chore: release v0.27.0

A new tab, a new file format carried over from another program, and a ClubLog
integration are a minor version, not a patch.

app.go

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ import (
 	"hamlog/internal/tunergenius"
 	"hamlog/internal/uls"
 	"hamlog/internal/ultrabeam"
+	"hamlog/internal/watchlist"
 	"hamlog/internal/winkeyer"
 
 	wruntime "github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/pkg/runtime"
@@ -95,12 +96,13 @@ const (
 	keyLookupFailsafe = "lookup.failsafe"
 	keyLookupImages   = "lookup.download_images" // 1 = expose QRZ ImageURL to UI
 
-	keyStationCallsign = "station.callsign"
+	keyStationCallsign         = "station.callsign"
-	keyStationOperator = "station.operator"
+	keyStationOperator         = "station.operator"
-	keyStationMyGrid   = "station.my_grid"
+	keyWatchlistContestPattern = "watchlist.contest_pattern" // auto-add contest calls containing this
-	keyStationCountry  = "station.my_country"
+	keyStationMyGrid           = "station.my_grid"
-	keyStationSOTA     = "station.my_sota_ref"
+	keyStationCountry          = "station.my_country"
-	keyStationPOTA     = "station.my_pota_ref"
+	keyStationSOTA             = "station.my_sota_ref"
+	keyStationPOTA             = "station.my_pota_ref"
 
 	keyListsBands      = "lists.bands"
 	keyListsModes      = "lists.modes"
@@ -402,6 +404,7 @@ const (
 
 	keyExtLoTWTQSLPath     = "extsvc.lotw.tqsl_path"
 	keyExtLoTWStationLoc   = "extsvc.lotw.station_location"
+	keyExtLoTWQSLDetail    = "extsvc.lotw.qsl_detail"             // ask LoTW for the QSL dates and station details (an order of magnitude slower)
 	keyExtLoTWAllCalls     = "extsvc.lotw.download_all_calls"     // download confirmations for EVERY call on the account, not just this profile's
 	keyExtLoTWForceCall    = "extsvc.lotw.force_station_callsign" // override STATION_CALLSIGN at sign time (e.g. F4BPO/P on the F4BPO cert)
 	keyExtLoTWKeyPassword  = "extsvc.lotw.key_password"
@@ -734,6 +737,10 @@ type App struct {
 	uls          *uls.Store // US callsign→county/grid (offline FCC ULS), lazily opened
 	awardRefs    *awardref.Repo
 	qslTemplates *qslcard.Repo
+	watchlist    *watchlist.Store     // Tools → Watchlist (global watchlist.json)
+	watchAlertMu sync.Mutex           // throttles watchlist alerts…
+	watchAlertAt map[string]time.Time // …per entry
+	watchPattern atomic.Value         // auto-contest pattern (string), loaded at startup
 	operating    *operating.Repo
 	udp          *udp.Manager
 	udpRepo      *udp.Repo
@@ -1014,6 +1021,13 @@ func (a *App) startup(ctx context.Context) {
 		return
 	}
 	a.dataDir = dataDir
+	// The watchlist needs nothing but its file, so it opens FIRST. It used to be
+	// created after the logbook connect, and a remote MySQL dial of 10-30 s left
+	// the tab saying "Watchlist: 0" until the next refresh tick — twenty seconds
+	// of an empty list for a JSON file that reads in a millisecond. (The
+	// auto-contest pattern still loads later, once the settings store is open.)
+	a.watchlist = watchlist.New(filepath.Join(dataDir, "watchlist.json"))
+	a.watchAlertAt = map[string]time.Time{}
 	// Settings/config database (settings + profiles). Fresh installs use
 	// settings.db; existing installs keep their opslog.db (which also held the
 	// QSOs before they were split into a dedicated logbook file — see below).
@@ -1384,6 +1398,8 @@ func (a *App) startup(ctx context.Context) {
 	// POTA: background poller of api.pota.app so cluster spots can be tagged
 	// when the DX station is currently activating a park. Best-effort.
 	a.pota = pota.New(func(format string, args ...any) { applog.Printf(format, args...) })
+	a.startWatchlistClubLog()
+	a.watchPattern.Store(strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(a.settingOr(keyWatchlistContestPattern, ""))))
 	go a.pota.Run(a.ctx)
 
 	// DX Cluster (multi-server): the spot callback enriches each spot
@@ -1795,6 +1811,9 @@ func (a *App) setSettingGlobal(key, val string) {
 }
 
 func (a *App) shutdown(ctx context.Context) {
+	if a.watchlist != nil {
+		a.watchlist.Flush() // the save debounce would lose the last edits
+	}
 	// If the user managed to skip beforeClose (force kill, OS shutdown,
 	// crash recovery) we still try the backup here as a best-effort
 	// safety net. HasBackupToday makes a double-run a no-op.
@@ -2123,6 +2142,21 @@ func (a *App) saveWindowState() {
 // position — which options can't express — remains, and it is set here while the
 // window is still hidden, so there is no visible jump. Nothing to do for a
 // maximised or first-run window.
+// moveWindowTo places the window at an ABSOLUTE desktop coordinate — the same
+// coordinate system WindowGetPosition reports and window.json stores.
+//
+// Wails' WindowSetPosition is relative to the current monitor's work area (see
+// windowpos_windows.go), so on a monitor left of the primary one it added that
+// monitor's negative origin to an already-absolute value and the window walked
+// one screen further off the desktop at every launch. Fall back to it only when
+// we cannot place the window ourselves — on the primary monitor the two agree.
+func (a *App) moveWindowTo(x, y int) {
+	if setWindowPosAbsolute(x, y) {
+		return
+	}
+	wruntime.WindowSetPosition(a.ctx, x, y)
+}
+
 func (a *App) restoreWindowPosition() {
 	if a.ctx == nil {
 		return
@@ -2150,7 +2184,7 @@ func (a *App) restoreWindowPosition() {
 			return
 		}
 		wruntime.WindowUnmaximise(a.ctx)
-		wruntime.WindowSetPosition(a.ctx, ws.X, ws.Y)
+		a.moveWindowTo(ws.X, ws.Y)
 		wruntime.WindowMaximise(a.ctx)
 		gx, gy := wruntime.WindowGetPosition(a.ctx)
 		applog.Printf("window: re-maximised at the saved corner — now at %d,%d", gx, gy)
@@ -2178,10 +2212,13 @@ func (a *App) restoreWindowPosition() {
 		}
 		applog.Printf("window: saved position %d,%d is off every monitor (%s) — moved to %d,%d",
 			ws.X, ws.Y, describeMonitors(monitorRects()), nx, ny)
-		wruntime.WindowSetPosition(a.ctx, nx, ny)
+		a.moveWindowTo(nx, ny)
 		return
 	}
-	wruntime.WindowSetPosition(a.ctx, ws.X, ws.Y)
+	a.moveWindowTo(ws.X, ws.Y)
+	if gx, gy := wruntime.WindowGetPosition(a.ctx); gx != ws.X || gy != ws.Y {
+		applog.Printf("window: asked for %d,%d and the window reports %d,%d", ws.X, ws.Y, gx, gy)
+	}
 }
 
 // onSomeMonitor reports whether a window at these coordinates would land on the
@@ -6919,6 +6956,28 @@ func (a *App) BulkUpdateField(ids []int64, field, value string) (int64, error) {
 	if field == "freq" {
 		return a.bulkSetFrequency(ids, value)
 	}
+	// The station-side numbers. Bounded so a slip cannot stamp CQ zone 400 on a
+	// thousand rows: DXCC entities stop short of 1000, CQ zones at 40, ITU at 90.
+	// Empty clears (NULL).
+	if field == "my_dxcc" || field == "my_cq_zone" || field == "my_itu_zone" {
+		var vp *int
+		if t := strings.TrimSpace(value); t != "" {
+			v, err := strconv.Atoi(t)
+			max := map[string]int{"my_dxcc": 999, "my_cq_zone": 40, "my_itu_zone": 90}[field]
+			if err != nil || v < 1 || v > max {
+				return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s must be a number between 1 and %d (empty to clear)", field, max)
+			}
+			vp = &v
+		}
+		n, err := a.qso.BulkSetIntField(a.ctx, ids, field, vp)
+		if err != nil {
+			return 0, err
+		}
+		if n > 0 {
+			a.invalidateAwardStats()
+		}
+		return n, nil
+	}
 	// Some ADIF fields have no promoted column and live in extras_json
 	// (OWNER_CALLSIGN) — those take the JSON path so the rest of the extras on
 	// each QSO survive the edit.
@@ -7233,7 +7292,9 @@ func (a *App) SetCompactMode(on bool) {
 		wruntime.WindowSetMinSize(a.ctx, normalMinW, normalMinH)
 		if a.preCompactValid {
 			wruntime.WindowSetSize(a.ctx, a.preCompactW, a.preCompactH)
-			wruntime.WindowSetPosition(a.ctx, a.preCompactX, a.preCompactY)
+			// Absolute, like the capture — see moveWindowTo. Leaving compact mode on a
+			// monitor left of the primary one moved the window a screen further out.
+			a.moveWindowTo(a.preCompactX, a.preCompactY)
 			if a.preCompactMax {
 				wruntime.WindowMaximise(a.ctx)
 			}
@@ -8960,6 +9021,10 @@ func (a *App) clusterEventWorker() {
 		a.detectBandOpening(s)
 		// Fire any matching alert rules (sound / visual / e-mail).
 		a.evaluateAlerts(s)
+		// The watchlist sees the same live stream the alerts do — never the
+		// SH/DX replay above, which would mark forty stations "just seen" with
+		// spots from three hours ago.
+		a.watchSpot(s.DXCall, s.Band, alerts.InferMode(s.Comment, s.FreqHz), s.Country, s.Comment, s.FreqHz)
 		// Mirror the spot onto the FlexRadio panadapter when enabled. Infer the
 		// mode (from the comment, else the band plan) so clicking the spot on the
 		// panadapter tunes AND switches mode — a DX cluster line carries no mode,
@@ -11305,11 +11370,19 @@ func (a *App) runManualUpload(svc extsvc.Service, ids []int64, cfg extsvc.Extern
 		}
 		res, err := extsvc.UploadLoTW(ctx, cfg.LoTW, "", strings.Join(recs, "\n"))
 		if err != nil || !res.OK {
-			msg := res.Message
+			// The DETAIL wins over the error string. UploadLoTW returns both: a
-			if err != nil {
+			// terse error ("no QSOs processed") and a Message carrying TQSL's own
+			// account of what happened to the contacts ("…already uploaded", "…out
+			// of date range"). Taking the error whenever there was one threw the
+			// answer away and showed the operator the half that explains nothing.
+			msg := strings.TrimSpace(res.Message)
+			if msg == "" && err != nil {
 				msg = err.Error()
+			} else if err != nil && !strings.Contains(msg, err.Error()) {
+				msg = msg + " (" + err.Error() + ")"
 			}
 			emit("LoTW upload failed: " + msg)
+			emit("  The station location OpsLog signs with must match the callsign on these contacts, and their dates must fall inside the certificate's validity — TQSL refuses the whole batch otherwise.")
 			// The qslmgr:log console is only visible in the QSL Manager — a failure
 			// triggered from the Recent QSOs right-click was completely silent, which
 			// read as "send to LoTW does nothing". Surface it as a toast too.
@@ -11547,14 +11620,18 @@ func (a *App) runManualUpload(svc extsvc.Service, ids []int64, cfg extsvc.Extern
 // with award-style NEW flags computed against the log's prior confirmations.
 type ConfirmationItem struct {
 	Callsign string `json:"callsign"`
-	QSODate  string `json:"qso_date"` // ISO UTC
+	// Station is the callsign the QSO was made UNDER, which the download can now
-	Band     string `json:"band"`
+	// span ("All my callsigns"): a list mixing F4BPO, F4BPO/P and TM2Q says
-	Mode     string `json:"mode"`
+	// nothing useful unless each line says which of them it belongs to.
-	Country  string `json:"country"`
+	Station string `json:"station"`
-	NewDXCC  bool   `json:"new_dxcc"`
+	QSODate string `json:"qso_date"` // ISO UTC
-	NewBand  bool   `json:"new_band"`
+	Band    string `json:"band"`
-	NewMode  bool   `json:"new_mode"` // new mode CLASS (Phone/CW/Digital) for the entity
+	Mode    string `json:"mode"`
-	NewSlot  bool   `json:"new_slot"`
+	Country string `json:"country"`
+	NewDXCC bool   `json:"new_dxcc"`
+	NewBand bool   `json:"new_band"`
+	NewMode bool   `json:"new_mode"` // new mode CLASS (Phone/CW/Digital) for the entity
+	NewSlot bool   `json:"new_slot"`
 }
 
 // GetSlotStats returns the worked/confirmed slot + DXCC tallies for the QSL
@@ -12097,6 +12174,16 @@ func manualRefFor(existing, code string) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
+// GetLoTWQSLDetail reports whether the download asks LoTW for the QSL detail.
+func (a *App) GetLoTWQSLDetail() bool {
+	return a.settingOr(keyExtLoTWQSLDetail, "") == "1"
+}
+
+// SetLoTWQSLDetail stores that choice.
+func (a *App) SetLoTWQSLDetail(on bool) {
+	a.setSetting(keyExtLoTWQSLDetail, map[bool]string{true: "1", false: "0"}[on])
+}
+
 // GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls reports whether the LoTW download ignores the
 // profile's own call and pulls every callsign on the account.
 func (a *App) GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls() bool {
@@ -12212,7 +12299,17 @@ func (a *App) runDownloadConfirmations(ctx context.Context, svc extsvc.Service,
 			emit(fmt.Sprintf("Downloading all LoTW confirmations for %s…", callLabel))
 		}
 		emit(fmt.Sprintf("Window: since=%q → resolved=%q (scope owncall=%q)", since, sinceDate, ownCall))
-		adifText, err := extsvc.DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx, nil, cfg.LoTW, sinceDate, ownCall)
+		// The report arrives over minutes, and a window that says nothing while it
+		// does is indistinguishable from one that has hung — which is what it was
+		// being reported as. Every half-megabyte, say how much has landed.
+		// Adding the QSOs LoTW knows and we do not is the one job that needs the
+		// slow report: without the detail those records would come in with no
+		// grid, state or county, and nothing else would ever fill them.
+		detail := addNotFound || a.settingOr(keyExtLoTWQSLDetail, "") == "1"
+		if detail {
+			emit("Asking for the QSL details too — LoTW takes considerably longer to build that report.")
+		}
+		adifText, err := extsvc.DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx, nil, cfg.LoTW, sinceDate, ownCall, detail, emit)
 		if err != nil {
 			emit("Download failed: " + err.Error())
 			done(matched, total)
@@ -12316,6 +12413,7 @@ func (a *App) runDownloadConfirmations(ctx context.Context, svc extsvc.Service,
 			}
 			it := ConfirmationItem{
 				Callsign: q.Callsign,
+				Station:  strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(rec["station_callsign"])),
 				QSODate:  q.QSODate.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339),
 				Band:     q.Band,
 				Mode:     q.Mode,
@@ -14578,6 +14676,36 @@ func (a *App) FlexBackspaceCW(n int) error {
 	return a.cat.FlexDo(func(fc cat.FlexController) error { return fc.BackspaceCW(n) })
 }
 
+// TCISendCW keys a CW message through the SunSDR's own macro keyer, so a TCI
+// station needs no WinKeyer and no second serial port. Text is already
+// variable-resolved by the UI.
+func (a *App) TCISendCW(text string) error {
+	if a.cat == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("cat not initialized")
+	}
+	err := a.cat.TCICWDo(func(tc cat.TCICWController) error { return tc.SendCW(text) })
+	if err != nil {
+		applog.Printf("tci cw: TCISendCW(%q) failed: %v", text, err)
+	}
+	return err
+}
+
+// TCIStopCW aborts whatever the keyer is sending.
+func (a *App) TCIStopCW() error {
+	if a.cat == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("cat not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.cat.TCICWDo(func(tc cat.TCICWController) error { return tc.StopCW() })
+}
+
+// TCISetKeySpeed sets the macro keyer speed in WPM.
+func (a *App) TCISetKeySpeed(wpm int) error {
+	if a.cat == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("cat not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.cat.TCICWDo(func(tc cat.TCICWController) error { return tc.SetCWSpeed(wpm) })
+}
+
 // IcomStopCW aborts the CW message currently being sent.
 func (a *App) IcomStopCW() error {
 	if a.cat == nil {
@@ -19598,10 +19726,11 @@ type SpotStatus struct {
 // that already holds the pointer keeps reading valid (stale-by-one-log) data
 // while a newer snapshot is being built. See clusterStatusMaps.
 type clusterStatusCache struct {
-	entities        map[int]*qso.EntitySlot
+	entities           map[int]*qso.EntitySlot
-	workedCalls     map[string]struct{}
+	workedCalls        map[string]struct{}
-	workedCallSlots map[string]struct{} // nil unless the "same slot" option is on
+	workedCallSlots    map[string]struct{}
-	workedCounties  map[string]struct{}
+	workedCallSlotsDig map[string]struct{} // same set, digital modes folded to DIG // nil unless the "same slot" option is on
+	workedCounties     map[string]struct{}
 	// callCounties holds callsign → "STATE,County" for stations already logged
 	// with a county, so a spot shows the county the entry panel showed rather
 	// than the one derived from the licence ZIP. See qso.CallCounties.
@@ -19684,8 +19813,18 @@ func (a *App) clusterStatusMaps() *clusterStatusCache {
 	// "Already worked only on the same slot" option (Settings → DX Cluster): the
 	// WORKED-call flag then needs the SAME band and mode (digital-grouped through
 	// the same normMode when that option is on) rather than the call anywhere.
-	if sameSlot || slotHighlight {
+	// Built UNCONDITIONALLY since the watchlist arrived: its per-slot verdict
-		c.workedCallSlots, _ = a.qso.WorkedCallSlotKeys(a.ctx, c.normMode)
+	// needs this set whatever the cluster's own display options say, and the
+	// scan already runs at cache-rebuild cadence, not per batch.
+	c.workedCallSlots, _ = a.qso.WorkedCallSlotKeys(a.ctx, c.normMode)
+	// And once more at digital-CLASS grain, for the spots whose mode the band
+	// plan can only call "DATA": a generic mode cannot be matched exactly, so it
+	// is judged against "any digital mode of this call on this band". When the
+	// grouping option is on, workedCallSlots is already at that grain.
+	if c.normMode != nil {
+		c.workedCallSlotsDig = c.workedCallSlots
+	} else {
+		c.workedCallSlotsDig, _ = a.qso.WorkedCallSlotKeys(a.ctx, qso.GroupDigitalMode)
 	}
 	// Orthogonal dimensions: worked US counties (for the ULS callsign→county
 	// lookup) and worked POTA parks.

app_k3.go

@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ func (a *App) GetKenwoodState() cat.KenwoodTXState {
 	return st
 }
 
+// SetKenwoodPanelMode sets the operating mode from the panel's mode row —
+// CW / USB / LSB / DATA (soundcard, DT0) / RTTY (FSK D, DT2).
+func (a *App) SetKenwoodPanelMode(mode string) error {
+	return a.kenwoodPanelDo(func(k cat.KenwoodPanelController) error { return k.SetKenwoodPanelMode(mode) })
+}
+
+// SetKenwoodRITOffset sets the RIT/XIT offset to an absolute value in Hz.
+func (a *App) SetKenwoodRITOffset(hz int) error {
+	return a.kenwoodPanelDo(func(k cat.KenwoodPanelController) error { return k.SetKenwoodRITOffset(hz) })
+}
+
 func (a *App) SetKenwoodPower(w int) error {
 	return a.kenwoodPanelDo(func(k cat.KenwoodPanelController) error { return k.SetKenwoodPower(w) })
 }

app_watchlist.go

@@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
+package main
+
+// Watchlist bindings — the DXHunter watchlist concept as an OpsLog tab.
+// The store lives in internal/watchlist (global watchlist.json, DXHunter's own
+// schema); this file is the Wails boundary plus the two places the list meets
+// the rest of the app: the spot stream (MarkSeen + alert) and the logbook (the
+// worked-today answer contest entries are judged by).
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/applog"
+	"hamlog/internal/qso"
+	"hamlog/internal/watchlist"
+
+	wruntime "github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/pkg/runtime"
+)
+
+// The auto-contest pattern, DXHunter's contest_prefix: while non-empty, any
+// spotted callsign CONTAINING it is added to the watchlist as a contest entry
+// by itself — a special-event fleet (HB9WWA, DL0WWA, F4WWA…) is collected as
+// it appears instead of typed in one by one. Held in an atomic so the spot
+// pipeline never touches the settings store per spot.
+func (a *App) GetWatchlistContestPattern() string {
+	if v := a.watchPattern.Load(); v != nil {
+		return v.(string)
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// SetWatchlistContestPattern stores the pattern (global, like the list itself).
+// Emptying it stops the auto-add; entries already collected stay — deleting an
+// operator's list because a setting changed is DXHunter behaviour this port
+// deliberately drops.
+func (a *App) SetWatchlistContestPattern(p string) {
+	p = strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(p))
+	a.watchPattern.Store(p)
+	a.setSettingGlobal(keyWatchlistContestPattern, p)
+}
+
+// WatchlistEntries returns the list for the tab.
+func (a *App) WatchlistEntries() []watchlist.Entry {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return a.watchlist.Entries()
+}
+
+// WatchlistAdd adds a callsign or prefix; contest entries are judged per UTC day.
+func (a *App) WatchlistAdd(callsign string, contest bool) error {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("watchlist not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.watchlist.Add(callsign, contest)
+}
+
+// WatchlistRemove deletes an entry.
+func (a *App) WatchlistRemove(callsign string) error {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("watchlist not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.watchlist.Remove(callsign)
+}
+
+// WatchlistSetNotify arms the existing alert path (sound + toast) for an entry.
+func (a *App) WatchlistSetNotify(callsign string, on bool) error {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("watchlist not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.watchlist.SetNotify(callsign, on)
+}
+
+// WatchlistSetContest flips the per-entry contest rule.
+func (a *App) WatchlistSetContest(callsign string, on bool) error {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("watchlist not initialized")
+	}
+	return a.watchlist.SetContest(callsign, on)
+}
+
+// WatchlistSlotQuery asks whether one spot's slot is worked — against the whole
+// log for a normal entry, against TODAY (UTC) for a contest one.
+type WatchlistSlotQuery struct {
+	Call    string `json:"call"`
+	Band    string `json:"band"`
+	Mode    string `json:"mode"`
+	Contest bool   `json:"contest"`
+}
+
+// WatchlistWorkedSlots answers a batch of slot questions for the tab.
+//
+// Normal entries read the CLUSTER's own slot set — the same cached
+// WorkedCallSlotKeys index that colours the grid — so the watchlist can never
+// contradict the cluster about the same spot. That index normalises the mode
+// exactly as the operator configured (digital grouping on → FT4 counts as FT8's
+// class; off → exact mode), and the first version of this ignored that: it
+// asked the alerts' raw-mode index with a CLASS name, matched nothing, and
+// showed a fully-worked DXpedition as all Needed.
+//
+// Contest entries read TODAY's contacts instead — the midnight-UTC reset is
+// the query's date bound, nothing stored, nothing to reset — normalised through
+// the same function so the two answers use one grammar.
+func (a *App) WatchlistWorkedSlots(queries []WatchlistSlotQuery) []bool {
+	out := make([]bool, len(queries))
+	if a.qso == nil || len(queries) == 0 {
+		return out
+	}
+	idx := a.clusterStatusMaps()
+	norm := func(m string) string {
+		m = strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(m))
+		if idx.normMode != nil {
+			m = idx.normMode(m)
+		}
+		return m
+	}
+	slotKey := func(call, band, mode string) string {
+		up := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(call))
+		b := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band))
+		if m := norm(mode); m != "" {
+			return up + "|" + b + "|" + m
+		}
+		return up + "|" + b
+	}
+	// A spot whose mode the band plan could only call "DATA" (an F/H DXpedition
+	// off the standard dials, a comment with no mode) cannot be matched exactly:
+	// "DATA" is in nobody's log. Such a spot is judged at digital-CLASS grain —
+	// worked if ANY digital mode of that call is logged on that band. Claiming
+	// NEW MODE because the label differs from FT8 was the reported bug.
+	generic := func(m string) bool {
+		switch strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(m)) {
+		case "", "DATA", "DIG", "DIGI", "DIGITAL":
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+	digKey := func(call, band string) string {
+		return strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(call)) + "|" + strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(band)) + "|DIG"
+	}
+	needToday := false
+	for _, q := range queries {
+		if q.Contest {
+			needToday = true
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	today := map[string]bool{}
+	if needToday {
+		midnight := time.Now().UTC().Truncate(24 * time.Hour)
+		rows, err := a.qso.SlotsSince(a.ctx, midnight)
+		if err == nil {
+			for _, r := range rows {
+				today[slotKey(r.Callsign, r.Band, r.Mode)] = true
+				today[digKey(r.Callsign, r.Band)] = qso.ModeClass(r.Mode) == "DIG" || today[digKey(r.Callsign, r.Band)]
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for i, q := range queries {
+		if q.Contest {
+			if generic(q.Mode) {
+				out[i] = today[digKey(q.Call, q.Band)]
+			} else {
+				out[i] = today[slotKey(q.Call, q.Band, q.Mode)]
+			}
+		} else if generic(q.Mode) {
+			if idx.workedCallSlotsDig != nil {
+				_, out[i] = idx.workedCallSlotsDig[digKey(q.Call, q.Band)]
+			}
+		} else if idx.workedCallSlots != nil {
+			_, out[i] = idx.workedCallSlots[slotKey(q.Call, q.Band, q.Mode)]
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// watchSpot runs one live spot through the watchlist: last-seen bookkeeping and
+// the alert, through the SAME event the alert rules fire — the frontend already
+// knows how to toast and sound it, and a second notification path would be a
+// second thing to misconfigure.
+func (a *App) watchSpot(dxCall, band, mode, country, comment string, freqHz int64) {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	entry, notify, ok := a.watchlist.MarkSeen(dxCall)
+	if !ok {
+		// Not watched yet — the auto-contest pattern may claim it. Contains, not
+		// prefix: the event string sits anywhere in these calls (HB9WWA, F4WWA/P).
+		if p := a.GetWatchlistContestPattern(); p != "" &&
+			strings.Contains(strings.ToUpper(dxCall), p) {
+			if err := a.watchlist.Add(dxCall, true); err == nil {
+				applog.Printf("watchlist: auto-added %s (contest pattern %q)", dxCall, p)
+				entry, notify, ok = a.watchlist.MarkSeen(dxCall)
+				if a.ctx != nil {
+					wruntime.EventsEmit(a.ctx, "watchlist:changed")
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !ok || !notify || a.ctx == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	// Already worked? Then nothing to announce. Judged HERE, before the sound —
+	// the report was an alert ringing for a slot the tab showed as Worked a
+	// moment later, because the frontend's verdict arrives on a debounce while
+	// the alert used to fire on the raw spot. Same verdict as the tab: exact
+	// slot for named modes, digital class for a generic DATA spot, today-only
+	// for a contest entry.
+	if e, found := a.watchlist.Get(entry); found {
+		if a.WatchlistWorkedSlots([]WatchlistSlotQuery{{Call: dxCall, Band: band, Mode: mode, Contest: e.IsContest}})[0] {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+	// Throttled per entry: a DXpedition lights up every skimmer on the planet,
+	// and forty alerts a minute for one station is a alarm nobody keeps on.
+	a.watchAlertMu.Lock()
+	last := a.watchAlertAt[entry]
+	now := time.Now()
+	if now.Sub(last) < 2*time.Minute {
+		a.watchAlertMu.Unlock()
+		return
+	}
+	a.watchAlertAt[entry] = now
+	a.watchAlertMu.Unlock()
+	wruntime.EventsEmit(a.ctx, "alert:fired", map[string]any{
+		"rule":    "Watchlist " + entry,
+		"call":    strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(dxCall)),
+		"band":    band,
+		"mode":    mode,
+		"freq_hz": freqHz,
+		"country": country,
+		"comment": comment,
+		"sound":   true,
+		"visual":  true,
+	})
+}
+
+// startWatchlistClubLog begins the expedition enrichment: every entry's
+// ClubLog block (expedition flag, OQRS, LiveStream, QSO totals and 24 h rate)
+// is refreshed on a rolling schedule — hourly for expeditions, six-hourly for
+// the rest, DXHunter's own cadence. OpsLog's application API key is used, so
+// there is nothing to configure.
+//
+// Two at a time with a breath between requests: the key is shared by every
+// OpsLog install, and a hundred-entry watchlist must read as a trickle at
+// ClubLog's end, not a burst.
+func (a *App) startWatchlistClubLog() {
+	if a.watchlist == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	go func() {
+		client := &http.Client{Timeout: 30 * time.Second}
+		// Let the app finish starting before the first network pass.
+		time.Sleep(15 * time.Second)
+		for {
+			stale := a.watchlist.StaleEntries(1*time.Hour, 6*time.Hour)
+			changed := false
+			for _, call := range stale {
+				// The pattern's BASE is what ClubLog knows: VK9* has no log.
+				base := strings.TrimSuffix(call, "*")
+				if base == "" {
+					continue
+				}
+				ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+				d, err := watchlist.FetchWatch(ctx, client, clublogAppAPIKey, base)
+				cancel()
+				if err != nil {
+					applog.Printf("watchlist clublog: %s: %v", base, err)
+					continue
+				}
+				if a.watchlist.ApplyClubLog(call, d) {
+					changed = true
+					if d.IsExpedition {
+						applog.Printf("watchlist clublog: %s is a DXpedition (%d QSOs, %d/24h, OQRS=%v)",
+							base, func() int {
+								if d.ClubLogInfo != nil {
+									return d.ClubLogInfo.TotalQSOs
+								}
+								return 0
+							}(), d.QSOs24h(), d.HasOQRS)
+					}
+				}
+				time.Sleep(400 * time.Millisecond)
+			}
+			if changed && a.ctx != nil {
+				wruntime.EventsEmit(a.ctx, "watchlist:changed")
+			}
+			time.Sleep(10 * time.Minute)
+		}
+	}()
+}

