The cluster already answers this question for a spot; the entry panel did
not answer it for the station actually being worked. A county hunter
needs to know before the QSO ends — by the time the county shows up in
the awards table the station is long gone.
qso.CountyWorked asks about one county instead of loading the whole
worked set, narrowed to the state so it stays a few dozen rows on a
remote MySQL. It compares through award.USCountyKey on both sides rather
than in SQL, because logged spellings vary ("Los Angeles" against
"LOS ANGELES, CA") and that key function is what resolves it everywhere
else.
An empty or non-US county is not "new" but unknown, and shows nothing: a
badge on a guess is worse than no badge.
The refusal to guess was only visible in the award editor's test tab and
in the awards table — both of them places an operator goes long after the
contact is over. It has to appear while the station is still in front of
you, so ComputeQSOAwardRefs now reports the candidates it declined to
assign and the F3 panel lists them as buttons: click one and it is
written to award_refs, replacing any sibling picked for that award.
They are never auto-added — adding one would be exactly the guess the
setting exists to refuse.
Also: the dark-theme fix for the native calendar glyph named only
input[type=date], so date-time fields kept an invisible icon. All the
temporal input types now share the rule.
Two DARC DOKs are both called "Gießen" — two clubs share the town. Exact
matching finds both and both are right as far as the matcher can tell, so
it kept both and the operator got a QSO credited to a DOK that may well
have been the other one.
Picking one is not an option: it writes a reference into the log with no
evidence behind it. So a Def can now be marked one reference per QSO, and
an ambiguous match on such an award assigns none, names the candidates in
the trace and leaves the contact under missing references — where the
operator's choice now sticks (06e3437).
Off by default, and deliberately NOT a revival of the old `Multi` flag: a
field holding several references (an n-fer POTA activation, a VUCC grid
line) is several references, correctly, and stays that way.
Reported on the DARC DOK award, with DL2FDM: a German address matches two or
three DOKs, the operator deletes the wrong ones and assigns the right one, and
the next recompute puts the wrong ones straight back.
The manual reference was APPENDED to what the matcher found. Storage already
kept exactly one manual entry per award — setOverrideRef drops the previous one
— so it was an override everywhere except at the one place it mattered. The
operator was arguing with the matcher and could not win.
It now replaces. The trace records what was superseded, so a corrected QSO can
still be explained rather than being merely different. A QSO with no correction
keeps every automatic reference, which the test also pins: an override must not
quietly disable matching for everyone else.
This does not address the over-matching itself — an address containing "Berlin
Mitte, 10115 Berlin" genuinely matches two DOK descriptions. That is the next
question, and a separate one.
Reported on a Xiegu G90. With the blue programming cable — three wires, no
modem lines — CAT works perfectly. Behind a DE-19, which carries audio, CAT and
PTT, the radio went into transmit the moment OpsLog connected and stayed there.
Windows raises DTR and RTS when a serial port is opened, and the DE-19 reads
them as PTT; Xiegu's own documentation asks for both low. The CI-V backend has
dropped them since it was written, for the same reason on Icom rigs with USB
SEND mapped to a line. Xiegu, Yaesu and Kenwood did not. They do now.
The second half of the report: WSJT-X through OpsLog's rigctld decoded fine and
never transmitted. Nothing was broken in that chain — set_ptt reaches the
backend, which sends the CI-V PTT command, which a G90 ignores. That is why
Xiegu keys on a hardware line instead. The backend can now do that: Settings →
CAT → Xiegu → how the rig is keyed (CI-V / RTS / DTR).
Untested here — no G90 in reach. The operator who reported it offered to try.
A panadapter shot settles it: answering an S5 station, the replayed recording
goes out several times wider and taller than the station being answered — in WAV
as well as MP3, so this is not the encoder.
One setting served two sources that have nothing in common. A voice-keyer
message is a microphone at speaking distance and legitimately wants 195%; a QSO
recording is a receiver's line output, which is far hotter. The same 195% put it
into the transmitter flat out, ALC pinned, noise and voice alike.
The QSO playback now has its own level, defaulting to 100%. The voice keyer
keeps the setting it had, so nobody's F-key messages change.
Reported again after the monitor was wired up: 300% still sounded like 10%. The
monitor fix was right but could not show, because the sliders only changed the
settings panel's own state — the value reached the audio engine when the
operator clicked Save.
A level is set by ear, by dragging. It now applies on every move, to the monitor
and to the recorder mix alike; saving still persists it. Both halves were needed
and neither works alone.
All / CW / Phone / Digital, stacked on top of the worked/confirmed filter. The
question an operator actually has — which DXCC entities have I worked on CW but
not confirmed on CW — needs both at once; answering only one of them is what
sends people to a spreadsheet.
References carried bands but not modes, so the award computation now aggregates
mode CLASSES per reference, worked and confirmed separately. Classes, not ADIF
modes: nobody chasing CW cares whether the digital side was FT8 or RTTY, and a
list of twenty mode names would not answer the question. An unrecognised mode
counts as data rather than as nothing, so a new digital mode does not vanish
from the filter the day it appears.
Two rules the filter needs to be honest:
- Not-confirmed means not confirmed ON THIS MODE. An entity worked on CW and
confirmed on SSB is still a CW entity to chase, and that is exactly what the
filter is for.
- "Not worked" plus a mode is a contradiction — an unworked reference has no
mode — so the mode filter stands aside there instead of emptying the list.
Settings → FlexRadio, beside the per-band antennas and applied the same way:
when the band or the mode changes. 1.5 kW that is fine on SSB has no business
going into an FT8 signal on the same band.
