An operator with a callsign in the field, switching FT8 to SSB, kept
"+00" as the report. The edited flag protects a report the operator
chose — 57 rather than 59 — and it was holding across a change of mode as
well, where it protects nothing: a decibel figure is not a weak SSB
report, it is not a report at all. Worse, anything that fills the field
from the rig sets that flag too (the S-meter readouts in the rig
consoles), so the field could be stuck in the wrong notation for the rest
of the QSO.
The flag now holds only while the report still belongs to the mode's
family. When it does not, the operator's own judgement is carried across
where it can be — 57 becomes 579, 599 becomes 59 — and the mode's preset
answers where it cannot.
Below 59+20 comes 59+15, then +10, +5, then a plain 59 and down through
58, 57. Stepping the S digit and leaving the suffix where it was turned
59+20 into 58+20, which nobody has ever said on the air. Five decibels at
a time above S9 — the same increment sMeterRST rounds an S-meter reading
to — and one S-unit below it.
The mouse wheel steps the RST fields — one S-unit on an RST or RS, one
decibel on a digital report, up for a better one — in the entry strip and
in the QSO editor. The dropdown beside them lists the reports worth
having to hand, not all 41 decibels, so the wheel works on the value
rather than walking the list. The listener is native and non-passive:
React attaches onWheel passively, where preventDefault does nothing and
the panel scrolls away under the field being adjusted.
PSK Reporter, whole-band scope: clicking a decode reset the report count
to zero. The window there is the BAND's — every FTx report on it,
filtered by target only when the analysis is drawn — and it was emptied
on every target change, throwing away an hour of evidence at the moment
the operator asked the question it answers. The narrow scope still clears
it: there the window is one station's, and keeping it would answer the
new question with the old station's evidence.
rouggy