The motorised antenna gagged the transmitter for a second or two after it
had finished moving. Three delays were stacked: the antenna polled every
two seconds, the gag held for three after the command whatever the
antenna said, and the widget refreshed every three. The antenna is now
asked four times a second WHILE IT MOVES — an idle one has nothing to say
and stays at two seconds — the gag only bridges the command itself
(900 ms), and the widget follows at half a second while moving.
WSJT-X highlighting:
- A watch-list station already worked on this band and mode is no longer
painted as one to call. The list is a statement of intent, not of what
is left to do, and its pink outranked every other verdict including the
log's, so a worked station stayed pink for the session with nothing to
tell it from one still needed.
- The four colours are the operator's to choose (Settings → UDP). Only
the background: the text colour is derived by luma, so a dark blue
cannot come back as black-on-black in somebody else's window. Changing
one clears the installed highlights, or the de-duplication would keep
showing yesterday's colour until a callsign changed verdict.
Configure (message 15), mode field only, every other field sent as
no-change: an FT4 spot clicked while WSJT-X sits in FT8 lands the operator
ready to decode instead of staring at gibberish. Sent to every instance
heard this session — one already in the right mode treats it as a no-op —
and only for modes the decoder actually speaks (FT8/FT4/JT65/JT9/MSK144/
Q65/FST4); CW and SSB are none of its business. Toggle in the Connections
panel, on by default.
Message 13 paints callsigns in WSJT-X/JTDX's own Band Activity window with
verdicts from the same cluster status cache that colours the spot grid:
watchlist pink, new DXCC green, new band for its entity orange. Deduplicated
per instance+call+verdict, one datagram each; a verdict that lapses (the
operator worked them) clears that call, and turning the option off clears
everything via the protocol's CLEARALL!. Off by default, switch in the
Connections panel.
Message 7 asks a program heard for the first time this session to replay the
decodes already on its screen, so the FT decodes panel starts full instead of
empty until the next period. Replayed lines arrive marked not-new and are
shown but never auto-answered — the auto-caller now checks, on top of its
30-second freshness gate.
rouggy