Three classes rather than one row per mode, because what decides the power is
duty cycle and what the amplifier will take of it, not the mode's name — FT8 and
RTTY punish an amplifier the same way, SSB and AM do not. The classification is
pinned by a test: a digital mode sorted as phone would deliver exactly the
1.5 kW this exists to prevent.
An empty box means "leave the power alone", never zero watts, and an unknown
mode changes nothing — setting a transmit power from a name we do not recognise
is not a good guess.
Unlike the antennas, a locked band does not skip it: the lock means "do not let
the rig drag my log entry around", not "let the amplifier keep whatever the last
mode left".
Opt-in, off by default: neither service can undo it, and a local delete is not
always a statement about the world — a duplicate cleared out of a contest log
was never meant to change the DX's log.
The two APIs are not alike, and the difference decides what is possible:
- Club Log deletes by MATCH (callsign, exact timestamp, band number), so it
works for every QSO in the log, past or future. The band table is its own
list and is pinned by a test: a band mapped to the wrong number does not
fail, it points the delete at a different QSO.
- QRZ.com deletes ONLY by logid. So markExtUploaded now stores the LOGID it
already received on every upload — it was being logged and thrown away. A
QSO uploaded before this cannot be withdrawn from here at all, and the log
says so by name rather than leaving the operator to assume it worked.
Both run BEFORE the local delete, because both need the QSO's own fields to
find their copy and there is nothing left to ask with once the row is gone.
Neither can block it: the operator asked for the QSO to go, and a refusing
website is not a reason to keep it.
The situation, in the operator's words: working VP2MAA, recording, and he asks
to hear his own signal. So: stop, play, and the recording is still saved with
the QSO.
Stopping FREEZES the take rather than ending it — nothing more is captured,
nothing is discarded, and logging writes the file exactly as before. Playback
reuses the voice keyer's path: same output device, same PTT keying and release
with its generation guard, so a replay cannot be cut short by a stale unkey.
Playing is refused while still recording. The transmitted audio would feed back
into the same take on any rig monitoring its own transmission, and stopping is
one click the operator has already made — it is their statement that the take is
finished, not a hoop.
The elapsed clock freezes with the recording and resumes from where it stopped,
because it now shows the LENGTH OF THE FILE rather than the time since the QSO
began. Only a fresh take returns it to zero.
A red dot in the slot the counter will occupy. Click it and the counter starts,
the dot disappears, and logging the QSO writes the file exactly as an automatic
recording would — the save path already keyed off an active take, not off the
setting.
With automatic recording disabled the capture engine is not idle, it is not
running at all, so a manual take starts it. Two consequences handled here:
- It is released again when the take ends — logged, cancelled, or dropped for
being a digital mode. An operator who records one contact does not expect
their microphone held open for the rest of the session. The release is a
deferred call at the top of the save path so every exit goes through it,
rather than one that has to be remembered at each return.
- There is no pre-roll. An automatic recording opens with the seconds BEFORE
the callsign was typed; a manual one can only begin now. The button's
tooltip says so, because otherwise the difference between two files is a
mystery to the person holding them.
The button only appears where it can work: devices configured, automatic
recording off, and a mode whose audio is worth keeping. That state is asked of
the backend rather than inferred from a preference in the interface, so the two
cannot drift apart, and it is re-read when settings are saved.
The same ASCII stream over a socket instead of a wire: ser2net, an
Ethernet-serial adapter, a Raspberry Pi at the radio. One TCP transport
presented as a serial port, so the backend keeps a single code path.
Explicitly NOT the radio's own RJ45. A TS-890 or TS-990 speaks Kenwood's
KNS/ARCP there — session, authentication, a different protocol — and that needs
one of those radios in hand to write honestly. The setting's help text says so,
because an operator who plugs in their TS-890's Ethernet port and types its
address deserves to learn that from the interface rather than from silence.
Two details that decide whether this is usable or maddening:
- A read deadline expiring is reported as "no data yet", not as an error. It
is exactly what a serial read timeout means to the caller; as an error it
would make ask() abandon a rig that is merely thinking.
- The log line names what was connected to. "connected on @ 0 baud" after a
network connect sends someone hunting a serial fault that does not exist.
The host wins over the COM port when both are filled: it is the more deliberate
setting, and silently preferring the wire leaves someone staring at an address
they typed and a radio that never answers.
Grey line — the day/night terminator and its twilight band, off by default,
redrawn every minute so a map left open all day is not silently wrong by
evening. Its own Leaflet pane below the overlays, non-interactive, so it never
hides the path or beam nor swallows a click.
The solar maths is pure and was checked against known positions before being
wired to anything: both solstices, the March equinox, the subsolar longitude at
12 UTC, and day/night at Paris, Tokyo, New York, Sydney and Reykjavik across
seasons and hemispheres. That last set is what caught the real bug: the equation
has TWO solutions per meridian and the naive branch put New York in daylight at
02:00 in December — the terminator at +63° where it belongs at −63°. A shaded
map that looks entirely plausible and is exactly mirrored. It now anchors on the
classical terminator and takes the branch nearest it, which is also what makes
the twilight band follow the terminator instead of jumping hemisphere.
Separately, from a Xiegu user: the protocol-trace checkbox does not stay ticked.
It is React state initialised to false on every mount, so a trace still running
came back unticked — the operator ticks it to "switch it on", which switches it
OFF, and the log they send contains no trace at all. Worse than a cosmetic bug:
it silently defeats the one tool asked for to diagnose their radio. Both boxes
(CAT and WinKeyer) now read their real state from the backend.