changelog.json

@@ -1,4 +1,90 @@
 [
+  {
+    "version": "0.27.0",
+    "date": "",
+    "en": [
+      "⭐ NEW — Watchlist (Tools): the DXHunter watchlist as an OpsLog tab — callsigns you are hunting (exact, or a family with a trailing * — VK9* catches every VK9), the live cluster spots under each with the NEW badges and a Needed/Worked verdict per slot, an ON AIR badge, per-entry alerts through the normal alert path, and CONTEST entries judged per UTC day (at midnight everything is workable again).Each entry is enriched from ClubLog automatically: DXpedition badge, OQRS, LiveStream link, QSO total and 24-hour rate — nothing to configure. Reads and writes DXHunter’s own watchlist.json format — drop your existing file into the data folder to carry it over.",
+      "TCI (SunSDR): the meter subscription is renewed when the radio announces it is ready — sent only at connect, it could fall inside the initial state dump and be ignored, which left the transmit power and SWR empty. The log now also records the subscription and the first sensor frames, so a report can tell “the radio never sends them” from “they arrived and were dropped”.",
+      "Sending a spot while in split now pre-fills the RX frequency — where the station actually is — instead of the TX frequency, which spotted the pile-up five up from the DX.",
+      "Cluster: NEW SLOT gets its own colour — the sky cyan the panadapter palette already uses for it, clearly apart from POTA green and the yellows. The NEW SLOT and NEW COUNTY filter chips now wear the same colours as the badges they select, and the NEW CALL filter works even when the slot-highlight display option is off.",
+      "Elecraft console: a mode row — CW, USB, LSB, DATA and DATA RTTY. The two DATA buttons set the K3’s submode as well (DATA A for FT8/FT4, FSK D for RTTY): switching to DATA by mode alone kept whatever submode the last session left, which is how a K3 “in DATA” keys FT8 with no audio.",
+      "DX Cluster settings: “I chase POTA” and “I chase SOTA”, on by default. Unticked, the NEW POTA badge, colour and filter disappear — a new-band + new-POTA spot reads NEW BAND alone — and the reference columns stay empty.",
+      "Elecraft console: RIT and XIT use the same control as the Icom and TCI consoles — ± buttons, mouse wheel, typed value, Ctrl+←/→ — and the power slider moves in 1 W steps instead of 5.",
+      "Bulk edit: My DXCC, My CQ zone and My ITU zone join the My-station fields — numbers checked against their real ranges, empty clears.",
+      "Clicking a spot in the Chase new panel now applies the FlexRadio panadapter width/zoom, like every other spot click.",
+      "FlexRadio: the panadapter width/zoom now applies reliably when double-clicking a cluster spot — the zoom is sent after the tune settles, so SmartSDR’s own pan-follow on a band change no longer overrides it."
+    ],
+    "fr": [
+      "⭐ NOUVEAU — Watchlist (Outils) : la watchlist de DXHunter en onglet OpsLog — indicatifs chassés (exacts, ou une famille avec une * finale — VK9* attrape tous les VK9), les spots cluster en direct sous chaque entrée avec les badges NOUVEAU et un verdict Manquant/Contacté par créneau, un badge ON AIR, des alertes par entrée via le circuit d'alerte normal, et des entrées CONTEST jugées par jour UTC (à minuit tout redevient à faire).Chaque entrée est enrichie automatiquement depuis ClubLog : badge DXpedition, OQRS, lien LiveStream, total de QSO et rythme sur 24 h — rien à configurer. Lit et écrit le format watchlist.json de DXHunter — déposez votre fichier existant dans le dossier data pour le récupérer.",
+      "TCI (SunSDR) : l'abonnement aux mesures est renouvelé quand la radio annonce qu'elle est prête — envoyé seulement à la connexion, il pouvait tomber pendant l'envoi initial de l'état et être ignoré, laissant la puissance et le ROS vides en émission. Le journal enregistre aussi l'abonnement et les premières trames de mesure, pour distinguer « la radio ne les envoie jamais » de « elles arrivaient et étaient perdues ».",
+      "Envoyer un spot en split préremplit désormais la fréquence RX — là où la station se trouve réellement — au lieu de la fréquence TX, qui spottait le pile-up cinq au-dessus du DX.",
+      "Cluster : NOUVEAU SLOT reçoit sa propre couleur — le cyan ciel que la palette du panadapter lui donne déjà, bien distinct du vert POTA et des jaunes. Les puces de filtre NOUVEAU SLOT et NOUVEAU COMTÉ portent désormais les couleurs des badges qu'elles sélectionnent, et le filtre NOUVEAU CALL fonctionne même quand l'option de surlignage par slot est désactivée.",
+      "Console Elecraft : une rangée de modes — CW, USB, LSB, DATA et DATA RTTY. Les deux boutons DATA règlent aussi le sous-mode du K3 (DATA A pour FT8/FT4, FSK D pour le RTTY) : passer en DATA par le seul mode gardait le sous-mode de la session précédente, et un K3 « en DATA » manipulait le FT8 sans audio.",
+      "Réglages DX Cluster : « Je chasse le POTA » et « Je chasse le SOTA », cochés par défaut. Décochés, le badge, la couleur et le filtre NOUVEAU POTA disparaissent — un spot nouvelle bande + nouveau POTA affiche seulement NOUVELLE BANDE — et les colonnes de références restent vides.",
+      "Console Elecraft : le RIT et le XIT utilisent la même commande que les consoles Icom et TCI — boutons ±, molette, valeur tapée, Ctrl+←/→ — et le curseur de puissance avance par pas de 1 W au lieu de 5.",
+      "Édition groupée : My DXCC, My CQ zone et My ITU zone rejoignent les champs Ma station — valeurs vérifiées contre leurs bornes réelles, vide efface.",
+      "Cliquer un spot dans le panneau Chase new applique désormais la largeur/zoom du panadapter FlexRadio, comme tout autre clic de spot.",
+      "FlexRadio : la largeur/zoom du panadapter s’applique désormais de façon fiable au double-clic sur un spot du cluster — le zoom est envoyé après le tune, pour que le suivi du panadapter de SmartSDR lors d’un changement de bande ne l’écrase plus."
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.26.23",
+    "date": "",
+    "en": [
+      "LoTW: the downloaded confirmations list gains a Station column, so a list spanning several callsigns says which one each confirmation belongs to. Shown only when the report actually carries more than the one station.",
+      "The band maps follow your IARU region (Settings → General): Region 2’s 40 m runs to 7300 kHz with phone from 7125 and its 80 m to 4000, Region 3’s 80 m to 3900 — the band edges and the CW/digital/phone shading all adjust."
+    ],
+    "fr": [
+      "LoTW : la liste des confirmations téléchargées gagne une colonne Station, pour savoir à quel indicatif appartient chaque confirmation quand le téléchargement en couvre plusieurs. Affichée seulement si le rapport en contient effectivement.",
+      "Les cartes de bande suivent votre région IARU (Réglages → Général) : le 40 m de la Région 2 va jusqu'à 7300 kHz avec la phonie dès 7125 et son 80 m jusqu'à 4000, le 80 m de la Région 3 jusqu'à 3900 — les limites de bande et les zones CW/numérique/phonie s'ajustent."
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.26.22",
+    "date": "",
+    "en": [
+      "LoTW download: the QSL details (QSL date, grid, state, county) are now optional and off by default — LoTW takes about ten times longer to build that report, twenty minutes against two on the same account, and marking a confirmation needs none of it. Still asked for automatically when adding the QSOs not found in the log.",
+      "Band map: the tooltip now also names a new prefix or a new grid square. They stay off the 22-pixel colour strip, but leaving them out of the text made the two panels look as though they disagreed — the cluster said NEW PFX about a spot the map called Worked, and both were right. The map’s “Worked” also says whose: it is the ENTITY that was worked on that band and mode, not the callsign, which is what made the two readings look contradictory.",
+      "TCI (SunSDR): clicking a cluster spot no longer needs a second click to get the mode right — the sideband was chosen from the frequency the radio had last reported instead of the one just asked for. The log also names the ExpertSDR version now, and says so when it is older than the 1.5 that panorama spots need.",
+      "Two screens: OpsLog no longer walks off the desktop. On a monitor placed left of the primary one, the saved position was being added to that monitor’s own origin at every launch, so the window moved one screen further out each time until it was invisible.",
+      "CW over TCI: a SunSDR can now be keyed through its own macro keyer — pick TCI as the keyer engine (Settings → CW Keyer) and macros, auto-call and the speed control all work over the link already open, with no WinKeyer and no second serial port. NOT TESTED on the air yet.",
+      "LoTW upload: a refusal now shows TQSL’s own explanation — which contacts were already uploaded, which fell outside the certificate’s dates — instead of the bare “no QSOs processed”, and names the two settings that cause it.",
+      "Main tab: the docked cluster now has ONE header row — its title, live count and Filters button sit with Clear filters and Columns, as Recent QSOs beside it already did. The pane is titled DX Cluster.",
+      "A busy cluster no longer makes the rest of the interface sluggish: incoming spots are grouped into fewer, larger updates as the feed gets faster (up to half a second), instead of redrawing the window twenty times a second. A quiet cluster still shows each spot as it lands.",
+      "SunSDR console: the meters work. The S-meter, transmit power and SWR are pushed by the radio only to a client that subscribes, and OpsLog never did — it was reading commands ExpertSDR3 does not send.",
+      "Cluster: the “N new spots” counter no longer jumps to the whole buffer. It was looking for the row it had frozen on, and a station spotted again replaces its row — so the count fell through to “everything is new”.",
+      "E-mail: a refused SMTP login now says what to do about it — Microsoft 365 and outlook.com have switched off password-based SMTP, and an app password does not bring it back.",
+      "TCI panorama spots: the colour was sent as a negative number and ExpertSDR dropped every spot in silence. It now goes out as the unsigned ARGB integer the protocol document uses, and the first few spots are written to the log verbatim.",
+      "Cluster: “Group duplicates” was hiding the same station on OTHER bands and modes — a DXpedition spotted on five bands showed as one line and four slots disappeared. A duplicate is now what it should always have been: the same station on the same band and mode."
+    ],
+    "fr": [
+      "Téléchargement LoTW : les détails QSL (date du QSL, locator, état, comté) deviennent optionnels et désactivés par défaut — LoTW met environ dix fois plus longtemps à construire ce rapport, vingt minutes contre deux sur le même compte, et marquer une confirmation n'en a pas besoin. Toujours demandés automatiquement quand on ajoute les QSO absents du log.",
+      "Carte des bandes : l'infobulle indique aussi un nouveau préfixe ou un nouveau locator. Ils restent hors de la bande de couleur de 22 pixels, mais les omettre du texte donnait l'impression que les deux panneaux se contredisaient — le cluster annonçait NOUVEAU PFX pour un spot que la carte disait contacté, et les deux avaient raison. Le « Contacté » de la carte dit aussi de qui il parle : c'est l'ENTITÉ qui a été contactée sur cette bande et ce mode, pas l'indicatif — d'où l'impression de contradiction.",
+      "TCI (SunSDR) : cliquer un spot du cluster ne demande plus un second clic pour obtenir le bon mode — la bande latérale était choisie d'après la fréquence encore annoncée par la radio au lieu de celle qu'on venait de demander. Le journal indique aussi la version d'ExpertSDR, et signale si elle est antérieure à la 1.5 qu'exigent les spots sur le panorama.",
+      "Deux écrans : OpsLog ne s'échappe plus du bureau. Sur un écran placé à gauche de l'écran principal, la position enregistrée était ajoutée à l'origine de cet écran à chaque lancement, si bien que la fenêtre s'éloignait d'un écran à chaque fois jusqu'à devenir invisible.",
+      "CW en TCI : un SunSDR peut désormais être manipulé par son propre keyer à macros — choisissez TCI comme moteur (Réglages → Manipulateur CW) et les macros, l'appel automatique et le réglage de vitesse passent par la liaison déjà ouverte, sans WinKeyer ni second port série. PAS ENCORE TESTÉ sur l'air.",
+      "Envoi LoTW : un refus affiche désormais l'explication de TQSL — quels contacts étaient déjà envoyés, lesquels tombaient hors des dates du certificat — au lieu du seul « no QSOs processed », et nomme les deux réglages qui en sont la cause.",
+      "Onglet Main : le cluster ancré n'a plus qu'UNE ligne d'en-tête — son titre, le compteur live et le bouton Filtres rejoignent Effacer les filtres et Colonnes, comme le faisait déjà la liste des QSO récents à côté. Le panneau s'intitule DX Cluster.",
+      "Un cluster chargé ne ralentit plus le reste de l'interface : les spots entrants sont regroupés en mises à jour moins nombreuses à mesure que le flux s'accélère (jusqu'à une demi-seconde), au lieu de redessiner la fenêtre vingt fois par seconde. Sur un cluster calme, chaque spot s'affiche toujours dès son arrivée.",
+      "Console SunSDR : les mesures fonctionnent. Le S-mètre, la puissance et le ROS ne sont envoyés qu'à un client qui s'abonne, ce qu'OpsLog ne faisait pas — il lisait des commandes qu'ExpertSDR3 n'envoie pas.",
+      "Cluster : le compteur « N nouveaux spots » ne saute plus à la taille du tampon. Il cherchait la ligne sur laquelle il s'était figé, or une station re-spottée remplace sa ligne — le compte basculait donc sur « tout est nouveau ».",
+      "E-mail : un refus d'authentification SMTP explique désormais quoi faire — Microsoft 365 et outlook.com ont désactivé le SMTP par mot de passe, et un mot de passe d'application ne le rétablit pas.",
+      "Spots sur le panorama TCI : la couleur partait en nombre négatif et ExpertSDR écartait chaque spot en silence. Elle est désormais envoyée en entier ARGB non signé, comme dans la documentation du protocole, et les premiers spots sont écrits tels quels dans le journal.",
+      "Cluster : « Grouper les doublons » masquait la même station sur les AUTRES bandes et modes — une expédition spottée sur cinq bandes n'affichait qu'une ligne et quatre créneaux disparaissaient. Un doublon est désormais ce qu'il aurait toujours dû être : la même station sur la même bande et le même mode."
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.26.21",
+    "date": "",
+    "en": [
+      "Distances can be shown in miles (Settings → General): the cluster and Recent QSOs columns, the map path box, the rotator buttons and the band-opening list all follow, and the column headers name the unit.",
+      "LoTW download: the report is now counted in megabytes as it arrives, LoTW’s \"busy\" answer (HTTP 503) is retried twice instead of failing, and a transfer that stops moving for two minutes says so rather than showing \"working\" indefinitely."
+    ],
+    "fr": [
+      "Les distances peuvent s'afficher en miles (Réglages → Général) : les colonnes du cluster et des QSO récents, l'encart du tracé sur la carte, les boutons du rotor et la liste des ouvertures suivent, et l'unité est indiquée dans les en-têtes de colonne.",
+      "Téléchargement LoTW : le rapport est compté en mégaoctets au fur et à mesure, la réponse « occupé » de LoTW (HTTP 503) est retentée deux fois au lieu d'échouer, et un transfert qui n'avance plus pendant deux minutes le dit au lieu d'afficher « en cours » indéfiniment."
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "version": "0.26.20",
     "date": "",
@@ -1945,4 +2031,4 @@
       "Ce résumé « Nouveautés » s'affiche désormais au premier lancement après chaque mise à jour."
     ]
   }
-]
+]

frontend/src/App.tsx

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import {
   IcomSendCW, YaesuSendCW, YaesuStopCW, SetYaesuKeySpeed, IcomStopCW, IcomSetKeySpeed, IcomSetBreakIn, GetIcomState,
   KenwoodSendCW, KenwoodStopCW, SetKenwoodKeySpeed,
   FlexSendCW, FlexStopCW, FlexSetKeySpeed, FlexBackspaceCW,
+  TCISendCW, TCIStopCW, TCISetKeySpeed,
   GetDVKMessages, GetDVKStatus, DVKPlay, DVKStop,
   StartCWDecoder, StopCWDecoder, SetCWDecoderPitch,
   ChatAvailable, GetChatHistory, SendChatMessage, GetOnlineOperators,
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ import {
 import { Combobox } from '@/components/ui/combobox';
 import { applyAwardRefs, parseAwardRefs as parseManualRefs, spotRefList , withIOTARef, withRDARef } from '@/lib/awardRefs';
 import { ListRadios, SetActiveRadio } from '../wailsjs/go/main/App';
+import { formatDistance } from '@/lib/units';
 import { EventsOn, BrowserOpenURL, WindowMinimise, WindowToggleMaximise, WindowIsMaximised, Quit } from '../wailsjs/runtime/runtime';
 import type { adif as adifModels, lookup as lookupModels, cat as catModels } from '../wailsjs/go/models';
 import type { QSOForm, WorkedBeforeView, StationSettingsForm, ListsSettingsForm, ModePresetForm } from '@/types';
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ import {
 } from '@/components/ui/dropdown-menu';
 import { APP_VERSION, APP_AUTHOR } from '@/version';
 import { QSLManagerPanel } from '@/components/QSLManagerModal';
+import { WatchlistTab } from '@/components/WatchlistTab';
 import { QslDesignerModal } from '@/components/qsl/QslDesignerModal';
 import { SendEQSLModal } from '@/components/qsl/SendEQSLModal';
 import { AutoEQSL } from '@/components/qsl/AutoEQSL';
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ import { ExportFieldsDialog } from '@/components/ExportFieldsDialog';
 import { ShutdownProgress } from '@/components/ShutdownProgress';
 import { ClusterGrid } from '@/components/ClusterGrid';
 import { cleanSpotter, inferSpotMode, spotModeCategory, spotStatusKey } from '@/lib/spot';
-import { applySpotDisplay, readSpotDisplayOptions, spotIsWorked, SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
+import { applySpotDisplay, chasePota, readSpotDisplayOptions, spotIsWorked, SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
 import { AnswerDecode, HaltDecodeTx, LogUIError, FlexTXOnBand, GetMatrixColors, GetRotorPresets, GetRowColors, GetSpotTTLMinutes, GetSpotMax, IsNewUSCounty } from '../wailsjs/go/main/App';
 import { applyMatrixColors } from '@/lib/matrixColors';
 import { WorkedBeforeGrid } from '@/components/WorkedBeforeGrid';
@@ -1489,7 +1492,7 @@ export default function App() {
   // CI-V 0x17 (no extra hardware — sends over the CAT connection). Macros,
   // auto-call and <LOGQSO> are shared; only the transport differs.
   const [wkEngine, setWkEngine] = useState<string>('winkeyer');
-  const cwSource: 'winkeyer' | 'icom' | 'flex' | 'yaesu' | 'kenwood' = wkEngine === 'icom' ? 'icom' : wkEngine === 'flex' ? 'flex' : wkEngine === 'yaesu' ? 'yaesu' : wkEngine === 'kenwood' ? 'kenwood' : 'winkeyer';
+  const cwSource: 'winkeyer' | 'icom' | 'flex' | 'yaesu' | 'kenwood' | 'tci' = wkEngine === 'icom' ? 'icom' : wkEngine === 'flex' ? 'flex' : wkEngine === 'yaesu' ? 'yaesu' : wkEngine === 'kenwood' ? 'kenwood' : wkEngine === 'tci' ? 'tci' : 'winkeyer';
   // Setting the CW speed has to reach the keyer that is ACTUALLY sending, and
   // both the CW panel and the Yaesu console can ask for it. With DTR/RTS line
   // keying the PC does the timing, so the rig's internal keyer speed changes
@@ -1503,6 +1506,7 @@ export default function App() {
     else if (src === 'flex') FlexSetKeySpeed(w).catch(() => {});
     else if (src === 'yaesu') SetYaesuKeySpeed(w).catch(() => {});
     else if (src === 'kenwood') SetKenwoodKeySpeed(w).catch(() => {});
+    else if (src === 'tci') TCISetKeySpeed(w).catch(() => {});
     else WinkeyerSetSpeed(w).catch(() => {});
     // The rig's own keyer follows too whenever a Yaesu is on CAT, even when it is
     // not the sending engine: its front panel and OpsLog then agree.
@@ -1547,6 +1551,7 @@ export default function App() {
       : cwSource === 'flex' ? (catState.backend === 'flex' && catState.connected)
       : cwSource === 'yaesu' ? (catState.backend === 'yaesu' && catState.connected)
       : cwSource === 'kenwood' ? (catState.backend === 'kenwood' && catState.connected)
+      : cwSource === 'tci' ? (catState.backend === 'tci' && catState.connected)
       : wkStatus.connected;
     wkActiveRef.current = wkEnabled && connected;
   }, [wkEnabled, wkStatus.connected, cwSource, catState.backend, catState.connected]);
@@ -1680,6 +1685,9 @@ export default function App() {
   // NET Control tab — enabled from Tools (persisted; once on it's a tab like Cluster).
   const [netEnabled, setNetEnabled] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.netEnabled') === '1');
   useEffect(() => { localStorage.setItem('opslog.netEnabled', netEnabled ? '1' : '0'); }, [netEnabled]);
+  // Watchlist tab — opt-in from Tools, persisted, closable like NET Control.
+  const [watchlistEnabled, setWatchlistEnabled] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.watchlistEnabled') === '1');
+  useEffect(() => { localStorage.setItem('opslog.watchlistEnabled', watchlistEnabled ? '1' : '0'); }, [watchlistEnabled]);
   // Contest tab is hidden until enabled from Tools → Contest mode.
   const [contestTabEnabled, setContestTabEnabled] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.contestTab') === '1');
   useEffect(() => { localStorage.setItem('opslog.contestTab', contestTabEnabled ? '1' : '0'); }, [contestTabEnabled]);
@@ -2010,7 +2018,7 @@ export default function App() {
   // so it's loaded async on mount and re-read on profile:changed below.
   // 'none' is only ever stored for the third and fourth panes: the first two are
   // the Main view, and a layout with no panes at all is not a layout.
-  type MainPaneKind = 'map1' | 'map2' | 'cluster' | 'worked' | 'flex' | 'recent' | 'icom' | 'yaesu' | 'elecraft' | 'tci' | 'netcontrol' | 'decodes' | 'none';
+  type MainPaneKind = 'map1' | 'map2' | 'cluster' | 'worked' | 'flex' | 'recent' | 'icom' | 'yaesu' | 'elecraft' | 'tci' | 'netcontrol' | 'decodes' | 'watchlist' | 'none';
   const [mapZoomSignal, setMapZoomSignal] = useState(0); // bump → world map auto-zooms now
   const [mainPaneLeft, setMainPaneLeft] = useState<MainPaneKind>('map1');
   const [mainPaneRight, setMainPaneRight] = useState<MainPaneKind>('map2');
@@ -2021,7 +2029,7 @@ export default function App() {
   // quarter-width map is unreadable.
   const [mainLayout4, setMainLayout4] = useState<'cols' | 'quad'>('quad');
   const loadMainPanes = useCallback(async () => {
-    const valid = (v: string): v is MainPaneKind => v === 'map1' || v === 'map2' || v === 'cluster' || v === 'worked' || v === 'flex' || v === 'recent' || v === 'icom' || v === 'yaesu' || v === 'elecraft' || v === 'tci' || v === 'netcontrol' || v === 'decodes';
+    const valid = (v: string): v is MainPaneKind => v === 'map1' || v === 'map2' || v === 'cluster' || v === 'worked' || v === 'flex' || v === 'recent' || v === 'icom' || v === 'yaesu' || v === 'elecraft' || v === 'tci' || v === 'netcontrol' || v === 'decodes' || v === 'watchlist';
     const [l, r, p3, p4, lay] = await Promise.all([
       GetUIPref('mainPaneLeft').catch(() => ''),
       GetUIPref('mainPaneRight').catch(() => ''),
@@ -2064,6 +2072,9 @@ export default function App() {
   useEffect(() => { spotStatusRef.current = spotStatus; }, [spotStatus]);
   // Mirror of spots so the log-triggered refresh reads the current list without
   // a stale closure.
+  // Arrival times of the last second's spots, for the adaptive batching window
+  // in the cluster:spot listener.
+  const spotRateRef = useRef<number[]>([]);
   const spotsRef = useRef(spots);
   useEffect(() => { spotsRef.current = spots; }, [spots]);
   // The decoded stations, for the same reason: the status refresh and the cache
@@ -3293,11 +3304,16 @@ export default function App() {
       noteManualEdit();
     }
     if (s.band) setBand(s.band);
-    if (catState.connected) tuneRigCAT(s.freq_hz, m);
     // The panadapter width follows the MODE of the spot, when the option is on.
-    // AFTER the tune, deliberately: a view change must never delay the frequency
+    // A no-op on any backend but a Flex. Sequenced AFTER the tune settles, not
-    // change the operator is waiting for. A no-op on any backend but a Flex.
+    // fired alongside it: on a cross-band jump SmartSDR moves the panadapter
-    FlexZoomForSpot(m ?? '', s.freq_hz ?? 0).catch(() => {});
+    // itself to follow the slice, and that follow lands after — and overrides —
+    // a zoom sent in the same instant. (A spot clicked ON the panadapter never
+    // hit this: the radio had already tuned before our zoom arrived.)
+    const zoom = () => FlexZoomForSpot(m ?? '', s.freq_hz ?? 0).catch(() => {});
+    if (catState.connected) {
+      void tuneRigCAT(s.freq_hz, m).then(() => window.setTimeout(zoom, 300));
+    } else zoom();
     if (m) applyModeFromSpot(m);
     onCallsignInput(s.dx_call, { force: true });
     applySpotRefs((s as any).pota_ref, (s as any).sota_ref);
@@ -3591,11 +3607,24 @@ export default function App() {
     const unsubSpot = EventsOn('cluster:spot', (sp: ClusterSpot) => {
       // Stage the spot; a short timer resolves its status then commits it.
       pendingSpotsRef.current.push(sp);
-      // 50 ms is enough to coalesce an RBN burst into one status lookup (the
+      // The window WIDENS with the rate of the feed.
-      // worked-index is in memory, so resolving is near-instant) while staying
+      //
-      // imperceptible.
+      // Every flush commits state that the whole window re-renders on, so a
+      // fixed 50 ms means twenty full renders a second under an RBN firehose —
+      // and that is felt everywhere else: a dropdown highlighting its entries a
+      // beat late as the mouse moves down them, which is what was reported.
+      //
+      // A quiet cluster keeps the 50 ms: a handful of spots an hour should
+      // appear the moment they arrive. A busy one is coalesced instead, and half
+      // a second's delay on a line in a list that is already scrolling past is
+      // not something anyone can see.
+      const now = Date.now();
+      spotRateRef.current = spotRateRef.current.filter((t) => now - t < 1000);
+      spotRateRef.current.push(now);
+      const perSec = spotRateRef.current.length;
+      const window_ms = perSec > 20 ? 500 : perSec > 5 ? 200 : 50;
       if (pendingSpotTimer.current === undefined) {
-        pendingSpotTimer.current = window.setTimeout(flushPendingSpots, 50);
+        pendingSpotTimer.current = window.setTimeout(flushPendingSpots, window_ms);
       }
       // Self-spot: someone spotted OUR callsign — show it in the shared header
       // toast (same place as the other notifications), not a separate banner.
@@ -3967,7 +3996,7 @@ export default function App() {
     // segment AFTER the <LOGQSO> (which logs and clears the form) still expands its
     // variables correctly.
     const parts = rawText.split(/<LOGQSO>/i).map((pt) => resolveCW(pt));
-    const isRig = cwSourceRef.current === 'icom' || cwSourceRef.current === 'flex' || cwSourceRef.current === 'yaesu' || cwSourceRef.current === 'kenwood';
+    const isRig = cwSourceRef.current === 'icom' || cwSourceRef.current === 'flex' || cwSourceRef.current === 'yaesu' || cwSourceRef.current === 'kenwood' || cwSourceRef.current === 'tci';
     for (let p = 0; p < parts.length; p++) {
       if (aborted()) return; // ESC / Stop before this segment → stop sending, don't log
       const resolved = parts[p];
@@ -3979,7 +4008,7 @@ export default function App() {
         // current WPM, so it scales automatically.
         const keyed = resolved + ' ';
         setWkSent(resolved);
-        const sendFn = cwSourceRef.current === 'flex' ? FlexSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'icom' ? IcomSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'yaesu' ? YaesuSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'kenwood' ? KenwoodSendCW : null;
+        const sendFn = cwSourceRef.current === 'flex' ? FlexSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'icom' ? IcomSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'yaesu' ? YaesuSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'kenwood' ? KenwoodSendCW : cwSourceRef.current === 'tci' ? TCISendCW : null;
         if (sendFn) await sendFn(keyed).catch((e) => setError(String(e?.message ?? e)));
         else await WinkeyerSend(keyed).catch((e) => setError(String(e?.message ?? e)));
         // WAIT for THIS segment's CW to finish before moving on — so a <LOGQSO>
@@ -4022,6 +4051,7 @@ export default function App() {
     else if (cwSourceRef.current === 'flex') FlexStopCW().catch(() => {});
     else if (cwSourceRef.current === 'yaesu') YaesuStopCW().catch(() => {});
     else if (cwSourceRef.current === 'kenwood') KenwoodStopCW().catch(() => {});
+    else if (cwSourceRef.current === 'tci') TCIStopCW().catch(() => {});
     else WinkeyerStop().catch(() => {});
   }
   // runAutoCall sends macro i, waits for the keyer to finish, waits the chosen
@@ -4070,6 +4100,10 @@ export default function App() {
   // send-on-type: key the typed chars verbatim (no variable substitution).
   function wkSendRaw(chars: string) {
     if (cwSourceRef.current === 'flex') { FlexSendCW(chars).catch(() => {}); return; }
+    // TCI keys the character as a macro of its own. There is no un-typing it
+    // afterwards — the radio can stop the message but not shorten it — so the
+    // backspace below leaves the TCI engine alone rather than pretending.
+    if (cwSourceRef.current === 'tci') { TCISendCW(chars).catch(() => {}); return; }
     WinkeyerSend(chars).catch(() => {});
   }
   function wkBackspace() {
@@ -4979,6 +5013,7 @@ export default function App() {
       { type: 'item', label: (cwEnabled ? '✓ ' : '') + t('tools.cwDecoder'), action: 'tools.cwdecoder' },
       { type: 'separator' },
       { type: 'item', label: (netEnabled ? '✓ ' : '') + t('tools.net'), action: 'tools.net' },
+      { type: 'item', label: (watchlistEnabled ? '✓ ' : '') + t('tools.watchlist'), action: 'tools.watchlist' },
       { type: 'item', label: (contestTabEnabled ? '✓ ' : '') + t('tools.contest'), action: 'tools.contest' },
       { type: 'item', label: t('tools.alerts'), action: 'tools.alerts' },
       { type: 'separator' },
@@ -5002,7 +5037,7 @@ export default function App() {
       { type: 'separator' },
       { type: 'item', label: t('help.about'), action: 'help.about' },
     ]},
-  ], [total, selectedId, selectedIds, exporting, wkEnabled, dvkEnabled, cwEnabled, netEnabled, contestTabEnabled, smtpConfigured, sendingLog, t]);
+  ], [total, selectedId, selectedIds, exporting, wkEnabled, dvkEnabled, cwEnabled, netEnabled, watchlistEnabled, contestTabEnabled, smtpConfigured, sendingLog, t]);
 
