The rest between two series was two minutes — four overs on FT8, by
which time the DX has worked four other callers and half the time has
gone. It is now counted in the station's OWN overs and is one by default:
seven calls, one over listened through, and it goes again if the station
is still there. The deadline lands mid-cycle on purpose, so "sit out one
over" means one over rather than depending on a millisecond of clock
skew.
A period the target was DECODED in is never counted as a miss. A period
is judged more than once — decodes arrive in a burst and stragglers
follow — and a later judgement holds a partial view of it, not evidence
of absence: D2ACE answered in the very period the counter then read as a
miss.
The readout moved out of the Auto button and beside it. "Auto D2ACE 1/7
·1/3" read as one number, and the control changed width every period.
The callsign is now the biggest thing on the row, the calls and the
missed periods each carry a label, the miss count appears only once there
is one, and a station being waited for gets its own amber chip.
Three field reports.
Icom CI-V address 00 could not be kept: zero was read as "not
configured" in all three places that validate it, so every save put the
rig back to the IC-7610's 0x98 — and the model dropdown followed, since
it is derived from the address rather than stored. Picking "Other
(custom address)" also had no effect of its own: the list re-derived
itself and snapped back to whatever rig matched. It now stays chosen.
Cloudlog/Wavelog showed "17m/17m" on ordinary FT8 contacts (OE6CLD).
Every QSO is stamped with a receive side equal to the transmit side, and
the uploaded record carried it; Wavelog draws band/band_rx whenever both
are there. In ADIF an absent BAND_RX means "same as transmit", so the
uploaded record now writes the receive side only when it differs. The
copy forwarded to another logger over UDP keeps writing it in full —
that is why it was stamped in the first place (Log4OM reads BAND_RX) —
through its own ForwardRecordADIF.
"S/F" in a spot comment joins superfox / sfox / F-H as FT8.
Six faults from an evening on 60 m, all in the same family: the engine
judging a station by what the log wants from it and forgetting what is
already under way.
- An exchange was abandoned mid-QSO. The reply lands in the same period
the ladder is re-read, and that period was judged before the reply was
taken into account, so a better-ranked caller took the slot from a
station that had just come back to us. The answer is settled first now,
and our own report counts as being inside the exchange too — which also
protects a QSO the operator started by hand.
- A station just picked started with misses against it. Its transmit slot
was unknown until a second decode, and with the parity unknown every
period counted, including the one spent transmitting to it.
- The freed slot after "it is working somebody else" was thrown away: the
period's decodes are in hand, so the next station is picked from them
rather than fifteen seconds later. Never mid-over.
- Auto-call is never armed from a stored setting — not at launch, not on
a profile switch. It is the one feature that puts the station on the
air by itself and OpsLog starts with Windows.
- It says what it is waiting for: a wanted station in a QSO with somebody
else now shows beside the Auto button instead of looking idle.
- Switching profile left the previous logbook's verdicts on screen. The
worked-index, chase-new and the frontend's cached verdicts are dropped
when the logbook changes.
FT decodes: distance column, a message addressed to you set whole in
green (the station you are calling keeps a tint — most of what it sends
goes to other people), badge order L / Wkd / WL, list cleared when the
RIG changes band.
Rotor: new world-map compass from EC1KD's design, with the Ultrabeam boom
and second lobe restored and the compact form preserved; the classic dial
is kept and Settings → Rotator chooses between them. Stop no longer
flickers on a rotor standing still — movement was inferred from a degree,
less than the jitter a controller reports at rest.
Decodes:
- one click SELECTS, two transmit. A single click handed the decode
straight to WSJT-X as a reply, so brushing a row while reading the
band started calling a station.
- the list empties for a receiver that changes band, and a receiver
column appears when more than one is feeding one merged list.
- the period clock turns red while transmitting: it is the one thing on
the screen that moves, so it is where the eye already is.
- a WL badge, after the LoTW "L" — one letter, always in the same
place, so the column does not shift from row to row.