An operator worked the RSGB IOTA contest in another logger and got back records
carrying <STATE:5>EU005: N1MM-class software stores the received exchange in the
column its contest module uses, not the one ADIF reserves. Imported verbatim,
every QSO gains a US-state field reading "EU005" and the IOTA award sees
nothing — the reference is in the log, just not where anything looks for it.
The import dialog gains optional source → destination rows, prefilled with
STATE → IOTA since that is the case that prompted it. Applied to the RAW record
before conversion, so it works for promoted columns and Extras alike and the
destination is parsed exactly as if the file had carried it there.
Two rules, both from the same principle that the file outranks our guess:
- the source is CLEARED, so a reference does not linger in STATE where it
would show as the contacted station's US state in the grid and every export;
- a destination the file already filled is kept, judged against the record as
it ARRIVED — otherwise the result would depend on Go's map iteration order,
which is deliberately random.
The swap case in the test is what forced that second rule to be stated: "never
overwrite" and "exchange two fields" cannot both hold silently, so a destination
that is itself a mapping source is treated as an explicit swap and nothing else
is overwritten.
Two white-screen reports are open — one after logging a 10 GHz QSO, one on
starting a DVK auto-call — and neither could be investigated, for the same
reason: a render error emptied the window and left NOTHING. No line in
opslog.log, no dialog, nothing the operator could send but the words "white
screen". A fault the user cannot report is a fault that cannot be fixed.
So before hunting either trigger, the reporting path:
- An error boundary catches a render throw, writes the error and component
stack to the app log through the new LogUIError binding, and shows it on
screen — selectable, with Copy and Reload.
- Global handlers catch what a boundary cannot: throws from timers, event
handlers and rejected promises. An auto-call loop lives entirely in
callbacks, which is exactly where the second report came from, and those
leave no trace at all today.
It deliberately does not try to resume: React cannot promise sane state after a
render throw, and a half-working logger would be worse than a clear stop.
This does not fix either crash. It makes the next occurrence arrive with its
cause attached, which is the step that has been missing.
Reported on an IC-9100: the MOX button does not transmit, it sets split. The
source sends the PTT command (0x1C 0x00) and nowhere sends the split one (0x0F),
so the discrepancy is between what OpsLog sends and what the rig acts on — and
that link has already been shown, in the same operator's log, to lose frame sync.
Rather than guess from the command table, this adds what settled the WinKeyer
bug in one line: the actual bytes. Settings → CAT → Log the CI-V protocol writes
every frame in both directions as hex. RX is traced BEFORE framing, since the
bytes as they arrived are what reveals a lost boundary — a decoded view would
hide exactly the fault being hunted.
Session-only, like the keyer trace: it is a diagnostic, and a log full of hex
helps nobody who forgot it was on.
I am not claiming a cause yet. The last time I inferred one from a protocol
document rather than from evidence, I inverted a digit and broke the case that
worked.
A sixth CAT backend, talking to a TS-590/890/990/2000 over its serial port with
no OmniRig in between — frequency, mode, VFO, split and PTT. Elecraft K3/K4 and
the "Kenwood" setting on other radios speak the same dialect.
The protocol was not researched from scratch: internal/catemu already ANSWERS
these commands, pretending to be a TS-2000 so an ACOM amplifier follows OpsLog.
The IF frame layout here is read from the same format string catemu emits, so
the two halves of the repository agree by construction — and the test caught my
own fixture being one character short, which is exactly the error that layout
invites.
Design notes worth keeping:
- IF; is the poll. One frame carries frequency, TX state, mode, VFO and split,
so simplex operation costs a single round trip; the other VFO is only asked
for when split is actually on.
- FA/FB take ELEVEN digits here where Yaesu uses nine. That is the likeliest
place to copy the Yaesu backend and be wrong by a factor of a hundred, so it
has its own test.
- Every lesson the Yaesu backend learned the hard way is built in from the
start: replies matched to the command that asked, "?;" remembered so a poll
stops paying a timeout for an unsupported command, the serial handle closed
before reopening, and a rig that answers nothing reported as absent rather
than "connected".
Untested on hardware — I have no Kenwood here. The frame parsing is covered by
tests against catemu's own format.
An ERC (Easy Rotor Control, incl. ERC Mini) emulates Yaesu GS-232A/B, which is
exactly what the backend written for the microHAM ARCO already speaks — azimuth
out (Maaa), azimuth in (C), stop (S), which is the whole of what was asked for.
So this is two small gaps rather than a new backend:
- Serial speed was hardcoded to 9600. An ARCO's virtual COM ignores it, but an
ERC runs at whatever its own configuration sets, and a mismatch reads as a
dead rotator. It is now selectable beside the COM port.
- The entry was called "microHAM ARCO", so an ERC owner would never have found
it. It is named after the PROTOCOL now: "GS-232A controller (microHAM ARCO,
ERC…)".
The help text states the condition plainly in both languages, because it is the
one thing that will otherwise waste an evening: an ERC left on Hy-Gain DCU-1
speaks a different command set and simply will not answer.
Untested on hardware — I have no ERC here, and the GS-232 path itself is proven
on a real ARCO.
The messages went to the radio exactly as recorded. Nothing in OpsLog could
raise them, so a microphone captured quietly drove the rig quietly and the only
remedies were the radio's own USB input menu or the Windows mixer — which is
where the operator was heading. There is now a level from 10 to 400 %, applied
with clamping (a wrap would turn loud speech into noise on the air), and Play
previews at that same level so the adjustment is made against what will actually
be transmitted.