   function handleMenu(action: string) {
     switch (action) {
@@ -5030,6 +5065,7 @@ export default function App() {
       case 'tools.dvk':         setDvkEnabled((v) => !v); break;
       case 'tools.cwdecoder':   toggleCwDecoder(); break;
       case 'tools.net':         setNetEnabled((v) => { const nv = !v; if (nv) setActiveTab('net'); return nv; }); break;
+      case 'tools.watchlist':   setWatchlistEnabled((v) => { const nv = !v; if (nv) setActiveTab('watchlist'); return nv; }); break;
       case 'tools.contest':     setContestTabEnabled((v) => { const nv = !v; if (nv) setActiveTab('contest'); else setActiveTab((tb) => (tb === 'contest' ? 'recent' : tb)); return nv; }); break;
       case 'tools.alerts':      setAlertsOpen(true); break;
       case 'tools.duplicates':  setShowDuplicates(true); break;
@@ -5845,6 +5881,13 @@ export default function App() {
         // worked call still matches its own entity status too (new-band/new-slot),
         // so it stays visible under those chips.
         const matches = (st !== 'worked' && clusterStatusFilter.has(st))
+          // NEW CALL is a FACT about the callsign (never worked on this band and
+          // mode), surfaced as a status only by the slot-highlight option. The
+          // chip filters on the fact itself, so it works whether or not that
+          // display option is on — worked_slot is computed whenever either
+          // slot option is enabled.
+          || (clusterStatusFilter.has('new-call') && e?.worked_slot === false
+            && (!e?.status || e?.status === 'worked' || e?.status === 'new-call'))
           || (!!e?.worked_call && clusterStatusFilter.has('worked'))
           || (!!e?.new_pota && clusterStatusFilter.has('new-pota'))
           || (!!e?.new_county && clusterStatusFilter.has('new-county'))
@@ -5901,11 +5944,17 @@ export default function App() {
     });
     let rendered = list as (ClusterSpot & { repeats?: number })[];
     if (clusterGroup) {
+      // A DUPLICATE is the same station on the same band AND mode — the dozen
+      // skimmers that all heard one CQ. The same station on another band is the
+      // opposite of a duplicate: it is the line a DX chaser is scanning for, and
+      // grouping on the callsign alone deleted it. RI1FJL spotted on five bands
+      // showed as one row, so four slots simply vanished from the list.
       const seen = new Map<string, ClusterSpot & { repeats: number }>();
       for (const s of list) {
-        const e = seen.get(s.dx_call);
+        const key = `${(s.dx_call ?? '').toUpperCase()}|${(s.band ?? '').toLowerCase()}|${inferSpotMode(s.comment ?? '', s.freq_hz)}`;
+        const e = seen.get(key);
         if (e) { e.repeats++; }
-        else seen.set(s.dx_call, { ...s, repeats: 1 });
+        else seen.set(key, { ...s, repeats: 1 });
       }
       rendered = Array.from(seen.values());
     }
@@ -5945,12 +5994,20 @@ export default function App() {
   );
 
   const F_CHIP = 'px-1.5 py-[3px] rounded-md border text-[10px] font-bold tracking-wider transition-opacity';
-  const fChip = (key: string, label: string, cls: string, on: boolean, toggle: () => void) => (
+  const fChip = (key: string, label: string, cls: string, on: boolean, toggle: () => void, style?: React.CSSProperties, title?: string) => (
-    <button key={key} type="button" onClick={toggle}
+    <button key={key} type="button" onClick={toggle} title={title}
-      className={cn(F_CHIP, on ? cls : `${cls} opacity-40 hover:opacity-80`)}>
+      className={cn(F_CHIP, on ? cls : `${cls} opacity-40 hover:opacity-80`)} style={style}>
       {label}
     </button>
   );
+  // chipStyle builds a filter chip in an arbitrary colour — for the statuses
+  // whose grid badge is not one of the semantic tokens the chip classes cover.
+  // A filter that does not look like what it selects has to be learned twice.
+  const chipStyle = (c: string): React.CSSProperties => ({
+    color: c,
+    borderColor: `color-mix(in srgb, ${c} 45%, transparent)`,
+    background: `color-mix(in srgb, ${c} 14%, transparent)`,
+  });
 
   const renderClusterFilters = () => (
     <div className="w-56 shrink-0 border-l border-border/60 flex flex-col min-h-0 bg-muted/10">
@@ -6066,14 +6123,14 @@ export default function App() {
               { k: 'new-band-mode' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW B+M', cls: 'bg-danger-muted text-danger-muted-foreground border-danger-border' },
               { k: 'new-band' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW BAND',  cls: 'bg-warning-muted text-warning-muted-foreground border-warning-border' },
               { k: 'new-mode' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW MODE',  cls: 'bg-caution-muted text-caution-muted-foreground border-caution-border' },
-              { k: 'new-slot' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW SLOT',  cls: 'bg-caution-muted text-caution-muted-foreground border-caution-border' },
+              { k: 'new-slot' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW SLOT',  cls: 'border', style: chipStyle('#5AC8FA') },
               // NEW CALL is about the CALLSIGN, not the entity: never worked on this
               // band and mode. Only appears when the slot-highlight option is on.
               { k: 'new-call' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW CALL',  cls: 'bg-caution-muted text-caution-muted-foreground border-caution-border' },
               // Same colours as the badges in the grid — a filter that does not
               // look like what it selects has to be learned twice.
               { k: 'new-pota'   as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW POTA',   cls: 'bg-success-muted text-success-muted-foreground border-success-border' },
-              { k: 'new-county' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW COUNTY', cls: 'bg-success-muted text-success-muted-foreground border-success-border' },
+              { k: 'new-county' as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW COUNTY', cls: 'border', style: chipStyle('var(--chart-5)') },
               { k: 'new-pfx'    as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW PFX',    cls: 'bg-caution-muted text-caution-muted-foreground border-caution-border' },
               // Only ever set for a station this receiver decoded over the UDP link.
               { k: 'new-grid'   as SpotFilterKey, label: 'NEW GRID',   cls: 'bg-muted text-foreground border-border' },
@@ -6081,8 +6138,9 @@ export default function App() {
               // worked spots; the separate "Hide worked" checkbox drops them — they
               // are opposite controls, so don't use both at once.
               { k: 'worked'   as SpotFilterKey, label: 'WORKED',   cls: 'bg-info-muted text-info-muted-foreground border-info-border' },
-            ]).map((s) => fChip(s.k, s.label, s.cls, clusterStatusFilter.has(s.k),
+            ]).filter((s: any) => s.k !== 'new-pota' || chasePota())
-              () => setClusterStatusFilter((cur) => { const n = new Set(cur); if (n.has(s.k)) n.delete(s.k); else n.add(s.k); return n; })))}
+              .map((s: any) => fChip(s.k, s.label, s.cls, clusterStatusFilter.has(s.k),
+              () => setClusterStatusFilter((cur) => { const n = new Set(cur); if (n.has(s.k)) n.delete(s.k); else n.add(s.k); return n; }), s.style))}
           </div>,
           clusterStatusFilter.size > 0 ? (
             <button type="button" onClick={() => setClusterStatusFilter(new Set())}
@@ -6227,13 +6285,19 @@ export default function App() {
       case 'cluster':
         return (
           <div className="h-full w-full min-h-0 flex flex-col bg-card border border-border rounded-lg overflow-hidden">
-            <div className="flex items-center justify-between px-2 py-1 border-b border-border/60 shrink-0">
-              <span className="text-[11px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-muted-foreground">Cluster</span>
-              {clusterFiltersToggleBtn}
-            </div>
             <div className="flex-1 min-h-0 flex">
               <div className="flex-1 min-w-0 flex flex-col min-h-0">
-                <ClusterGrid key={`clg-${activeProfileId ?? 'x'}`} rows={clusterRenderedRows as any} spotStatus={spotStatus} onSpotClick={handleSpotClick} onSpotSelect={handleSpotSelect} />
+                {/* Title, count and Filters ride INSIDE the grid's toolbar: two
+                    header rows cost a pane that is often only a few spots tall
+                    one of the few lines it has. */}
+                <ClusterGrid key={`clg-${activeProfileId ?? 'x'}`} rows={clusterRenderedRows as any} spotStatus={spotStatus} onSpotClick={handleSpotClick} onSpotSelect={handleSpotSelect}
+                  headerLeft={(
+                    <>
+                      <span className="text-[11px] font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-muted-foreground shrink-0">DX Cluster</span>
+                      <Badge variant="secondary" className="text-[10px] shrink-0">{spots.length} live</Badge>
+                      {clusterFiltersToggleBtn}
+                    </>
+                  )} />
               </div>
               {clusterShowFilters && renderClusterFilters()}
             </div>
@@ -6280,6 +6344,13 @@ export default function App() {
             <IcomPanel isNetwork={catBackend === 'icom-net'} onReportRST={(r) => { setRstSent(r); rstUserEditedRef.current = true; }} />
           </div>
         );
+      case 'watchlist':
+        return (
+          <div className="h-full w-full min-h-0 flex flex-col bg-card border border-border rounded-lg overflow-hidden">
+            <WatchlistTab spots={spots} spotStatus={spotStatus}
+              onSpotSelect={handleSpotSelect} onSpotClick={handleSpotClick} />
+          </div>
+        );
       case 'netcontrol':
         return (
           <div className="h-full w-full min-h-0 flex flex-col rounded-lg overflow-hidden border border-border">
@@ -6419,7 +6490,7 @@ export default function App() {
                     disabled={disabled}
                     onClick={() => p && goto(p.bearingShort, 'SP')}
                     title={p
-                      ? `Rotate short-path · ${Math.round(p.distanceShort).toLocaleString()} km`
+                      ? `Rotate short-path · ${formatDistance(p.distanceShort)}`
                       : (station.my_grid ? 'No remote grid' : 'Set your station grid in Preferences')}
                     className={cn(
                       'inline-flex items-center gap-1 px-2 py-0.5 transition-colors',
@@ -6435,7 +6506,7 @@ export default function App() {
                     type="button"
                     disabled={disabled}
                     onClick={() => p && goto(p.bearingLong, 'LP')}
-                    title={p ? `Rotate long-path · ${Math.round(p.distanceLong).toLocaleString()} km` : ''}
+                    title={p ? `Rotate long-path · ${formatDistance(p.distanceLong)}` : ''}
                     className={cn(
                       'px-1.5 py-0.5 border-l border-info-border text-[10px] transition-colors',
                       disabled
@@ -7173,7 +7244,7 @@ export default function App() {
         // relative + absolute inner: the panel's content can't grow the row, so
         // the row height is set by the ENTRY STRIP. A taller tab (Awards/F3) then
         // scrolls inside this fixed height instead of pushing everything down.
-        <div className="w-[560px] shrink-0 min-h-0 relative">
+        <div className="w-[600px] shrink-0 min-h-0 relative">
           <div className="absolute inset-0 flex flex-col min-h-0">
           <DetailsPanel
             callsign={callsign}
@@ -7355,7 +7426,10 @@ export default function App() {
                   entry, and the rig onto the frequency it was decoded on. */}
               <ChaseNewPanel onPick={(sp) => {
                 onCallsignInput(sp.call, { force: true });
-                if (sp.freq_hz) void tuneRigCAT(sp.freq_hz, sp.mode);
+                // And the panadapter width too — after the tune settles, for the
+                // same SmartSDR pan-follow reason as handleSpotClick.
+                if (sp.freq_hz) void tuneRigCAT(sp.freq_hz, sp.mode).then(() =>
+                  window.setTimeout(() => FlexZoomForSpot(sp.mode ?? '', sp.freq_hz ?? 0).catch(() => {}), 300));
               }} onClose={() => { setShowChaseNew(false); writeUiPref('opslog.showChaseNew', '0'); }} />
             </div>
           )}
@@ -7548,6 +7622,21 @@ export default function App() {
                   </span>
                 </TabsTrigger>
               )}
+              {watchlistEnabled && (
+                <TabsTrigger value="watchlist" className="gap-1.5">
+                  {t('tab.watchlist')}
+                  <span
+                    role="button"
+                    aria-label="Close Watchlist"
+                    title="Close"
+                    className="inline-flex items-center justify-center size-4 rounded hover:bg-foreground/10 text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground"
+                    onPointerDown={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); }}
+                    onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); setWatchlistEnabled(false); setActiveTab((t) => (t === 'watchlist' ? 'recent' : t)); }}
+                  >
+                    <X className="size-3" />
+                  </span>
+                </TabsTrigger>
+              )}
               {catState.backend === 'flex' && <TabsTrigger value="flex">Flex Console</TabsTrigger>}
               {catState.backend === 'icom' && <TabsTrigger value="icom">Icom Console</TabsTrigger>}
               {catState.backend === 'yaesu' && <TabsTrigger value="yaesu">Yaesu Console</TabsTrigger>}
@@ -8259,6 +8348,12 @@ export default function App() {
             {/* Band Map: several bands shown side-by-side (panadapter-style
                 strips). Pick bands with the chips; each strip is clickable to
                 tune the rig. */}
+            {watchlistEnabled && (
+              <TabsContent value="watchlist" className="mt-0 flex flex-col min-h-0 flex-1">
+                <WatchlistTab spots={spots} spotStatus={spotStatus}
+                  onSpotSelect={handleSpotSelect} onSpotClick={handleSpotClick} />
+              </TabsContent>
+            )}
             {netEnabled && (
               <TabsContent value="net" className="mt-0 flex flex-col min-h-0 flex-1">
                 <NetControlPanel onLogged={refresh} countries={countries} bands={bands} modes={modes}
@@ -8570,7 +8665,7 @@ export default function App() {
                     "1.5k" and then appended the unit, giving "1.5kkm" — and even
                     written correctly, "1.5k km" makes a reader do arithmetic to
                     recover a number that was four characters long to begin with. */}
-                <span className="font-mono opacity-80">{o.median_km} km</span>
+                <span className="font-mono opacity-80">{formatDistance(o.median_km)}</span>
                 {/* Out of season is the one an operator must not learn last, so it
                     earns a mark on the badge rather than a line in the tooltip. */}
                 {!o.in_season && <span className="opacity-90">!</span>}
@@ -8615,9 +8710,14 @@ export default function App() {
         // freqMhz display string, which the manual-edit freeze / field locks can
         // leave stale (that dropped the sub-kHz: on 14134.5 the frozen "14.134"
         // string spotted 14134). Fall back to the entry field, then the last QSO.
+        //
+        // The RX frequency when split, deliberately: a spot names where the
+        // STATION is, and in split that is where we listen — freq_hz is where
+        // we transmit, and spotting a 5-up pile-up's TX frequency sent the
+        // whole cluster five kHz above the DX.
         defaultFreqKHz={
-          catState.connected && (catState.freq_hz ?? 0) > 0
+          catState.connected && ((catState.split && (catState.freq_rx_hz ?? 0) > 0 ? catState.freq_rx_hz : catState.freq_hz) ?? 0) > 0
-            ? Math.round(((catState.freq_hz ?? 0) / 1000) * 10) / 10
+            ? Math.round((((catState.split && (catState.freq_rx_hz ?? 0) > 0 ? catState.freq_rx_hz : catState.freq_hz) ?? 0) / 1000) * 10) / 10
             : parseFloat(freqMhz) > 0
               ? Math.round(parseFloat(freqMhz) * 1000 * 10) / 10
               : (qsos[0]?.freq_hz ? Math.round((qsos[0].freq_hz / 1000) * 10) / 10 : 0)

frontend/src/components/BandMap.tsx

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
 import { Minus, Plus, Crosshair, X, PanelLeft, PanelRight } from 'lucide-react';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
+import { bandRange, bandSegments, subscribeIaruRegion, type SegMode } from '@/lib/bandplan';
 import { spotStatusKey, inferSpotMode, spotModeCategory } from '@/lib/spot';
 import { SPOT_MARKERS, activeMarkers } from '@/lib/spotMarkers';
 import { applySpotDisplay, readSpotDisplayOptions } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
@@ -76,6 +77,13 @@ const BMP_MARKER_LABEL: Record<string, string> = {
   new_pota: 'bmp.legendNewPota',
   new_county: 'bmp.legendNewCounty',
   worked_call: 'bmp.legendWorkedCall',
+  // Not on the strip — the pill is 22 px and a fourth segment turns it into a
+  // colour code nobody reads — but the TOOLTIP has room, and leaving them out of
+  // it made the two panels contradict each other: the cluster said NEW PFX about
+  // a spot the map called "Worked". Both were true (the entity is worked on this
+  // slot, the WPX prefix never has been) and neither view said so.
+  new_pfx: 'clg2.newPfx',
+  new_grid: 'clg2.newGrid',
 };
 
 interface Props {
@@ -107,59 +115,26 @@ interface Props {
   keyNav?: boolean;
 }
 
-const BAND_RANGES: Record<string, [number, number]> = {
+// Band edges and mode segments come from lib/bandplan, which knows the
-  '160m': [1800, 2000],
+// operator's IARU region (Settings → General): a Region 2 operator's 40 m runs
-  '80m':  [3500, 3800],
+// to 7300 with phone from 7125, and drawing Region 1's plan under their spots
-  '60m':  [5350, 5450],
+// cut the top 100 kHz of the band off the map.
-  '40m':  [7000, 7200],
+//
-  '30m':  [10100, 10150],
+// Sub-band shading colours: these are IDENTITIES (which mode the segment is
-  '20m':  [14000, 14350],
+// for), not states, so they take categorical hues — never the status tokens.
-  '17m':  [18068, 18168],
+// All three are drawn from the cool end of the categorical order and laid down
-  '15m':  [21000, 21450],
+// at low opacity, so the band plan stays background context while the warm
-  '12m':  [24890, 24990],
+// spot pills keep the foreground. Checked with the palette validator in both
-  '10m':  [28000, 29700],
+// themes (violet failed the dark protan step; magenta clears every check).
-  '6m':   [50000, 50500],
+const SEG_COLOR: Record<SegMode, string> = {
-  '4m':   [70000, 70500],
+  cw: 'var(--chart-7)',    // magenta
-  '2m':   [144000, 146000],
+  digi: 'var(--chart-1)',  // blue
-  '70cm': [430000, 440000],
+  phone: 'var(--chart-2)', // aqua
 };
-
-// Sub-band shading: CW / digital / phone.
-//
-// These are IDENTITIES (which mode the segment is for), not states, so they take
-// categorical hues — never the status tokens. They used to use success / info /
-// warning, which collided head-on with the spot pills drawn ON TOP of them: amber
-// is "new band" in this very component's legend, so the whole SSB portion read as
-// a giant "new band" wash. Status colours are reserved for status.
-//
-// All three are drawn from the COOL end of the categorical order and laid down at
-// low opacity, so the band plan stays background context while the warm spot pills
-// keep the foreground to themselves.
-// Checked with the palette validator in BOTH themes. Violet was the first pick
-// for CW and failed on the dark steps — violet and blue land 1.9 ΔE apart for a
-// protan reader there, i.e. the same colour. Magenta clears every check on both
-// surfaces (worst adjacent pair 13.0 light / 15.9 dark).
-const SEG_CW = 'var(--chart-7)';    // magenta
-const SEG_DIGI = 'var(--chart-1)';  // blue
-const SEG_PHONE = 'var(--chart-2)'; // aqua
 // A band-plan wash is CONTEXT, not data: it must stay under the spot pills that
 // are read on top of it.
 const SEG_OPACITY = 0.13;
 
-const SEGMENT_COLORS: Record<string, [number, number, string][]> = {
-  '160m': [[1800, 1838, SEG_CW], [1838, 1840, SEG_DIGI], [1840, 2000, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '80m':  [[3500, 3580, SEG_CW], [3580, 3600, SEG_DIGI], [3600, 3800, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '60m':  [[5350, 5450, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '40m':  [[7000, 7040, SEG_CW], [7040, 7100, SEG_DIGI], [7100, 7200, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '30m':  [[10100, 10130, SEG_CW], [10130, 10150, SEG_DIGI]],
-  '20m':  [[14000, 14070, SEG_CW], [14070, 14100, SEG_DIGI], [14100, 14350, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '17m':  [[18068, 18095, SEG_CW], [18095, 18110, SEG_DIGI], [18110, 18168, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '15m':  [[21000, 21070, SEG_CW], [21070, 21150, SEG_DIGI], [21150, 21450, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '12m':  [[24890, 24915, SEG_CW], [24915, 24940, SEG_DIGI], [24940, 24990, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '10m':  [[28000, 28070, SEG_CW], [28070, 28300, SEG_DIGI], [28300, 29700, SEG_PHONE]],
-  '6m':   [[50000, 50100, SEG_CW], [50100, 50500, SEG_PHONE]],
-};
-
 // Small coloured dot + label used in the band-map legend strip.
 function LegendDot({ cls, colour, label }: { cls?: string; colour?: string; label: string }) {
   return (
@@ -297,13 +272,16 @@ export function BandMap({ band, spots, spotStatus: spotStatusRaw, currentFreqHz,
   // nothing until the next poll happened to hand over a fresh object.
   const dispOpts = readSpotDisplayOptions();
   const spotStatus = useMemo(() => {
-    if (!dispOpts.muteWorked && !dispOpts.slotHighlight) return spotStatusRaw;
+    if (!dispOpts.muteWorked && !dispOpts.slotHighlight && dispOpts.chasePota) return spotStatusRaw;
     const out: Record<string, SpotStatusEntry> = {};
     for (const k of Object.keys(spotStatusRaw)) out[k] = applySpotDisplay(spotStatusRaw[k], dispOpts) as SpotStatusEntry;
     return out;
-  }, [spotStatusRaw, dispOpts.muteWorked, dispOpts.slotHighlight]);
+  }, [spotStatusRaw, dispOpts.muteWorked, dispOpts.slotHighlight, dispOpts.chasePota]);
-  const range = BAND_RANGES[band];
+  // Re-render when the operator changes their IARU region in Settings.
-  const segments = SEGMENT_COLORS[band] ?? [];
+  const [, setRegionTick] = useState(0);
+  useEffect(() => subscribeIaruRegion(() => setRegionTick((n) => n + 1)), []);
+  const range = bandRange(band);
+  const segments = bandSegments(band).map(([a, b, m]) => [a, b, SEG_COLOR[m]] as [number, number, string]);
   const [zoomIdx, setZoomIdx] = useState(() => readZoom(band));
   // The docked map follows the rig, so a band change must bring up THAT band's
   // remembered zoom.
@@ -737,7 +715,7 @@ export function BandMap({ band, spots, spotStatus: spotStatusRaw, currentFreqHz,
                   'hover:translate-x-0.5 hover:shadow',
                   style.pill,
                 )}
-                title={`${p.spot.dx_call}${entry?.country ? ' · ' + entry.country : ''} · ${p.spot.freq_khz.toFixed(1)} kHz · ${statusLabel(st, t)}${markersFor(entry).map((m) => ' · ' + t(BMP_MARKER_LABEL[m.key])).join('')}${p.spot.comment ? ' · ' + p.spot.comment : ''}${p.spot.spotter ? ' · de ' + p.spot.spotter : ''}`}
+                title={`${p.spot.dx_call}${entry?.country ? ' · ' + entry.country : ''} · ${p.spot.freq_khz.toFixed(1)} kHz · ${statusLabel(st, t)}${activeMarkers(entry).map((m) => ' · ' + t(BMP_MARKER_LABEL[m.key])).join('')}${p.spot.comment ? ' · ' + p.spot.comment : ''}${p.spot.spotter ? ' · de ' + p.spot.spotter : ''}`}
               >
                 {/* Left accent strip. With no extra marker it repeats the status
                     colour, exactly as before; otherwise it splits into one
@@ -787,9 +765,9 @@ export function BandMap({ band, spots, spotStatus: spotStatusRaw, currentFreqHz,
         ))}
         {/* Sub-band shading, so the wash behind the pills is never colour-alone. */}
         <span className="mx-0.5 opacity-40">|</span>
-        <LegendDot colour={SEG_CW} label={t("bmp.legendCW")} />
+        <LegendDot colour={SEG_COLOR.cw} label={t("bmp.legendCW")} />
-        <LegendDot colour={SEG_DIGI} label={t("bmp.legendData")} />
+        <LegendDot colour={SEG_COLOR.digi} label={t("bmp.legendData")} />
-        <LegendDot colour={SEG_PHONE} label={t("bmp.legendPhone")} />
+        <LegendDot colour={SEG_COLOR.phone} label={t("bmp.legendPhone")} />
       </div>
       <div className="px-3 py-1 text-[9px] text-muted-foreground bg-muted/30 border-t border-border font-mono text-center shrink-0">
         {t('bmp.footerHint')}

frontend/src/components/BandSlotGrid.tsx

@@ -242,11 +242,11 @@ export function BandSlotGrid({ wb, busy, currentBand, currentMode, bands, hasCal
   return (
     <section
       className={cn(
-        'flex items-center gap-4 px-3 py-2 flex-wrap shrink-0',
+        'flex items-center gap-2 px-2 py-2 flex-wrap shrink-0',
         newOne && 'bg-gradient-to-br from-warning-muted to-warning-muted rounded-lg',
       )}
     >
-      <div className="flex items-center gap-2 min-w-[220px] flex-1">
+      <div className="flex items-center gap-2 min-w-0 flex-1">
         {newOne ? (
           <>
             <Badge className="bg-warning text-warning-foreground gap-1 px-3 py-1 text-[11px]">
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ export function BandSlotGrid({ wb, busy, currentBand, currentMode, bands, hasCal
                 {forCall}
               </Badge>
             )}
-            <Badge className="bg-primary text-primary-foreground px-3 py-1 text-xs normal-case font-semibold tracking-normal">
+            <Badge className="bg-primary text-primary-foreground px-2 py-0.5 text-xs normal-case font-semibold tracking-normal leading-tight">
               {dxccName || `DXCC #${dxcc}`}
             </Badge>
             {mwBadge}

frontend/src/components/BulkEditModal.tsx

@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ const FIELDS: FieldDef[] = [
   // No promoted column: written into extras_json (see qso.bulkEditableExtras).
   { id: 'owner_callsign',   label: 'bulk.fOwnerCallsign', group: 'My station', kind: 'text', upper: true },
   { id: 'my_grid',          label: 'bulk.fMyGrid',       group: 'My station', kind: 'text', upper: true },
+  { id: 'my_dxcc',          label: 'bulk.fMyDxcc',       group: 'My station', kind: 'text' },
+  { id: 'my_cq_zone',       label: 'bulk.fMyCqZone',     group: 'My station', kind: 'text' },
+  { id: 'my_itu_zone',      label: 'bulk.fMyItuZone',    group: 'My station', kind: 'text' },
   { id: 'my_antenna',       label: 'bulk.fMyAntenna',    group: 'My station', kind: 'text' },
   { id: 'my_rig',           label: 'bulk.fMyRig',        group: 'My station', kind: 'text' },
   { id: 'my_street',        label: 'bulk.fMyStreet',     group: 'My station', kind: 'text' },

frontend/src/components/ChaseNewPanel.tsx

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 // new is being decoded on FT8/FT4/JS8 near here — not that the band is dead.
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
 import { Radar, Loader2, X } from 'lucide-react';
+import { formatDistance } from '@/lib/units';
 import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
 import { markerColour } from '@/lib/spotMarkers';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ export function ChaseNewPanel({ onPick, onClose }: Props) {
                   title={[
                     s.country,
                     s.grid,
-                    s.dist_km ? `${s.dist_km} km` : '',
+                    s.dist_km ? formatDistance(s.dist_km) : '',
                     s.freq_hz ? `${(s.freq_hz / 1000).toFixed(1)} kHz` : '',
                   ].filter(Boolean).join(' · ')}
                 >

frontend/src/components/ClusterGrid.tsx

@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Checkbox } from '@/components/ui/checkbox';
 import { cleanSpotter, inferSpotMode, spotStatusKey } from '@/lib/spot';
 import { markerColour } from '@/lib/spotMarkers';
-import { applySpotDisplay, readSpotDisplayOptions } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
+import { applySpotDisplay, chasePota, chaseSota, readSpotDisplayOptions } from '@/lib/spotDisplay';
 import { loadLocal, loadRemote, saveState, seedLocal, whenGridPrefsReady } from '@/lib/gridPrefs';
+import { distanceUnit, distanceValue, subscribeDistanceUnit } from '@/lib/units';
 import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
 
 type TFn = (key: string, vars?: Record<string, string | number>) => string;
@@ -83,6 +84,11 @@ type Props = {
   // stray click while looking took the operator off the station they were
   // working. Looking and going are now two different gestures.
   onSpotSelect?: (s: ClusterSpot) => void;
+  // Anything the caller wants on the LEFT of the toolbar — the pane's title, its
+  // live count, its Filters button. Docked in a pane, the title used to sit on a
+  // row of its own above this one, so the cluster ate two lines of a short pane
+  // where Recent QSOs beside it ate one. Reported by VK4DX.
+  headerLeft?: React.ReactNode;
 };
 
 const COL_STATE_KEY = 'hamlog.clusterColState.v1';
@@ -142,6 +148,12 @@ function statusFor(p: any): SpotStatusEntry | undefined {
 //   filled pfx  → new prefix  filled POTA → new park    filled county → new county
 //   blue call   → already worked (not a novelty, so text only)
 const NEW = 'var(--warning)'; // yellow: something here is new
+// NEW SLOT gets its own hue. It shared the amber NEW family while the NEW PFX
+// marker sits in caution yellow — two different facts, two near-identical
+// colours in the same cell. Sky cyan, the exact colour the panadapter palette
+// ships for new-slot (#5AC8FA), so the two views tell one story — and clearly
+// apart from the POTA green the first attempt (aqua) sat next to.
+const NEWSLOT = '#5AC8FA';
 const WKD = 'var(--info)';    // blue: this callsign is already in the log
 