- the auto-call switch, its target and its count, and the chase list:
naming the station you are waiting for is done while watching the
band, not in a settings tree.
Themes: DXHunter's slate with its own blue, and the same slate with
OpsLog's orange. Counted across its sources rather than guessed from
one panel — blue is 132 uses to violet's 25, and the violet is the PSK
Reporter panel alone.
Watchlist: drawn as DXHunter draws it — the callsign in the interface
font rather than monospaced, which is the difference that shows with
the two windows side by side.
FT Map: arcs no longer run off the side of the map. The map shows one
world, and a path crossing the antimeridian was drawn past 180° into
the blank space beside it — from VK that is most of them.
Cluster: "superfox", "fox/hound" and "F/H" in a comment are read as
FT8. They are WSJT-X's DXpedition transmit modes, and the comment fell
through to the band plan and came out DATA — which then decided the
band+mode verdict.
A decoder is named by what it IS: Nexus sends its packets as "Tempo",
the engine inside it, and OpsLog showed a program nobody has heard of.
HAMLOG.online no longer issues API keys, and its upload API takes
nothing else. An operator without a key cannot obtain one, so the
auto-upload switch, the on-close sweep and the 'Send to' entry were all
arming something that could only fail — silently, once per QSO.
Closed at the source rather than hidden in the UI: the upload returns a
sentinel that says why, the manager stops routing to it and says so once
a session, and the manual path refuses with the same words. The settings
page states it plainly instead of showing a switch that does nothing.
Nothing else goes. Their confirmations arrive as an ADIF FILE and never
needed a key, so that import stays; the sent/received state already in
operators' logs stays readable, filterable and bulk-editable; and the
upload itself is kept whole as uploadHamlogLive, still covered by its
request-shape tests, against the day keys come back.
Only Kenwood implements it — TX1 is that family's second transmit
command — and every other backend keys the one way it knows. A checkbox
offered to all of them would change nothing on most, which is the same
dead furniture as ANT2 on a radio with one socket. Gated on the Kenwood
backend, and the label says so.
From a TS-590SG report: the voice keyer played through the rig's USB
codec and the radio transmitted silence. Its manual says why — 'TX P1,
0: SEND (normal transmission using the MIC input), 1: DATA SEND
(ACC2/USB input)' — and OpsLog only ever sent the bare TX, so the radio
dutifully opened a front microphone nobody was speaking into.
An option on the audio page, shown for CAT keying, says where the
keyer's audio actually arrives; the manager routes it to a backend that
draws the distinction and falls back to the ordinary key for every rig
where one PTT is all there is. Test PTT goes down the same path, so it
tests what will happen rather than something adjacent.
The chase switches were born on the DX Cluster page because the cluster
was the only thing that drew their badges. They now decide what the FT
decode list and Chase new say as well, and settings that govern three
screens should not live under the name of one of them. They move to a
DXHunter page — named for what it is about, and for what is meant to
land beside it as more of DXHunter's ideas are ported over.
US states join the switchable markers, gated the same way as POTA,
counties, prefixes and squares: badge, filter chip and display marker,
all from the one chaseAllows question.
A soundcard mode is USB with audio in the mic path, and that is what
most rigs need. Asking for the mode by NAME is the better answer on a
modern transceiver with a DATA position and the wrong one on an older
set, where the CAT layer resolves 'digital' to RTTY/FSK — OmniRig does
exactly that, per rig file, and there is no arguing with it from here.
The operator clicking an FT8 spot landed in FSK, which keys from a
mark/space generator and cannot pass FT8 at all.
Applied in SetCATMode, the one funnel every backend and every caller
goes through, so it holds for a spot click, the band map and the mode
selector alike. The QSO is still logged as FT8: this is what the radio
is put in, not what the contact was.
HamQTH joins the Confirmations page with a sent side only — the site
publishes no confirmation feed, so there is nothing to receive — and it
defaults to R, the same 'still to upload' the other online services get.