The PTT method list also named only OmniRig, Flex, Icom and TCI, so choosing a
native Yaesu left "CAT" with no backend beside it — which reads as "there is no
CAT PTT for my radio" and sends the operator to RTS on a COM port that has
nothing to do with the rig. Same list-needing-every-member shape as three
earlier bugs in this feature. The TestPTT log line had the same rot: it said
"CAT via OmniRig" whatever backend was running.
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.
A second measurement at a known mismatch settled both the index and the scale.
At SWR 1.1: RM6=0. At SWR 1.5: RM6=52, while RM4 kept tracking the power.
52/255 = 0.204, which is the reflection coefficient of a 1.5 SWR to three
decimals. So the raw value is rho scaled to 255, and the ratio is
(1+rho)/(1-rho) — physics, not a curve fitted through two points, which is why
2.0 and 3.0 fall out of it correctly without ever having been measured.
The panel now shows that ratio, the number the operator reads on the rig, rather
than a percentage of meter travel — and a dash while receiving, since a stale SWR
from the last transmission reads as a live one.
Both measurements are recorded in the code and in a test, so the mapping is
evidence rather than a table borrowed from another model — which is exactly how
it came to read 81 in the first place.
The radio has a keyer and a command to feed it (KY), so an FTDX10 needs no
WinKeyer and no second cable, exactly as the Icom CI-V and Flex CWX engines
already do. The rig keys with its own timing, which is why the spacing is right
where a PC keying a line through USB latency drifts.
Text is filtered to what the keyer can actually send: an unsupported byte does
not produce an error on a Yaesu, it can abort the whole buffer, so the rest of a
macro would vanish silently. It is then fed in 24-character pieces, waiting for
room between them — the rig DROPS what does not fit, again with no error, so a
contest CQ would lose its tail.
STOP is the honest gap. Yaesu documents no buffer-clear, so it drops the
transmitter (TX0) instead: nothing queued reaches the air, which is what Escape
means to an operator. It deliberately does NOT send "KY0;" — a plausible-looking
clear that the rig would read as the CHARACTER zero and transmit.
A test caught a real one on the way: tabs and newlines were dropped as
"unsupported", gluing the words either side together, so a macro written on two
lines went out as CQCQ. Whitespace now becomes a word gap before filtering.
Settings warn when the Yaesu keyer is selected without the Yaesu CAT backend —
otherwise it simply never keys, with nothing on screen saying why.
Send path follows the CAT reference and how Hamlib drives these rigs; NOT yet
verified on the air.
Microphone gain and VOX are meaningless in CW: the rig ignores both, so showing
them is showing dead controls. They are hidden, and a CW card takes their place
with keyer speed (KS), break-in (BI) and ZIN (ZI), the zero-in that retunes so
the station being received lands on the operator's own pitch.
ZIN is a one-shot with no state, so it is a plain button rather than a chip that
would look latched, and no settings read-back follows — the frequency change
arrives through the normal poll like any other.
The keyer values are read on the slow beat whatever the mode, so the card is
already populated the instant the operator switches to CW instead of filling in a
poll cycle later.
Which controls show is decided by the RIG's mode, not the logged one: the logged
mode can be a digital sub-mode the radio knows nothing about.
Three corrections from the operator's second pass.
The sideband gesture was wrong: I used double-click, which hides the action.
Clicking a button that is ALREADY active now flips its sideband — CW-U → CW-L →
CW-U. One button, one finger, nothing to discover.
A lit SPLIT chip does not tell an operator anything useful: it says split is on,
not where they transmit. The header now shows the TX frequency and the offset in
kHz whenever split is active.
And the offset that matters is set in one action: up 1 kHz on CW, up 5 kHz on
phone. Doing it by hand means swapping VFOs, retuning and swapping back — exactly
the fumbling a panel exists to remove. Both are offered rather than picked from
the mode, because which one is idiomatic is the operator's call, and the button
turns split on at the same time.
The offset is measured from the RECEIVE frequency and written to the VFO we are
not listening on, so it stays correct when the operator works on VFO B, where the
roles are mirrored.
First look on the FTDX10 turned up six things:
The S meter printed a raw percentage — "57" tells an operator nothing, and it is
the S number that goes into a report. It now reads S1-S9/S9+dB, the same value
the click-to-fill RST already used.
CW, RTTY and the data modes exist on BOTH sidebands and the operator is the one
who knows which they want. The buttons now carry the rig's actual sideband and a
double-click flips it; PSK is added, riding the rig's DATA mode as it does on the
radio itself. This also means the mode row drives the rig directly (MD0 with the
exact mode) instead of going through the ADIF path, which could only pick a
sideband by convention.
The attenuator is a 6/12/18 dB pad on these rigs, not the single step I assumed —
two thirds of the control was unreachable.
Sliders had no visible filled side: --muted is barely lighter than the card it
sits on, so the whole track read as one bar. They also came in three kinds (two
bare range inputs among them). One component now, explicit track colour, and it
takes a min/max so power in watts and DNR 1-15 look like the rest.
The panel stretched across the whole window; it is a column of controls, so it is
now capped and every row stays readable.
And it gets its own Yaesu tab, like FlexRadio and Icom, rather than only being
available as a Main-view pane.
A console pane for the native Yaesu backend, in the same shape as the Icom and
Flex ones: S/PO/SWR meters, band and mode rows, AF/RF/squelch, AGC, the IPO/AMP1/
AMP2 front-end selector, ATT, NB, DNR + level, narrow filter, power in watts, mic
gain, VOX, split and ATU tune.
