Radio Operations Console v2.10.0

What works differently:

• The tabs are down a side bar on the left instead of across the top, in
  the same order, with the same Ctrl+number shortcuts. Under Operations it
  lists the nets open now; click one to switch to it from any tab.
• The Activities list that sat beside the Operations tab is now All
  activities, at the top of the side bar: one table across the page, a
  row per activity with its state, type, frequency, when and how many
  records, in the same sections, with the same search. + New beside it
  starts an activity from any tab.
• Saving a check-in to a net that hasn't been started asks Start the net
  now? in a window that waits for an answer. Enter starts it; Not yet:
  early check-in (or Escape) carries on without starting. After Not yet
  it asks again at the first check-in once the scheduled time has come, or
  10 minutes later, not at every early check-in.
• Exports & forms is a line per export, with buttons that say what they do
  (View CSV, Save CSV, View ADIF, Save ADIF, View text, Save text). What
  each one holds is behind the ⓘ beside its name. Exports with nothing in
  them yet aren't listed, instead of showing greyed out.

Added

• The side bar can be resized by dragging its right edge (double-click for
  the default), or collapsed to its icons with « at its foot for more room
  on pages like Weather and Nets. Both are remembered.

Changed

• Shorter messages on the Operations tab where a list is empty.

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Windows, Linux, and macOS builds come from the same source. Windows installers are not code-signed,
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notarized, so it may warn that the developer can't be verified (right-click the app and choose
Open to run it anyway). Neither is a sign of tampering, just the cost of an unsigned open-source
build.

Radio Operations Console v2.9.1

What works differently:

• The Nets page is a fixed week: its days are headed by name and always
  run Sunday to Saturday, instead of starting from today
  ("Today · Mon Oct 19", "Tomorrow …"). Today is marked, and its nets
  that are over stay listed, dimmed. Monthly nets sit under their weekday
  with which weeks they meet ("2nd & 4th") instead of under "Later".
• The Coming up box lists only the nets on now or starting within 12
  hours, and is left out when there are none. The Nets page uses the
  full width of the window.

Fixed

• A frequency typed with a call sign in front ("W4URG 444.325") showed the
  wrong band (80m, from the "4" in the call sign) on nets and activities.

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notarized, so it may warn that the developer can't be verified (right-click the app and choose
Open to run it anyway). Neither is a sign of tampering, just the cost of an unsigned open-source
build.

Radio Operations Console v2.9.0

What works differently:

• Traffic on a check-in can now be followed through, on any net: select
  the check-in to record it passed to whom and how (say, by JS8Call or
  RTTY), an attempt that failed, or that it couldn't be passed, the same
  way a relay station does. Logging a check-in with traffic is unchanged,
  and ticking Handled is still all it takes; the rest is there only when
  you want it.
• Handled means passed on. Traffic marked Couldn't pass stays unticked,
  and the end-of-net warning still counts it.
• The ICS 309 has more lines: traffic passed on to a named station, each
  failed attempt, and traffic that couldn't be passed. A message passed on
  ends with how it went ("… (via RTTY)"). This applies to relay stations
  too, so the forms you send will look different.

This upgrade changes the database: traffic already on check-ins is moved
over, handled traffic recorded as passed when it was marked. A copy of the
database is saved before the upgrade; 2.8.0 can't open the upgraded data.

Added

• Where a check-in's traffic went. Selecting a check-in with traffic
  shows it with Passed…, Attempt failed… and Couldn't pass…. Its row
  then says where it went ("→ EOC via RTTY"), that it wasn't passed, or how
  many attempts failed. The ICS 309 and ICS 214 include it, and a net's
  Exports & forms has its traffic as CSV.
• HF conditions on the Weather tab, from NOAA's Space Weather
  Prediction Center: solar flux and the K and A indexes on one line when
  it's quiet, each with a word for what it means ("137 good", "K 2
  quiet") and a line more on hovering. When it isn't, it says what's
  happening in plain words (a radio blackout, a geomagnetic storm),
  whether HF is being absorbed at your area during a flare and for how
  long, and any storm forecast for the next couple of days. Checked every
  15 minutes while the tab is open.
• JS8Call, RTTY, PSK31 and FT8 are offered as ways traffic was passed.

Changed

• The ICS 309 says how traffic was passed, and what couldn't be. A
  message passed on ends with how it went ("… (via RTTY)"), and one given
  up on gets its own line ("Not passed to EOC: no path"), for relay
  stations as well as nets.