That default could not have worked as written. HamQTH and HAMLOG.online
keep their sent state in an ADIF extra, and eligibility blocked on the
key being PRESENT — so an operator setting the natural R default would
have stamped every new QSO 'already gone' and silently disabled the very
auto-upload the default arms. Eligibility now reads the VALUE: the ADIF
pending statuses mean pending, anything else means sent. Guard-tested
both ways.
Chase POTA already withdrew its badge, filter chip and column when
unchecked; US counties and new prefixes now have the same switch, and
unchecking Chase new grids finally withdraws the NEW GRID badge too (the
backend stopped learning squares but the display kept shouting the ones
it knew — the setting is mirrored to localStorage so the display layer
can gate synchronously). All withdrawal happens at the display layer:
the facts keep being computed, so re-ticking a box needs no rescan.
qso_realtime.php with the account's callbook credentials (which the
external-services config falls back to when its own are blank), one ADIF
record per QSO, prg=OpsLog. HTTP status IS the answer: 200 saved, 400
rejected (a duplicate counts as delivered, like HRDLog's insert 0), 403
credentials. Sent-state lives in APP_OPSLOG_HAMQTH_SENT extras like
HAMLOG.online — ADIF names no HamQTH field. Auto-upload on log, on-close
batch, right-click Send to, QSL Manager backlog, and a Test button that
authenticates against the callbook login, which cannot touch the log.
Fixes a real mis-route on the way: manual 'Send to HAMLOG.online' had no
branch in runManualUpload and fell through to QRZ.com — the selection was
uploaded to the wrong service with the QRZ key. Both extras-stamped
services now have their own branch.
The Confirmations page's Club Log row gains its received side, applied to
every new QSO the way QRZ.com's already is — so the match download's Y
stands out against a ledger of explicit Ns.
Two new QSO columns, clublog_qso_download_status/date — a Club Log MATCH,
the service's own confirmation (both stations uploaded the QSO, paired
within 15 minutes). Full promoted-column lockstep: migration 0031, repo
insert/scan, ADIF dictionary + import + export (app-defined
CLUBLOG_QSO_DOWNLOAD_*), table columns, filter builder, bulk edit and the
QSO editor's Club Log row.
The QSL Manager's Club Log entry now actually downloads: getmatches.php
with the existing account settings and the embedded application key,
incremental via the match-completion date filter, matched call+band+mode
±15 min with a mode-blind fallback because Club Log reports 'false' for
modes it cannot infer. Matches always exist on both sides, so unmatched
ones are listed rather than skeleton-added.
And Super Check Partial can merge Club Log's weekly SCP list (~180k calls
worked on the air in the last 3 years) with MASTER.SCP — an opt-in
checkbox under the SCP setting.
The unconf label was hard-coded to GRID? for every category — a prefix
worked-but-unconfirmed showed as a second grid badge beside the real one,
which read as impossible. Each badge now says its own name plus a question
mark. And the global Chase block moves above the Chase POTA/SOTA/grid
checkboxes, where its operator expected the master switch.
The gap between worked and confirmed becomes visible everywhere. A Chase
setting on the DX Cluster page picks the mode; in new-plus-unconfirmed the
verdicts for DXCC/band/mode/slot, prefix, county and state are judged against
CONFIRMED-only ledgers built from the operator's chosen sources (LoTW, card,
eQSL, QRZ.com — HRDLog has no confirmation field in ADIF to offer), and a
need that exists only because a QSL never arrived is flagged Unconf: the
cluster and decode badges render it dimmed, the convention the grid hunt
introduced. The grid's own Chase selector folds into the global one; its
square-matching scope stays where it was, being grid-specific. One snapshot
key change rebuilds the cache when any of it flips.