Three decisions worth keeping:
Panel reads are STAGGERED and live in their own file, away from ReadState. Meters
poll every cycle; settings only change when someone turns a knob, so they refresh
every 8th cycle and right after any set. Polling all of it every cycle would put
twenty queries a second on the serial link the frequency display shares.
Band buttons use the rig's own band memory (BS) rather than a frequency we pick,
so 20 m lands where the operator last was on 20 m — what the radio's own band
keys do.
A set is followed by a read-back, so the panel shows what the RIG ended up with,
not what we asked for; the two differ whenever a value is out of range or the
mode forbids the control. And a control the model lacks keeps its previous value
instead of dropping to zero, which reads as a setting that reset itself.
The S9 point of the S-meter scale is a hypothesis (the manual does not state it)
and is commented as such — one number to correct if reports come out an S unit
off, rather than a fudge spread through the RST helper.
Also removes the FlexRadio settings blurb, which explained the backend to
someone who had already chosen it.
Xiegu speaks CI-V with a reduced command set: frames, BCD encoding, addressing
and the opcodes for frequency, mode, PTT and split are Icom's, so this reuses
internal/cat/civ wholesale instead of re-deriving a codec.
It is a SEPARATE backend rather than the Icom one at address 0x70, because what
the two rigs do NOT share is the deciding part. The Icom backend reads the
spectrum scope, the DSP block, data mode via 1A 06 and the model id via 19 —
none of which a Xiegu implements. Pointed at a G90 it would poll every cycle for
answers that never come, and spend its silence tolerance on commands the radio
was never going to support.
Two consequences of the rig's smaller mode table are handled explicitly rather
than left to fail: there is no data mode, so a digital QSO is set to plain
sideband (what the operator does on the radio anyway) instead of being refused;
and the split TX frequency is NOT reported, because reading the unselected VFO
needs 0x25, which the Xiegu table does not list — a split flag carrying a wrong
TX frequency is worse than the flag alone, since the frequency is what gets
logged.
The published command table has rows that slipped during typesetting (0x07 and
0x0F share a block). Where it contradicts itself the Icom meaning is used, the
rest of the table matching Icom exactly, and every unexpected reply is logged
raw so a first on-air run settles it.
NOT yet verified on a radio.
A native CAT backend owns the rig's serial port, and Windows gives a COM port to
one process — so choosing native CAT locked WSJT-X, MSHV and JTDX out of the
radio entirely. That is the cost of dropping OmniRig, which was itself a sharing
layer, and it has to be paid back.
OpsLog now becomes the server, as wfview does. It speaks the Hamlib net rigctl
protocol, which every one of those programs supports natively (rig model "Hamlib
NET rigctl", 127.0.0.1:4532) with no driver to install. It sits in front of the
MANAGER, not a backend, so an operator on OmniRig, Flex, Icom or TCI gets the
same server.
Two details that decide whether a client works at all rather than degrading:
dump_state is parsed positionally and WSJT-X refuses to proceed without a
well-formed block, so it is written out in full and its shape is pinned by a
test; and set_vfo / set_split_vfo answer RPRT 0 rather than an error, because
OpsLog follows the rig's own VFO and a refusal makes WSJT-X abandon the
connection. Unknown commands answer RPRT -11 — never silence, which hangs a
client instead.
The whole protocol is tested against a fake rig, plus one end-to-end exchange
over a real socket, since the framing is as much the contract as the text.
Also: the Yaesu backend is confirmed working on a real FTDX10 (frequency, mode,
VFO, split), so its "not yet verified" note is now wrong and is corrected.
Every Yaesu fault reported so far came from OmniRig's interpretation layer, not
from the radio: a rig file that never exposes the VFO, a Freq property meaning A
on one model and B on another, a split flag that alternates between polls. This
talks to the rig directly, so what the radio answers is what is shown.
Modern Yaesu CAT is plain ASCII with a ';' terminator — FA/FB for the VFOs, MD0
for the mode, VS for the selected VFO, TX to key. Frequency is written to the VFO
the operator is actually on, not always to A, which is the failure that made a
display disagree with the radio.
Two things are genuinely uncertain across the family and are treated as such
rather than guessed. SPLIT is read through ST, then FT if the rig ignores ST —
whichever answers wins and the choice is remembered, because the two commands say
DIFFERENT things (a split flag vs which VFO transmits). If neither answers, split
is reported OFF and the fact is logged, rather than invented. Unknown model ids
and mode bytes are logged raw for the same reason.
Split resolution, frequency parsing and the mode mapping are pure functions with
a table test — the OmniRig equivalent is where every Yaesu bug lived, and it had
no test until late.
Written from the CAT reference; NOT yet verified on a radio.
My mistake yesterday: the new confirmation columns went into uploadStatusCols —
the QSL Manager's FILTER whitelist — instead of bulkEditableCols. The dialog
listed QRZ.com received status and the ten dates, and the repository refused
them at Apply, after the operator had selected 54 QSOs.
Moved to the right map. And two fields have been broken this way since long
before: State and County were offered under "Contacted station" (whose IOTA /
POTA / SOTA / SIG siblings are all allowed) but were missing from the whitelist,
so choosing one always failed. Added — they are exactly what an import loses and
what a whole run shares.
The real fix is the test. Two lists in two languages had to agree by hand and
nothing checked it, so the failure only ever surfaced as an error message at the
last click. The new tests read the ACTUAL field ids out of BulkEditModal.tsx and
FilterBuilder.tsx and assert the repository accepts every one — a field added to
the UI alone now fails the build instead of the operator.
