Three faults an operator's log finally made visible, plus the interface
work that came out of the same session.
Reliability:
- UDP events were dropped on backpressure without a word. A period hands
over twenty-odd decodes at once, and one slow write to the radio was
enough to fill the queue — so a decode simply never appeared, and the
only detector was the operator comparing the panel with JTDX. The drop
is now counted and logged, panadapter spots went to their own goroutine
so the radio can no longer hold the decode stream up, and the queue is
deep enough for a full period.
- The CAT manager waited for its poll loop with a bare <-done. A loop
wedged in a serial read then blocked every later restart inside Start,
before it could even try to connect: the rig stayed dead, no line was
written anywhere, and only killing the process recovered it. The wait
is bounded at ten seconds and says what it abandoned and why the next
connect may fail.
- Shutdown had no logging at all, so a hang left nothing to go on and a
process the operator had to kill — which then blocked the restart after
an update. Every step is logged, and a watchdog forces the exit if one
of them never returns.
Auto-call:
- A QSO in progress is now held by OpsLog itself rather than inferred
from the sender's Status. The moment WSJT-X/JTDX dropped the DX call or
the Enable-Tx flag between overs, the exchange looked finished and the
next CQ was answered, interleaving two and then three QSOs on one
slice. Released on log, on halt, on taking over, and by a watchdog.
Cluster console:
- Replies to a command were buried under the spot flood; a Replies
toggle hides the DX spots, which the list above already shows.
- Twelve named command buttons beside the input, configured in
Settings -> Cluster; a button with no command is not drawn.
- Following the tail is now an explicit switch, and sending a command
re-arms it. It used to measure "am I at the bottom" AFTER committing
the new lines, so a ten-line reply looked like the operator had
scrolled up and was never followed — the one case it exists for.
Awards:
- An award can name NO field. The matching controls disappear with it
and only hand-assigned references count, which is the only thing that
can feed a reference like WWBOTA. A test pins that nothing else is
scanned.
- WWBOTA added to the catalogue with its 31 342 references.
Elsewhere: the rotor widget's Stop button acknowledges the press like
the direction presets already did, and the docked band map can be
switched to fit-to-band from its own header.
The catalog carried Japan's civil prefecture code (JIS X 0401) — 01 Hokkaido,
02 Aomori, 03 Iwate, 04 Miyagi — where the award uses the JARL's own numbering.
The two agree on the first three prefectures and then part company on 35 of the
remaining 44: Tokyo is 10 to the JARL and 13 to the government, Niigata 08
against 15, Toyama 28 against 16.
The names were right throughout, which is why nothing looked wrong: the award
matches on the prefecture NAME in the QTH, so it counted exactly the right
contacts. Only the number against each one was wrong — and that number is what
an operator writes on a JARL claim.
Renumbered by name from the official JARL list, so everything else each entry
carried travels with it. That includes the Tokyo spelling pattern, which had to
move from 13 to 10; left where it was it would have been matching QTHs for
Saitama.
Two digits throughout, as the JARL prints them. Not cosmetic: the codes are
strings, so "1" sorts between "09" and "10" and the reference list appeared in
an order no published list uses.
Version 2 on the definition, so this actually reaches people. An operator who
has not edited WAJA gets it at startup; one who has is offered it, since their
work outranks ours. Nobody has to re-import by hand.
Reported with the official JARL chart alongside the exported award.
Every one of the 2660 references was filed under European Russia. Corrected
against the RDA reference list: 991 are Asiatic Russia (15), and the 24 KA-
districts are Kaliningrad (126), which is not Russia for DXCC purposes at all.
1645 were already right.
dxcc_filter went from [15,54] to [15,54,126] with them. That filter decides
which QSOs are even considered, so leaving it alone would have made the 24
Kaliningrad districts unclaimable — a correction that quietly removes references
is worse than the error it fixes.
BA-27 (Mezhgorye) and BO-33 (Schebekino) are not in the reference list at all
and were left exactly as they were. Guessing an entity for a district nobody
lists is how a second wrong answer gets added to the first.
Only the dxcc field changed. Names differ in transliteration between the two
sources — Maykop against Maikop — and rewriting those was not asked for and
would churn 2660 lines to no purpose.
Windows parks a minimised window at -32000,-32000 with a stub size and reports
it as not-maximised, so closing OpsLog from the taskbar while minimised stored
exactly that. Seen in a log: "window: saving -32000,-32000 237x39
maximised=false".
The restore side already rejects both the impossible corner and the
below-minimum size, so nothing opened off-screen — but it fell back to the
default placement, and the operator silently lost the size, the position and the
maximised state they had set.
saveWindowState now keeps what was already stored when the window is minimised.
Two tests for that: the Wails flag, and the -32000 corner, because a window that
is mid-close can sit at that corner with the flag already cleared. A poisoned
window.json repairs itself on the next close of an on-screen window.
Six equal columns gave a US county name the same width as a two-digit CQ
zone: the county truncated while the zones, the prefix and the DXCC
number sat mostly empty. The row is twelve columns now, spans set per
field.
The bearing and the two distances are read-only and never exceed
"12345 km", so they move to a flex row at a fixed width and the address —
the one field here that was never wide enough — takes the remainder.
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.
Operators rarely write the canton in their address/QTH but do write the city.
Add a per-reference city regex to every one of the 26 cantons (same mechanism as
WAPC): the description match now fires on the canton NAME or any of its main
cities (Genève→GE, Lausanne→VD, Zürich→ZH, Bellinzona→TI, …), with accented and
ASCII/localised spellings. Scoped to DXCC 287 so cross-border city-name clashes
can't misfire. Catalog version bumped 1→2 so the update reaches anyone already
running H26 v1 (unless they've edited it).
New built-in award file internal/award/catalog/h26.json (USKA "The Helvetia 26
Award HF"): 26-canton reference list, matches the canton from the QSO address
(OR-rule: QTH) by description, scoped to DXCC 287 (HB) on HF. Fixed a typo in
the description ("Swityerland"). Changelog entry added (EN+FR).
DDFM now derives the French department from the address postal code, not only
from a note typed by hand — the catalog def gains the address OR-rule (\d{2}\d{3}
-> Dxx), France+Corsica scope, and version 2. On next launch every operator whose
DDFM is unedited auto-upgrades to it (user-edited copies are offered it); the
materialised award_refs then recompute so ~500+ French QSOs gain their department.
Also: a catalog definition update now clears the award_refs backfill flag, so any
future catalog bump self-heals the stored columns without a manual flag bump.
rouggy