 // FILLING the cell that carries the fact, rather than only tinting its text.
@@ -184,9 +196,10 @@ function statusColor(s: SpotStatusEntry | undefined): string | null {
     case 'new-band-mode':
     case 'new-band':
     case 'new-mode':
-    case 'new-slot':
     case 'new-call':
       return NEW;
+    case 'new-slot':
+      return NEWSLOT;
     default:
       return s?.worked_call ? WKD : null;
   }
@@ -330,7 +343,9 @@ const makeColCatalog = (t: TFn): ColEntry[] => [
   },
   {
     group: 'Spot', label: t('clg2.c.pota'), colId: 'pota',
-    headerName: t('clg2.c.pota'), field: 'pota_ref' as any, width: 92, cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    headerName: t('clg2.c.pota'), width: 92, cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    // Through a valueGetter so the chase switch empties the column live.
+    valueGetter: (p: any) => (chasePota() ? p.data?.pota_ref ?? '' : ''),
     defaultVisible: true,
     cellStyle: (p: any) => (statusFor(p)?.new_pota
       ? fillStyle(markerColour('new_pota'))
@@ -343,7 +358,8 @@ const makeColCatalog = (t: TFn): ColEntry[] => [
     // which is why the column is off by default rather than an empty column for
     // everyone who does not watch summits.
     group: 'Spot', label: t('clg2.c.sota'), colId: 'sota',
-    headerName: t('clg2.c.sota'), field: 'sota_ref' as any, width: 100, cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    headerName: t('clg2.c.sota'), width: 100, cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    valueGetter: (p: any) => (chaseSota() ? p.data?.sota_ref ?? '' : ''),
     defaultVisible: false,
     cellStyle: () => ({ color: 'var(--success)' }) as any,
   },
@@ -443,8 +459,13 @@ const makeColCatalog = (t: TFn): ColEntry[] => [
   },
   {
     group: 'Geo', label: t('clg2.c.distance_km'), colId: 'distance_km',
-    headerName: t('clg2.h.distance_km'), field: 'distance_km' as any, width: 80, type: 'rightAligned', cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    // The header carries the unit, so the cells stay bare numbers and the
-    valueFormatter: (p) => p.value ? String(p.value) : '',
+    // column still sorts on the km the backend sent — converting the VALUE
+    // would sort miles as if they were kilometres either way, but it would
+    // also round twice.
+    headerName: t('clg2.h.distance_km') + ' (' + distanceUnit() + ')',
+    field: 'distance_km' as any, width: 90, type: 'rightAligned', cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    valueFormatter: (p) => p.value ? String(distanceValue(p.value)) : '',
     comparator: (a, b) => (a ?? 0) - (b ?? 0),
   },
   {
@@ -517,13 +538,15 @@ const GROUP_ORDER = ['Spot', 'Geo'];
 const CLG_GRP_KEYS: Record<string, string> = { Spot: 'clg2.grpSpot', Geo: 'clg2.grpGeo' };
 const groupLabel = (t: TFn, g: string): string => t(CLG_GRP_KEYS[g] ?? g);
 
-export function ClusterGrid({ rows, spotStatus, onSpotClick, onSpotSelect }: Props) {
+export function ClusterGrid({ rows, spotStatus, onSpotClick, onSpotSelect, headerLeft }: Props) {
   const { t } = useI18n();
   const gridRef = useRef<any>(null);
   const [pickerOpen, setPickerOpen] = useState(false);
 
   // Localized column catalog — rebuilt when the language changes.
-  const COL_CATALOG = useMemo(() => makeColCatalog(t), [t]);
+  const [distUnit, setDistUnit] = useState(distanceUnit);
+  useEffect(() => subscribeDistanceUnit(() => setDistUnit(distanceUnit())), []);
+  const COL_CATALOG = useMemo(() => makeColCatalog(t), [t, distUnit]);
 
   // A rebuild makes AG Grid re-apply every colDef hide/width DEFAULT and fire the
   // matching column events. Without this guard those events were persisted, so a
@@ -614,16 +637,27 @@ export function ClusterGrid({ rows, spotStatus, onSpotClick, onSpotSelect }: Pro
   const [held, setHeld] = useState<ClusterSpot[] | null>(null);
   const shown = held ?? rows;
 
-  // How many arrived since the freeze. Counted by finding the frozen top row in
+  // How many arrived since the freeze — counted by TIME, not by finding the
-  // the live list rather than by comparing lengths: the list is a ring buffer,
+  // frozen top row again.
-  // so once it is full the length stops growing and a length comparison would
+  //
-  // report nothing new for the rest of the evening.
+  // Looking for that row was wrong in the ordinary case: a station spotted again
-  const spotID = (r: ClusterSpot) => `${(r as any).received_at}-${r.dx_call}-${(r as any).source_id}`;
+  // REPLACES its row (that is the de-dupe), so the row we froze on disappears
+  // from the live list the moment somebody re-spots it — and the count fell
+  // through to "everything is new", jumping from 4 to the buffer cap. Reported
+  // as "it shows 4, 5 new spots and then 500 all at once".
+  //
+  // A timestamp survives both the replacement and the ring buffer, which was the
+  // reason the length was not used either.
+  const spotTime = (r: ClusterSpot) => Date.parse(String((r as any).received_at ?? '')) || 0;
   const waiting = useMemo(() => {
     if (!held || held.length === 0) return 0;
-    const top = spotID(held[0]);
+    const since = spotTime(held[0]);
-    const i = rows.findIndex((r) => spotID(r) === top);
+    if (!since) return 0; // no usable timestamp — say nothing rather than a number
-    return i < 0 ? rows.length : i; // fell out of the buffer: everything is new
+    let n = 0;
+    for (const r of rows) {
+      if (spotTime(r) > since) n++;
+    }
+    return n;
   }, [held, rows]);
 
   const onBodyScroll = (e: { top: number }) => {
@@ -681,7 +715,9 @@ export function ClusterGrid({ rows, spotStatus, onSpotClick, onSpotSelect }: Pro
 
   return (
     <>
-      <div className="flex items-center justify-end gap-2 px-2.5 py-1 border-b border-border/60 bg-muted/20">
+      <div className="flex items-center gap-2 px-2.5 py-1 border-b border-border/60 bg-muted/20">
+        {headerLeft}
+        <div className="flex-1" />
         <Button variant="ghost" size="sm" className="h-7 text-[11px]" onClick={() => gridRef.current?.api?.setFilterModel(null)}
           title={t('clg2.clearFiltersTitle')}>
           <FilterX className="size-3.5" /> {t('clg2.clearFilters')}

frontend/src/components/ElecraftPanel.tsx

@@ -4,17 +4,18 @@ import {
   GetKenwoodState, RefreshKenwood, SetKenwoodPower, SetKenwoodAFGain, SetKenwoodTX, TuneKenwoodATU,
   SetKenwoodRFGain, SetKenwoodMicGain, SetKenwoodSquelch, SetKenwoodPreamp, SetKenwoodAtt,
   SetKenwoodNB, SetKenwoodNR, SetKenwoodAGC, SetKenwoodFilter, SetKenwoodAntenna,
-  SetKenwoodRIT, SetKenwoodXIT, ClearKenwoodRIT, SetKenwoodKeySpeed, ToggleKenwoodATU, NudgeKenwoodRIT,
+  SetKenwoodRIT, SetKenwoodXIT, ClearKenwoodRIT, SetKenwoodKeySpeed, ToggleKenwoodATU, SetKenwoodRITOffset, SetKenwoodPanelMode,
   GetCATState,
 } from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
 import { sMeterRST } from '@/lib/rst';
+import { ShiftRow } from '@/components/ShiftRow';
 import { MeterBar } from '@/components/MeterBar';
 import { WheelRange } from '@/components/WheelRange';
 
 type KenwoodState = {
-  available: boolean; model?: string; elecraft: boolean; mode?: string;
+  available: boolean; model?: string; elecraft: boolean; mode?: string; data_sub?: string;
   transmitting: boolean; split: boolean; split_tx_hz?: number;
   s_meter: number; s_meter_raw: number;
   power_meter: number; swr: number; swr_raw: number;
@@ -89,9 +90,34 @@ function Toggle({ label, on, off, onClick }: { label: string; on: boolean; off:
   );
 }
 
+// isDataMode: what the rig reports for MD6 varies — "DATA", or the configured
+// digital default (FT8…) — so the DATA family is "not one of the native modes".
+function isDataMode(m?: string): boolean {
+  switch ((m ?? '').toUpperCase()) {
+    case '': case 'CW': case 'USB': case 'LSB': case 'SSB': case 'FM': case 'AM': case 'RTTY':
+      return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
 export function ElecraftPanel({ onReportRST }: { onReportRST?: (rst: string) => void }) {
   const { t } = useI18n();
   const [st, setSt] = useState<KenwoodState>(ZERO);
+  // Ctrl+Left/Right shifts the RIT by ±10 Hz while RIT is on — the same
+  // keyboard clarifier the Icom and TCI consoles have, for zero-beating a
+  // caller without touching the mouse.
+  const stRef = useRef(st); stRef.current = st;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (!e.ctrlKey || (e.key !== 'ArrowLeft' && e.key !== 'ArrowRight')) return;
+      const v = stRef.current;
+      if (!v.available || !v.rit) return;
+      e.preventDefault();
+      SetKenwoodRITOffset((v.rit_offset || 0) + (e.key === 'ArrowRight' ? 10 : -10)).catch(() => {});
+    };
+    window.addEventListener('keydown', onKey);
+    return () => window.removeEventListener('keydown', onKey);
+  }, []);
   const [freqHz, setFreqHz] = useState(0);
   const [err, setErr] = useState('');
   // Optimistic overlay: a slider must follow the finger, not the poll. Dropped
@@ -149,6 +175,28 @@ export function ElecraftPanel({ onReportRST }: { onReportRST?: (rst: string) =>
             {freqHz > 0 ? (freqHz / 1e6).toFixed(6) : '—'}
           </div>
         </div>
+        {/* Mode row. The two DATA buttons are why it exists: MD6 alone keeps
+            whatever submode the last session left, and a K3 "in DATA" with FSK D
+            still armed keys FT8 with no audio. DATA sends MD6+DT0 (DATA A, the
+            soundcard path), RTTY sends MD6+DT2 (FSK D). The active DATA button
+            follows the rig's own DT answer. */}
+        <div className="inline-flex rounded-md border border-border overflow-hidden">
+          {([
+            ['CW', 'CW', view.mode === 'CW'],
+            ['USB', 'USB', view.mode === 'USB'],
+            ['LSB', 'LSB', view.mode === 'LSB'],
+            ['DATA', t('k3.modeData'), isDataMode(view.mode) && view.data_sub !== 'FSK D' && view.data_sub !== 'PSK D'],
+            ['RTTY', t('k3.modeRtty'), (isDataMode(view.mode) && (view.data_sub === 'FSK D' || view.data_sub === 'PSK D')) || view.mode === 'RTTY'],
+          ] as [string, string, boolean][]).map(([cmd, label, on]) => (
+            <button key={cmd} type="button" disabled={off}
+              title={cmd === 'DATA' ? t('k3.modeDataHint') : cmd === 'RTTY' ? t('k3.modeRttyHint') : label}
+              onClick={() => SetKenwoodPanelMode(cmd).catch((e: any) => setErr(String(e?.message ?? e)))}
+              className={cn('px-2.5 py-1.5 text-xs font-bold border-l border-border first:border-l-0',
+                on ? 'bg-primary text-primary-foreground' : 'bg-card text-muted-foreground hover:bg-muted')}>
+              {label}
+            </button>
+          ))}
+        </div>
         <button type="button" className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground flex items-center gap-1"
           onClick={() => RefreshKenwood().catch(() => {})} title={t('k3.refreshHint')}>
           <SlidersHorizontal className="size-3.5" />
@@ -216,7 +264,7 @@ export function ElecraftPanel({ onReportRST }: { onReportRST?: (rst: string) =>
       <div className="grid grid-cols-1 lg:grid-cols-2 gap-x-6 gap-y-2">
         <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-xs">
           <span className="w-16 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground">{t('k3.power')}</span>
-          <WheelRange min={0} max={110} step={5} disabled={off}
+          <WheelRange min={0} max={110} step={1} disabled={off}
             value={view.rf_power ?? 0}
             onChange={(n) => put({ rf_power: n }, () => SetKenwoodPower(n))} />
           <span className="w-12 text-right font-mono tabular-nums">{view.rf_power ?? 0} W</span>
@@ -279,21 +327,18 @@ export function ElecraftPanel({ onReportRST }: { onReportRST?: (rst: string) =>
           ))}
         </div>
 
-        {/* RIT / XIT. Clear zeroes both offsets at once — the radio's own RC,
+        {/* RIT / XIT — the shared ShiftRow, exactly as the Icom and TCI consoles
-            and what an operator means by "clear it". */}
+            drive theirs: ± / wheel / type, Ctrl+←/→ while RIT is on. The K3 has
+            ONE offset for both, so both rows show it, like the Icom's. */}
+        <div className="space-y-1.5">
+          <ShiftRow label="RIT" accent="#8b5cf6" on={view.rit} hz={view.rit_offset || 0} disabled={off}
+            onToggle={() => SetKenwoodRIT(!view.rit).catch(setErrMsg)}
+            onSet={(hz) => SetKenwoodRITOffset(hz).catch(setErrMsg)} />
+          <ShiftRow label="XIT" accent="#f59e0b" on={view.xit} hz={view.rit_offset || 0} disabled={off}
+            onToggle={() => SetKenwoodXIT(!view.xit).catch(setErrMsg)}
+            onSet={(hz) => SetKenwoodRITOffset(hz).catch(setErrMsg)} />
+        </div>
         <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-1.5">
-          <Toggle label="RIT" on={view.rit} off={off} onClick={() => SetKenwoodRIT(!view.rit).catch(setErrMsg)} />
-          <Toggle label="XIT" on={view.xit} off={off} onClick={() => SetKenwoodXIT(!view.xit).catch(setErrMsg)} />
-          {/* The offset itself. A lit RIT button says the feature is on and
-              nothing about where it has put the receiver. */}
-          {[-100, -10, 10, 100].map((d) => (
-            <Toggle key={d} label={(d > 0 ? '+' : '') + d} on={false} off={off}
-              onClick={() => NudgeKenwoodRIT(d).catch(setErrMsg)} />
-          ))}
-          <span className="text-[11px] font-mono tabular-nums text-muted-foreground w-16">
-            {view.rit_offset > 0 ? '+' : ''}{view.rit_offset || 0} Hz
-          </span>
-          <Toggle label={t('k3.clear')} on={false} off={off} onClick={() => ClearKenwoodRIT().catch(setErrMsg)} />
           {/* Antenna only when the radio answered AN — a K3 without the internal
               ATU has one socket and no switch to offer. */}
           {view.antenna > 0 && (<>

frontend/src/components/MainMap.tsx

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import 'leaflet/dist/leaflet.css';
 import { nightPolygon } from '../lib/greyline';
 import { gridToLatLon, gridSquareBounds, greatCirclePoints, pathBetween, destinationPoint } from '@/lib/maidenhead';
 import { writeUiPref } from '@/lib/uiPref';
+import { formatDistance } from '@/lib/units';
 
 // Persisted free-pan view of the world map (when auto-zoom is off).
 function loadMapView(): { lat: number; lon: number; zoom: number } | null {
@@ -446,8 +447,8 @@ export function WorldMap({ fromGrid, toGrid, fromLabel, toLabel, beamAzimuths, b
       </button>
       {path && (
         <div className="absolute bottom-1 left-1 z-[500] rounded-md bg-card/90 backdrop-blur px-2 py-1 text-[11px] font-mono shadow border border-border pointer-events-none">
-          <div><span className="text-muted-foreground">Dist</span> {Math.round(path.distanceShort).toLocaleString()} km
+          <div><span className="text-muted-foreground">Dist</span> {formatDistance(path.distanceShort)}
-            <span className="text-muted-foreground"> · LP</span> {Math.round(path.distanceLong).toLocaleString()} km</div>
+            <span className="text-muted-foreground"> · LP</span> {formatDistance(path.distanceLong)}</div>
           <div><span className="text-muted-foreground">Az SP</span> {Math.round(path.bearingShort)}°
             <span className="text-muted-foreground"> · LP</span> {Math.round(path.bearingLong)}°</div>
         </div>

frontend/src/components/QSLManagerModal.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
   Select, SelectTrigger, SelectValue, SelectContent, SelectItem,
 } from '@/components/ui/select';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
-import { GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls, SetLoTWDownloadAllCalls, OpenExternalURL, FindQSOsForUpload, UploadQSOsManual, DownloadConfirmations, CancelConfirmations, ImportHamlogConfirmations, ExportHamlogUnmatched, OpenADIFFile, SaveADIFFile, SyncPOTAHunterLog, ListQSO, BulkUpdateQSL, UploadCallsign, GetSlotStats } from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
+import { GetLoTWQSLDetail, SetLoTWQSLDetail, GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls, SetLoTWDownloadAllCalls, OpenExternalURL, FindQSOsForUpload, UploadQSOsManual, DownloadConfirmations, CancelConfirmations, ImportHamlogConfirmations, ExportHamlogUnmatched, OpenADIFFile, SaveADIFFile, SyncPOTAHunterLog, ListQSO, BulkUpdateQSL, UploadCallsign, GetSlotStats } from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
 import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
 import { RecentQSOsGrid } from '@/components/RecentQSOsGrid';
 import { EventsOn } from '../../wailsjs/runtime/runtime';
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ const UPLOAD_COLS: ColDef<UploadRow>[] = [
 ];
 
 type Confirmation = {
-  callsign: string; qso_date: string; band: string; mode: string; country: string;
+  callsign: string; station?: string; qso_date: string; band: string; mode: string; country: string;
   new_dxcc: boolean; new_band: boolean; new_mode: boolean; new_slot: boolean;
 };
 
@@ -257,7 +257,13 @@ export function QSLManagerPanel({ onEditQSO, actions, paperRequest }: {
   const [addNotFound, setAddNotFound] = useState(false);
   // LoTW only: pull the whole account rather than this profile's callsign.
   const [lotwAllCalls, setLotwAllCalls] = useState(false);
-  useEffect(() => { GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls().then((v: boolean) => setLotwAllCalls(!!v)).catch(() => {}); }, []);
+  // LoTW only: ask for the QSL dates and station details. Ten times slower to
+  // build, so it is a choice rather than the default it used to be.
+  const [lotwDetail, setLotwDetail] = useState(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls().then((v: boolean) => setLotwAllCalls(!!v)).catch(() => {});
+    GetLoTWQSLDetail().then((v: boolean) => setLotwDetail(!!v)).catch(() => {});
+  }, []);
   // Download date window: 'last' = incremental since last pull, 'date' = from a
   // chosen date, 'all' = everything.
   const [sinceMode, setSinceMode] = useState<'last' | 'date' | 'all'>('last');
@@ -613,6 +619,10 @@ export function QSLManagerPanel({ onEditQSO, actions, paperRequest }: {
               <thead className="sticky top-0 bg-card">
                 <tr className="text-left text-muted-foreground border-b border-border">
                   <th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thDateUtc')}</th><th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thCallsign')}</th>
+                  {/* Which of the operator's callsigns the contact was made
+                      under. Only worth a column when the list can hold more than
+                      one — see "All my callsigns" on the download. */}
+                  {shownConfs.some((c) => c.station) && <th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thStation')}</th>}
                   <th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thBand')}</th><th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thMode')}</th>
                   <th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thCountry')}</th><th className="py-1.5 px-2">{t('qslm.thNew')}</th>
                 </tr>
@@ -622,6 +632,9 @@ export function QSLManagerPanel({ onEditQSO, actions, paperRequest }: {
                   <tr key={i} className="border-b border-border/40">
                     <td className="py-1 px-2 font-mono">{fmtDate(c.qso_date)}</td>
                     <td className="py-1 px-2 font-mono font-bold">{c.callsign}</td>
+                    {shownConfs.some((x) => x.station) && (
+                      <td className="py-1 px-2 font-mono text-muted-foreground">{c.station ?? ''}</td>
+                    )}
                     <td className="py-1 px-2">{c.band}</td>
                     <td className="py-1 px-2">{c.mode}</td>
                     <td className="py-1 px-2 text-muted-foreground">{c.country}</td>
@@ -751,6 +764,13 @@ export function QSLManagerPanel({ onEditQSO, actions, paperRequest }: {
             <Checkbox checked={addNotFound} onCheckedChange={(c) => setAddNotFound(!!c)} />
             {t('qslm.addNotFound')}
           </label>
+          {service === 'lotw' && (
+            <label className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-[11px] text-muted-foreground cursor-pointer" title={t('qslm.lotwDetailTitle')}>
+              <Checkbox checked={lotwDetail || addNotFound} disabled={addNotFound}
+                onCheckedChange={(c) => { setLotwDetail(!!c); SetLoTWQSLDetail(!!c); }} />
+              {t('qslm.lotwDetail')}
+            </label>
+          )}
           {service === 'lotw' && (
             <label className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-[11px] text-muted-foreground cursor-pointer" title={t('qslm.lotwAllCallsTitle')}>
               <Checkbox checked={lotwAllCalls} onCheckedChange={(c) => { setLotwAllCalls(!!c); SetLoTWDownloadAllCalls(!!c); }} />

frontend/src/components/RecentQSOsGrid.tsx

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { formatDateTimeUTC, formatDateOnly, getDateFormat, subscribeDateFormat }
 import { AgGridReact } from 'ag-grid-react';
 import { Columns3, FilterX, ListChecks } from 'lucide-react';
 import type { QSOForm } from '@/types';
+import { distanceUnit, distanceValue, subscribeDistanceUnit } from '@/lib/units';
 import { QSOContextMenu, type QSOMenuState } from './QSOContextMenu';
 import {
   Dialog, DialogContent, DialogHeader, DialogTitle, DialogFooter, DialogDescription,
@@ -177,8 +178,9 @@ export const makeColCatalog = (t: TFn, myGrid?: string): ColEntry[] => [
   { group: 'Contacted', label: t('rqg.c.lon'),      colId: 'lon',      headerName: t('rqg.c.lon'),      field: 'lon' as any,      width: 90, type: 'rightAligned', cellClass: 'font-mono' },
   // Derived, not stored: computed from the two locations at display time, like
   // the cluster grid's own distance column.
-  { group: 'Contacted', label: t('rqg.c.distance_km'), colId: 'distance_km', headerName: t('rqg.h.distance_km'), width: 90, type: 'rightAligned', cellClass: 'font-mono',
+  { group: 'Contacted', label: t('rqg.c.distance_km'), colId: 'distance_km',
-    valueGetter: (p) => qsoDistanceKm(p.data, myGrid),
+    headerName: t('rqg.h.distance_km') + ' (' + distanceUnit() + ')', width: 95, type: 'rightAligned', cellClass: 'font-mono',
+    valueGetter: (p) => { const km = qsoDistanceKm(p.data, myGrid); return km ? distanceValue(km) : km; },
     comparator: (a, b) => (a ?? 0) - (b ?? 0), defaultVisible: true },
   { group: 'Contacted', label: t('rqg.c.email'),    colId: 'email',    headerName: t('rqg.c.email'),    field: 'email' as any,    width: 180 },
   { group: 'Contacted', label: t('rqg.c.web'),      colId: 'web',      headerName: t('rqg.c.web'),      field: 'web' as any,      width: 180 },
@@ -335,7 +337,9 @@ export function RecentQSOsGrid({ rows, myGrid, selectAllSignal, selectRowSignal,
   // inside the column definitions, so nothing else would notice.
   const [dateFmt, setDateFmt] = useState(getDateFormat);
   useEffect(() => subscribeDateFormat(() => setDateFmt(getDateFormat())), []);
-  const COL_CATALOG = useMemo(() => makeColCatalog(t, myGrid), [t, myGrid, dateFmt]);
+  const [distUnit, setDistUnit] = useState(distanceUnit);
+  useEffect(() => subscribeDistanceUnit(() => setDistUnit(distanceUnit())), []);
+  const COL_CATALOG = useMemo(() => makeColCatalog(t, myGrid), [t, myGrid, dateFmt, distUnit]);
 
   // Right-click: if the clicked row isn't already part of the selection,
   // select just it; then open the bulk-action menu on the whole selection.