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notarized, so it may warn that the developer can't be verified (right-click the app and choose
Open to run it anyway). Neither is a sign of tampering, just the cost of an unsigned open-source
build.

Radio Operations Console v2.8.0

What works differently:

• Every map has Street, Dark and Satellite buttons beside Full view. The
  style picked applies to all maps.
• The radar outlines storm warnings anywhere in view, not only those
  covering your area, and every alert is drawn in NWS's color for its kind:
  a Severe Thunderstorm Warning is yellow, no longer red.
• The radar stays on NOAA's filtered national radar at every zoom. A nearby
  station's sharper radar can be picked from Radar.

There's no database change: 2.7.0 can still open the data if you go back.

Added

• ADIF export, for a logging program. Logbook (ADIF) in Exports &
  forms saves a net's check-ins, or a station log's contacts, as an .adi
  file to import into your logger, each as a contact with net control. Net
  control's own check-in is left out. Contacts without a mode of their own
  get the one picked beside the button, which starts guessed from the net's
  frequency (FM on VHF/UHF, SSB on HF); change it if the net was on
  something else.
• Map styles: Street, Dark and Satellite. Pick one with the buttons
  beside Full view on any map; it's remembered on this computer and every
  map follows it. Dark is the street map with its colors turned down for a
  dark room, and works offline from the same saved tiles. Satellite is USGS
  aerial imagery with street names on top (US only, and it can't zoom in
  quite as far as the street map).
• The radar shows every storm warning in view, not just ones covering
  your area: tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings
  are outlined as on radar.weather.gov. They show and hide with Alerts.
• Click an alert's outline on the radar to see what it is. A popup gives
  the alert, its area, when it ends, its headline and NWS's full text. Where
  outlines overlap, it lists each one under the click.
• Alerts are colored to match. Each outline is in the color NWS uses for
  that kind of alert, and the Alerts list shows a small swatch in the same
  color by each alert that's outlined.
• Pick a nearby radar station. The radar's new Radar choice offers the
  stations near your area ("KAMX Miami · 7 mi") beside Filtered
  (national), which stays the default. A station's own radar is sharper
  close in, but isn't filtered: birds, insects and ground clutter show too,
  most at night with no rain about. The station is named by the time
  ("KAMX · 22:10"), and the choice is remembered on this computer. The radar
  is also drawn at your screen's full sharpness.
• The radar's Radar choice, Opacity slider and Alerts checkbox are on the
  map in Full view too, beside the loop's buttons.

Fixed

• The radar loop no longer gets stuck after its five-minute refresh.
  After a pan or zoom it keeps showing the last picture until the new one
  arrives, rather than blanking, stretching or stalling.

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Open to run it anyway). Neither is a sign of tampering, just the cost of an unsigned open-source
build.

Radio Operations Console v2.7.0

What works differently:

• A typed location is placed on the map a few seconds after you save, once
  it's looked up online; saving no longer waits for it.
• On a net, Traffic typed with no call sign is saved as a note from net
  control, not a check-in.
• A station's street address, when it matches a house, now beats QRZ's
  point, so some stations land somewhere different (usually closer to right).
• Approximate pins are hollow or faded on the maps, and a location that
  couldn't be placed gets a crossed-out pin in the list.

This version updates the database: once it's run, 2.6.0 can't open the data.

Added

• Cross streets are placed on the map, typed the way people say them:
  "sw 152st & sw 137ave miami fl", "sw 152 st and sw 137 ave", "Coral Way &
  Douglas Rd". The app works out where the two streets cross, near your
  net's repeater (else net control), or near a town if you type one.

• Looked-up places are remembered, so the same address or corner is
  looked up online once; the next check-in from it is placed at once, even
  offline. They're listed in Settings under Offline data, where they can be
  cleared.

• Streets are remembered too. The streets fetched to find a cross street
  are kept, so a later corner of streets already fetched is placed at once,
  offline and without asking anyone. The more the app is used around your
  area, the more corners it can place with no internet.

• Type a saved place's name ("County EOC") into any location box to put
  it there.

• Notes from net control. On a net, type into Traffic with no call sign
  and press Enter ("Save note") to log a note from net control: a bulletin
  read, a warning issued, a switch to a backup repeater. It's a line on the
  roster and the ICS 309 at the time it's saved, from your call sign with To
  left blank, but it isn't counted as a check-in or a station and never
  needs Handled.

• Says when a location couldn't be placed. If the lookup after saving
  finds nothing, the check-in or report gets a crossed-out pin beside its
  location, and hovering says to pick the spot on the map, instead of it
  quietly staying off the map.