Grid on the UDP path — WSJT-X and MSHV can only send a FOUR-character grid,
that is all the FT8 protocol carries. The enrichment rule there is "fill only
what is empty", so the coarse JN05 always won and QRZ's JN05JG was thrown away:
roughly 100 km of accuracy discarded on every digital QSO. The lookup grid is
now taken when it EXTENDS the received square. A lookup that disagrees outright
(JN18 against JN05) is not a refinement — the station may be portable and what
came over the air is then the better record. Both rules are pinned by tests.
Manual fetch in the QSO editor — it read the CACHE, valid for 30 days. An
operator who upgraded their QRZ subscription went on getting the thin
free-account record and clearing the cached row by hand was the only way out.
The button now forces a lookup that bypasses the cache, reaches the provider and
REFRESHES the stored row, with a 15 s budget instead of 2 s: a deliberate click
must reach the network, where giving up early would fall back to cty.dat and
look like nothing happened. The automatic type-ahead lookup keeps the cache,
which is where it earns its keep.
Same fetch: it used `??`, which only guards against null. Go marshals an unset
string as "", so a QRZ record with no grid BLANKED the grid already in the QSO.
The lookup still wins — that is the point of asking for it — but an empty
result no longer erases a good value.
Statistics — the activity chart ignored the period selector: picking a year up
top left it showing the last 7 days, two controls contradicting each other. The
buttons were four fixed rolling windows anchored on the newest QSO, not
granularities. They now choose the BUCKET SIZE over the selected period, with an
Auto default and a step-up when a bucket would be too fine (the backend drops a
series past 750 buckets rather than ship 6000 unreadable bars). The hour-of-day
histogram covered a single day, too little to read anything from; it moves to
its own card with a weekday view, over the whole period.
Band map — the CW/data/phone sub-bands were shaded with the STATUS tokens, the
same amber that means "new band" on the pills drawn on top of them. A sub-band
is an identity, not a state: categorical hues now, validated in both themes
(violet failed on the dark steps — 1.9 ΔE from blue for a protan reader) and
added to the legend, since identity must never be colour-alone.
Frameless window — the OS title bar was a dead 32px band above a window that
already has its own. Minimise/maximise/close move into the app header, which
carries the drag region and double-click-to-maximise. The drag opt-out is by
ROLE in CSS, so a future button in that bar keeps working without anyone
remembering the rule.
Fixes:
- Saving settings froze the window while a device was slow: restarting a link
waits for its poll goroutine, which can sit 45 s inside an uninterruptible COM
Connect when another program holds the rig. The restart is now off the UI
path; a slow one is logged.
- Multi-screen: a MAXIMISED window was never repositioned, so it came back on
the primary screen every launch. The corner is now recorded even when
maximised (it names the monitor) and re-applied while still hidden.
- The Callsign field is marked out at rest — operators were typing the call into
Name, which sat beside it and looked identical.
- QSL dates get a real picker (native, for the OS calendar and locale order); a
malformed old value stays in a text box rather than vanishing behind an empty
one.
Also: a Support OpsLog entry in Help, and a WinKeyer protocol trace. The WK2
report (one element then a ten-second pause, sidetone that will not switch off)
is NOT fixed here: the WK1/WK2/WK3 command sets differ and a guessed fix would
break the operators it works for today. The trace logs every byte with the
command name and spells out the firmware family, which is what will settle it.
On its CAT/AUX connector an ACOM is the MASTER: it polls a transceiver and
changes band from the reply, so nothing can be pushed to it. internal/catemu
answers those polls on a second serial port, in ACOM command set 5 (Kenwood /
Elecraft): FA;, FB;, IF; and ID;, and nothing else — a wrong-length reply is
worse than none, it desynchronises the amp's parser for the following poll.
Also offered for SPE. Some amps do not poll at all but read the radio↔PC CAT
line in parallel; those never hear a responder, so an optional unprompted send
(500/1000 ms) covers them.
The TX frequency is what is sent: in split the amp must be tuned where we
transmit. Frame lengths are pinned by tests — the failure they guard against is
silent and only shows up as an amp that mistunes.
Untested on hardware.
- SCP/N+1: new internal/scp downloads the community MASTER.SCP master list and a
docked two-column widget shows, as you type a call, the known calls containing it
(Partial) and the calls one edit away (N+1) — click to fix a busted call. Opt-in
in Settings → General; top-bar toggle; queried debounced on callsign input.
- Flex: OpsLog's GUI-client detection was too loose and could bind to "SmartSDR CAT"
(or DAX) — both carry "smartsdr" in the program name — instead of the real GUI
client, making SmartSDR CAT drop and reconnect in a loop while OpsLog was open.
Now it binds only to a real SmartSDR/Maestro GUI client (e.g. a FLEX-8600M's
integrated screen) and excludes cat/dax; dropped the risky empty-program fallback.
- Telemetry: on a fresh install the callsign isn't set at launch, so the once-a-day
heartbeat recorded the machine UUID. Now it waits (~10 min) for the operator to
enter their callsign before sending, falling back to the UUID only if none appears.
With ESM enabled (Settings → CW Keyer), the keyer active and mode CW, Enter in
the entry strip fires a macro by QSO stage instead of logging:
- callsign field empty → F1 (CQ)
- callsign entered (in call field) → F2 (report), then focus jumps to RST-sent
- Enter in RST-sent / RST-rcvd → F3 (TU), which logs via its own <LOGQSO>
Works for every keyer engine (WinKeyer / serial DTR-RTS / Flex CWX / Icom CI-V)
since it routes through the shared macro sender. Enter in other fields still logs
normally, and ESM off keeps the classic Enter-to-log behaviour.