frontend/src/components/SettingsModal.tsx

@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ import {
 } from '@/components/ui/select';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { writeUiPref } from '@/lib/uiPref';
+import { setUseMiles } from '@/lib/units';
+import { iaruRegion, setIaruRegion, type IaruRegion } from '@/lib/bandplan';
 import { getDateFormat, setDateFormat, type DateFormat } from '@/lib/dateFormat';
 import { useI18n, FlagGB, FlagFR, type Lang } from '@/lib/i18n';
 import { useTheme, CONCRETE_THEMES, type ThemeChoice } from '@/lib/theme';
@@ -688,8 +690,7 @@ function TelemetryToggle() {
     <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
       <Checkbox checked={on} disabled={!loaded}
         onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setOn(v); SetTelemetryEnabled(v).catch(() => {}); }} />
-      {t('settings.telemetry')}
+      <span title={t('settings.telemetryHint')}>{t('settings.telemetry')}</span>
-      <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">({t('settings.telemetryHint')})</span>
     </label>
   );
 }
@@ -1085,7 +1086,7 @@ function RelayAutoPanel() {
 // panes. The first two are the view; the third and fourth can be left empty, and
 // an empty one is not drawn at all. Per-profile (stored via SetUIPref, which is
 // profile-prefixed). Self-contained so it owns its async-loaded state.
-const MAIN_PANE_VALUES = ['map1', 'map2', 'cluster', 'worked', 'recent', 'netcontrol', 'decodes'];
+const MAIN_PANE_VALUES = ['map1', 'map2', 'cluster', 'worked', 'recent', 'netcontrol', 'decodes', 'watchlist'];
 const PANE_NONE = 'none';
 function MainViewPanes({ onChanged, flexAvailable, icomAvailable, yaesuAvailable, elecraftAvailable, tciAvailable }: { onChanged?: (side: 'left' | 'right' | 'p3' | 'p4' | 'layout', value: string) => void; flexAvailable?: boolean; icomAvailable?: boolean; yaesuAvailable?: boolean; elecraftAvailable?: boolean; tciAvailable?: boolean }) {
   const { t } = useI18n();
@@ -1747,6 +1748,8 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
   const [startEqEnd, setStartEqEnd] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.startEqualsEnd') === '1');
   const [lookupOnBlur, setLookupOnBlur] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.lookupOnBlur') === '1');
   const [groupDigital, setGroupDigital] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.groupDigitalSlots') === '1');
+  const [milesUnit, setMilesUnit] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.distanceMiles') === '1');
+  const [region, setRegion] = useState<IaruRegion>(() => iaruRegion());
   const [clusterWorkedSameSlot, setClusterWorkedSameSlot] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterWorkedSameSlot') === '1');
   // Declared HERE and not in ClusterPanel: that renderer is called as a plain
   // function by the PANELS map, so it must stay hooks-free.
@@ -2065,6 +2068,8 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
     try { await SaveGridScopeSettings(next); } catch { /* the panel keeps the choice either way */ }
   };
   const [chaseGrids, setChaseGrids] = useState(false);
+  const [chasePotaOn, setChasePotaOn] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.chasePota') !== '0');
+  const [chaseSotaOn, setChaseSotaOn] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.chaseSota') !== '0');
   const [chaseNew, setChaseNew] = useState(false);
   const [spotTTL, setSpotTTL] = useState(0);
   const [spotTTLText, setSpotTTLText] = useState('0');
@@ -4865,7 +4870,7 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
                   <SelectItem value="yaesu">{t('wk.engYaesu')}</SelectItem>
                   <SelectItem value="kenwood">{t('wk.engKenwood')}</SelectItem>
                   <SelectItem value="flex">{t('wk.engFlex')}</SelectItem>
-                  <SelectItem value="tci" disabled>{t('wk.engTci')}</SelectItem>
+                  <SelectItem value="tci">{t('wk.engTci')}</SelectItem>
                 </SelectContent>
               </Select>
             </div>
@@ -4926,6 +4931,22 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
                 </div>
               </div>
             </>
+          ) : wk.engine === 'tci' ? (
+            <>
+              {(!catCfg.enabled || catCfg.backend !== 'tci') && (
+                <p className="text-xs font-medium text-warning -mt-1 flex items-start gap-1.5">
+                  <span aria-hidden>⚠</span>
+                  <span>{t('wk.catWarnTci', { backend: catCfg.enabled ? (catCfg.backend || 'none') : 'disabled' })}</span>
+                </p>
+              )}
+              <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground -mt-1">{t('wk.tciHint')}</p>
+              <div className="grid grid-cols-4 gap-3">
+                <div className="space-y-1">
+                  <Label>{t('wk.speed')}</Label>
+                  <Input type="number" min={5} max={60} value={wk.wpm} onChange={(e) => setWkField({ wpm: num(e.target.value, 25) })} className="font-mono" />
+                </div>
+              </div>
+            </>
           ) : wk.engine === 'flex' ? (
             <>
               {(!catCfg.enabled || catCfg.backend !== 'flex') && (
@@ -5295,11 +5316,6 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
               ))}
             </div>
           </div>
-          <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-            {t('clu.freeNodes')} <span className="font-mono">dxc.k0xm.net:7300</span>,{' '}
-            <span className="font-mono">dx.maritimecontestclub.net:7300</span>,{' '}
-            <span className="font-mono">w8avi.net:7300</span>.
-          </p>
           <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer border-t border-border/60 pt-3">
             <Checkbox checked={clusterWorkedSameSlot} className="mt-0.5"
               onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setClusterWorkedSameSlot(v); writeUiPref('opslog.clusterWorkedSameSlot', v ? '1' : '0'); }} />
@@ -5361,11 +5377,24 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
                   const n = parseInt(raw, 10);
                   if (Number.isFinite(n) && n > 0) SetSpotMax(Math.min(10000, n)).catch(() => {});
                 }} />
-              <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('clu.spotMaxHint')}</span>
+
             </div>
           </div>
 
           <div className="border-t border-border/60 pt-3 space-y-2">
+            {/* Chase switches: off, the marker stops being TOLD, everywhere at
+                once — badge, colour, filter chip, reference column. A "new band
+                + new POTA" spot then reads NEW BAND alone. */}
+            <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer" title={t('clu.chasePotaHint')}>
+              <Checkbox checked={chasePotaOn}
+                onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setChasePotaOn(v); writeUiPref('opslog.chasePota', v ? '1' : '0'); }} />
+              {t('clu.chasePota')}
+            </label>
+            <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer" title={t('clu.chaseSotaHint')}>
+              <Checkbox checked={chaseSotaOn}
+                onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setChaseSotaOn(v); writeUiPref('opslog.chaseSota', v ? '1' : '0'); }} />
+              {t('clu.chaseSota')}
+            </label>
             <label className="flex items-start gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
               <Checkbox checked={chaseGrids} className="mt-0.5"
                 onCheckedChange={(c) => { setChaseGrids(!!c); SetChaseNewGrids(!!c).catch(() => {}); }} />
@@ -6759,7 +6788,7 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
               useLocalLogbook(); // SQLite → default logbook file (clears any per-profile path)
             }}
           >
-            <SelectTrigger className="h-8 w-72"><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
+            <SelectTrigger className="h-8 w-72" title={t('gen.iaruHint')}><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
             <SelectContent>
               <SelectItem value="sqlite">{t('db.optSqlite')}</SelectItem>
               <SelectItem value="mysql">{t('db.optMysql')}</SelectItem>
@@ -7129,7 +7158,7 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
     const { lang, setLang, t } = useI18n();
     return (
       <>
-        <SectionHeader title={t('sec.general')} hint={t('gen.hint')} />
+        <SectionHeader title={t('sec.general')} />
         <div className="space-y-3 max-w-3xl">
           <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
             <Label className="text-sm w-40">{t('settings.language')}</Label>
@@ -7157,15 +7186,32 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
                  ['us', t('gen.dateUS'), '07-30-2026 14:25']] as [DateFormat, string, string][]).map(([code, label, sample]) => (
                 <button key={code} type="button" title={sample}
                   onClick={() => { setDateFormat(code); setDateFmtSel(code); }}
-                  className={cn('flex flex-col items-start px-3 py-1 text-sm font-medium border-l border-border first:border-l-0',
+                  className={cn('px-3 py-1.5 text-sm font-medium border-l border-border first:border-l-0',
                     dateFmtSel === code ? 'bg-primary text-primary-foreground' : 'bg-card text-muted-foreground hover:bg-muted')}>
                   {label}
-                  <span className="text-[10px] font-mono opacity-70">{sample}</span>
                 </button>
               ))}
             </div>
           </div>
 
+          <div className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm">
+            {/* The IARU region drives the band edges and mode segments the band
+                maps draw — Region 2's 40 m runs to 7300, Region 1's stops at
+                7200 — and nothing else: spots and logging are region-blind. */}
+            <Label className="text-sm w-40 shrink-0">{t('gen.iaruRegion')}</Label>
+            <Select value={String(region)} onValueChange={(v) => {
+              const r = (v === '2' ? 2 : v === '3' ? 3 : 1) as IaruRegion;
+              setRegion(r); setIaruRegion(r);
+            }}>
+              <SelectTrigger className="h-8 w-72"><SelectValue /></SelectTrigger>
+              <SelectContent>
+                <SelectItem value="1">{t('gen.iaruR1')}</SelectItem>
+                <SelectItem value="2">{t('gen.iaruR2')}</SelectItem>
+                <SelectItem value="3">{t('gen.iaruR3')}</SelectItem>
+              </SelectContent>
+            </Select>
+          </div>
+
           <ThemeSelector />
 
           <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
@@ -7187,11 +7233,10 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
           {/* Super Check Partial / N+1 — downloads the community MASTER.SCP list and
               shows a two-column callsign helper (partial matches + one-edit calls). */}
           <div className="border-t border-border/60 pt-3 space-y-2">
-            <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
+            <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer" title={t('scp.settingsHint')}>
               <Checkbox checked={scp.enabled} disabled={scpBusy} onCheckedChange={(c) => toggleScp(!!c)} />
               {t('scp.enable')}
             </label>
-            <p className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">{t('scp.settingsHint')}</p>
             {scp.enabled && (
               <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
                 <Button variant="outline" size="sm" onClick={downloadScp} disabled={scpBusy}>
@@ -7219,11 +7264,18 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
           </label>
           <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
             <Checkbox checked={groupDigital} onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setGroupDigital(v); writeUiPref('opslog.groupDigitalSlots', v ? '1' : '0'); }} />
-            {t('gen.groupDigital')} <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('gen.groupDigitalHint')}</span>
+            <span title={t('gen.groupDigitalHint')}>{t('gen.groupDigital')}</span>
+          </label>
+          <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
+            {/* Distances are computed in km everywhere and converted at display
+                time — see lib/units. Changing this repaints the columns that
+                already carry a distance; nothing stored moves. */}
+            <Checkbox checked={milesUnit} onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setMilesUnit(v); setUseMiles(v); }} />
+            {t('gen.miles')}
           </label>
           <label className="flex items-center gap-2 text-sm cursor-pointer">
             <Checkbox checked={checkUpdates} onCheckedChange={(c) => { const v = !!c; setCheckUpdates(v); writeUiPref('opslog.checkUpdates', v ? '1' : '0'); }} />
-            {t('gen.checkUpdates')} <span className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">{t('gen.checkUpdatesHint')}</span>
+            {t('gen.checkUpdates')}
           </label>
           <TelemetryToggle />
 
@@ -7286,12 +7338,7 @@ function SettingsModalImpl({ onClose, onSaved, initialSection, onMainPaneChanged
                 }}
                 className="mt-0.5"
               />
-              <span>
+              <span title={t('gen.clubDesc')}>{t('gen.clubUse')}</span>
-                {t('gen.clubUse')}
-                <span className="block text-xs text-muted-foreground mt-0.5">
-                  {t('gen.clubDesc')}
-                </span>
-              </span>
             </label>
             <div className="flex items-center gap-3 pl-6">
               <Button variant="outline" size="sm" className="h-8" disabled={clubBusy}

frontend/src/components/WatchlistTab.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,417 @@
+// Watchlist — the DXHunter concept as an OpsLog tab.
+//
+// One card per watched callsign (or prefix), the live spots that match it
+// underneath, and the two questions an operator actually asks answered on every
+// line: is this slot still NEEDED, and what would it be worth (the same NEW
+// DXCC / band / mode / slot badges the cluster shows, resolved from the same
+// index). A CONTEST entry is judged against the current UTC day — at midnight
+// everything reads "work today" again; the boundary lives in the backend query,
+// so there is nothing to reset.
+//
+// The design is DXHunter's — the layout, the badges, the wording — repainted in
+// the app's theme tokens rather than its hard-coded slate/pink.
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import { Eye, Plus, Trash2, Bell, BellOff, Trophy, Search } from 'lucide-react';
+import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
+import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
+import { Checkbox } from '@/components/ui/checkbox';
+import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { useI18n } from '@/lib/i18n';
+import {
+  WatchlistEntries, WatchlistAdd, WatchlistRemove, WatchlistSetNotify,
+  WatchlistSetContest, WatchlistWorkedSlots,
+  GetWatchlistContestPattern, SetWatchlistContestPattern, OpenExternalURL,
+} from '../../wailsjs/go/main/App';
+import { EventsOn } from '../../wailsjs/runtime/runtime';
+import type { ClusterSpot, SpotStatusEntry } from '@/components/ClusterGrid';
+import { inferSpotMode, spotStatusKey } from '@/lib/spot';
+
+interface WLEntry {
+  callsign: string; lastSeenStr: string; addedAt: string; spotCount: number;
+  isContest: boolean; notify: boolean;
+  isExpedition: boolean; clubLogQSOs24h: number; clubLogTotalQSOs: number;
+  clubLogHasOQRS: boolean; clubLogLiveStream: boolean;
+}
+
+interface Props {
+  spots: ClusterSpot[];
+  spotStatus: Record<string, SpotStatusEntry>;
+  onSpotSelect?: (s: ClusterSpot) => void;
+  onSpotClick?: (s: ClusterSpot) => void;
+}
+
+// A spot is ON AIR for the badge while its last sighting is this fresh.
+const ON_AIR_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;
+
+// Exact unless the entry carries a trailing * — the same rule the backend's
+// Match applies to the live stream, mirrored so the tab and the alerts can
+// never disagree about what an entry covers.
+function matchesEntry(call: string, pattern: string): boolean {
+  const c = call.toUpperCase();
+  if (pattern.endsWith('*')) {
+    const p = pattern.slice(0, -1);
+    return p !== '' && c.startsWith(p);
+  }
+  return c === pattern;
+}
+
+export function WatchlistTab({ spots, spotStatus, onSpotSelect, onSpotClick }: Props) {
+  const { t } = useI18n();
+  const [entries, setEntries] = useState<WLEntry[]>([]);
+  const [addCall, setAddCall] = useState('');
+  const [addContest, setAddContest] = useState(false);
+  const [search, setSearch] = useState('');
+  // The filters survive leaving the tab: the component unmounts on every tab
+  // switch, and filters that reset each time are filters nobody trusts.
+  const [neededOnly, setNeededOnlyRaw] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.wlNeededOnly') === '1');
+  const [activeOnly, setActiveOnlyRaw] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.wlActiveOnly') === '1');
+  const [family, setFamilyRaw] = useState<'all' | 'normal' | 'contest'>(() => {
+    const v = localStorage.getItem('opslog.wlFamily');
+    return v === 'normal' || v === 'contest' ? v : 'all';
+  });
+  const setNeededOnly = (f: (v: boolean) => boolean) => setNeededOnlyRaw((v) => { const nv = f(v); try { localStorage.setItem('opslog.wlNeededOnly', nv ? '1' : '0'); } catch {} return nv; });
+  const setActiveOnly = (f: (v: boolean) => boolean) => setActiveOnlyRaw((v) => { const nv = f(v); try { localStorage.setItem('opslog.wlActiveOnly', nv ? '1' : '0'); } catch {} return nv; });
+  const setFamily = (v: 'all' | 'normal' | 'contest') => { setFamilyRaw(v); try { localStorage.setItem('opslog.wlFamily', v); } catch {} };
+  // Mode filter — DXHunter's "All Modes" select. DIGI matches the digital class
+  // (FT8, FT4, a generic DATA spot…), the named modes match exactly.
+  const [modeFilter, setModeFilterRaw] = useState(() => localStorage.getItem('opslog.wlMode') || 'ALL');
+  const setModeFilter = (v: string) => { setModeFilterRaw(v); try { localStorage.setItem('opslog.wlMode', v); } catch {} };
+  const modeMatches = (s2: ClusterSpot): boolean => {
+    if (modeFilter === 'ALL') return true;
+    const m = (inferSpotMode(s2.comment ?? '', s2.freq_hz) || '').toUpperCase();
+    if (modeFilter === 'DIGI') return !['', 'CW', 'SSB', 'USB', 'LSB', 'FM', 'AM'].includes(m);
+    if (modeFilter === 'SSB') return m === 'SSB' || m === 'USB' || m === 'LSB';
+    return m === modeFilter;
+  };
+  const [error, setError] = useState('');
+  // A quiet confirmation under the toolbar; both messages clear themselves —
+  // a stale "added" from ten minutes ago reads as a fresh one.
+  const [notice, setNotice] = useState('');
+  const noticeTimer = useRef<number | undefined>(undefined);
+  const flash = (msg: string, isError: boolean) => {
+    if (noticeTimer.current) window.clearTimeout(noticeTimer.current);
+    setError(isError ? msg : '');
+    setNotice(isError ? '' : msg);
+    noticeTimer.current = window.setTimeout(() => { setError(''); setNotice(''); }, 4000) as unknown as number;
+  };
+
+  // worked answer per "call|band|modeclass|contest" key.
+  const [worked, setWorked] = useState<Record<string, boolean>>({});
+
+  const refresh = useCallback(async () => {
+    try { setEntries(((await WatchlistEntries()) ?? []) as any as WLEntry[]); }
+    catch (e: any) { setError(String(e?.message ?? e)); }
+  }, []);
+  // Refreshed on mount, when the backend auto-adds (event), and on a slow tick
+  // so last-seen and the spot counters stay honest while the tab sits open.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    void refresh();
+    const off = EventsOn('watchlist:changed', () => { void refresh(); });
+    const id = window.setInterval(() => { void refresh(); }, 30_000);
+    return () => { off(); window.clearInterval(id); };
+  }, [refresh]);
+  // The auto-contest pattern (DXHunter's contest_prefix): spots whose call
+  // contains it are added as contest entries by the backend.
+  const [pattern, setPattern] = useState('');
+  useEffect(() => { GetWatchlistContestPattern().then((p: string) => setPattern(p ?? '')).catch(() => {}); }, []);
+
+  // Live spots per entry — prefix-matched, newest first, deduped per band+mode
+  // (one line per slot; the freshest spot represents it).
+  const spotsFor = useMemo(() => {
+    const map = new Map<string, ClusterSpot[]>();
+    for (const e of entries) map.set(e.callsign, []);
+    for (const s of spots) {
+      for (const e of entries) {
+        if (matchesEntry(s.dx_call ?? '', e.callsign)) { map.get(e.callsign)!.push(s); break; }
+      }
+    }
+    for (const [k, list] of map) {
+      const seen = new Set<string>();
+      map.set(k, list.filter((s) => {
+        const key = `${(s.band ?? '')}|${inferSpotMode(s.comment ?? '', s.freq_hz)}|${s.dx_call}`;
+        if (seen.has(key)) return false;
+        seen.add(key);
+        return true;
+      }));
+    }
+    return map;
+  }, [spots, entries]);
+
+  // The worked answers, refreshed when the visible slots change. Debounced: a
+  // spot burst must cost one round trip, not one per spot.
+  const queryTimer = useRef<number | undefined>(undefined);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (queryTimer.current) window.clearTimeout(queryTimer.current);
+    queryTimer.current = window.setTimeout(async () => {
+      const queries: { call: string; band: string; mode: string; contest: boolean }[] = [];
+      const keys: string[] = [];
+      for (const e of entries) {
+        for (const s of spotsFor.get(e.callsign) ?? []) {
+          const mode = inferSpotMode(s.comment ?? '', s.freq_hz) || '';
+          queries.push({ call: s.dx_call, band: s.band ?? '', mode, contest: e.isContest });
+          keys.push(`${s.dx_call}|${s.band ?? ''}|${mode}|${e.isContest ? 1 : 0}`);
+        }
+      }
+      if (queries.length === 0) { setWorked({}); return; }
+      try {
+        const res: boolean[] = (await WatchlistWorkedSlots(queries as any)) ?? [];
+        // MERGED, not replaced: replacing made every already-answered key
+        // momentarily unknown on each refresh, which re-hid settled lines.
+        setWorked((prev) => {
+          const next = { ...prev };
+          keys.forEach((k, i) => { next[k] = !!res[i]; });
+          return next;
+        });
+      } catch { /* the badges just stay conservative */ }
+    }, 150) as unknown as number;
+    return () => { if (queryTimer.current) window.clearTimeout(queryTimer.current); };
+  }, [spotsFor, entries]);
+
+  const wkey = (e: WLEntry, s: ClusterSpot) =>
+    `${s.dx_call}|${s.band ?? ''}|${inferSpotMode(s.comment ?? '', s.freq_hz) || ''}|${e.isContest ? 1 : 0}`;
+  const workedFor = (e: WLEntry, s: ClusterSpot): boolean => worked[wkey(e, s)] ?? false;
+  // A spot whose verdict has not come back yet is NOT drawn. Showing it as
+  // Needed and withdrawing it half a second later made the list twitch on
+  // every burst — and nobody needs a spot 400 ms early, they need it settled.
+  const settled = (e: WLEntry, s: ClusterSpot): boolean => wkey(e, s) in worked;
+
+  const add = async () => {
+    const c = addCall.trim().toUpperCase();
+    if (!c) return;
+    try {
+      await WatchlistAdd(c, addContest);
+      setAddCall('');
+      flash(t(addContest ? 'wl.addedContest' : 'wl.added', { call: c }), false);
+      await refresh();
+    } catch (e: any) { flash(String(e?.message ?? e), true); }
+  };
+
+  // One click, like the bell and the trophy beside it: removing a watchlist
+  // entry is cheap to undo (type it again), so it does not earn a confirmation
+  // the other two buttons do not have.
+  const remove = async (call: string) => {
+    try { await WatchlistRemove(call); flash(t('wl.removed', { call }), false); await refresh(); }
+    catch (e: any) { flash(String(e?.message ?? e), true); }
+  };
+
+  const isOnAir = (e: WLEntry): boolean =>
+    (spotsFor.get(e.callsign) ?? []).some((s) => {
+      const ts = Date.parse(String((s as any).received_at ?? ''));
+      return ts > 0 && Date.now() - ts < ON_AIR_MS;
+    });
+
+  const shown = entries.filter((e) => {
+    if (family === 'normal' && e.isContest) return false;
+    if (family === 'contest' && !e.isContest) return false;
+    if (search && !e.callsign.includes(search.trim().toUpperCase())) return false;
+    const list = (spotsFor.get(e.callsign) ?? []).filter(modeMatches).filter((s2) => settled(e, s2));
+    if (activeOnly && list.length === 0) return false;
+    if (neededOnly && !list.some((s2) => !workedFor(e, s2))) return false;
+    return true;
+  });
+
+  const counters = useMemo(() => {
+    let active = 0, needed = 0;
+    for (const e of entries) {
+      const list = (spotsFor.get(e.callsign) ?? []).filter(modeMatches).filter((s2) => settled(e, s2));
+      if (list.length > 0) active++;
+      if (list.some((s2) => !workedFor(e, s2))) needed++;
+    }
+    return { total: entries.length, active, needed };
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [entries, spotsFor, worked, modeFilter]);
+
+  // The cluster's own badge for a spot, read from the shared status index.
+  const dxccBadge = (s: ClusterSpot): { label: string; color: string } | null => {
+    const st = spotStatus[spotStatusKey(s.dx_call, s.band ?? '', s.comment ?? '', s.freq_hz)];
+    switch (st?.status) {
+      case 'new': return { label: t('wl.newDxcc'), color: 'var(--danger)' };
+      case 'new-band-mode': return { label: t('clg2.newBandMode'), color: 'var(--danger)' };
+      case 'new-band': return { label: t('clg2.newBand'), color: 'var(--warning)' };
+      case 'new-mode': return { label: t('clg2.newMode'), color: 'var(--caution)' };
+      case 'new-slot': return { label: t('clg2.newSlot'), color: '#5AC8FA' };
+      default: return null;
+    }
+  };
+
+  const chip = (color: string, text: string, extra?: string) => (
+    <span className={cn('px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded text-[10px] font-bold border', extra)}
+      style={{ color, borderColor: `color-mix(in srgb, ${color} 40%, transparent)`, background: `color-mix(in srgb, ${color} 12%, transparent)` }}>
+      {text}
+    </span>
+  );
+
+  return (
+    // Capped and centred: a card is a reading surface, and callsign-to-badge
+    // lines stretched across a 34-inch window are not readable, they are long.
+    <div className="flex flex-col min-h-0 flex-1 gap-2 p-2 w-full max-w-5xl mx-auto">
+      {/* Header: the counters alone, centred — they are the tab's headline.
+          Everything one INTERACTS with lives on the second row. */}
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-center gap-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+        <Eye className="size-4 text-primary shrink-0" />
+        <span>
+          {t('wl.cTotal')} <b className="text-foreground">{counters.total}</b>
+          <span className="mx-1.5 opacity-50">|</span>
+          {t('wl.cActive')} <b className="text-info">{counters.active}</b>
+          <span className="mx-1.5 opacity-50">|</span>
+          {t('wl.cNeeded')} <b className="text-warning">{counters.needed}</b>
+        </span>
+      </div>
+      {/* toolbar */}
+      <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-x-3 gap-y-1.5 flex-wrap">
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 shrink-0">
+        <Input className="h-8 w-40 font-mono placeholder:font-sans placeholder:normal-case" placeholder={t('wl.addPh')} value={addCall}
+          onChange={(e) => setAddCall(e.target.value.toUpperCase())}
+          onKeyDown={(e) => { if (e.key === 'Enter') void add(); }} />
+        <label className="flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs cursor-pointer" title={t('wl.contestHint')}>
+          <Checkbox checked={addContest} onCheckedChange={(c) => setAddContest(!!c)} />
+          <Trophy className="size-3.5 text-warning" /> {t('wl.addAsContest')}
+        </label>
+        <Button size="sm" className="h-8" onClick={() => void add()} disabled={!addCall.trim()}>
+          <Plus className="size-3.5" /> {t('wl.add')}
+        </Button>
+        <Input className="h-8 w-28 font-mono placeholder:font-sans placeholder:normal-case" placeholder={t('wl.patternPh')}
+          title={t('wl.patternHint')}
+          value={pattern}
+          onChange={(e) => setPattern(e.target.value.toUpperCase())}
+          onBlur={() => { void SetWatchlistContestPattern(pattern.trim()); }} />
+        </div>
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 shrink-0">
+        <div className="relative">
+          <Search className="size-3.5 absolute left-2 top-1/2 -translate-y-1/2 text-muted-foreground" />
+          <Input className="h-8 w-28 pl-7 text-sm" placeholder={t('wl.searchPh')} value={search}
+            onChange={(e) => setSearch(e.target.value)} />
+        </div>
+        {/* families kept together, told apart — per review of the DXHunter port,
+            no global contest mode: each entry carries its own rule. */}
+        <div className="inline-flex rounded-md border border-border overflow-hidden text-xs">
+          {([['all', t('wl.famAll')], ['normal', t('wl.famNormal')], ['contest', t('wl.famContest')]] as const).map(([k, label]) => (
+            <button key={k} type="button" onClick={() => setFamily(k)}
+              className={cn('px-2 py-1 border-l border-border first:border-l-0',
+                family === k ? 'bg-accent font-medium' : 'text-muted-foreground hover:bg-accent/50')}>
+              {label}
+            </button>
+          ))}
+        </div>
+        <select value={modeFilter} onChange={(e) => setModeFilter(e.target.value)}
+          title={t('wl.modeFilter')}
+          className="h-7 px-1.5 rounded-md border border-border bg-background text-xs text-foreground">
+          {['ALL', 'CW', 'SSB', 'FT8', 'FT4', 'RTTY', 'DIGI'].map((m) => (
+            <option key={m} value={m}>{m === 'ALL' ? t('wl.allModes') : m}</option>
+          ))}
+        </select>
+        <button type="button" onClick={() => setActiveOnly((v) => !v)}
+          className={cn('px-2 py-1 rounded-md border text-xs', activeOnly ? 'bg-accent border-border font-medium' : 'border-border text-muted-foreground hover:bg-accent/50')}>
+          {t('wl.activeOnly')}
+        </button>
+        <button type="button" onClick={() => setNeededOnly((v) => !v)}
+          className={cn('px-2 py-1 rounded-md border text-xs', neededOnly ? 'bg-accent border-border font-medium' : 'border-border text-muted-foreground hover:bg-accent/50')}>
+          {t('wl.neededOnly')}
+        </button>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      {error && <div className="text-xs text-danger px-1">{error}</div>}
+      {notice && <div className="text-xs text-success px-1">{notice}</div>}
+
+      {/* cards */}
+      <div className="flex-1 min-h-0 overflow-y-auto space-y-2 pr-1">
+        {shown.length === 0 ? (
+          <div className="text-sm text-muted-foreground text-center pt-16 max-w-md mx-auto leading-relaxed">
+            {entries.length === 0 ? t('wl.empty') : t('wl.noneMatch')}
+          </div>
+        ) : shown.map((e) => {
+          const all = (spotsFor.get(e.callsign) ?? []).filter(modeMatches).filter((s2) => settled(e, s2));
+          const needed = all.filter((s) => !workedFor(e, s)).length;
+          // Needed-only hides the worked LINES as well as the all-worked cards:
+          // a filter that says needed and still lists five green Worked rows is
+          // answering a different question than the one asked.
+          const list = neededOnly ? all.filter((s) => !workedFor(e, s)) : all;
+          return (
+            <div key={e.callsign}
+              className={cn('rounded-lg border bg-card p-3',
+                needed > 0 ? 'border-warning/50' : 'border-border',
+                e.isContest && 'border-l-4 border-l-warning')}>
+              <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap">
+                <span className="text-lg font-bold font-mono text-primary">{e.callsign}</span>
+                {isOnAir(e) && chip('var(--danger)', t('wl.onAir'), 'animate-pulse')}
+                {e.isContest && (
+                  <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded text-[10px] font-bold bg-warning-muted text-warning-muted-foreground border border-warning-border"
+                    title={t('wl.contestHint')}>
+                    <Trophy className="size-3" /> {t('wl.contest')}
+                  </span>
+                )}
+                {e.isExpedition && chip('var(--chart-5)', t('wl.expedition'))}
+                {e.clubLogTotalQSOs > 0 && <span className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">{e.clubLogTotalQSOs.toLocaleString()} QSOs{e.clubLogQSOs24h > 0 ? ` · ${e.clubLogQSOs24h}/24h` : ''}</span>}
+                {e.clubLogHasOQRS && chip('var(--success)', 'OQRS')}
+                {e.clubLogLiveStream && (
+                  <a href="#" onClick={(ev) => { ev.preventDefault(); void OpenExternalURL(`https://clublog.org/livestream/${e.callsign.replace('*', '')}`); }}
+                    className="px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded text-[10px] font-bold border text-info border-info/40 bg-info/10 hover:bg-info/20">Live</a>
+                )}
+                {list.length > 0 && (needed > 0
+                  ? chip('var(--warning)', e.isContest ? t('wl.nToday', { n: needed }) : t('wl.nNeeded', { n: needed }))
+                  : chip('var(--success)', e.isContest ? t('wl.workedToday') : t('wl.allWorked')))}
+                {e.lastSeenStr && e.lastSeenStr !== 'Never' && (
+                  <span className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">· {e.lastSeenStr}</span>
+                )}
+                {e.spotCount > 0 && (
+                  <span className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground/70">· {t('wl.totalSpots', { n: e.spotCount })}</span>
+                )}
+                <div className="flex-1" />
+                <button type="button" title={t('wl.toggleContest')}
+                  onClick={() => void WatchlistSetContest(e.callsign, !e.isContest).then(refresh)}
+                  className={cn('p-1 rounded hover:bg-muted', e.isContest ? 'text-warning' : 'text-muted-foreground/40')}>
+                  <Trophy className="size-3.5" />
+                </button>
+                <button type="button" title={e.notify ? t('wl.notifyOff') : t('wl.notifyOn')}
+                  onClick={() => void WatchlistSetNotify(e.callsign, !e.notify).then(refresh)}
+                  className={cn('p-1 rounded hover:bg-muted', e.notify ? 'text-warning' : 'text-muted-foreground/40')}>
+                  {e.notify ? <Bell className="size-3.5" /> : <BellOff className="size-3.5" />}
+                </button>
+                <button type="button" title={t('wl.remove')}
+                  onClick={() => void remove(e.callsign)}
+                  className="p-1 rounded hover:bg-muted text-muted-foreground/40 hover:text-danger">
+                  <Trash2 className="size-3.5" />
+                </button>
+              </div>
+
+              {list.length > 0 ? (
+                <div className="mt-2 space-y-1 max-h-52 overflow-y-auto">
+                  {list.slice(0, 12).map((s, i) => {
+                    const done = workedFor(e, s);
+                    const badge = dxccBadge(s);
+                    const mode = inferSpotMode(s.comment ?? '', s.freq_hz);
+                    return (
+                      <button key={i} type="button"
+                        onClick={() => onSpotSelect?.(s)}
+                        onDoubleClick={() => onSpotClick?.(s)}
+                        title={t('wl.spotTip')}
+                        className={cn('w-full flex items-center gap-2 px-2 py-1.5 rounded text-[11px] bg-muted/40 hover:bg-muted text-left',
+                          !done && 'border-l-2 border-warning')}>
+                        {done && <span className='font-bold shrink-0 text-success'>✓</span>}
+                        <span className="font-mono font-bold text-info shrink-0">{s.dx_call}</span>
+                        <span className="text-muted-foreground truncate flex-1 min-w-0 max-w-56">{(s as any).country ?? ''}</span>
+                        <span className="px-1.5 rounded bg-muted shrink-0">{s.band}</span>
+                        {mode && <span className="px-1.5 rounded shrink-0" style={{ color: 'var(--chart-5)', background: 'color-mix(in srgb, var(--chart-5) 12%, transparent)' }}>{mode}</span>}
+                        <span className="font-mono text-muted-foreground shrink-0">{(s.freq_hz / 1e6).toFixed(4)}</span>
+                        {badge && chip(badge.color, badge.label)}
+                        <div className="flex-1" />
+                        {done
+                          ? chip('var(--success)', e.isContest ? t('wl.todayOk') : t('wl.worked'))
+                          : chip('var(--warning)', e.isContest ? t('wl.workToday') : t('wl.needed'))}
+                        <span className="text-muted-foreground/70 shrink-0">{s.time_utc ?? ''}</span>
+                      </button>
+                    );
+                  })}
+                </div>
+              ) : (
+                <div className="mt-2 text-[11px] text-muted-foreground text-center py-1.5 bg-muted/30 rounded">
+                  {t('wl.noSpots')}
+                </div>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          );
+        })}
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/WinkeyerPanel.tsx

