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OpsLog/internal/cat/flexsat.go
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rouggyandClaude Opus 5 3ac6f7e49c fix(sat): the Flex slices get their antenna, their sideband and their tone
Three things the tracker was leaving to chance on a FlexRadio, all reported from
a real pass.

ANTENNAS. Settings ▸ FlexRadio holds a per-band RX/TX antenna map, and it was
applied in exactly one place: the entry form, on a band change, to the active
slice. A pass never goes through that path — the tracker arms two slices itself.
So both were left on whatever the radio last used, and a station with
transverters (XVTA on 2 m, XVTB on 70 cm) heard nothing at all, having
configured precisely the thing being ignored. The two slices are on two
different bands, so they cannot share one setting: the downlink takes the
receive antenna for ITS band, the uplink the transmit antenna for its. Per
slice, not through sendSlice, which addresses whichever slice is active — during
a pass that is the downlink, so the uplink would never have been set.

SIDEBAND. satMode forced USB above 30 MHz on both sides. An inverting
transponder turns the passband over, so lower sideband up comes back as upper
sideband down: FO-29, RS-44 and AO-73 were being worked with the operator's own
audio going through upside down. The tracker now decides both sidebands from the
transponder's inverting flag and passes them separately; a bare "SSB" still
means USB, so nothing else changes.

CTCSS. Nothing set it, on any bird. The frequency plan has carried the tone all
along — 67.0 on SO-50 and AO-91, 141.3 on PO-101 — and an FM repeater does not
answer without it, which is indistinguishable from a satellite that is not
there. It goes on the uplink slice, value before mode so the radio cannot
transmit the previous tone in the gap between two commands.

Written against the SmartSDR slice API and UNTESTED on hardware.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-09 20:20:41 +02:00

