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Radio Operations Console v2.8.0

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@github-actions github-actions released this 14 Oct 03:24

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.

Download

See the assets below for your platform:

  • Linux: .deb (Debian/Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora/RHEL), or .AppImage (runs on most distributions)
  • Windows: .msi or the .exe (NSIS) installer
  • macOS: .dmg (one universal build, works on Apple Silicon and Intel)

Windows, Linux, and macOS builds come from the same source. Windows installers are not code-signed,
so Windows may warn ("Unknown publisher" / SmartScreen) before you can run one; macOS is not
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.