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ interface Props {
   wpm: number;
   macros: WKMacro[];
   sent: string; // text echoed back by the keyer as it transmits
-  source: 'winkeyer' | 'icom' | 'flex' | 'yaesu' | 'kenwood'; // CW output engine (chosen in Settings → CW Keyer)
+  source: 'winkeyer' | 'icom' | 'flex' | 'yaesu' | 'kenwood' | 'tci'; // CW output engine (chosen in Settings → CW Keyer)
   breakIn?: number;                          // Icom CW break-in: 0=OFF, 1=SEMI, 2=FULL
   onSetBreakIn?: (mode: number) => void;
   onSelectPort: (p: string) => void;
@@ -109,16 +109,16 @@ export function WinkeyerPanel({
         <Radio className="size-4 text-primary shrink-0" />
         {/* CW output engine (chosen in Settings → CW Keyer). */}
         <span className="text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-muted-foreground shrink-0">
-          {source === 'icom' ? 'Icom CW' : source === 'flex' ? 'Flex CWX' : source === 'yaesu' ? 'Yaesu CW' : source === 'kenwood' ? 'Kenwood CW' : 'WinKeyer'}
+          {source === 'icom' ? 'Icom CW' : source === 'flex' ? 'Flex CWX' : source === 'yaesu' ? 'Yaesu CW' : source === 'kenwood' ? 'Kenwood CW' : source === 'tci' ? 'TCI CW' : 'WinKeyer'}
         </span>
         <span className={cn('size-2 rounded-full', connected ? (status.busy ? 'bg-warning animate-pulse' : 'bg-success') : 'bg-muted-foreground/40')}
           title={connected ? (status.busy ? t('wkp.sending') : t('wkp.connectedV', { version: status.version })) : t('wkp.disconnected')} />
         <div className="flex-1" />
-        {source === 'icom' || source === 'flex' || source === 'yaesu' || source === 'kenwood' ? (
+        {source === 'icom' || source === 'flex' || source === 'yaesu' || source === 'kenwood' || source === 'tci' ? (
           <span className="text-[11px] font-medium text-muted-foreground">
             {source === 'flex'
               ? (connected ? t('wkp.cwxReady') : t('wkp.cwxOffline'))
-              : source === 'yaesu' || source === 'kenwood'
+              : source === 'yaesu' || source === 'kenwood' || source === 'tci'
                 ? (connected ? t('wkp.rigReady') : t('wkp.rigOffline'))
                 : (connected ? t('wkp.civReady') : t('wkp.civOffline'))}
           </span>

frontend/src/lib/bandplan.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+// IARU band plans, by region.
+//
+// The band maps used to carry one hard-coded table — Region 1's — so a US or
+// Australian operator saw 40 m stop at 7200 while stations sat spotted at 7250,
+// and the SSB wash started 25 kHz early. The region is a station-level fact the
+// operator states once (Settings → General); everything drawing a band edge or
+// a mode segment reads it from here.
+//
+// The tables are deliberately coarse: a band map's wash is CONTEXT, not a
+// regulatory chart. Only the segments that differ between regions in ways an
+// operator notices are split out; national fine print (US licence classes,
+// beacon slots) does not belong in a background tint.
+import { writeUiPref } from '@/lib/uiPref';
+
+export type IaruRegion = 1 | 2 | 3;
+export const KEY_IARU_REGION = 'opslog.iaruRegion';
+
+export function iaruRegion(): IaruRegion {
+  try {
+    const v = localStorage.getItem(KEY_IARU_REGION);
+    return v === '2' ? 2 : v === '3' ? 3 : 1;
+  } catch { return 1; }
+}
+
+export function setIaruRegion(r: IaruRegion): void {
+  writeUiPref(KEY_IARU_REGION, String(r));
+  listeners.forEach((l) => l());
+}
+
+// The band maps capture the plan inside their render, so a change must reach
+// them the way the distance unit reaches the grids.
+const listeners = new Set<() => void>();
+export function subscribeIaruRegion(fn: () => void): () => void {
+  listeners.add(fn);
+  return () => { listeners.delete(fn); };
+}
+
+export type SegMode = 'cw' | 'digi' | 'phone';
+type Seg = [number, number, SegMode];
+
+interface Plan {
+  ranges: Record<string, [number, number]>;
+  segments: Record<string, Seg[]>;
+}
+
+// Region 1 — Europe / Africa / Middle East / northern Asia. The baseline the
+// other two override.
+const R1: Plan = {
+  ranges: {
+    '160m': [1800, 2000], '80m': [3500, 3800], '60m': [5350, 5450],
+    '40m': [7000, 7200], '30m': [10100, 10150], '20m': [14000, 14350],
+    '17m': [18068, 18168], '15m': [21000, 21450], '12m': [24890, 24990],
+    '10m': [28000, 29700], '6m': [50000, 50500], '4m': [70000, 70500],
+    '2m': [144000, 146000], '70cm': [430000, 440000],
+  },
+  segments: {
+    '160m': [[1800, 1838, 'cw'], [1838, 1840, 'digi'], [1840, 2000, 'phone']],
+    '80m': [[3500, 3580, 'cw'], [3580, 3600, 'digi'], [3600, 3800, 'phone']],
+    '60m': [[5350, 5450, 'phone']],
+    '40m': [[7000, 7040, 'cw'], [7040, 7100, 'digi'], [7100, 7200, 'phone']],
+    '30m': [[10100, 10130, 'cw'], [10130, 10150, 'digi']],
+    '20m': [[14000, 14070, 'cw'], [14070, 14100, 'digi'], [14100, 14350, 'phone']],
+    '17m': [[18068, 18095, 'cw'], [18095, 18110, 'digi'], [18110, 18168, 'phone']],
+    '15m': [[21000, 21070, 'cw'], [21070, 21150, 'digi'], [21150, 21450, 'phone']],
+    '12m': [[24890, 24915, 'cw'], [24915, 24940, 'digi'], [24940, 24990, 'phone']],
+    '10m': [[28000, 28070, 'cw'], [28070, 28300, 'digi'], [28300, 29700, 'phone']],
+    '6m': [[50000, 50100, 'cw'], [50100, 50500, 'phone']],
+  },
+};
+
+// Region 2 — the Americas. 80 m runs to 4000 and 40 m to 7300, with phone from
+// 7125 (the whole point of asking the region: a KP4 ragchew on 7250 must not
+// hang past the top of the map).
+const R2: Plan = {
+  ranges: {
+    ...R1.ranges,
+    '80m': [3500, 4000], '40m': [7000, 7300],
+    '6m': [50000, 54000], '2m': [144000, 148000], '70cm': [420000, 450000],
+  },
+  segments: {
+    ...R1.segments,
+    '80m': [[3500, 3570, 'cw'], [3570, 3600, 'digi'], [3600, 4000, 'phone']],
+    '40m': [[7000, 7040, 'cw'], [7040, 7125, 'digi'], [7125, 7300, 'phone']],
+    '6m': [[50000, 50100, 'cw'], [50100, 54000, 'phone']],
+  },
+};
+
+// Region 3 — Asia-Pacific. 80 m to 3900; 40 m as Region 1's shape.
+const R3: Plan = {
+  ranges: {
+    ...R1.ranges,
+    '80m': [3500, 3900],
+    '6m': [50000, 54000], '2m': [144000, 148000], '70cm': [430000, 450000],
+  },
+  segments: {
+    ...R1.segments,
+    '80m': [[3500, 3535, 'cw'], [3535, 3600, 'digi'], [3600, 3900, 'phone']],
+    '6m': [[50000, 50100, 'cw'], [50100, 54000, 'phone']],
+  },
+};
+
+function plan(): Plan {
+  const r = iaruRegion();
+  return r === 2 ? R2 : r === 3 ? R3 : R1;
+}
+
+export function bandRange(band: string): [number, number] | undefined {
+  return plan().ranges[band];
+}
+
+export function bandSegments(band: string): Seg[] {
+  return plan().segments[band] ?? [];
+}

frontend/src/lib/spotDisplay.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,25 @@
 //
 // They compose deliberately: mute what is done, light up what is not.
 
-export type SpotDisplayOptions = { muteWorked: boolean; slotHighlight: boolean };
+export type SpotDisplayOptions = {
+  muteWorked: boolean; slotHighlight: boolean;
+  // Chase switches (Settings → DX Cluster), ON by default. An operator who does
+  // not chase parks does not want NEW POTA shouting from every activator spot:
+  // off, the marker is withdrawn at the display layer — a "new band + new POTA"
+  // spot simply reads NEW BAND — and the reference column goes quiet. The facts
+  // keep being computed; only the telling stops, so ticking the box back on
+  // needs no rescan.
+  chasePota: boolean; chaseSota: boolean;
+};
+
+// chasePota/chaseSota read the switches directly — for the places that show a
+// REFERENCE rather than a status (the POTA and SOTA columns).
+export function chasePota(): boolean {
+  try { return localStorage.getItem('opslog.chasePota') !== '0'; } catch { return true; }
+}
+export function chaseSota(): boolean {
+  try { return localStorage.getItem('opslog.chaseSota') !== '0'; } catch { return true; }
+}
 
 // Both options are withdrawn from the filter panel for now. The machinery below
 // is deliberately kept whole — it is correct and hard-won — so putting the two
@@ -23,14 +41,19 @@ export type SpotDisplayOptions = { muteWorked: boolean; slotHighlight: boolean }
 export const SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED = false;
 
 export function readSpotDisplayOptions(): SpotDisplayOptions {
-  if (!SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED) return { muteWorked: false, slotHighlight: false };
+  // The EXPOSED flag only withdraws the two original switches; the chase
+  // switches are live regardless.
+  if (!SPOT_DISPLAY_OPTIONS_EXPOSED) {
+    return { muteWorked: false, slotHighlight: false, chasePota: chasePota(), chaseSota: chaseSota() };
+  }
   try {
     return {
       muteWorked: localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterMuteWorked') === '1',
       slotHighlight: localStorage.getItem('opslog.clusterSlotHighlight') === '1',
+      chasePota: chasePota(), chaseSota: chaseSota(),
     };
   } catch {
-    return { muteWorked: false, slotHighlight: false };
+    return { muteWorked: false, slotHighlight: false, chasePota: true, chaseSota: true };
   }
 }
 
@@ -72,6 +95,9 @@ export function applySpotDisplay<T extends Entry>(s: T, o: SpotDisplayOptions):
   if (o.muteWorked) {
     e = { ...e, worked_call: false } as NonNullable<T>;
   }
+  if (!o.chasePota && e.new_pota) {
+    e = { ...e, new_pota: false } as NonNullable<T>;
+  }
   return e;
 }
 

frontend/src/lib/uiPref.ts

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ const PORTABLE_KEYS = [
   'opslog.clusterFilterSource', 'opslog.clusterGroup', 'opslog.clusterBands',
   'opslog.clusterLockBand', 'opslog.clusterLockMode', 'opslog.clusterStatusFilter',
   'opslog.clusterModeFilter', 'opslog.clusterSearch', 'opslog.clusterHideWorked',
+  'opslog.distanceMiles', // distances shown in statute miles rather than km
+  'opslog.iaruRegion',    // IARU region (1/2/3) — band edges and segments on the band maps
+  'opslog.chasePota',     // show POTA references and the NEW POTA marker on spots
+  'opslog.chaseSota',     // show SOTA references on spots
   'opslog.activeTab',     // last selected tab
   'opslog.mainSplit',    // Main tab: width share of the left pane (percent) — legacy, read once to seed mainShares
   'opslog.mainShares',   // Main tab: column shares per column count, as {2:[..],3:[..],4:[..]}

frontend/src/lib/units.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+// Distance units.
+//
+// Everything is COMPUTED in kilometres — the great-circle maths, the backend's
+// distance_km on a spot, the map's path lengths — and converted once, here, at
+// display time. Storing miles anywhere would mean two sources of truth for the
+// same number and a rounding error that grows with every hop.
+//
+// The preference is portable (see lib/uiPref): an operator who works in miles
+// works in miles on every machine they copy their folder to.
+import { writeUiPref } from '@/lib/uiPref';
+
+export const KEY_MILES = 'opslog.distanceMiles';
+const KM_PER_MILE = 1.609344; // statute miles, the ones a US licence is used in
+
+export function useMiles(): boolean {
+  try { return localStorage.getItem(KEY_MILES) === '1'; } catch { return false; }
+}
+
+export function setUseMiles(on: boolean): void {
+  writeUiPref(KEY_MILES, on ? '1' : '0');
+  listeners.forEach((l) => l());
+}
+
+// subscribeDistanceUnit notifies on a change. The grids capture the unit inside
+// their column definitions (header text and formatter both), so without this a
+// toggle would only show up on the next language change or restart.
+const listeners = new Set<() => void>();
+export function subscribeDistanceUnit(fn: () => void): () => void {
+  listeners.add(fn);
+  return () => { listeners.delete(fn); };
+}
+
+// distanceValue converts a distance in km to the operator's unit, rounded to a
+// whole unit — the precision the inputs actually justify (a 4-character grid is
+// a square tens of kilometres wide).
+export function distanceValue(km: number): number {
+  if (!isFinite(km)) return 0;
+  return Math.round(useMiles() ? km / KM_PER_MILE : km);
+}
+
+// distanceUnit is the short label: "km" or "mi".
+export function distanceUnit(): string {
+  return useMiles() ? 'mi' : 'km';
+}
+
+// formatDistance is value + unit, thousands-separated: "12 345 km".
+export function formatDistance(km: number): string {
+  return `${distanceValue(km).toLocaleString()} ${distanceUnit()}`;
+}

frontend/src/version.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Single source of truth for the app version shown in the UI (header + About).
 // Bump this on a release (the release script updates it alongside telemetry.go).
-export const APP_VERSION = '0.26.20';
+export const APP_VERSION = '0.27.0';
 
 // Author / credits, shown in Help -> About.
 export const APP_AUTHOR = 'F4BPO';

frontend/wailsjs/go/main/App.d.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import {lotwusers} from '../models';
 import {lookup} from '../models';
 import {netctl} from '../models';
 import {scp} from '../models';
+import {watchlist} from '../models';
 
 export function ACOMSetOperate(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
@@ -505,6 +506,8 @@ export function GetLiveStations():Promise<Array<main.LiveStation>>;
 
 export function GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls():Promise<boolean>;
 
+export function GetLoTWQSLDetail():Promise<boolean>;
+
 export function GetLoTWUsersStatus():Promise<main.LoTWUsersStatus>;
 
 export function GetLogFilePath():Promise<string>;
@@ -599,6 +602,8 @@ export function GetUltrabeamSettings():Promise<main.UltrabeamSettings>;
 
 export function GetUltrabeamStatus():Promise<main.UltrabeamStatusInfo>;
 
+export function GetWatchlistContestPattern():Promise<string>;
+
 export function GetWebPublishConfig():Promise<webpub.Config>;
 
 export function GetWebPublishStatus():Promise<main.WebPublishStatus>;
@@ -1143,6 +1148,8 @@ export function SetKenwoodNB(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetKenwoodNR(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
+export function SetKenwoodPanelMode(arg1:string):Promise<void>;
+
 export function SetKenwoodPower(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetKenwoodPreamp(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
@@ -1151,6 +1158,8 @@ export function SetKenwoodRFGain(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetKenwoodRIT(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
+export function SetKenwoodRITOffset(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
+
 export function SetKenwoodSquelch(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetKenwoodTX(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
@@ -1161,6 +1170,8 @@ export function SetLinkedAmps(arg1:Array<string>):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetLoTWDownloadAllCalls(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
+export function SetLoTWQSLDetail(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
+
 export function SetMotorFollow(arg1:boolean,arg2:number,arg3:string):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetOpsLogQSLReceived(arg1:number,arg2:boolean):Promise<void>;
@@ -1219,6 +1230,8 @@ export function SetUIPref(arg1:string,arg2:string):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetUltrabeamDirection(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
 
+export function SetWatchlistContestPattern(arg1:string):Promise<void>;
+
 export function SetWinkeyerTrace(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
 
 export function SetWorkedCallVariants(arg1:boolean):Promise<void>;
@@ -1275,6 +1288,12 @@ export function SyncFolderNow():Promise<number>;
 
 export function SyncPOTAHunterLog(arg1:boolean,arg2:boolean):Promise<main.POTASyncResult>;
 
+export function TCISendCW(arg1:string):Promise<void>;
+
+export function TCISetKeySpeed(arg1:number):Promise<void>;
+
+export function TCIStopCW():Promise<void>;
+
 export function TailLogFile(arg1:number):Promise<string>;
 
 export function TestCloudlogUpload():Promise<string>;
@@ -1343,6 +1362,18 @@ export function UploadCallsign(arg1:string):Promise<string>;
 
 export function UploadQSOsManual(arg1:string,arg2:Array<number>):Promise<void>;
 
+export function WatchlistAdd(arg1:string,arg2:boolean):Promise<void>;
+
+export function WatchlistEntries():Promise<Array<watchlist.Entry>>;
+
+export function WatchlistRemove(arg1:string):Promise<void>;
+
+export function WatchlistSetContest(arg1:string,arg2:boolean):Promise<void>;
+
+export function WatchlistSetNotify(arg1:string,arg2:boolean):Promise<void>;
+
+export function WatchlistWorkedSlots(arg1:Array<main.WatchlistSlotQuery>):Promise<Array<boolean>>;
+
 export function WebPublishColumns():Promise<Array<Record<string, string>>>;
 
 export function WinkeyerBackspace():Promise<void>;

frontend/wailsjs/go/main/App.js

@@ -950,6 +950,10 @@ export function GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetLoTWDownloadAllCalls']();
 }
 
+export function GetLoTWQSLDetail() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['GetLoTWQSLDetail']();
+}
+
 export function GetLoTWUsersStatus() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetLoTWUsersStatus']();
 }
@@ -1138,6 +1142,10 @@ export function GetUltrabeamStatus() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetUltrabeamStatus']();
 }
 
+export function GetWatchlistContestPattern() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['GetWatchlistContestPattern']();
+}
+
 export function GetWebPublishConfig() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['GetWebPublishConfig']();
 }
@@ -2226,6 +2234,10 @@ export function SetKenwoodNR(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodNR'](arg1);
 }
 
+export function SetKenwoodPanelMode(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodPanelMode'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function SetKenwoodPower(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodPower'](arg1);
 }
@@ -2242,6 +2254,10 @@ export function SetKenwoodRIT(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodRIT'](arg1);
 }
 
+export function SetKenwoodRITOffset(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodRITOffset'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function SetKenwoodSquelch(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetKenwoodSquelch'](arg1);
 }
@@ -2262,6 +2278,10 @@ export function SetLoTWDownloadAllCalls(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetLoTWDownloadAllCalls'](arg1);
 }
 
+export function SetLoTWQSLDetail(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetLoTWQSLDetail'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function SetMotorFollow(arg1, arg2, arg3) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetMotorFollow'](arg1, arg2, arg3);
 }
@@ -2378,6 +2398,10 @@ export function SetUltrabeamDirection(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetUltrabeamDirection'](arg1);
 }
 
+export function SetWatchlistContestPattern(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['SetWatchlistContestPattern'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function SetWinkeyerTrace(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SetWinkeyerTrace'](arg1);
 }
@@ -2490,6 +2514,18 @@ export function SyncPOTAHunterLog(arg1, arg2) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['SyncPOTAHunterLog'](arg1, arg2);
 }
 
+export function TCISendCW(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['TCISendCW'](arg1);
+}
+
+export function TCISetKeySpeed(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['TCISetKeySpeed'](arg1);
+}
+
+export function TCIStopCW() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['TCIStopCW']();
+}
+
 export function TailLogFile(arg1) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['TailLogFile'](arg1);
 }
@@ -2626,6 +2662,30 @@ export function UploadQSOsManual(arg1, arg2) {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['UploadQSOsManual'](arg1, arg2);
 }
 
+export function WatchlistAdd(arg1, arg2) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['WatchlistAdd'](arg1, arg2);
+}
+
+export function WatchlistEntries() {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['WatchlistEntries']();
+}
+
+export function WatchlistRemove(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['WatchlistRemove'](arg1);
+}
+
+export function WatchlistSetContest(arg1, arg2) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['WatchlistSetContest'](arg1, arg2);
+}
+
+export function WatchlistSetNotify(arg1, arg2) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['WatchlistSetNotify'](arg1, arg2);
+}
+
+export function WatchlistWorkedSlots(arg1) {
+  return window['go']['main']['App']['WatchlistWorkedSlots'](arg1);
+}
+
 export function WebPublishColumns() {
   return window['go']['main']['App']['WebPublishColumns']();
 }

frontend/wailsjs/go/models.ts

@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ export namespace cat {
 	    model?: string;
 	    elecraft: boolean;
 	    mode?: string;
+	    data_sub?: string;
 	    transmitting: boolean;
 	    split: boolean;
 	    split_tx_hz: number;
@@ -1108,6 +1109,7 @@ export namespace cat {
 	        this.model = source["model"];
 	        this.elecraft = source["elecraft"];
 	        this.mode = source["mode"];
+	        this.data_sub = source["data_sub"];
 	        this.transmitting = source["transmitting"];
 	        this.split = source["split"];
 	        this.split_tx_hz = source["split_tx_hz"];
@@ -4299,6 +4301,24 @@ export namespace main {
 	        this.text = source["text"];
 	    }
 	}
+	export class WatchlistSlotQuery {
+	    call: string;
+	    band: string;
+	    mode: string;
+	    contest: boolean;
+	
+	    static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
+	        return new WatchlistSlotQuery(source);
+	    }
+	
+	    constructor(source: any = {}) {
+	        if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
+	        this.call = source["call"];
+	        this.band = source["band"];
+	        this.mode = source["mode"];
+	        this.contest = source["contest"];
+	    }
+	}
 	export class WebPublishStatus {
 	    last_run: string;
 	    last_err: string;
@@ -5988,6 +6008,68 @@ export namespace udp {
 