• Rough pins look rough. Each check-in and report keeps how its map point
  was found (a pin, the street address, where the streets cross, a ZIP code's
  or town's centre…). On the maps, approximate stations are hollow, dashed
  dots and approximate reports are faded, with a key; hovering over a
  location says how it was placed, and the CSV exports have a "Location
  Placed By" column.

Changed

• A station's street address beats QRZ's point when the address matches
  a house. QRZ's point can be an old address still set on QRZ, or a rough
  one, and could put a station kilometres away.
• Every location box works the same way. The check-in and report
  Location boxes, the map picker's search (net control, operators, repeaters,
  saved places, the APRS area), and the weather area all take the same
  things: an address, a cross street, a town or ZIP, coordinates in any
  format, a grid square, a mile marker, or a saved place's name. The same
  text lands in the same place wherever it's typed.
• Saving never waits on the internet to place a location. A check-in or
  spotter report is saved at once and lands on the map a few seconds later,
  when the online lookup finds it.
• Locations are read the way people write them: "N.W. 27th Ave",
  "21 st ave", "US-1", "sw 40 st (bird rd)", "corner of …", and bare numbers
  like "152 and 137" all work, and an apartment or unit number or a PO box
  no longer stops an address being found. Search boxes no longer wait up to
  half a minute on the slowest map service, and with no net location,
  searches start from your weather area instead of the whole country.
• More accurate pins. Shorthand like "13700 sw 152 st" is read as
  "Southwest 152nd Street" (it used to land on the wrong street), places are
  searched near your net first (a bare "Main St & 5th" no longer lands in
  another state), and a town's or street's rough centre is marked
  approximate on the map.

Fixed

• Large text and zoom no longer misalign the lists. At a larger text size
  the check-in roster's, contact log's, range check's and spotter reports'
  columns widen with their text, so the Time no longer runs into Traffic or
  Notes (a window too narrow for every column scrolls sideways). The buttons
  above each list wrap whole instead of breaking their words, and Save
  check-in stays on its row.
• Times line up to the second at any zoom. Each list's Local and UTC
  times, and the Time heading, end at the same place on every row, whatever
  the zoom or text size, and so do the clock's two lines at the top right,
  which no longer end the UTC time with a "Z".

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Radio Operations Console v2.6.0

Added

• A fuller SKYWARN summary. A SKYWARN net's summary, and its saved text,
  now give the largest hail and strongest wind reported and how many reports
  came from each county.
• Keep NWS alerts with a SKYWARN net. The Reports tab lists the alerts in
  effect at the net and in your weather area, each once; tick the ones to
  keep. They stay with the net, even after NWS drops them, and are listed in
  its summary with their area and when they were in effect.
• Take a report from the roster. On a SKYWARN net the roster's last
  column is now Traffic & reports: each station's reports are listed beside
  its traffic, and a Report button on every row opens the report form with
  that station filled in and the report linked to that row. A row's traffic
  not yet handled becomes the report's details. It stays open until you tick
  Handled once the report is passed on, as with any traffic.
• Each report is its own line on the roster and ICS 309. A report entered
  on the Spotter Reports tab from a call sign logs a new check-in for that
  station, at the time it's taken, with the report in brief as its traffic
  (open until you tick Handled once it's passed on);
  a station not yet on the roster is looked up and placed on the map as
  usual. To add a report to a check-in already there, use Report on its row.
• One map pin per station per place. A station entered more than once is
  one pin where it stayed put and a new pin where it moved, and the map
  counts stations, not entries. Range checks still show every entry.

Changed

• Dropdowns are the same height as the text boxes beside them, on every
  system, so rows of fields line up. In forms, a short dropdown is at least
  as wide as a short text box.
• Traffic and report details wrap to a second line on the check-in
  roster and the spotter reports list, instead of being cut off after one,
  without making rows taller; longer text ends in "…", with the full text on
  hovering.
• Update all stays put in Settings. The mile-marker roads' Update all is
  on the same line as their name, and no longer moves when the road list or
  its information is opened.
• Clearer Winlink buttons on the ICS 309 and 214: "Save file for Winlink
  (Load Form 309 Data)" and "(Load ICS 214 Data)" name the Winlink button the
  file is for.

Removed

• "Create linked report" under the check-in roster. It only noted in the
  History that a report was made, without making one; Report on a SKYWARN
  net's roster rows does it now.
• The "Weather now" line on a SKYWARN net's Reports tab, to give the reports
  more room. The alerts in effect are in the net's NWS alerts list, the
  Weather tab has the conditions and radar, and the weather as the net starts
  and ends is still recorded in its summary.

