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Maps and Antennas
Main view
The Main view is two configurable panes (per profile, Settings → General → Main view), with a draggable divider between them (double-click it to even them out). Choose from: great-circle map, locator (street) map, the cluster grid, the worked-before grid, recent QSOs, the FlexRadio controls, the Icom or Yaesu console, or the Net control panel.
Great-circle map
- Short/long-path distance & azimuth to the worked station.
- Selectable, key-free basemaps: Light / Voyager / Street / Satellite.
- The antenna beam lobe(s) are drawn from the rotor azimuth.
- Day/night terminator and twilight band (button at the top right).
Locator (street) map
An OSM street map centred on the contacted grid square — handy for local / portable contacts. No API key.
Rotators
An azimuthal-equidistant click-to-turn compass; the current heading and target are shown. Three rotator types (Settings → Rotator):
- PstRotator — via its UDP interface.
- microHAM ARCO — native, over LAN or USB: set the ARCO's CONTROL PROTOCOL to Yaesu GS-232A.
- GS-232A (generic) — any GS-232A controller, ERC (Easy Rotor Control) included; serial speed selectable. Set an ERC to GS-232 emulation, not Hy-Gain DCU-1.
Motorized antennas (Ultrabeam / SteppIR)
Both follow the rig frequency (band change → retune) and retune immediately when you click a spot, with three modes — Normal, 180° reverse, Bidirectional:
- The radiating direction is shown in green and the mechanical boom in grey, on both the compass and the map.
- On a FlexRadio, transmit is inhibited while the elements move, and released as soon as the antenna is tuned.
- SteppIR — Tunable range (Settings → Hardware → Antenna, default 13–54 MHz): outside it OpsLog leaves the antenna and the TX interlock completely alone, so tuning to 30 m on a 20 m–6 m SteppIR does nothing.
Related hardware: Amplifiers and Switches (Antenna Genius switch, Tuner Genius, relays).