Three faults, one report. The slow poll asks ^TP — the KPA1500's ATU, which
a KPA500 (no ATU) never answers — and ask() dropped the whole connection on
any read timeout: a two-second stall and a reconnect every slow cycle, which
is why buttons lagged and the status read wrong. Worse, every serial reopen
toggled DTR/RTS — and those lines are the KPA500's POWER SWITCH (that is how
the Elecraft utility turns it on), so the amplifier obediently switched off
twenty seconds after its operator pressed nothing but Standby.
Silence is no longer a dead link (write errors still are), ^TP is never asked
again after one silence, the control lines are asserted once and held, and
the baud field becomes a list of the rates these amplifiers actually speak.
Its enable condition predated the network audio: with From-radio empty — the
normal network setup — the button was greyed out, and an operator who had
stopped listening had no way to start again from this panel. The stale 'later'
hints on both buttons said the network paths did not exist; they do.
Same remembered preference as the console's speaker button, surfaced where
the stream itself is enabled — tick RX audio and decide in the same breath
whether it reaches the speakers. Applied immediately, no save needed.
The CI-V keyer is the same 0x17 command on the same IcomController whatever
carries the link; only the warnings and enable checks insisted on the USB
backend, telling a network operator their working keyer would fail.
The loader looked for an 'active' flag the radio list has never carried, so
reopening the panel always landed on the first entry — Radio 1's name over
whichever radio's settings were live, and every field edit (MY_RIG included)
silently rewriting the wrong entry. The backend is the only one who knows
which radio is on the air; ask it.
The watchlist joins the Main-tab pane list (Settings → Main view), rendered in
a card like the other docked panels.
The three filters persist across tab switches — the component unmounts on every
switch, and filters that reset each time are filters nobody trusts.
Needed-only now hides the worked SPOT LINES as well as the all-worked cards,
which is DXHunter's own Not-Worked behaviour and the reported complaint: a
filter that says needed and still lists five green Worked rows answers a
different question than the one asked.
The add-row checkbox is relabelled 'as contest' — it marks the entry being
ADDED, and read as a filter beside the All/DX/Contest buttons it looked
redundant.
An operator who does not chase parks does not want NEW POTA shouting from every
activator spot. Two switches (Settings → DX Cluster, on by default): off, the
marker is withdrawn at the display layer — applySpotDisplay, the same chokepoint
the grid, the band map and the filter read through — so the badge, the colour,
the filter chip and the reference column all go quiet together, and a new-band +
new-POTA spot reads NEW BAND alone. The facts keep being computed; only the
telling stops, so ticking the box back on needs no rescan.
Per review: the digital-grouping sentence on the same-slot option, the
spot-lifetime explanation, the ring-buffer paragraph on the spots-kept field,
and the free-public-nodes line all go.
Per review: the panel-wide 'saved instantly' hint goes; the date-format picker
loses its embedded sample line (kept as the buttons' tooltip) so the row is one
line tall; the IARU region moves up under the date format, before the themes;
and the parentheticals after Distances-in-miles, Check-updates and the
telemetry opt-out go. The telemetry and ClubLog explanations survive as
tooltips — an opt-out about data leaving the machine, and an option changing
how entities resolve, should still say what they do somewhere.
The band maps carried one hard-coded table — Region 1's — so a US operator's
40 m stopped at 7200 with stations spotted at 7250 hanging past the top of the
map, and the SSB wash started 25 kHz early. The region is a station-level fact
stated once (Settings → General, portable pref); lib/bandplan owns the three
tables and publishes changes to the open maps the way the distance unit reaches
the grids.
The tables stay deliberately coarse: a band map's wash is context, not a
regulatory chart, so only the differences an operator notices are split out —
Region 2's 80 m to 4000 and 40 m to 7300 (phone from 7125), Region 3's 80 m to
3900, the wider VHF/UHF allocations. National fine print does not belong in a
background tint.
The sixth CW engine, and the one the TCI backend was left without. A SunSDR
keys from the WebSocket that already carries the CAT: no WinKeyer, no second
serial port, nothing to wire.
