The backend list mixed two different questions. 'Icom (USB)' and 'Icom
(network)' were separate entries; Kenwood and Elecraft hid the same
choice in a field further down; and Flex, TCI and OmniRig sat in the same
list as if they were the same kind of answer. An operator picks a radio
and then says how it is plugged in, so that is what the panel asks, in
that order, and the two answers together choose the backend.
Each brand offers only the connections it has, and a brand with one way
in still shows it, greyed: 'there is no choice here' is an answer and an
empty space is not. The stored backend names are unchanged — 'icom-net'
is still 'icom-net' — so a settings file written by an older build keeps
working, and brand+connection are DERIVED from it rather than held
alongside it, which is what keeps them from drifting apart when something
else writes the backend.
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