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package cat
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"hamlog/internal/applog"
)
// Satellite operation on a FlexRadio.
//
// A Flex has no satellite mode, and does not need one: it has slices. Slice A
// is the downlink and slice B the uplink — the arrangement every Flex satellite
// operator already uses by hand — with the transmitter on B and full duplex on,
// so the operator hears their own signal come back through the transponder.
// The transverters that put 145 and 435 MHz within the radio's reach are
// configured in SmartSDR, and their offsets are the radio's business: OpsLog
// sends the real satellite frequency and SmartSDR does the arithmetic.
//
// The two slices are CREATED when they are missing, because "slice B does not
// exist" is not a thing to make the operator fix at the start of a ten-minute
// pass. Only what OpsLog created is taken away again on disarming: a slice the
// operator opened is theirs.
// SetSatellite arranges (or unwinds) the two-slice satellite pair.
func (f *Flex) SetSatellite(on bool) error {
f.mu.Lock()
connected := f.conn != nil
f.mu.Unlock()
if !connected {
return fmt.Errorf("flex: not connected")
}
if !on {
return f.satDisarm()
}
// The downlink slice is the one the operator is already on: taking the
// active slice rather than insisting on index 0 means arming the satellite
// does not move them off the receiver they were listening to.
f.mu.Lock()
rxIdx, _ := f.mainSliceLocked()
var txIdx = -1
for _, idx := range f.sortedSliceIdxLocked() {
if s := f.slices[idx]; s != nil && s.inUse && idx != rxIdx {
txIdx = idx
break
}
}
f.satRX, f.satTX = rxIdx, txIdx
f.satOn = true
f.mu.Unlock()
// Full duplex before anything else: without it the radio mutes the receiver
// on transmit, and an operator who cannot hear their own downlink has no way
// to know they are in the passband at all.
f.send("radio set full_duplex_enabled=1")
if rxIdx < 0 {
// A radio with no slice at all. One is created; the status that comes
// back adopts it as the downlink.
f.satCreate("rx", 145.900, "USB")
}
if txIdx < 0 {
f.satCreate("tx", 435.100, "USB")
} else {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d tx=1", txIdx))
}
applog.Printf("flex: satellite armed (rx slice %d, tx slice %d)", rxIdx, txIdx)
return nil
}
func (f *Flex) satDisarm() error {
f.mu.Lock()
rx, tx, created := f.satRX, f.satTX, f.satCreatedTX
f.satOn, f.satRX, f.satTX, f.satCreatedTX = false, -1, -1, false
f.mu.Unlock()
f.send("radio set full_duplex_enabled=0")
if created && tx >= 0 {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice remove %d", tx))
}
// Transmit goes back where the operator is listening. A radio left
// transmitting on a slice that no longer exists — or on the uplink band with
// the satellite gone — is not somewhere anyone should be handed back.
if rx >= 0 {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d tx=1", rx))
}
applog.Printf("flex: satellite disarmed")
return nil
}
// satCreate asks for a slice and remembers what it is for; the index arrives in
// the reply (see the R-line handler), which is where the role is applied.
func (f *Flex) satCreate(role string, freqMHz float64, mode string) {
seq := f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice create freq=%.6f mode=%s", freqMHz, mode))
if seq <= 0 {
return
}
f.mu.Lock()
if f.pendingSat == nil {
f.pendingSat = map[int]string{}
}
f.pendingSat[seq] = role
f.mu.Unlock()
}
// adoptSatSlice records a freshly created slice in its role. Called from the
// reply handler with the index the radio assigned.
func (f *Flex) adoptSatSlice(role string, idx int) {
f.mu.Lock()
switch role {
case "rx":
f.satRX = idx
case "tx":
f.satTX = idx
f.satCreatedTX = true
}
f.mu.Unlock()
if role == "tx" {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d tx=1", idx))
}
applog.Printf("flex: satellite %s slice is %d", role, idx)
}
// TuneSatellite moves the two slices.
func (f *Flex) TuneSatellite(downHz, upHz int64, downMode, upMode string) error {
f.mu.Lock()
rx, tx := f.satRX, f.satTX
connected := f.conn != nil
if rx >= 0 && f.slices[rx] != nil && downHz > 0 {
f.slices[rx].freqHz = downHz // optimistic, as SetFrequency is
}
if tx >= 0 && f.slices[tx] != nil && upHz > 0 {
f.slices[tx].freqHz = upHz
}
f.mu.Unlock()
if !connected {
return fmt.Errorf("flex: not connected")
}
if rx < 0 {
// The slice was asked for and its index has not come back yet. Nothing is
// wrong — the next Doppler step, a second later, will find it.
return nil
}
if downHz > 0 {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice t %d %.6f", rx, float64(downHz)/1e6))
f.satMode(rx, downMode, downHz)
}
if tx >= 0 && upHz > 0 {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice t %d %.6f", tx, float64(upHz)/1e6))
f.satMode(tx, upMode, upHz)
}
return nil
}
// satMode sets a slice's mode only when it is not already there. A mode command
// on every Doppler step is a command a second per slice for a whole pass, and
// SmartSDR redraws the filter each time.
func (f *Flex) satMode(idx int, mode string, freqHz int64) {
mode = strings.TrimSpace(mode)
if mode == "" {
return
}
// A bare "SSB" still means upper sideband above 30 MHz, which is every
// satellite worth the name — including the parts of a passband that would be
// an LSB band down on HF. An explicit USB or LSB from the caller is left
// alone: on an INVERTING transponder the two sides are different sidebands,
// and only the caller knows which way round this bird runs.
if strings.EqualFold(mode, "SSB") && freqHz > 30_000_000 {
mode = "USB"
}
fm := adifModeToFlex(mode, freqHz)
if fm == "" {
return
}
f.mu.Lock()
s := f.slices[idx]
same := s != nil && strings.EqualFold(s.mode, fm)
if s != nil {
s.mode = fm
}
f.mu.Unlock()
if same {
return
}
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d mode=%s", idx, fm))
}
// SatReceiveHz is where the downlink slice sits.
//
// From the cache, not from a read: SmartSDR pushes every slice change as it
// happens, so the cached value is what the radio said, and there is no round
// trip to pay for once a second.
func (f *Flex) SatReceiveHz() (int64, error) {
f.mu.Lock()
defer f.mu.Unlock()
if f.satRX < 0 {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("flex: no downlink slice")
}
s := f.slices[f.satRX]
if s == nil || !s.inUse {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("flex: the downlink slice has gone")
}
return s.freqHz, nil
}
// SatAntennas selects the antenna each satellite slice uses.
//
// The two slices are on two different bands — a V/U bird receives on 70 cm and
// transmits on 2 m, a U/V one does the reverse — so they cannot share one
// antenna setting. On a station with transverters they are not even the same
// port: XVTA for 2 m, XVTB for 70 cm, and a downlink slice left on the HF
// antenna hears nothing at all.
//
// Per SLICE, not through sendSlice, which addresses whichever slice is active.
// During a pass the active slice is the downlink, so the uplink's antenna would
// never have been set.
//
// Empty strings are left alone: an operator who has configured 2 m and not
// 70 cm should keep whatever the radio already had on the other side rather
// than have it cleared.
func (f *Flex) SatAntennas(rxAnt, txAnt string) error {
f.mu.Lock()
rx, tx := f.satRX, f.satTX
connected := f.conn != nil
f.mu.Unlock()
if !connected {
return fmt.Errorf("flex: not connected")
}
// The downlink slice is the one being listened to, so it takes the receive
// antenna; the uplink slice is the one keyed, so it takes the transmit one.
if rx >= 0 && strings.TrimSpace(rxAnt) != "" {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d rxant=%s", rx, rxAnt))
applog.Printf("flex: satellite downlink slice %d on antenna %s", rx, rxAnt)
}
if tx >= 0 && strings.TrimSpace(txAnt) != "" {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d txant=%s", tx, txAnt))
// A transmit slice also has to HEAR its own band on some radios, and a
// transverter port is the only thing connected to it. Setting the
// receive antenna to match costs nothing when it is already right.
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d rxant=%s", tx, txAnt))
applog.Printf("flex: satellite uplink slice %d on antenna %s", tx, txAnt)
}
return nil
}
// SatTone sets the CTCSS tone the uplink slice transmits, in Hz. Zero turns it
// off.
//
// On the UPLINK slice, because that is the one that keys: a tone is something
// transmitted, and the repeater on the satellite will not open without it. This
// is the whole difference between an operator hearing a pass and hearing
// nothing on SO-50, AO-91, PO-101 and every other FM bird with a tone — and it
// is exactly the setting that cannot be made by hand mid-pass.
func (f *Flex) SatTone(hz float64) error {
f.mu.Lock()
tx := f.satTX
connected := f.conn != nil
f.mu.Unlock()
if !connected {
return fmt.Errorf("flex: not connected")
}
if tx < 0 {
return nil // the slice has not come back yet; the next arming will set it
}
if hz <= 0 {
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d fm_tone_mode=OFF", tx))
applog.Printf("flex: satellite uplink tone off")
return nil
}
// Value before mode: a radio that is told CTCSS_TX while still holding the
// previous tone transmits the previous tone for as long as it takes the
// second command to arrive.
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d fm_tone_value=%.1f", tx, hz))
f.send(fmt.Sprintf("slice s %d fm_tone_mode=CTCSS_TX", tx))
applog.Printf("flex: satellite uplink tone %.1f Hz on slice %d", hz, tx)
return nil
}