Favourites show the callsign in bold, the address and the sysop's note,
and each keeps its own password, commands, logon call and note. Clicking
one fills the boxes for editing. Autoconnect marks the favourite to
connect to at start and replaces the old reconnect-to-last-node setting.
A new published list refreshes the notes of the favourites in it. The
published list now spans the window, and the Spot comment tab becomes
Login & Spots with the logon call and keep-alive.
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The spot timeouts, the QSY spot and CQ frequency distances and the
recent contact minutes leave the telnet Filters tab for a window under
Config. Each is a numeric box with a range.
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CW and digital spots time out after 10 minutes and phone spots after 30
by default, both settings on the telnet Filters tab. The mode comes from
the band plan; a frequency it has no boundaries for counts as phone.
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A contest opening and contacts arriving from the other stations, a
resync included, spot the contacts logged in the last few minutes (a
setting on the telnet Filters tab, 0 for none). A station the bandmap
already holds on that band keeps its spot. Nothing is sent out. Spots
that come from the log are drawn in italics.
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Starting Run stores the frequency in the position. The bandmap draws a
purple, bold "CQ Frequency" pseudospot there, which is not added to the
shared bandmap, and a click on it tunes back and sets Run. A move of more
than 3 kHz (a setting on the telnet Filters tab) while running switches
to search and pounce.
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The radio reports the frequency in small steps as the knob turns, and
each step was compared with the one before, so no step passed the
threshold. The move is now measured from the frequency the radio had
when the call appeared in the entry window. The threshold is a box on
the Filters tab of the telnet window.
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The generic name only resolves through fontconfig, so on Windows the
windows fell back to the proportional default.
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Lines were as tall as a list item, with padding of more than the text. A
line is now as tall as its text, the view always follows the newest line
instead of pausing under the pointer, and a burst of lines is scrolled
once. The scrollback is a thousand lines.
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The packet window showed traffic and took a command line, and everything else
about the cluster lived in a dialog under Config. It is now the window N1MM has,
with the same five tabs.
Telnet shows the traffic with spot lines in green, what went out in blue and
lines from a preferred spotter in bold. Double clicking a spot line, or "Jump to
this spot", puts the radio there with the call in the entry window. Scrolling
stops while the pointer is over the traffic. The client keeps the last two
hundred lines, so a window opened mid-contest is not blank.
Clusters keeps the operator's nodes with their ports, passwords and after-login
commands, connects and disconnects, and holds the logon settings. Download
fetches the published list of telnet nodes from NG3K — around fifty, with the
sysop's call and a note about each — and clicking one fills the boxes in. N1MM
downloads its list from its own web service, which asks the operator to opt in
to data collection and is N1MM's to run, so this reads a public page instead.
ClusterList takes any page with telnet:// links in a table; a page it cannot
read leaves the stored list alone.
Filters decide which spots reach the bandmap: bands, modes, beacons, busted
calls, stations outside the call history file, blacklisted spotters and calls,
spots from outside your country, continent or a list of prefixes, and how long a
spot stays on the map. A busted spot is a call the callsign database has never
heard that is one character away from one it knows; a call nothing resembles is
kept, because that is what a new station looks like. Nothing is filtered out of
the traffic itself — the operator sees everything the node sends.
Buttons edits the twelve command buttons. A button takes what N1MM's takes: the
message macros, several commands separated by semicolons, or {CONN} and the name
of a favourite, which connects to that node instead of sending anything. The
label takes the macros too. Right-clicking a button opens the editor.
Config ▸ Cluster now opens this window on the Clusters tab rather than a dialog
of its own, which is where N1MM keeps those settings.
Three things that could take the program down while a cluster was connected:
Settings.Load read a null where the property is not nullable. A file that names
a key with a null value — one written before the property existed and then
edited — put that null straight through, because the property's own default only
runs when the key is missing. Opening the telnet window then threw on the first
list it touched. Every null is now put back to the default the property
declares, walking into the stored records and the lists of them.
Bandmap was written from the cluster's thread and read from the window's, so a
dictionary could be modified while a window enumerated it. Every method locks
now.
ClusterClient disposed its token source while its own loop still used it, and
the retry delay sat outside the catch, so a disconnect faulted the loop task.
Along the way the message macros were checked against N1MM's function-key
documentation, and several were wrong. {LOGGEDCALL} is N1MM's {LASTCALL}, the
serial is #, and there is no {MYZONE}; {NAME} and {GRIDSQUARE} stand for the
other station's name and grid, not ours; {OTHERMHZ} is the radio the operator is
not on. The single-character macros * and ! were missing. Added from the same
table: {LASTCALL}, {PREVNR}, {NAMEANDSPACE}, {CHNAME}, {GRID}, the two grid
bearings and the grid distance, {FREQ}, {FREQROUND}, the other-radio
frequencies, {TIMESTAMP} and {TIME2}. Frequencies are formatted the way N1MM
formats them, with R for the decimal point on CW. The macros that pass a station
to the other band take the second radio as a new argument, and stand for nothing
at a one-radio station.
Left out, and written down: saving spots to a database, which N1MM keeps in its
admin database rather than in the log file the two programs share; the
special-calls list; the two-character busted check, which is a few hundred
thousand lookups per spot against a few hundred for one character; and N1MM's
action macros, which need a different shape than an expander that returns a
string.
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erikbrockoandClaude Sonnet 5.5