CW_MACROS:0,<text>; send
CW_MACROS_SPEED:<wpm>; speed
CW_MACROS_STOP; abort
Confirmed against the TCI command table in ars-ka0s/eesdr-tci — the source that
settled SPOT. CW_MACROS rather than TCI 2.0's CW_MSG: it exists from 1.6, and
OpsLog resolves its own variables, so the before/after callsign fields have
nothing to carry.
Commas and semicolons are stripped before sending. They are the protocol's own
separators: a comma would become another argument, a semicolon would end the
command with the message half keyed and the rest parsed as a command.
Only the MACRO speed is set, not the paddle keyer's — an operator who set their
paddle to 28 wpm did not ask for it to change because a macro went out at 25.
And there is no backspace: TCI can stop a message but cannot un-type one, so the
type-ahead correction the Flex engine offers is absent rather than faked.
Everything is computed in kilometres and converted once at display time, in
lib/units — storing miles anywhere would give the same number two sources of
truth and a rounding error that grows with every hop.
The grids capture the unit inside their column definitions, header and formatter
both, so a change is published to them the way the date format already is;
without that a toggle would only appear after a language change or a restart.
The preference is portable, like the other display ones.
With one rig, MY_RIG belonged in Operating conditions and nowhere else.
With several, that becomes the wrong place: operating conditions describe
a PLAN — 'on 20 m I use the beam and the 7300' — while the question a
logged QSO asks is which radio was keying.
So each saved radio carries its own MY_RIG, consulted BEFORE the per-band
station. When the two disagree — a second rig borrowed for one evening on
20 m — the one that is transmitting is the true answer.
Left empty it changes nothing at all: the old chain (band default, then
the profile's rig) answers exactly as it did, which is what every
single-radio station will keep doing without touching a setting.
It showed what the radio calls itself over CAT — 'Kenwood (911)' for a K3,
a bare 'CAT' for a Flex that reports nothing useful. That is the answer to
a question nobody asks once the rig has a name in the list, and it made
the two radios look alike in the one place they have to be told apart.
The name the operator typed comes first now, on the chip and in the menu,
and falls back to the radio's own identity when they typed none. The model
identity is still in the tooltip, where it answers 'what is actually
connected' without taking the place of 'which of my rigs is this'.
The answer to 'I have two rigs' was 'make two profiles', which is a heavy
instrument for a light question: a profile carries the whole station —
logbook, callsign, awards, cluster, macros — so switching one to change
which radio is connected takes all of that with it, including a change of
logbook when the profiles point at different databases.
Radios are a list now, the way amplifiers already are. The CAT chip in the
status bar opens it, one click connects the chosen rig, and nothing else
about the station moves.
The storage keeps the ACTIVE radio in the same settings keys everything
already reads (cat.backend, cat.icom_port, …), and switching writes the
chosen entry into them and reloads the link. So the consoles, the CAT
sharing, the band-follow and every panel see exactly what they saw before
and needed no change at all — the list is a second store beside the
configuration, not a replacement for it.
Details that matter more than they look:
- An operator who has run one rig for a year opens the list and finds it
there, because a missing list reads as the CURRENT settings rather
than as nothing. It is written on the first save, not on the first
read.
- Editing the CAT panel updates the active entry, or an edit made before
switching away would be lost on the way back.
- A new radio starts as a COPY of the current one: a second rig is
usually the same shape with one port changed, and an empty form is a
form to fill in twice.
- Switching saves the panel first, so edits to the radio being left
behind are kept.
- The chip only becomes a menu with more than one radio; with one it
opens the CAT settings exactly as it always did.
Adding it to the device lists put it in all four dropdowns, and an
operator picked it as their RECORDING MIC — which would have recorded the
station they were listening to instead of their own voice, on every voice
message and every QSO recording. It is not a microphone, and it is not a
pair of speakers either: the audio going the other way is transmit audio.
So it is listed for 'From radio' and 'To radio', and taken out of the mic
and the listening dropdowns.