 }
 
+export namespace watchlist {
+	
+	export class Entry {
+	    callsign: string;
+	    // Go type: time
+	    lastSeen: any;
+	    lastSeenStr: string;
+	    // Go type: time
+	    addedAt: any;
+	    spotCount: number;
+	    isContest: boolean;
+	    notify: boolean;
+	    isExpedition: boolean;
+	    clubLogQSOs24h: number;
+	    clubLogTotalQSOs: number;
+	    clubLogHasOQRS: boolean;
+	    clubLogLiveStream: boolean;
+	    // Go type: time
+	    clubLogUpdatedAt?: any;
+	
+	    static createFrom(source: any = {}) {
+	        return new Entry(source);
+	    }
+	
+	    constructor(source: any = {}) {
+	        if ('string' === typeof source) source = JSON.parse(source);
+	        this.callsign = source["callsign"];
+	        this.lastSeen = this.convertValues(source["lastSeen"], null);
+	        this.lastSeenStr = source["lastSeenStr"];
+	        this.addedAt = this.convertValues(source["addedAt"], null);
+	        this.spotCount = source["spotCount"];
+	        this.isContest = source["isContest"];
+	        this.notify = source["notify"];
+	        this.isExpedition = source["isExpedition"];
+	        this.clubLogQSOs24h = source["clubLogQSOs24h"];
+	        this.clubLogTotalQSOs = source["clubLogTotalQSOs"];
+	        this.clubLogHasOQRS = source["clubLogHasOQRS"];
+	        this.clubLogLiveStream = source["clubLogLiveStream"];
+	        this.clubLogUpdatedAt = this.convertValues(source["clubLogUpdatedAt"], null);
+	    }
+	
+		convertValues(a: any, classs: any, asMap: boolean = false): any {
+		    if (!a) {
+		        return a;
+		    }
+		    if (a.slice && a.map) {
+		        return (a as any[]).map(elem => this.convertValues(elem, classs));
+		    } else if ("object" === typeof a) {
+		        if (asMap) {
+		            for (const key of Object.keys(a)) {
+		                a[key] = new classs(a[key]);
+		            }
+		            return a;
+		        }
+		        return new classs(a);
+		    }
+		    return a;
+		}
+	}
+
+}
+
 export namespace webpub {
 	
 	export class Config {

internal/cat/kenwood_panel.go

@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ type KenwoodTXState struct {
 	Model     string `json:"model,omitempty"`
 	Elecraft  bool   `json:"elecraft"` // a K3/K4 rather than a Kenwood
 	Mode      string `json:"mode,omitempty"`
+	// DataSub is the K3/K4 DATA submode while in DATA mode (DT): "DATA A",
+	// "AFSK A", "FSK D" or "PSK D". Empty on a Kenwood, and outside DATA. The
+	// panel's two DATA buttons need it to show WHICH data mode the rig is in —
+	// FT8 wants DATA A, RTTY wants FSK D, and MD6 alone cannot say which.
+	DataSub string `json:"data_sub,omitempty"`
 
 	Transmitting bool  `json:"transmitting"`
 	Split        bool  `json:"split"`
@@ -107,10 +112,12 @@ type KenwoodPanelController interface {
 	SetKenwoodRIT(bool) error
 	SetKenwoodXIT(bool) error
 	NudgeKenwoodRIT(int) error
+	SetKenwoodRITOffset(int) error
 	ClearKenwoodRIT() error
 	SetKenwoodTX(bool) error
 	TuneKenwoodATU() error
 	ToggleKenwoodATU() error
+	SetKenwoodPanelMode(string) error
 }
 
 // kenwoodPanelSlowBeat is how many polls pass between full re-reads of the
@@ -212,6 +219,14 @@ func (k *Kenwood) readPanelSettings() {
 	if v, ok := k.askNum("NR;", "NR", 1); ok {
 		k.panel.NR = v != 0
 	}
+	// The DATA submode, Elecraft only (a plain Kenwood has no DT and would "?;"
+	// it). Read every settings beat: the operator changes it from the rig's own
+	// front panel mid-session, and the two DATA buttons must follow.
+	if k.elecraft {
+		if v, ok := k.askNum("DT;", "DT", 1); ok {
+			k.panel.DataSub = kenwoodDataSubName(v)
+		}
+	}
 	if v, ok := k.askNum("GT;", "GT", 3); ok {
 		k.panel.AGC = kenwoodAGCName(v)
 	}
@@ -564,6 +579,16 @@ func (k *Kenwood) SetKenwoodXIT(on bool) error {
 
 // ClearKenwoodRIT zeroes the RIT/XIT offset, both at once — which is what RC
 // does and what the operator means by "clear it".
+// SetKenwoodRITOffset writes the offset as an ABSOLUTE value — what the shared
+// ShiftRow control speaks. Nudge stays for the keyboard clarifier; both funnel
+// into the same RO write.
+func (k *Kenwood) SetKenwoodRITOffset(hz int) error {
+	k.mu.Lock()
+	cur := k.panel.RITOffset
+	k.mu.Unlock()
+	return k.NudgeKenwoodRIT(hz - cur)
+}
+
 func (k *Kenwood) ClearKenwoodRIT() error {
 	return k.setPanel("RC;")
 }
@@ -650,3 +675,58 @@ func (k *Kenwood) askNum(cmd, prefix string, digits int) (int, bool) {
 	}
 	return n, true
 }
+
+// kenwoodDataSubName decodes DT (K3/K4 programmer's reference).
+func kenwoodDataSubName(v int) string {
+	switch v {
+	case 0:
+		return "DATA A"
+	case 1:
+		return "AFSK A"
+	case 2:
+		return "FSK D"
+	case 3:
+		return "PSK D"
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// SetKenwoodPanelMode is the panel's mode row: CW / USB / LSB / DATA / RTTY.
+//
+// It exists because SetMode is the LOGGER's path — it maps an ADIF mode and
+// honours the data-mode preference — while a panel button is the operator
+// saying exactly what the rig should do. The two DATA cases are the point:
+// "DATA" is MD6 + DT0 (DATA A, the soundcard submode FT8/FT4 modulate through)
+// and "RTTY" is MD6 + DT2 (FSK D, the K3's direct-keyed RTTY). MD6 alone keeps
+// whatever submode a prior session left, which is how a K3 "in DATA" transmits
+// FT8 with no audio — the report behind this row.
+func (k *Kenwood) SetKenwoodPanelMode(mode string) error {
+	k.mu.Lock()
+	defer k.mu.Unlock()
+	if k.port == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: not connected")
+	}
+	var cmds []string
+	switch strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(mode)) {
+	case "CW":
+		cmds = []string{"MD3;"}
+	case "USB":
+		cmds = []string{"MD2;"}
+	case "LSB":
+		cmds = []string{"MD1;"}
+	case "DATA":
+		cmds = []string{"MD6;", "DT0;"}
+	case "RTTY":
+		cmds = []string{"MD6;", "DT2;"}
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("kenwood panel: unknown mode %q", mode)
+	}
+	for _, c := range cmds {
+		if err := k.write(c); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	// Re-read the settings on the next poll so Mode and DataSub confirm at once.
+	k.panelCycle = kenwoodPanelSlowBeat
+	return nil
+}

internal/cat/tci.go

@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ type TCI struct {
 
 	digitalDefault string // surfaced when the rig reports a digital mode (FT8/…)
 	spotsEnabled   bool   // mirror cluster spots onto the TCI panorama
+	// wantFreq is the frequency last COMMANDED and not yet echoed back, used to
+	// pick the sideband before the radio has confirmed the move.
+	wantFreq int64
+	// What the server said it is, from its "protocol:" announcement.
+	serverName    string
+	serverVersion string
+	// How many spots have been logged verbatim (the first few only).
+	spotsSent int
 
 	// OnSpotClick is called when the user clicks one of our spots on the TCI
 	// panorama (callsign + freq), so the host can fill the entry form. Set before
@@ -149,6 +157,15 @@ func (t *TCI) Connect() error {
 	t.mu.Unlock()
 	debugLog.Printf("TCI: connected to %s", url)
 	go t.reader(conn)
+	// Ask for the meters. Nothing measures anything until this goes out: the
+	// S-meter, the transmit power and the SWR are all pushed by the radio, and
+	// only to a client that has subscribed. 200 ms is the rate the protocol's own
+	// examples use — fast enough for a needle, slow enough not to flood a socket
+	// that also carries audio.
+	if t.spotsEnabled {
+		debugLog.Printf("TCI: panorama spots are ON — spots will be sent to the radio")
+	}
+	t.subscribeSensors("connect")
 	if t.spotsEnabled {
 		// Forget what we thought was on the panorama at the same moment the radio
 		// is told to drop it. Kept, the memory would suppress the next spot for
@@ -228,11 +245,19 @@ func (t *TCI) SendSpot(s SpotInfo) error {
 		// other two matching what already works here.
 		_ = t.send(fmt.Sprintf("spot_delete:%s;", call))
 	}
-	// TCI's SPOT command wants the colour as a signed 32-bit DECIMAL integer in
+	// The colour is a DECIMAL ARGB integer, and an UNSIGNED one.
-	// 0xAARRGGBB order — NOT a "0x…" hex string (e.g. "spot:UN7GK,cw,14025000,
+	//
-	// -16776961,test;"). ExpertSDR silently drops a spot whose colour field it
+	// Expert Electronics' own protocol document gives the whole command:
-	// can't parse as a number, which is why spots never showed on the panorama
+	//
-	// while tuning (a separate command) still worked.
+	//	SPOT:RN6LHF,CW,7100000,16711680,ANY_TEXT;
+	//
+	// 16711680 is 0x00FF0000 — positive, alpha zero. This backend was sending
+	// the same number as a SIGNED 32-bit value, taken from a third-party
+	// example: with the alpha byte set to FF for opacity, 0xFFFFA500 becomes
+	// -22336, and a spot whose colour field ExpertSDR cannot read is dropped in
+	// silence. Reported on ExpertSDR3 1.3 (which speaks TCI 2.x, so the version
+	// was never the problem): everything else worked and the panorama stayed
+	// empty.
 	hex := strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(s.Color), "#"), "0x")
 	if hex == "" {
 		hex = "FFFFA500" // opaque orange default
@@ -253,7 +278,15 @@ func (t *TCI) SendSpot(s SpotInfo) error {
 	}
 	// Commas/semicolons would break TCI's comma-separated argument parsing.
 	text := strings.NewReplacer(",", " ", ";", " ").Replace(s.Comment)
-	return t.send(fmt.Sprintf("spot:%s,%s,%d,%d,%s;", call, mode, s.FreqHz, int32(argb), text))
+	cmd := fmt.Sprintf("spot:%s,%s,%d,%d,%s;", call, mode, s.FreqHz, argb, text)
+	// The first few, verbatim. A spot that the radio ignores leaves no trace at
+	// all — no reply, no error — so the only evidence that OpsLog sent one, and
+	// in what shape, is this line.
+	if n := t.spotsSent; n < 3 {
+		t.spotsSent = n + 1
+		debugLog.Printf("TCI: sending spot #%d: %s", n+1, strings.TrimSuffix(cmd, ";"))
+	}
+	return t.send(cmd)
 }
 
 // Disconnect closes the WebSocket; the reader goroutine then exits.
@@ -334,6 +367,11 @@ func (t *TCI) ReadState() (RigState, error) {
 
 // SetFrequency tunes VFO A (the main/RX VFO).
 func (t *TCI) SetFrequency(hz int64) error {
+	// Remember what we ASKED for. SetMode reads it to choose the sideband, and
+	// the radio's own echo can be a moment behind — see SetMode.
+	t.mu.Lock()
+	t.wantFreq = hz
+	t.mu.Unlock()
 	return t.send(fmt.Sprintf("vfo:0,0,%d;", hz))
 }
 
@@ -342,6 +380,17 @@ func (t *TCI) SetFrequency(hz int64) error {
 func (t *TCI) SetMode(mode string) error {
 	t.mu.Lock()
 	freq := t.freqA
+	// Prefer the frequency we just COMMANDED over the one the radio has echoed.
+	//
+	// Clicking a spot sets the frequency and then the mode, and the sideband is
+	// chosen from the frequency (below 10 MHz → LSB). Read from the echo, that
+	// is the frequency we were on BEFORE the click whenever the echo has not
+	// landed yet: a 14 MHz spot clicked from 7 MHz got LSB, and clicking the same
+	// spot again — now that the echo has arrived — got USB. Reported from a
+	// SunSDR as "the frequency is right, the mode is wrong until I click twice".
+	if t.wantFreq > 0 {
+		freq = t.wantFreq
+	}
 	t.mu.Unlock()
 	m := adifToTCIMode(mode, freq)
 	if m == "" {
@@ -411,6 +460,24 @@ func (t *TCI) SetTXAudioSource(src string) {
 }
 
 // send writes a command to the WebSocket (one writer at a time).
+// subscribeSensors asks the radio to push its meters. Nothing measures anything
+// until this goes out — the S-meter, the transmit power and the SWR are all
+// subscription-only (TCI §4.4) — and it is sent at connect AND again at every
+// "ready", because a subscription sent during the server's initial dump can be
+// dropped. 200 ms is the rate the protocol's own examples use.
+func (t *TCI) subscribeSensors(when string) {
+	// Both cases, deliberately. Every other command this backend sends works in
+	// lower case, but the meters stayed silent on a real SunSDR through two
+	// rounds of fixes — and the protocol document's own examples are upper case
+	// (TX_SENSORS_ENABLE:true,200;). A server that is case-insensitive ignores
+	// the duplicate; one that is not finally hears the subscription.
+	e1 := t.send("rx_sensors_enable:true,200;")
+	e2 := t.send("tx_sensors_enable:true,200;")
+	_ = t.send("RX_SENSORS_ENABLE:true,200;")
+	_ = t.send("TX_SENSORS_ENABLE:true,200;")
+	debugLog.Printf("TCI: sensor subscription sent (%s, both cases): rx=%v tx=%v", when, e1, e2)
+}
+
 func (t *TCI) send(cmd string) error {
 	t.mu.Lock()
 	c := t.conn
@@ -493,6 +560,18 @@ func (t *TCI) handle(msg string) {
 	switch lower {
 	case "device":
 		t.device = strings.TrimSpace(args)
+	// The server's own announcement: "protocol:ExpertSDR3,1.9;" — its name and
+	// the TCI version it speaks. Worth keeping rather than filing under
+	// "unhandled": panorama spots need a version that HAS the spot command, and
+	// without this an operator on an older ExpertSDR sees nothing on the
+	// waterfall and nothing anywhere saying why.
+	case "protocol":
+		t.serverName, t.serverVersion = get(0), get(1)
+		debugLog.Printf("TCI: server is %s, TCI %s", t.serverName, t.serverVersion)
+		if t.spotsEnabled && tciSpotsUnsupported(t.serverVersion) {
+			debugLog.Printf("TCI: this server speaks TCI %s — panorama spots need 1.5 or later, so they will not appear",
+				t.serverVersion)
+		}
 	// The radio ANNOUNCES its audio format at connect —
 	// "audio_stream_sample_type:float32" and "audio_stream_channels:2" — which
 	// is better evidence than anything derived from a frame, and it arrives
@@ -505,6 +584,13 @@ func (t *TCI) handle(msg string) {
 		}
 	case "ready", "start":
 		t.ready = true
+		// (Re)subscribe to the meters HERE, not only at connect. ExpertSDR3
+		// dumps its whole state and then says "ready"; a unidirectional control
+		// command sent while that dump is still in flight can be ignored, and
+		// the report from a real SunSDR — transmit meters still empty after the
+		// connect-time subscription — has exactly that shape. From a goroutine:
+		// send takes t.mu, which this handler holds.
+		go t.subscribeSensors("ready")
 	case "stop":
 		t.ready = false
 	case "vfo":
@@ -516,6 +602,10 @@ func (t *TCI) handle(msg string) {
 				switch get(1) {
 				case "0":
 					t.freqA = hz
+					// The radio has caught up: from here the echo IS the truth.
+					if t.wantFreq != 0 && absInt64(hz-t.wantFreq) < 100 {
+						t.wantFreq = 0
+					}
 				case "1":
 					t.freqB = hz
 				}
@@ -651,3 +741,18 @@ func adifToTCIMode(mode string, freqHz int64) string {
 		return "digu"
 	}
 }
+
+// tciSpotsUnsupported reports whether a TCI version predates the spot commands.
+//
+// SPOT / SPOT_DELETE / SPOT_CLEAR arrived in TCI 1.5. An older ExpertSDR accepts
+// the connection, answers frequency and mode perfectly, and silently ignores
+// every spot — which is indistinguishable from a bug in the logger unless
+// somebody says so. Anything unparseable is treated as supported: refusing to
+// draw on a doubt would be the worse mistake.
+func tciSpotsUnsupported(version string) bool {
+	var maj, min int
+	if n, err := fmt.Sscanf(strings.TrimSpace(version), "%d.%d", &maj, &min); n < 2 || err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	return maj < 1 || (maj == 1 && min < 5)
+}

internal/cat/tci_cw.go

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package cat
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// CW keying over TCI — a sixth CW engine, so a SunSDR needs no WinKeyer and no
+// second serial port: the radio's own macro keyer is driven over the WebSocket
+// that already carries the CAT.
+//
+// The commands, from the TCI command table (confirmed against ars-ka0s/eesdr-tci,
+// the same source that settled SPOT):
+//
+//	CW_MACROS:<trx>,<text>;   send text through the radio's keyer
+//	CW_MACROS_SPEED:<wpm>;    the speed those macros are keyed at
+//	CW_MACROS_STOP;           abort what is being keyed
+//	CW_MACROS_EMPTY;          the radio saying the buffer has run dry
+//
+// CW_MSG (TCI 2.0) does the same with separate before/after callsign fields.
+// CW_MACROS is used instead because it exists from 1.6 and OpsLog resolves the
+// variables itself — the text handed here is already what should go on the air.
+//
+// Notably absent: there is no backspace. The FlexRadio CWX keyer can un-type
+// what has not been sent yet; TCI can only stop. So the type-ahead correction
+// the Flex engine offers is not offered here rather than faked.
+
+// tciCWTextLimit caps one macro. A runaway paste down a WebSocket that also
+// carries audio is worth refusing, and no real CW message is this long.
+const tciCWTextLimit = 512
+
+// SendCW keys a message through the radio's macro keyer.
+func (t *TCI) SendCW(text string) error {
+	msg := sanitiseTCICW(text)
+	if msg == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return t.send(fmt.Sprintf("cw_macros:0,%s;", msg))
+}
+
+// StopCW aborts the message being keyed.
+func (t *TCI) StopCW() error { return t.send("cw_macros_stop;") }
+
+// SetCWSpeed sets the macro keyer speed in words per minute.
+//
+// Only the MACRO speed: the paddle keyer has its own (CW_KEYER_SPEED) and an
+// operator who has set their paddle to 28 wpm did not ask the logger to change
+// it because a macro went out at 25.
+func (t *TCI) SetCWSpeed(wpm int) error {
+	if wpm < 5 {
+		wpm = 5
+	}
+	if wpm > 60 {
+		wpm = 60
+	}
+	return t.send(fmt.Sprintf("cw_macros_speed:%d;", wpm))
+}
+
+// sanitiseTCICW makes a message safe to put in a TCI command.
+//
+// Commas and semicolons are the protocol's own separators — a comma inside the
+// text would be read as another argument and a semicolon would end the command
+// early, keying half a message and leaving the rest to be parsed as a command of
+// its own. Neither belongs in Morse anyway.
+func sanitiseTCICW(text string) string {
+	s := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(text))
+	s = strings.NewReplacer(",", " ", ";", " ", "\r", " ", "\n", " ").Replace(s)
+	if len(s) > tciCWTextLimit {
+		s = s[:tciCWTextLimit]
+	}
+	return strings.TrimSpace(s)
+}

internal/cat/tci_manager.go

@@ -96,3 +96,26 @@ func (m *Manager) TCIPanelDo(fn func(TCIPanelController) error) error {
 		return fn(tc)
 	})
 }
+
+// TCICWController is the radio's CW keyer, as the CW engine uses it.
+//
+// Three methods, and no backspace: TCI can stop a message but cannot un-type one
+// (see tci_cw.go). Kept as its own interface rather than folded into the console
+// one so a CW engine does not have to depend on forty panel setters to key a
+// message.
+type TCICWController interface {
+	SendCW(text string) error
+	StopCW() error
+	SetCWSpeed(wpm int) error
+}
+
+// TCICWDo dispatches one keyer command onto the CAT goroutine.
+func (m *Manager) TCICWDo(fn func(TCICWController) error) error {
+	return m.exec(func(b Backend) error {
+		tc, ok := b.(TCICWController)
+		if !ok {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the active CAT backend is not a TCI radio")
+		}
+		return fn(tc)
+	})
+}

internal/cat/tci_panel.go

@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ func (t *TCI) handlePanel(name string, get func(int) string, args string) bool {
 	// it. What the radio actually announces after the command settles whether
 	// this is our reading or its doing, and no amount of reasoning will.
 	switch name {
-	case "mute", "sql_enable", "sql_level", "tx_power", "tx_swr", "tune":
+	case "mute", "sql_enable", "sql_level", "tx_power", "tx_swr", "tune",
+		"tx_sensors", "rx_sensors", "rx_channel_sensors":
 		// Logged on arrival so an ANSWER can be told from a SILENCE: the log
 		// showed the transmit meters being asked for and nothing coming back,
 		// which on its own proves nothing — a reply that arrived and failed to
@@ -233,6 +234,42 @@ func (t *TCI) handlePanel(name string, get func(int) string, args string) bool {
 		if n, ok := num(get(1)); ok && forRX0() {
 			p.SMeter = n
 		}
+	// The meters of ExpertSDR3. The S-meter used to be read only from RX_SMETER
+	// and the transmit ones from TX_POWER / TX_SWR — commands this radio simply
+	// never sends, which is why the console's meters sat empty on a SunSDR in
+	// both RX and TX while everything else worked.
+	//
+	// The protocol's own answer (TCI Protocol.pdf, §4.4) is a SUBSCRIPTION:
+	//
+	//	RX_SENSORS:<rx>,<dBm>;                       (deprecated in 2.0)
+	//	RX_CHANNEL_SENSORS:<rx>,<channel>,<dBm>;     (its replacement)
+	//	TX_SENSORS:<trx>,<mic dBm>,<power W>,<peak W>,<SWR>;
+	//
+	// none of which arrives until the client asks with RX_SENSORS_ENABLE and
+	// TX_SENSORS_ENABLE — see Connect.
+	case "rx_sensors":
+		if v, err := strconv.ParseFloat(strings.TrimSpace(get(1)), 64); err == nil && forRX0() {
+			p.SMeter = int(v)
+		}
+	case "rx_channel_sensors":
+		// Main channel (A) of receiver 0: the one the console is showing.
+		if v, err := strconv.ParseFloat(strings.TrimSpace(get(2)), 64); err == nil &&
+			get(0) == "0" && get(1) == "0" {
+			p.SMeter = int(v)
+		}
+	case "tx_sensors":
+		if get(0) != "0" {
+			break
+		}
+		// arg3 is RMS power, arg4 the peak. The peak is what a power meter's
+		// needle does on speech; the RMS is what the operator is asked to keep
+		// under the amplifier's limit — so RMS is the number, as elsewhere.
+		if v, err := strconv.ParseFloat(strings.TrimSpace(get(2)), 64); err == nil {
+			p.TXPowerW = v
+		}
+		if v, err := strconv.ParseFloat(strings.TrimSpace(get(4)), 64); err == nil {
+			p.TXSWR = v
+		}
 	case "tune":
 		if forRX0() {
 			p.Tuning = yes(get(1))

internal/cat/tci_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package cat
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestTCISpotsUnsupported(t *testing.T) {
+	// SPOT arrived in TCI 1.5. The SunSDR2 PRO report that prompted this was an
+	// ExpertSDR announcing 1.3 — spots accepted and silently dropped.
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		version string
+		old     bool
+	}{
+		{"1.3", true},
+		{"1.4", true},
+		{"1.5", false},
+		{"1.9", false},
+		{"2.0", false},
+		{"", false},      // unparseable → assume it works
+		{"weird", false}, // refusing to draw on a doubt is the worse mistake
+	} {
+		if got := tciSpotsUnsupported(c.version); got != c.old {
+			t.Errorf("tciSpotsUnsupported(%q) = %v, want %v", c.version, got, c.old)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSanitiseTCICW(t *testing.T) {
+	// The separators must never survive: a comma would become another argument
+	// and a semicolon would end the command with the message half sent.
+	for _, c := range []struct{ in, want string }{
+		{"cq cq de f4bpo", "CQ CQ DE F4BPO"},
+		{" tu 599 ", "TU 599"},
+		{"73, gl", "73  GL"},
+		{"test;cw_macros_stop", "TEST CW_MACROS_STOP"},
+		{"line\r\nbreak", "LINE  BREAK"},
+		{"   ", ""},
+	} {
+		if got := sanitiseTCICW(c.in); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("sanitiseTCICW(%q) = %q, want %q", c.in, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/email/email.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package email
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/wneessen/go-mail"
@@ -86,12 +87,42 @@ func SendFiles(cfg Config, to, subject, body string, attachPaths []string) error
 		return fmt.Errorf("smtp client: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := client.DialAndSend(m); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("send via %s:%d (%s, %s): %w",
+		return fmt.Errorf("send via %s:%d (%s, %s): %w%s",
-			cfg.Host, cfg.Port, cfg.Encryption, describeSize(attachPaths), err)
+			cfg.Host, cfg.Port, cfg.Encryption, describeSize(attachPaths), err, explainSMTP(err))
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
+// explainSMTP turns a server's refusal into the thing to go and do.
+//
+// A rejection is quoted verbatim above it — the server's own words are the
+// evidence — but several of them name a policy rather than a mistake, and no
+// amount of re-checking the password will fix those. Microsoft's is the one
+// operators keep hitting: basic authentication for SMTP is switched off across
+// Microsoft 365 and outlook.com, and an app password does not bring it back.
+func explainSMTP(err error) string {
+	msg := strings.ToLower(err.Error())
+	switch {
+	case strings.Contains(msg, "basic authentication is disabled"),
+		strings.Contains(msg, "5.7.139"):
+		return "\n\nMicrosoft has switched off password-based SMTP for this account. " +
+			"An app password does not restore it — the server refuses the password itself, not the one you typed. " +
+			"On a Microsoft 365 tenant an administrator can re-enable it for this mailbox " +
+			"(Set-CASMailbox -SmtpClientAuthenticationDisabled $false, plus the tenant-wide setting); " +
+			"otherwise use another provider for alerts (a Gmail account with an app password works, so does any ordinary IMAP/SMTP host)."
+	case strings.Contains(msg, "application-specific password"),
+		strings.Contains(msg, "5.7.9"):
+		return "\n\nThis account needs an APP PASSWORD rather than the one you sign in with " +
+			"(Google, Yahoo and others require it once two-factor authentication is on)."
+	case strings.Contains(msg, "5.7.8"), strings.Contains(msg, "authentication failed"),
+		strings.Contains(msg, "535"):
+		return "\n\nThe server rejected the username or the password."
+	case strings.Contains(msg, "must issue a starttls"):
+		return "\n\nThe server requires encryption: set STARTTLS (usually port 587) or SSL (465)."
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
 // describeSize reports what was attached, in bytes.
 //
 // "An existing connection was forcibly closed" during DATA is the same message

internal/email/email_explain_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package email
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestExplainSMTP(t *testing.T) {
+	// The real refusal, from an operator's Outlook account.
+	outlook := errors.New("SMTP AUTH failed: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled.")
+	if got := explainSMTP(outlook); !strings.Contains(got, "Microsoft has switched off") {
+		t.Errorf("the Microsoft policy refusal is not explained: %q", got)
+	}
+	// A plain wrong password must NOT claim a policy: the advice would send the
+	// operator to an administrator over a typo.
+	wrong := errors.New("535 5.7.8 authentication failed")
+	got := explainSMTP(wrong)
+	if strings.Contains(got, "Microsoft") {
+		t.Errorf("a wrong password was explained as a Microsoft policy: %q", got)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(got, "rejected the username") {
+		t.Errorf("a wrong password is not explained: %q", got)
+	}
+	// Anything else is left to speak for itself.
+	if got := explainSMTP(errors.New("dial tcp: i/o timeout")); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("an unrelated error got an explanation: %q", got)
+	}
+}

internal/extsvc/lotw.go

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -20,6 +21,67 @@ import (
 // document of the user's QSOs (optionally only confirmed ones).
 const lotwReportURL = "https://lotw.arrl.org/lotwuser/lotwreport.adi"
 