Backend: new `esm` flag on WinkeyerSettings (winkeyer.esm). Frontend: esmHandleEnter
state machine keyed off data-esm markers on the call/RST blocks, a Settings
checkbox + hint, and i18n EN/FR.
Push the tuner control further so it mirrors the native 4O3A app and the way the
PowerGenius XL is surfaced.
Backend (internal/tunergenius):
- Status now carries both RF channels A and B (source/mode, band, frequency,
bound Flex nickname, per-channel bypass, antenna, PTT), the active channel,
the C1/L/C2 relay-network positions, and the 3-way-vs-SO2R hardware variant
(learned once from the `info` reply). Flat freq/antenna still mirror the active
channel for the compact widget.
- New TunerGeniusActivate(ch) binding → `activate ch=N` (or `ant=N` on 3-way).
Frontend:
- New shared TunerCard, styled exactly like AmpCard (PWR/SWR meter bars,
A/B channel selector with source+freq+antenna, Tune/Bypass/Operate). Used in
BOTH the FlexRadio panel (its own card, like the PGXL) and Station Control.
- Docked TunerGeniusPanel widget now shows the two channels A/B with their
source/frequency/antenna and lets you click to make one active — the missing
A/B state the user flagged.
- i18n EN/FR for the new labels (channels, antenna, in-line/bypassed, title).
Still UNTESTED on hardware — verify the per-channel field names/units and the
activate behaviour on the real box.
New internal/tunergenius client speaking the same "Genius Series" text API
as the Antenna Genius / PowerGenius XL: banner on connect (with optional
"AUTH" for remote access), "C<seq>|<cmd>\n" commands, "R<seq>|<code>|<msg>"
replies and the "S<seq>|status k=v …" snapshot; async "M|<msg>" info lines
are consumed inline. Polls status ~1.5s and exposes SWR (return-loss dB
converted to a VSWR ratio), forward power (dBm→W), and the operate/bypass/
tuning/active-channel state. Actions: autotune, global bypass, operate/standby.
Controlled directly (not via the radio) so OpsLog uses only one of the box's
four connection slots, per the device's protocol doc.
Wiring:
- app.go: tunergenius.* settings keys, Get/Save/start, GetTunerGeniusStatus,
TunerGeniusAutotune/SetBypass/SetOperate; started in the background at launch.
- Settings → Tuner Genius panel (enable + IP + optional remote code).
- Docked TunerGeniusPanel widget (SWR/power readouts + Tune/Bypass/Operate),
top-bar toggle, shown when enabled — mirrors the Antenna Genius widget.
- i18n EN/FR (sec.tunergenius, tg2.*, tgp.*).
Command verbs (operate/bypass/autotune/status/auth) come straight from the
4O3A "Tuner Genius XL — Protocol Description"; UNTESTED on hardware.
"Choose a dedicated file" points at a fresh/empty file; there was no way to
rename or move an existing logbook WITH its data. RenameLogbook VACUUM INTOs the
active profile's SQLite logbook to a new path, repoints the profile and switches
the live logbook (no restart). Deletes the old file only when it was a dedicated
per-profile file; the shared default logbook.db is left for other profiles.
Errors on a MySQL logbook. UI: "Rename / relocate…" button in the logbook section.
Design flaw: opslog.db held BOTH the config (settings + profiles) AND the SQLite
logbook, so the only way to a separate SQLite logbook — the whole-app "change
database location" pointer — swapped the config too, wiping the operator's setup
(reported: creating a new SQLite for a visiting op lost all profiles/settings).
Now the two are separate files:
- Settings database: settings + profiles. Fresh installs name it settings.db;
existing installs keep opslog.db.
- Logbook (QSOs): a dedicated logbook.db next to the settings db, or a
per-profile file (profile.ProfileDB.Path), or MySQL. connectLogbook opens the
logbook file (db.Open creates+migrates on first use); the settings db is used
as the logbook only if the split ever fails.
One-time, non-destructive migration at startup: if there's no logbook file yet
but the settings db already holds QSOs (legacy combined opslog.db), seed
logbook.db with a clean copy via VACUUM INTO — contacts move to the logbook, the
originals stay in the settings db as an untouched backup.
UI: the Database panel now shows the settings database and this profile's logbook
as two clearly labelled sections (+ "Open folder"), and the logbook selector is
SQLite (default logbook.db, or a dedicated file via "Choose a dedicated file…")
vs MySQL — no more confusing shared/separate choice. New binding RevealDataFolder.
Design flaw: the SQLite backend conflated the app/config database (opslog.db —
settings + profiles) with the QSO logbook. connectLogbook returned a.db for any
non-MySQL profile, so the ONLY way to get a separate SQLite logbook was the
whole-app "change database location" pointer — which swapped config + profiles
too, wiping the operator's setup (reported: creating Jerem.db lost all configs).
profile.ProfileDB gains a Path field: a non-empty path routes that profile's
logbook to its own SQLite file (db.Open creates + migrates it on first use),
while opslog.db keeps settings/profiles. connectLogbook opens the file; empty
path = shared db (unchanged default, backward compatible). MySQLSettings carries
sqlite_path; Get/Save wire it through.
UI: the Database panel gains a third backend option "SQLite — separate file"
with a file picker, and now clearly labels the shared application database
(settings + profiles) vs this profile's logbook, so the two are never confused.
A SteppIR only covers part of the spectrum (a standard one is 20 m–6 m) but
can't report its own range, so the follow loop's existing out-of-range guard
(FreqMin/FreqMax) never engaged for it. Tuning the rig to a band the antenna
can't reach (e.g. 30 m) made the loop keep trying — the immediate cause of the
stuck TX interlock addressed in the previous commit.