And the RX monitor is disabled when the radio IS the source, with a line
saying why: the TCI stream is pushed into the QSO recorder, and nothing
plays it to the speakers. The button was there, enabled, doing nothing
audible — which is worse than a button that says it cannot.
TCI already carries the frequency, the mode, the meters and now the audio.
It also carries everything else about the radio — and OpsLog was logging
most of it once as '(unhandled once)' and throwing it away. The console is
mostly a place to put what was already arriving.
That makes it the cheapest panel here, and it is worth saying why. A K3
console costs a command and a reply for every value it shows, which is why
it reads its settings in a rotation and its meters only while on screen.
TCI PUSHES: the radio announces its drive, its filters, its noise blanker
and the rest on connect, and again whenever any of them changes —
including when the operator changes them in ExpertSDR3's own window, which
this panel therefore follows without asking anything.
What it drives: drive and tune drive, mic gain, TUNE, volume, mute,
squelch and its threshold, NB, NR, ANF, APF, AGC speed, the passband, RIT
and XIT with their offsets, and the VFO lock. The S-meter is a real dBm
reading, so its S units are arithmetic rather than the calibration guess a
K3's meter needs.
Setters never update the cached state. The radio answers with the new
value, and taking its word is what keeps the panel honest when a setting
is refused, clamped, or changed at the radio a second later — the one
exception being a slider mid-drag, held for 900 ms so it is not dragged
back by its own echo.
Capped width and centred, like the other consoles. Also offered as a
docked pane — and the Elecraft console is offered there too now: App has
always had that pane, Settings simply never listed it.
Reported on an Ultrabeam over USB: the port could not be chosen from the
dropdown, and the panel would not scroll.
That field was a Combobox — a list you can also type into — chosen so the
port of an adapter currently UNPLUGGED could still be configured. It is
now the same Select every other serial device in OpsLog uses, the one that
demonstrably works. The case it was built for is kept differently: a
configured port that is no longer detected is added to the list, so it
stays selected and visible instead of vanishing when the adapter is out.
Also hardened the Test button's guard, which called .trim() straight on
the port and the host. A settings object without them — an older build, a
save that landed short — throws there DURING RENDER, and a panel that
throws while rendering is exactly a panel with a dead dropdown that will
not scroll. Whether or not that is what this operator hit, it is a way to
produce both symptoms at once and it costs nothing to remove.
Telling somebody's amplifier where to be is a write to their station, and
it now has a switch — the SAME switch an Acom uses. 'Keep the amplifier on
the radio's band' is one idea to an operator; that it needs a second
serial port and a rig emulator on one amplifier and a single ^BN on
another is our business, not a reason for two checkboxes.
On by default for a KPA, because an amplifier left on the wrong band is
the worse outcome of the two, and the operator who has wired it straight
to the radio turns it off once. The hint says exactly that case, since it
is the only one where a second voice telling the amplifier where to be is
unwelcome.
Two things the wiring got wrong, both visible on screen.
A KPA fell through to the PowerGenius branch of the amplifier card and was
drawn as one — titled 'POWERGENIUSXL · ELECRAFT KPA1500', with a
PowerGenius's meters and none of its own. It has a card now: OPERATE, ON
and OFF, band, power, SWR, temperature, supply, and the fault across the
end. The OPERATE button carries a tooltip saying it also clears the fault,
because that is the button an operator already has under the cursor when
they need it.
And the band-follow option was offered on it. That option exists because
an Acom POLLS a transceiver and has no command to be given a band, so
following it needs a second serial port and a rig emulator answering those
polls. The KPA has ^BN — OpsLog simply tells it, on the link it is already
using, and only when the band CHANGES. The option is gone from the KPA and
the telling is automatic.
Also: Acom rather than ACOM everywhere it is read, which is how the
company writes it. Identifiers, package names and log lines are left
alone — renaming those is churn with no reader.