+const (
+	// How long LoTW may take to START answering. It builds the whole report
+	// before sending anything, so this is the slow part of a big account.
+	lotwHeaderTimeout = 10 * time.Minute
+	// How long the transfer may stall once it HAS started. A download that has
+	// not moved in this long is not slow, it is dead — and saying so beats a
+	// progress window that sits at "working" until someone gives up.
+	lotwIdleTimeout = 2 * time.Minute
+	lotwMaxBytes    = 256 * 1024 * 1024
+)
+
+// readWithProgress reads the body in chunks, reporting the running total and
+// failing fast on a stall.
+//
+// Reported as it arrives rather than at the end: an 18 MB report over a slow
+// link is minutes of silence otherwise, which is indistinguishable from a hang —
+// and that is exactly what operators were reporting.
+func say(note func(string), msg string) {
+	if note != nil {
+		note(msg)
+	}
+	LogSink("%s", msg)
+}
+
+func readWithProgress(ctx context.Context, r io.Reader, note func(string)) ([]byte, error) {
+	var (
+		out   []byte
+		total int64
+		last  = time.Now()
+		buf   = make([]byte, 64*1024)
+		next  = int64(256 * 1024) // first report early — proof it is moving
+	)
+	for {
+		if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		n, err := r.Read(buf)
+		if n > 0 {
+			out = append(out, buf[:n]...)
+			total += int64(n)
+			last = time.Now()
+			if total >= next {
+				say(note, fmt.Sprintf("  … %.1f MB received", float64(total)/(1024*1024)))
+				next = total + 512*1024
+			}
+			if total >= lotwMaxBytes {
+				return out, nil
+			}
+		}
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			return out, nil
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if time.Since(last) > lotwIdleTimeout {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the transfer stalled after %d KB — LoTW stopped sending", total/1024)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // DownloadLoTWConfirmations fetches confirmed QSOs from LoTW as ADIF text.
 // Uses the LoTW *website* login (Username/Password), not the TQSL cert. When
 // since is non-empty (YYYY-MM-DD) only confirmations received since then are
@@ -27,7 +89,7 @@ const lotwReportURL = "https://lotw.arrl.org/lotwuser/lotwreport.adi"
 // non-empty, only confirmations for that station callsign are returned (an
 // LoTW account holds every call you operate — F4BPO, F4BPO/P, TM2Q — so this
 // scopes the pull to the active profile's call).
-func DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, cfg ServiceConfig, since, ownCall string) (string, error) {
+func DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, cfg ServiceConfig, since, ownCall string, detail bool, note func(string)) (string, error) {
 	user := strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Username)
 	if user == "" || cfg.Password == "" {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("lotw: website login (username/password) not set")
@@ -36,8 +98,19 @@ func DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, cfg Ser
 	q.Set("login", user)
 	q.Set("password", cfg.Password)
 	q.Set("qso_query", "1")
-	q.Set("qso_qsl", "yes")       // only QSLed (confirmed) records
+	q.Set("qso_qsl", "yes") // only QSLed (confirmed) records
-	q.Set("qso_qsldetail", "yes") // include QSL_RCVD / QSLRDATE detail
+	// qso_qsldetail is what LoTW charges for: it adds the QSL date and the
+	// station's own DXCC / grid / state / county to every record, and takes an
+	// order of magnitude longer to build — a report that arrives in two minutes
+	// without it takes twenty with it, measured on the same account.
+	//
+	// What we actually need to mark a confirmation is call, date, band and mode.
+	// The rest is worth its price only when the download is also ADDING the QSOs
+	// it cannot find, which is the one case where the extra fields are the only
+	// source for them.
+	if detail {
+		q.Set("qso_qsldetail", "yes")
+	}
 	if c := strings.TrimSpace(ownCall); c != "" {
 		q.Set("qso_owncall", c) // restrict to this station callsign
 	}
@@ -57,20 +130,87 @@ func DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, cfg Ser
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("lotw: build request: %w", err)
 	}
+	// Named, because LoTW's front end throttles unidentified clients harder than
+	// it throttles known ones, and an operator reporting a 503 deserves a request
+	// that says who is asking.
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "OpsLog")
 	if client == nil {
-		// A full account is tens of megabytes and LoTW builds it slowly — several
+		// NO overall deadline. A full account is tens of megabytes and LoTW spends
-		// minutes for a log of 30 000 QSOs, all of it before the first byte. The
+		// minutes building it before the first byte; a total timeout turns a slow
-		// old two-minute limit turned that into "context deadline exceeded while
+		// but healthy download into "context deadline exceeded", and a longer one
-		// reading body", which reads as a network fault rather than as "ask for
+		// turns a dead connection into a window that says "working" for twenty
-		// less at a time".
+		// minutes. What matters is not how long it takes but whether it is still
-		client = &http.Client{Timeout: 20 * time.Minute}
+		// moving — see the idle watchdog below.
+		client = &http.Client{
+			Transport: &http.Transport{
+				Proxy:                 http.ProxyFromEnvironment,
+				ResponseHeaderTimeout: lotwHeaderTimeout,
+				TLSHandshakeTimeout:   30 * time.Second,
+			},
+		}
+	}
+	// LoTW answers 503 when it is busy, which for a report covering more than a
+	// few days is often — other loggers get the same answer and simply ask
+	// again. Three tries, spaced, and each one said out loud: an operator whose
+	// download takes four minutes because the ARRL is loaded should be able to
+	// see that rather than guess it.
+	// LoTW sends nothing at all until the whole report is built — minutes for a
+	// large account. That silence was the entire complaint: a window saying
+	// "working" with no way to tell a busy server from a dead one. Count it out
+	// loud until the first byte.
+	beat := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		start := time.Now()
+		tick := time.NewTicker(15 * time.Second)
+		defer tick.Stop()
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-beat:
+				return
+			case <-ctx.Done():
+				return
+			case <-tick.C:
+				say(note, fmt.Sprintf("  … still waiting for LoTW to build the report (%.0f s)", time.Since(start).Seconds()))
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+	// Stopped where the WAIT ends, not where the function does: deferred, the
+	// heartbeat went on counting between the megabyte lines and read as if the
+	// report were still being built while it was already arriving.
+	stopBeat := sync.OnceFunc(func() { close(beat) })
+	defer stopBeat()
+
+	var resp *http.Response
+	for attempt := 1; ; attempt++ {
+		resp, err = client.Do(req) //nolint:bodyclose // closed below or in the retry
+		if err == nil && resp.StatusCode != http.StatusServiceUnavailable &&
+			resp.StatusCode != http.StatusBadGateway && resp.StatusCode != http.StatusGatewayTimeout {
+			break
+		}
+		if attempt >= 3 {
+			break
+		}
+		wait := time.Duration(attempt*20) * time.Second
+		if resp != nil {
+			say(note, fmt.Sprintf("LoTW is busy (HTTP %d) — asking again in %s…", resp.StatusCode, wait))
+			resp.Body.Close()
+		} else {
+			say(note, fmt.Sprintf("LoTW did not answer (%v) — asking again in %s…", err, wait))
+		}
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return "", ctx.Err()
+		case <-time.After(wait):
+		}
+		req = req.Clone(ctx)
 	}
-	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("lotw: request failed: %w", err)
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
-	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 256*1024*1024))
+	stopBeat()
+	say(note, fmt.Sprintf("LoTW answered (HTTP %d) — receiving…", resp.StatusCode))
+	body, err := readWithProgress(ctx, resp.Body, note)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("lotw: read response: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -378,7 +518,7 @@ func TestLoTW(cfg ServiceConfig, stationDataPath string) (string, error) {
 	}
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
 	defer cancel()
-	if _, err := DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx, nil, cfg, "2099-01-01", ""); err != nil {
+	if _, err := DownloadLoTWConfirmations(ctx, nil, cfg, "2099-01-01", "", false, nil); err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s — but the DOWNLOAD login failed: %w", up, err)
 	}
 	return up + ". Download login accepted.", nil

internal/qso/qso.go

@@ -868,6 +868,44 @@ var bulkEditableCols = map[string]bool{
 
 // BulkSetField sets one whitelisted column to value on every listed QSO in a
 // single statement. value "" clears the field. Returns rows affected.
+// bulkEditableIntCols are the NUMERIC columns the bulk editor may touch. Their
+// own path, not the text one: the columns are nullable integers, and while
+// SQLite would coerce "14" quietly, a shared MySQL logbook would not — and an
+// empty string is NULL here, never "".
+var bulkEditableIntCols = map[string]bool{
+	"my_dxcc":     true,
+	"my_cq_zone":  true,
+	"my_itu_zone": true,
+}
+
+// BulkSetIntField sets one integer column across the ids; v nil clears it.
+func (r *Repo) BulkSetIntField(ctx context.Context, ids []int64, column string, v *int) (int64, error) {
+	if !bulkEditableIntCols[column] {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("field %q is not bulk-editable", column)
+	}
+	if len(ids) == 0 {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+	ph := make([]string, len(ids))
+	args := make([]any, 0, len(ids)+2)
+	var val any
+	if v != nil {
+		val = *v
+	}
+	args = append(args, val, db.NowISO())
+	for i, id := range ids {
+		ph[i] = "?"
+		args = append(args, id)
+	}
+	res, err := r.db.ExecContext(ctx,
+		"UPDATE qso SET "+column+" = ?, updated_at = ? WHERE id IN ("+strings.Join(ph, ",")+")", args...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("bulk set %s: %w", column, err)
+	}
+	n, _ := res.RowsAffected()
+	return n, nil
+}
+
 func (r *Repo) BulkSetField(ctx context.Context, ids []int64, column, value string) (int64, error) {
 	if !bulkEditableCols[column] {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("field %q is not bulk-editable", column)
@@ -1965,6 +2003,39 @@ func bandStatusCode(callWorked, callConfirmed, entityConfirmed bool) int {
 
 // modeClass collapses ADIF modes into the three buckets DXers care about.
 // Anything not voice and not CW is treated as digital.
+// ModeClass is modeClass for callers outside the package — the watchlist
+// judges slots at the same grain the cluster does.
+func ModeClass(mode string) string { return modeClass(mode) }
+
+// SlotRow is one (callsign, band, mode) triple from SlotsSince.
+type SlotRow struct {
+	Callsign string
+	Band     string
+	Mode     string
+}
+
+// SlotsSince lists the slots of every contact made since the given instant —
+// the contest watchlist's "worked today", where the day boundary lives in this
+// query's bound and nowhere else.
+func (r *Repo) SlotsSince(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) ([]SlotRow, error) {
+	rows, err := r.db.QueryContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT callsign, band, mode FROM qso WHERE qso_date >= ?",
+		since.UTC().Format(isoMillis))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var out []SlotRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var sr SlotRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(&sr.Callsign, &sr.Band, &sr.Mode); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out = append(out, sr)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
 func modeClass(mode string) string {
 	switch strings.ToUpper(mode) {
 	case "SSB", "USB", "LSB", "AM", "FM", "DIGITALVOICE", "PHONE":

internal/watchlist/clublog.go

@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+package watchlist
+
+// ClubLog enrichment — phase 2 of the DXHunter port. clublog.org/watch.php
+// answers, per callsign: is this an expedition, does it run OQRS, is there a
+// LiveStream, the log's QSO total and the last 24 hours' rate. That block has
+// been in the Entry schema since phase 1 (the file round-trips DXHunter's);
+// this file finally fills it.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// WatchData is clublog.org/watch.php's answer, reduced to what the tab shows.
+type WatchData struct {
+	IsExpedition bool `json:"is_expedition"`
+	HasOQRS      bool `json:"has_oqrs"`
+	LiveStream   bool `json:"livestream"`
+	ClubLogInfo  *struct {
+		TotalQSOs int `json:"total_qsos"`
+	} `json:"clublog_info"`
+	// {} when populated, [] when empty — RawMessage swallows both shapes.
+	QSOsPerBand json.RawMessage `json:"24h_qsos_per_band_mode"`
+}
+
+// QSOs24h sums the per-band/per-mode counts.
+func (d *WatchData) QSOs24h() int {
+	if len(d.QSOsPerBand) == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	var parsed map[string]map[string]int
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(d.QSOsPerBand, &parsed); err != nil {
+		return 0 // "[]" for an empty answer lands here, which is the right zero
+	}
+	n := 0
+	for _, modes := range parsed {
+		for _, c := range modes {
+			n += c
+		}
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// FetchWatch asks ClubLog about one callsign. A 404 is "ClubLog has no log for
+// this call" — an ordinary answer, not an error.
+func FetchWatch(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, apiKey, callsign string) (*WatchData, error) {
+	url := fmt.Sprintf("https://clublog.org/watch.php?call=%s&api=%s",
+		strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign)), apiKey)
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "OpsLog")
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
+		return &WatchData{}, nil
+	}
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("clublog watch %s: HTTP %d", callsign, resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 1<<20))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if len(strings.TrimSpace(string(body))) == 0 {
+		return &WatchData{}, nil
+	}
+	var data WatchData
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &data); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("clublog watch %s: %w", callsign, err)
+	}
+	return &data, nil
+}
+
+// ApplyClubLog writes one answer into the entry and reports whether anything
+// the tab shows actually changed — the caller only broadcasts on true.
+func (s *Store) ApplyClubLog(callsign string, d *WatchData) bool {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	e, ok := s.entries[strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign))]
+	if !ok {
+		return false
+	}
+	total := e.ClubLogTotalQSOs
+	if d.ClubLogInfo != nil {
+		total = d.ClubLogInfo.TotalQSOs
+	}
+	q24 := d.QSOs24h()
+	changed := e.IsExpedition != d.IsExpedition || e.ClubLogHasOQRS != d.HasOQRS ||
+		e.ClubLogLiveStream != d.LiveStream || e.ClubLogTotalQSOs != total ||
+		e.ClubLogQSOs24h != q24
+	e.IsExpedition = d.IsExpedition
+	e.ClubLogHasOQRS = d.HasOQRS
+	e.ClubLogLiveStream = d.LiveStream
+	e.ClubLogTotalQSOs = total
+	e.ClubLogQSOs24h = q24
+	e.ClubLogUpdatedAt = time.Now()
+	s.scheduleSave()
+	return changed
+}
+
+// StaleEntries lists the callsigns whose ClubLog block is due a refresh.
+// Expeditions age faster — their totals are the interesting number and move by
+// the hour; a quiet call is asked about four times a day at most.
+func (s *Store) StaleEntries(expTTL, otherTTL time.Duration) []string {
+	s.mu.RLock()
+	defer s.mu.RUnlock()
+	now := time.Now()
+	var out []string
+	for call, e := range s.entries {
+		// A starred pattern is a family, not a station — ClubLog has no log
+		// for "VK9*". The base (star stripped) is what gets asked about.
+		ttl := otherTTL
+		if e.IsExpedition {
+			ttl = expTTL
+		}
+		if now.Sub(e.ClubLogUpdatedAt) >= ttl {
+			out = append(out, call)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}

internal/watchlist/watchlist.go

@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+// Package watchlist is the DXHunter watchlist, transplanted: a list of
+// callsigns (or prefixes) the operator is hunting, matched against the live
+// spot stream, with per-entry state that survives restarts.
+//
+// The JSON file is DXHunter's OWN schema, field for field — including the
+// ClubLog expedition block this phase does not fill yet. Deliberate: the
+// operator asked to carry their watchlist.json across, and a file that
+// round-trips unchanged is the whole of "same format". The file is GLOBAL
+// (dataDir, beside nets.json), not per profile: a DXpedition worth hunting is
+// worth hunting whichever station is on.
+//
+// The CONTEST idea is per entry, not a global mode as in DXHunter: an entry
+// marked contest is judged against the CURRENT UTC DAY — at midnight UTC
+// yesterday's contacts stop counting and every slot reads "work today" again.
+// Nothing resets and nothing is stored for it: the day boundary lives in the
+// query, which is why it cannot drift or need a timer.
+package watchlist
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Entry is one watched callsign. JSON tags match DXHunter's watchlist.json
+// exactly — see the package comment before renaming anything.
+type Entry struct {
+	Callsign    string    `json:"callsign"`
+	LastSeen    time.Time `json:"lastSeen"`
+	LastSeenStr string    `json:"lastSeenStr"`
+	AddedAt     time.Time `json:"addedAt"`
+	SpotCount   int       `json:"spotCount"`
+	IsContest   bool      `json:"isContest"`
+	Notify      bool      `json:"notify"`
+	// ClubLog expedition enrichment — phase 2. Carried so a DXHunter file
+	// round-trips; not filled by OpsLog yet.
+	IsExpedition      bool      `json:"isExpedition"`
+	ClubLogQSOs24h    int       `json:"clubLogQSOs24h"`
+	ClubLogTotalQSOs  int       `json:"clubLogTotalQSOs"`
+	ClubLogHasOQRS    bool      `json:"clubLogHasOQRS"`
+	ClubLogLiveStream bool      `json:"clubLogLiveStream"`
+	ClubLogUpdatedAt  time.Time `json:"clubLogUpdatedAt,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// Store owns the file. All methods are safe for concurrent use; writes are
+// debounced so a burst of MarkSeen calls costs one disk write.
+type Store struct {
+	mu      sync.RWMutex
+	entries map[string]*Entry
+	path    string
+
+	saveMu    sync.Mutex
+	saveTimer *time.Timer
+	ioMu      sync.Mutex
+}
+
+func New(path string) *Store {
+	s := &Store{entries: map[string]*Entry{}, path: path}
+	s.load()
+	return s
+}
+
+func (s *Store) load() {
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(s.path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return // absent on first run — created on first save
+	}
+	var list []Entry
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &list); err != nil {
+		return // a corrupt file must not take the app down; it is left for repair
+	}
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	for i := range list {
+		e := list[i]
+		e.Callsign = strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(e.Callsign))
+		if e.Callsign == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		s.entries[e.Callsign] = &e
+	}
+}
+
+// Entries returns a snapshot, watched-first ordering left to the UI.
+func (s *Store) Entries() []Entry {
+	s.mu.RLock()
+	defer s.mu.RUnlock()
+	out := make([]Entry, 0, len(s.entries))
+	for _, e := range s.entries {
+		c := *e
+		c.LastSeenStr = lastSeenLabel(c.LastSeen)
+		out = append(out, c)
+	}
+	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Callsign < out[j].Callsign })
+	return out
+}
+
+// Add creates an entry; contest marks it as re-workable every UTC day. A
+// trailing * makes the entry a prefix (VK9* catches every VK9…); anywhere else
+// the star is refused rather than silently matching nothing.
+func (s *Store) Add(callsign string, contest bool) error {
+	call := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign))
+	if call == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("callsign required")
+	}
+	if i := strings.Index(call, "*"); i >= 0 && i != len(call)-1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("* is only allowed at the end (VK9*)")
+	}
+	if call == "*" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("a bare * would match every spot")
+	}
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	if _, ok := s.entries[call]; ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is already on the watchlist", call)
+	}
+	s.entries[call] = &Entry{Callsign: call, AddedAt: time.Now(), IsContest: contest}
+	s.scheduleSave()
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Remove deletes an entry.
+func (s *Store) Remove(callsign string) error {
+	call := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign))
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	if _, ok := s.entries[call]; !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not on the watchlist", call)
+	}
+	delete(s.entries, call)
+	s.scheduleSave()
+	return nil
+}
+
+// SetNotify arms or disarms the alert for one entry.
+func (s *Store) SetNotify(callsign string, on bool) error {
+	return s.patch(callsign, func(e *Entry) { e.Notify = on })
+}
+
+// SetContest flips the per-entry contest rule.
+func (s *Store) SetContest(callsign string, on bool) error {
+	return s.patch(callsign, func(e *Entry) { e.IsContest = on })
+}
+
+func (s *Store) patch(callsign string, fn func(*Entry)) error {
+	call := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign))
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	e, ok := s.entries[call]
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not on the watchlist", call)
+	}
+	fn(e)
+	s.scheduleSave()
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Match returns the entry a spotted callsign belongs to, or "".
+//
+// EXACT unless the entry says otherwise: N8W matches only N8W, and it takes
+// N8W* to catch N8WCR. The first version prefix-matched everything, DXHunter
+// style, and a three-letter special-event call swallowed every longer call
+// sharing its start — N8W lit up for N8WCR, which is a different station
+// entirely. The operator writes the star when they MEAN a family (VK9*, an
+// expedition's portable forms via RI0SP*); a bare entry means that call.
+func (s *Store) Match(callsign string) (string, bool) {
+	call := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign))
+	if call == "" {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	s.mu.RLock()
+	defer s.mu.RUnlock()
+	for pattern := range s.entries {
+		if PatternMatches(pattern, call) {
+			return pattern, true
+		}
+	}
+	return "", false
+}
+
+// PatternMatches reports whether one watchlist pattern covers a callsign:
+// exact equality, or — with a trailing * — a prefix.
+func PatternMatches(pattern, call string) bool {
+	if p, ok := strings.CutSuffix(pattern, "*"); ok {
+		return p != "" && strings.HasPrefix(call, p)
+	}
+	return call == pattern
+}
+
+// MarkSeen records a spot against the matching entry and reports whether the
+// entry wants an alert.
+func (s *Store) MarkSeen(callsign string) (entry string, notify bool, ok bool) {
+	pattern, found := s.Match(callsign)
+	if !found {
+		return "", false, false
+	}
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	e := s.entries[pattern]
+	if e == nil {
+		return "", false, false
+	}
+	e.LastSeen = time.Now()
+	e.SpotCount++
+	s.scheduleSave()
+	return e.Callsign, e.Notify, true
+}
+
+// scheduleSave debounces the write: a burst of spots costs one file write two
+// seconds after the last of them. Callers hold s.mu.
+func (s *Store) scheduleSave() {
+	s.saveMu.Lock()
+	defer s.saveMu.Unlock()
+	if s.saveTimer != nil {
+		s.saveTimer.Stop()
+	}
+	s.saveTimer = time.AfterFunc(2*time.Second, func() { s.persist() })
+}
+
+func (s *Store) persist() {
+	list := s.Entries()
+	data, err := json.MarshalIndent(list, "", "  ")
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	s.ioMu.Lock()
+	defer s.ioMu.Unlock()
+	_ = os.WriteFile(s.path, data, 0o644)
+}
+
+// Flush writes now — for shutdown, where the two-second debounce would lose
+// the last edits.
+func (s *Store) Flush() { s.persist() }
+
+// lastSeenLabel is DXHunter's "Just now / 5m ago / 3h ago / 2d ago" string,
+// computed at read time so it never goes stale in the file.
+func lastSeenLabel(t time.Time) string {
+	if t.IsZero() {
+		return "Never"
+	}
+	d := time.Since(t)
+	switch {
+	case d < time.Minute:
+		return "Just now"
+	case d < time.Hour:
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%dm ago", int(d.Minutes()))
+	case d < 24*time.Hour:
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%dh ago", int(d.Hours()))
+	default:
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%dd ago", int(d.Hours()/24))
+	}
+}
+
+// Get returns one entry by its exact name — the alert path needs its contest
+// flag after MarkSeen named it.
+func (s *Store) Get(callsign string) (Entry, bool) {
+	s.mu.RLock()
+	defer s.mu.RUnlock()
+	e, ok := s.entries[strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(callsign))]
+	if !ok {
+		return Entry{}, false
+	}
+	return *e, true
+}

internal/watchlist/watchlist_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package watchlist
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestGlobMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	s := New(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "watchlist.json"))
+	if err := s.Add("RI0SP*", false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := s.Add("N8W", false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// A starred entry is a family: the expedition's portable forms.
+	for _, call := range []string{"RI0SP", "RI0SP/MM", "RI0SP/P"} {
+		if _, ok := s.Match(call); !ok {
+			t.Errorf("Match(%q) = false, want true", call)
+		}
+	}
+	// A bare entry is THAT call — the reported bug was N8W lighting up for
+	// N8WCR, a different station entirely.
+	if _, ok := s.Match("N8W"); !ok {
+		t.Error("exact entry must match its own call")
+	}
+	if _, ok := s.Match("N8WCR"); ok {
+		t.Error("exact entry must NOT match a longer call")
+	}
+	if _, ok := s.Match("RI0S"); ok {
+		t.Error("a SHORTER call must not match a starred entry")
+	}
+	if err := s.Add("VK*9", false); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a mid-string star must be refused")
+	}
+	if err := s.Add("*", false); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a bare star must be refused")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDXHunterFileRoundTrips(t *testing.T) {
+	// A real DXHunter entry, ClubLog block included. It must survive
+	// load → save byte-meaningfully: same keys, values preserved.
+	src := `[{"callsign":"C5SP","lastSeen":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","lastSeenStr":"Never",
+	  "addedAt":"2026-01-17T00:18:43.89Z","spotCount":7,"isContest":true,"notify":true,
+	  "isExpedition":true,"clubLogQSOs24h":120,"clubLogTotalQSOs":30500,
+	  "clubLogHasOQRS":true,"clubLogLiveStream":true,"clubLogUpdatedAt":"2026-08-28T22:32:18Z"}]`
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := filepath.Join(dir, "watchlist.json")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(src), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s := New(path)
+	s.Flush()
+	out, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var list []map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(out, &list); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(list) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d entries", len(list))
+	}
+	e := list[0]
+	for k, want := range map[string]any{
+		"callsign": "C5SP", "isContest": true, "notify": true,
+		"isExpedition": true, "clubLogQSOs24h": float64(120),
+		"clubLogTotalQSOs": float64(30500), "clubLogHasOQRS": true,
+	} {
+		if e[k] != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %v, want %v", k, e[k], want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMarkSeenAndNotify(t *testing.T) {
+	s := New(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "watchlist.json"))
+	_ = s.Add("HB040A", false)
+	_ = s.SetNotify("HB040A", true)
+	entry, notify, ok := s.MarkSeen("HB040A")
+	if !ok || !notify || entry != "HB040A" {
+		t.Fatalf("MarkSeen = %q %v %v", entry, notify, ok)
+	}
+	list := s.Entries()
+	if list[0].SpotCount != 1 || list[0].LastSeenStr != "Just now" {
+		t.Errorf("entry after MarkSeen: %+v", list[0])
+	}
+}

telemetry.go

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	// appVersion is stamped on every heartbeat (and could feed the About box).
-	appVersion = "0.26.20"
+	appVersion = "0.27.0"
 
 	// posthogHost is the PostHog ingestion endpoint. EU cloud by default; change
 	// to https://us.i.posthog.com for a US project.

windowpos_other.go

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+//go:build !windows
+
+package main
+
+// Placing a window at an absolute desktop coordinate is Windows-specific; every
+// caller falls back to the toolkit's own call when this says no.
+func setWindowPosAbsolute(x, y int) bool { return false }

windowpos_windows.go

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+//go:build windows
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+	"unsafe"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/applog"
+)
+
+// Moving the window to an ABSOLUTE virtual-desktop position.
+//
+// Wails' own WindowSetPosition cannot do it. Its Windows implementation reads:
+//
+//	func (cba *ControlBase) SetPos(x, y int) {
+//	    info := getMonitorInfo(cba.hwnd)
+//	    w32.SetWindowPos(cba.hwnd, HWND_TOP, int(info.RcWork.Left)+x, int(info.RcWork.Top)+y, ...)
+//	}
+//
+// — the coordinates are relative to the CURRENT monitor's work area, while
+// WindowGetPosition returns GetWindowRect, which is absolute. Saving one and
+// restoring the other is only harmless on the primary monitor, where the work
+// area starts at 0.
+//
+// On a second monitor to the LEFT it compounds at every launch. Reported from a
+// two-screen station with the left monitor at x = -3840: OpsLog saved -3844,
+// reopened on that monitor, added the monitor's own origin, and stored -7684 —
+// then -11524, each launch one screen further into nowhere.
+//
+// So we place the window ourselves. Same call the toolkit makes, without the
+// offset.
+const (
+	swpNoSize     = 0x0001
+	swpNoZOrder   = 0x0004
+	swpNoActivate = 0x0010
+)
+
+var (
+	procSetWindowPos              = user32Dll.NewProc("SetWindowPos")
+	procEnumWindows               = user32Dll.NewProc("EnumWindows")
+	procGetWindowThreadProcessID  = user32Dll.NewProc("GetWindowThreadProcessId")
+	procGetWindowTextLengthW      = user32Dll.NewProc("GetWindowTextLengthW")
+	procGetWindow                 = user32Dll.NewProc("GetWindow")
+	kernel32Dll                   = syscall.NewLazyDLL("kernel32.dll")
+	procGetCurrentProcessIDWinPos = kernel32Dll.NewProc("GetCurrentProcessId")
+)
+
+// mainWindowHandle finds this process's own top-level window.
+//
+// Wails does not expose the handle, so it is looked up: the first top-level
+// window belonging to this process id that has no owner and a title. The window
+// is created hidden (StartHidden), and EnumWindows lists hidden windows too,
+// which is what makes this usable before the window is shown.
+func mainWindowHandle() uintptr {
+	self, _, _ := procGetCurrentProcessIDWinPos.Call()
+	var found uintptr
+	cb := syscall.NewCallback(func(hwnd uintptr, _ uintptr) uintptr {
+		var pid uint32
+		procGetWindowThreadProcessID.Call(hwnd, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&pid)))
+		if uintptr(pid) != self {
+			return 1 // keep going
+		}
+		// GW_OWNER = 4: skip tool windows and dialogs owned by the main one.
+		if owner, _, _ := procGetWindow.Call(hwnd, 4); owner != 0 {
+			return 1
+		}
+		if n, _, _ := procGetWindowTextLengthW.Call(hwnd); n == 0 {
+			return 1
+		}
+		found = hwnd
+		return 0 // stop
+	})
+	procEnumWindows.Call(cb, 0)
+	return found
+}
+
+// setWindowPosAbsolute moves the window to a virtual-desktop coordinate.
+// Reports whether it could; the caller falls back to the toolkit's own call.
+func setWindowPosAbsolute(x, y int) bool {
+	hwnd := mainWindowHandle()
+	if hwnd == 0 {
+		applog.Printf("window: could not find our own window handle — falling back to the toolkit's placement")
+		return false
+	}
+	r, _, err := procSetWindowPos.Call(hwnd, 0, uintptr(int32(x)), uintptr(int32(y)), 0, 0,
+		swpNoSize|swpNoZOrder|swpNoActivate)
+	if r == 0 {
+		applog.Printf("window: SetWindowPos(%d,%d) failed: %v", x, y, err)
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}