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The README said "not yet" and listed four things. There are more than four, and the more useful split is between what is half-built and what is finished but has never met the hardware it talks to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# What is not finished, and what has not been tested
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Two separate lists. A feature can be finished and untested, or half-built and
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exercised every day. Written 2026-08-27.
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## Never run against the real thing
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Everything below is written from a published protocol or from N1MM's source and
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tested against a fake that speaks the same protocol. A fake agrees with whatever
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the person who wrote it believed, so these are the places where a wrong belief
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is still sitting there undiscovered.
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| What | Tested against | What has never happened |
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| `RigctldRadio` | a stand-in for `rigctld` over a real socket | no real `rigctld`, no real radio. The extended answer format, the `+` prefix and the split commands are from the documented protocol. If the format is wrong, nothing works rather than something being subtly off — check this first. |
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| `OtrspBox` | a `MemoryStream`, checking the bytes | no real SO2R box. Command forms are from N1MM's `N1MMPort.cs`. |
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| `ClusterClient` | a node fake over a real socket, sending the telnet negotiation, the login prompt and spot lines | no live cluster node. Which nodes send bare CR, and which send option negotiation, is guessed from N1MM's code. |
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| `StationNetwork` | the message format, round-tripped | no second station, and no N1MM on the same network. |
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| `CwDaemonSender` | the UDP messages | no `cwdaemon`, no radio keyed. |
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| `WinkeyerSender` | nothing | no test at all, and no WinKeyer. The host-mode open sequence is from the WinKeyer datasheet. |
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The Cabrillo output has not been put in front of a contest sponsor's robot.
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## Half-built
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**Alternating CQ (SO2R).** Needs to know when the keyer has finished sending.
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`MessageSender` is fire-and-forget: it has `SendAsync`, `AbortAsync` and
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`SetSpeedAsync` and no completion signal. Both `cwdaemon` and a WinKeyer can
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report completion, so the interface has to grow first. Timing it from the length
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of the text would be a guess that goes wrong exactly when the contest is busy.
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**Voice keying.** `MessageSender` was written to cover a voice keyer playing a
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recording, and nothing implements it. No DVK support either, so the second radio
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of an SO2R station cannot call CQ by voice.
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**The check window's Call History and Exchange columns.** Left out rather than
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shown empty: there is no call history file support to fill them from.
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**Call history files.** Not read at all. They are what fills a known station's
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name, state or zone in as soon as the call is typed.
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**QTC handling for WAE.** Not started. WAE logs will not be complete without it.
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**Digital modes.** A contact can be logged as RTTY or another digital mode, and
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the contest rules score it, but there is no digital window: no decoding, no
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transmitting, no interface to fldigi, MMTTY or similar.
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**Band-plan colouring of the bandmap scale.** N1MM colours the scale by CW,
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digital and phone segment. The segments differ by ITU region and there is no
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band-plan table here, so it is left out rather than guessed.
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**Contest coverage.** Eight contests are built in, plus whatever `.udc` files
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are in the user-defined folder. N1MM ships well over a hundred. Opening a log
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from a contest not in the registry fails with the contest name, which is the
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right answer but it is still a wall.
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**The Available Mults and Qs window.** Not started.
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## Known rough edges
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**The log window's column widths** are the grid's own automatic sizing with a
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character-count floor. A column can change width as rows scroll into view.
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**Contacts arriving over the station network** are applied from the socket
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thread, and `AppSession.TakeFromNetwork` reopens the whole contest to do it.
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That is correct but heavy, and it discards what is typed in an entry window on
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another radio.
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**Two entry windows and one keyer.** The SO2R box is told which radio to key
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before each message, but nothing stops both radios sending at once if the
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operator asks them to.
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