Add a Tunable range (MHz) setting to the Antenna panel, wired into the SteppIR
adapter's Status().FreqMin/FreqMax so the follow loop skips out-of-range
frequencies entirely: no tune command, no TX inhibit. Defaults to 13–54 MHz
(20 m–6 m, the common model) when unset; widen the low edge for a 40 m-equipped
SteppIR. Ultrabeam is unaffected (it reports its own per-band coverage).
Keeps the last-commanded-freq deadband from the previous commit as a universal
safety net for any flaky-status case within the valid range.
This reverts commit 6a28344. Restore the once-a-day anonymous PostHog heartbeat
and its opt-out toggle: telemetry.go (sendTelemetryHeartbeat, GetTelemetryEnabled/
SetTelemetryEnabled, PostHog host + API key), the startup goroutine, the Settings
→ General toggle + i18n keys, and the README/wiki mentions. version.go is dropped
again (appVersion moves back into telemetry.go). release.ps1 (untracked) pointed
back at telemetry.go by hand.
Drop the once-a-day anonymous "app_opened" heartbeat to PostHog and everything
around it: telemetry.go (sendTelemetryHeartbeat, GetTelemetryEnabled/
SetTelemetryEnabled, install-ID/last-sent settings keys, PostHog host + API key)
and the startup goroutine that fired it. The 'Send anonymous usage statistics'
toggle is removed from Settings → General (TelemetryToggle + i18n keys), and the
telemetry mentions are stripped from the README and wiki.
appVersion (still used by changelog/update/livestatus/log-email) moves to a new
version.go; release.ps1 now rewrites it there instead of telemetry.go.
Global "Export to ADIF" gains a third option "Choose fields…" next to the
standard-only and full-OpsLog choices, and right-clicking selected QSOs adds
"Export selected — choose fields…". The picker separates official ADIF 3.1.7
fields (grouped by category) from OpsLog/non-standard tags actually present in
the log (discovered via DistinctExtraKeys over extras_json), with All/None per
group and reset-to-defaults; the selection is persisted per user.
Backend: adif.Exporter gains a Fields allow-set that gates every promoted and
extras field in writeRecord; app.go ExportADIF/ExportADIFFiltered/
ExportADIFSelected take a fields []string param, plus new ADIFExtraFields.
The first RX-audio CW decoder decoded poorly on real signals (vs SDC) and was
removed in cafade0. This rebuilds the DSP core from scratch in
internal/cwdecode, keeping v1's good ideas (pitch lock, Flex cw_pitch
targeting, tiered acquisition) and fixing its proven failures:
- Two-way DEBOUNCE (pending-commit ~0.3 dit): v1 rejected short marks but not
short spaces, so a one-hop fade inside a dah shattered it into dits — the
single worst real-signal failure.
- Per-character BATCH dit/dah classification at flush time, using the batch's
own bimodal boundary — the first letter of an over decodes at any speed; the
timing clusters (muDit/muDah) are updated with the same attribution, killing
the classify-then-learn feedback spiral ("all dits at 60 WPM").
- dB-domain envelope with separate floor/peak trackers, hysteresis slicer,
span CAP (30 dB — else quiet backgrounds put the off-threshold in the
analysis-window skirts and letters merge) and window de-bias on durations.
- Double squelch: span >= 6 dB AND peak >= bank-median + 9.5 dB (span alone
cannot reject pure noise).
- Hamming-windowed Goertzel, 16 ms window / 5 ms hop (a 20 ms window left
40 WPM inter-element gaps with no envelope dip).
- Hardened acquisition (overlapping windows made "3 stable hops" meaningless)
plus SUPERVISED RE-LOCK: a clearly stronger tone on another pitch sustained
~1 s takes over — heals noise locks and follows a QSY.
- Gap-fed dit-length tracking (inter-element gaps are timing evidence too).
Proven by a synthetic-signal test suite (all passing): clean 12-40 WPM, three
pitches, added noise, QSB fading 0.35-1.0, 10 ms dropouts inside dahs, QRM in
auto and targeted modes, noise-only squelch, mid-over speed change 25->15 WPM,
and jittered hand keying (+/-20-25%, 3 seeds).
Wiring and UI restored from git (app_cw.go, Ear header button, decoded-text
strip with WPM/pitch/level + pitch lock + click-a-word-to-fill-callsign, Tools
menu entry) — strip strings translated (cwd.* i18n keys, EN/FR) this time.
Opt-in (Settings → General). Shows a "MW #rank" pill next to the DXCC entity
name in the entry-strip band/slot matrix — ClubLog's Most Wanted ranking
(1 = most wanted), personalised to the operator's callsign and refreshed daily.
- internal/clublog/mostwanted.go: fetch mostwanted.php?api=1&callsign=<CALL>
(rank→DXCC JSON, real User-Agent), invert to dxcc→rank, cache to
<dataDir>/clublog_mostwanted.json; NeedsRefresh invalidates on callsign change.
- app.go: keyClublogMostWanted setting, a.clublogMW, startup refresh goroutine,
activeCallsign() helper, and Get/Set/Download bindings mirroring the cty ones.
WorkedBefore now carries MWRank (qso.WorkedBefore.MWRank) when enabled.
- BandSlotGrid.tsx: MW pill next to the entity name, colour-tiered by rank.
- SettingsModal General: toggle + download button + status, mirroring the
ClubLog cty-exceptions block.
Also reorganises the changelog: the theme-persistence fix (landed after the
v0.20.11 tag) plus this feature go under a new 0.20.12 entry; 0.20.11 keeps only
what shipped in its binary.
rouggy