Wired into the multi-amplifier support that already carries the SPE, the
ACOM and the PowerGenius: a fourth brand rather than a fourth mechanism.
The linking, the fan-out and the poll all work on it unchanged.
Three things the KPA does differently, and each is handled where it shows
rather than explained in a hint:
- A KPA500 has no network side at all. Choosing it puts the entry on
serial, and a configuration still asking for TCP is refused with a
line saying so instead of retrying an address that cannot answer.
- The amplifier answers ^ON while its main supplies are OFF — a sleeping
microcontroller stays awake for exactly that — so power-on stays
available over the network, unlike the SPE and ACOM which need their
serial control lines.
- Going to OPERATE clears the current fault, everything except
temperature. The widget says so under the fault, because the button
that fixes it is the one already on screen.
Defaults that leave a working configuration when the model is changed:
38400 baud, TCP port 1500, and a full-scale power mark of 500 or 1500 W
by model — a KPA500 read against a 1500 W scale looks idle at full
output.
Two faults, and the first was a design mistake of mine.
The choice was written only as the award override, to keep the imported
CNTY as a record of what HAMLOG said. But CNTY is what the comparison
READS, so the contact went on disagreeing for ever: settle a hundred
rows, run the comparison again, get the same hundred back. The reasoning
was about preserving evidence; the effect was a button with no visible
consequence anywhere, which is indistinguishable from one that does
nothing. This is the operator's own log, and correcting a field in it is
the point of the exercise. The district now lands in CNTY as well as in
the award reference.
And the settled rows stayed on screen, which made the same button look
broken a second time. They are dropped as they are applied — locally,
rather than by re-running the comparison, which reads the whole log and
would be seconds of silence on a remote database to be told what is
already known. The agree/disagree counters follow.
The comparison could show two hundred contacts where the log and the
database name different districts, and leave the operator with nothing to
do about any of them but open each QSO and edit it by hand.
Now each row carries the two values as buttons: click the district you
keep, then apply. There are shortcuts for keeping one source everywhere,
and applying is a separate act — clicking through two hundred rows with
each one written as it is clicked would make a slip permanent before the
reading was finished.
The choice is written as the contact's AWARD REFERENCE, not over the
imported CNTY, and that distinction is the point. CNTY is what the
downloaded log said; overwriting it would destroy the evidence the
comparison runs on, and the next comparison would agree with itself and
prove nothing. The override is the operator's decision, it is what the
award engine counts, and it beats both sources. So the log keeps saying
what it said, the database keeps saying what it says, and the contact
counts for the district that was chosen.
The buttons show the districts themselves rather than a tick box: someone
arbitrating between RO-19 and KO-05 should be picking a value they can
read, not remembering which source a checked box stood for.
The TCI section of the audio settings was an investigation: open the
stream, read what arrives, record ten seconds to listen to, key a tone.
It answered every question it was built for — the frame layout, the
sample width, that the radio asks rather than follows a clock, that the
transmit audio source decides — and confirmed 80 W on real hardware.
None of that belongs in front of an operator now. The radio is simply one
of the devices in the two dropdowns, and choosing it IS the configuration:
one control, in the place where the question is already being asked.
Keeping the tick box beside it would have been two switches for one
decision, with the second one where nobody looks.
Gone with it: the stream/record/probe bindings, the audio.tci_rx setting,
and twenty-four translation keys. The plumbing they proved out stays and
now carries the voice keyer.
A SunSDR carries its audio on the same WebSocket as its commands, so
OpsLog can take it directly: no virtual cable, no second sound card, no
Windows mixer between the recording and the air. The radio appears as a
device in both audio lists and can be chosen for either direction.
Everything here was settled on real hardware over one evening, and none of
it was guessable from the documentation:
- The receive stream answers format=3 for four-byte floats, so the
sample width is derived from the frame rather than trusted from the
field.
- The radio asks for transmit audio only when the transmission is the
CLIENT'S, and only when its transmit audio source is TCI rather than
the microphone.
