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The Available Mults and Qs window: a column per band, the multipliers at the top of each column and then the stations that are only points. Clicking one puts the radio there with the call in the entry window, the same as the bandmap does. Every spot on the bandmap goes through ContestLog.Judge, and what comes back a dupe is dropped, so the colours and the ordering agree with every other window. A spot holds a callsign and a frequency and nothing else. For CQ WW that gives the country multiplier, which is derived from the call, but not the zone, which is what the other station sends. Where a call history file has an entry for the call its exchange is filled into the candidate first, so a published CQZone column brings the zone in and a Sect column makes Sweepstakes work at all. Filling the zone from the country file instead was rejected: it is wrong for every large country, and a multiplier that is not there is better than one that is not real. A spot has no mode either, so the candidate is judged in the mode the radio is in. In a mixed-mode contest that means the answer follows the operator. RadioPosition kept two private mappings — exchange value into a contact, and call history field into an exchange box — and both are needed here, so they move to ExchangeSlots and both callers share them. 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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**Call history: the section-validating directives.** `!!Validate50State!!`,
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`!!ValidateArrlSection!!`, `!!MapOnSection!!` and `!!GTA2GH_NT2TER!!` are read
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and passed over. Acting on them means holding N1MM's section lists and its
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rules about which sections are retired, and getting that wrong throws away good
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data. The file is read without them.
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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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## 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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**Available mults and Qs is only as good as the bandmap.** It lists what is
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spotted, so a multiplier nobody has spotted is not there. N1MM's window also
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shows the mults a contest has and nobody has worked, which needs a list of every
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multiplier the contest counts. Only the section and state lists are held here,
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so the zone and country lists would have to come from the country file first.
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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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