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Radio Operations Console v2.5.4

Added

• Correct a check-in's time. Edit on a net check-in has a Time box, so
  when a station checked in can be fixed, during the net or after it ends.

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Radio Operations Console v2.5.3

Added

• macOS support. Builds and runs natively on macOS — no platform-specific
  code changes were needed, just the build/release plumbing. Release builds
  now publish a .dmg alongside the existing Linux and Windows installers,
  as a universal binary covering both Apple Silicon and Intel. See the
  README's "Get it running" section for local build prerequisites.
• Share your repeaters and nets. Export repeaters… (under the Repeaters
  panel) and Export nets… (under the Nets tab) save them to a file to hand to
  other operators, who bring them in with Import. An import shows what it
  will add and only ever adds: anything already there is left as it is. A
  net goes as text alone — its repeater's name and frequency, not a link — so
  whoever imports it can link it to a repeater of their own.
• Delete repeaters and nets for good. Once retired, a repeater or net can
  be deleted from the retired list. Nets on a deleted repeater keep its name
  and frequency as text. The History tab keeps showing the names of deleted
  repeaters, nets, and places.
• Show map from the Summary. The selected activity's Summary on the
  Operations tab has the same Show map as the Check-ins tab, so the check-ins
  can be seen on the map without switching tabs.
• Correct a closed net without reopening it. Check-ins and contacts can
  still be edited, placed on the map, and looked up, traffic marked handled,
  and relayed messages marked passed, after the net has ended. Adding or
  removing anything still needs Reopen.
• Correcting a call sign offers the right station's details. Changing a
  check-in's call sign in Edit looks up the new one and asks whether to use
  its name and location in place of what was looked up for the wrong call.

Fixed

• Long traffic is no longer cut off in the Winlink ICS 309 and ICS 214.
  Traffic longer than the form's line (90 characters on the 309, 100 on the
  214) now runs on to the next line, as on a paper log, instead of being
  shortened with "...", so traffic can be as long as it needs to be.
• A station log's summary no longer shows when it started, ended, or how long
  it has run, which mean little for a log kept open for days.

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Radio Operations Console v2.5.2

Changed

• Radar you can zoom and pan. The Weather tab's radar is now NOAA's live
  radar over the app's own map — zoom in on a storm, pan around, or open it in
  Full view — instead of a fixed animated picture of one radar site. It takes
  the right column, with the alerts moved above the forecast and Now down to
  one line, so there's no Show radar button and no scrolling to see it. It
  loops every scan of the last hour (about 30), saying how old each is
  ("19:42, 4 min ago"), with pause and step back and forward — it starts
  paused if your computer is set to reduce motion — and, left up, picks up new
  scans every five minutes. In Full view, a small strip in the corner keeps
  the play/pause, step, and time. An opacity slider lets the streets show
  through, and the areas of the NWS alerts in effect are outlined — warnings
  in red, watches and advisories in amber.
• Alerts check themselves every five minutes while the Weather tab is
  open, so a new warning appears on its own; the Alerts heading says when they
  were last checked.

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Radio Operations Console v2.5.1

Changed

• Settings fits on one screen, in two columns: Appearance and Online
  services on the left, Offline data and Backup on the right, with one heading
  per panel. Everything saves as you change it — the QRZ and NWS boxes as you
  leave them, with a brief "Saved" — so the Save and Reset buttons are gone.
  Check login tries your QRZ login there and then and says whether it
  worked. Offline data and Storage are now one list: each call-sign file,
  the mile-marker roads (each road under Show roads), map tiles, and safety
  copies on one row with its status, size, and buttons, and the total. "Last
  backed up" is amber if you never have, or not for a month.

• The APRS tab shows stations, not a wall of packets. The heading says
  the area and radius ("APRS — Orlando, FL · 45 mi") with a green Live
  and counts while connected. Beside a map fitted to the radius, each
  station takes two short lines: an icon and kind from its APRS symbol
  (Mobile, Home, Weather, Digipeater, IGate…), when it was last heard, how
  far and which way ("4.2 mi NE"), and its comment — a weather station's
  report in words ("88°F · wind W 12 mph gusting 18 · humidity 78%"). On the
  map each station is one marker, labeled and colored by kind, with a trail
  if it's moving; click a station to find it. Radius choices are in miles,
  and the raw packets are a click away.

Fixed

• Changing your QRZ username or password now takes effect at once; the
  old login's session was being kept until it expired.

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