- The chrono is a REQUEST, not a clock: no payload, carrying the size it
wants, 47 times a second. Audio goes out in answer to it and never on
a timer of our own — a timer was the first attempt and all 234 frames
of it were ignored.
Confirmed: a clean test recording, and 80 W out of a 1 kHz tone.
A first real transmission settled one question and raised a better one.
With the receive stream open and six seconds of transmit, the radio sent
282 frames of receive audio and NOTHING else: no chrono, no transmit
audio. So the chrono the documentation describes is not offered to a
client that merely happens to be connected while the operator keys the
microphone, and waiting for it to appear is waiting for nothing.
The reading that fits is that the radio asks for audio when the
transmission is the CLIENT'S and takes the microphone when it is the
operator's — which makes the experiment obvious. Key it from here, push a
1 kHz tone, and watch. Chrono frames appearing gives their size and
cadence by measurement instead of by guesswork; no chrono but a tone on
the meter is just as useful, because then the pacing is optional and the
voice keyer can push frames at the rate the stream already runs at.
A tone rather than silence so the answer shows on the power meter and not
only in the log.
It transmits, so: an explicit button inside a warning box, five seconds,
capped at ten, and every path out unkeys — including the panic that has
not happened yet and a socket that dies mid-tone. A transmitter left keyed
by a defect is the one fault here that would reach somebody else's band.
Writes are now serialised too. send() held the lock only long enough to
read the connection, which was enough while every command came from the
poll loop; a stream of audio frames from a second goroutine is not, and
gorilla panics on a concurrent write rather than failing quietly.
Two faults, one behind the other.
RDAPanel is nested inside SettingsModal so it can read its state, and it
was written as <RDAPanel />. A nested function is a new component TYPE on
every render: React cannot know it is the same panel, so it unmounted the
tree and mounted a fresh one — and a fresh scroll container starts at the
top. It is called now, like the other panels, which produces the same
elements in place and never disturbs the scroll position.
What it was reacting to should not have reached it either. The PSK
Reporter and grid-cache poll ran every three seconds from wherever you
were in Preferences, re-rendering the whole dialog for a count shown only
on the cluster section. It now runs while that section is open, and the
one-time loads it was sharing an effect with have stayed where they were
rather than refetching on every click in the sidebar.
The visible result: a hundred contacts to correct can be read from top to
bottom.
Confirmed on a real SunSDR: the stream decodes and the test recording
plays back clean. So it can do the job a virtual audio cable was doing —
this wires it to the QSO recorder, which already accepts a pushed source
(the Icom network audio uses the same door).
The conversion lives here rather than in internal/cat: the radio's job is
to hand over what it sent, not to know that the recorder works in 16 kHz
mono. Three samples are AVERAGED rather than two of them dropped —
decimating by picking every third folds everything above 8 kHz back into
the voice band, and on a receiver that is hiss, which a QSO recording has
plenty of already.
Off by default, and applied the moment it is switched: it replaces a
sound card the operator has already wired up, and an option that needs a
restart to take effect reads as an option that does not work.
TWO FAULTS, ONE SYMPTOM — 'it refreshes ten times a second and the
buttons cannot be pressed'.
Preferences is a child of the main view, so every cluster spot, CAT push
and decode re-rendered the entire panel. On a busy evening that is
several times a second, and the panel is large enough that the rebuild
outlasts the gap between them: buttons missed their clicks because the
element under the pointer was replaced between the press and the release.
It is memoised now, and the callbacks App hands it hold their identity —
without that the memo compares unequal every time and buys nothing.
The dropdown menu was an absolutely-positioned child, so it was clipped
by whichever scrolling or overflow-hidden box it sat in: the satellite
list showed one entry of eight. It is portalled to the body now,
positioned from the field's rectangle, re-measured while open, and opens
upward when the field is near the bottom of the screen — which is exactly
where these fields tend to be.
rouggy