmniRig reported. icomnet.go: gofmt alignment only.
OmniRig: on the IC-7610 the generic Freq property reports the wrong VFO (its
Main/Sub model confuses the stock ini), so OpsLog showed VFO B. Detect the rig
by RigType and, in simplex, read VFO A explicitly — matching Log4OM. Only the
7610 is affected; other rigs keep using the generic Freq.
Icom network: when the rig tears the session down (control/CI-V 0x05) OpsLog
only logged it and kept the half-dead link until the 6 s liveness timeout
expired. Mark the link dead on 0x05 so Alive() fails on the next poll and the
manager reconnects cleanly right away.
rouggy