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v1.453,454 May 14, 2021

  Added default passband adjustment to admin page, config tab.

    As each passband parameter field is changed (low, high, center, width) the other

      fields will be automatically adjusted. So if you know you want a USB filter

      with a low frequency of 300 Hz that is 3300 Hz wide just enter those two fields

      and the high and width values will be derived. An error message will appear if

      you attempt to define an invalid passband.

    The former "CW offset" field has been removed. To set your desired CW offset

      simply set the default passband center frequency of the CW/CWN mode passbands

      to the offset value. E.g. If you want to hear a 1000 Hz tone in the CW modes

      set the passbands to have a 1000 HZ center.

    After the passband is changed on the admin page, existing user connections will have

      to reload the page to get the new passband values.

v1.455,456 May 19, 2021

  Admin page

    Config tab: Added button to reset passband fields to default values.

    Connect tab: Improved proxy setup UI.

  Right-click menu: Added "snap to nearest" mode. Setting is remembered/restored per Kiwi

    visited just like freq/mode etc. Waterfall cursor differs when snap mode active.

    When snap is active the freq step keys (j/i, left/right arrow keys) are modified so

    the ctrl/alt-key steps the smallest amount and the unmodified key steps the same

    amount as the snap (e.g. 9/10 kHz on MW). Usually the unmodified key step the

    smallest amount.

  Changes to more easily support general (even non-SDR) FPGA development.

v1.441 March 15, 2021

  Audio camping bug fixes:

    URL redirect now respects URL camp parameter. More work needed for other cases.

    Audio now plays on Safari.

  Added separate CW AGC threshold control.

    Typically a lower AGC threshold is required for very narrow passband settings to

    avoid low sensitivity. Since narrow passbands are most often associated with the

    CW/CWN modes it was decided to add a separate AGC threshold control active only in

    those modes. The original threshold control applies to all other modes.

    The two are stored in their own separate browser cookies.

  Fixed bugs in the Audio FFT display (the one that appears in 8-channel mode when more

  than two channels are busy, or if the URL "no_wf" parameter is given):

    The LSB passband is drawn in the same place as the actual FTT output.

    The FFT display bins were flipped to be correct (i.e. low vs high frequency).

    Autoscale mode works better than before.

  Disabled compression ("comp") button in DRM/SAS/QAM modes since it has no meaning

    and effect in these modes.

  Fixed shift-click in SWBC bands not selecting nearest 5 kHz boundary.

  Fix long audio latency on browsers that display "Click to start OpenWebRX" overlay.

v1.700 September 17, 2024

  User interface:

    Adjusting the passband edges should now work in most cases on mobile devices.

    If it doesn't remember that there are other ways to adjust the passband including sliders

    on the audio tab.

    When adjusting the passband edges if the cursor wanders above or below the frequency scale

    adjustment will continue to work. However the tooltip displaying the passband numeric

    values continues to only appear when the cursor is positioned over the passband edge.

    Remember that you can only adjust the edges when zoomed in far enough that the passband

    color is green instead of yellow.

    On narrow screen devices top bar now scrolls horizontally so all items can be accessed.

    Mobile devices: sliding the passband to the screen edges causes the frequency scale to pan.

    FT8/WSPR:

      Added QO-100 satellite frequencies to extension and autorun menus.

      Added FT8/WSPR V/UHF DX label entries to community database.

    When the frequency offset is setup for operation with a greater than 1 GHz downconverter

    the frequency entry box overflows due to the extra digit(s) displayed. There wasn't really

    a good solution for this. Except that now if the cursor starts out inside the box the

    keyboard left/right arrow keys will scroll left/right across the digits. As opposed to

    tuning the current frequency as the left/right arrow keys normally do.

    ALE extension:

      Added "UN MINURSO" to milcom frequency list. (thanks M0HGK)

      Added "MOROCCAN AF/Civil/Police/Navy" services to milcom frequency list. (thanks Mark W)

  Admin interface:

    The top bar (tab selection) and any status/error messages are now fixed at the top of the

    page and no longer participate in any scrolling. This eliminates, for example, the page

    "jumping back" to the top when you change a setting that requires a restart.

    Config tab:

      New menu "Frequency scale presets" has some pre-defined values that automatically puts

      the correct entry in the "Frequency scale offset" field. For example, the menu entry

      "144 => 28 (2m)" puts the value 116000 in the offset field which would map 144-148 MHz

      to 28-32 MHz (assuming 32 MHz mode selected). We can add to this menu as necessary.

    Network tab:

      Better user interface behavior during "DHCP/static" and "Auto add NAT" changes.

    Extensions tab:

      WSPR option "Log spot debug info?" now produces a correct debug message in the log.

      For example, WSPR UPLOAD: wsprnet.org said: "1 out of 1 spot(s) added"

  Admin config tab: (thanks Tremolat, G8JNJ, Ben, et al)

    New checkbox "Show user names to user connections". When checked will show "(private)" in

    place of usual user name displayed in the user tab of the main control panel. The user name

    is still shown on the admin status tab and /users URL query.

    New "initial value" menus for audio compression, display setup and option bar.

    (thanks HB9TMC, N6GN)

    By special request: Checkbox below WF cal slider to disable the automatic correction

    that is applied to the WF-min slider (3 dB per zoom step). It is not recommended that you

    set this option as it causes undesirable results. But it also provides a good learning

    opportunity why 3 dB correction is needed every time the WF bandwidth changes by 2x.

    Think SSB vs CW filters and why a narrower filter has a lower noise floor.

  Admin webpage and public tabs: (thanks ZL2LD)

    In an effort to simplify things there has been a general rearrangement and elimination of

    duplicate fields on the webpage and public tabs:

    1) The lat/lon, grid square and altitude fields have been removed from the public tab.

    When publicly registering a Kiwi these values are now taken from the webpage tab where they

    were duplicated. So there is now only one place where you need to set these values.

    See below for an explanation of the new "continuous update" feature.

    2) The admin email and antenna fields have moved to the webpage tab where they more

    properly belong.

    3) There remain two separate "location (name)" fields on the webpage and public tabs.

    Because you may want different location content to appear on the user page top bar

    versus what's displayed on your rx.kiwisdr.com public listing.

  Marine mobile grid square and lat/lon tracking: (thanks S50SVM/MM)

    All of the lat/lon and grid square fields now have the ability to be continuously updated

    by the GPS. So this includes the fields on the admin webpage tab as well as the FT8 and WSPR

    extension tabs. Previously this only existed for the WSPR tab. Although all the grid and

    lat/lon fields had (and continue to have) a button to do a one-time update from GPS.

    Setting continuous update will cause the values displayed on the user page top bar,

    rx.kiwisdr.com public listing, /staus query etc to update as the GPS returns a new location.

    In addition the updated values are used for FT8 and WSPR spots.

    For FT8/WSPR autorun when continuous update is active the grid is added to all the user

    lists where the decode count is shown. So for example in the user tab the previous

    "(N decoded)" becomes "(N decoded, GRID)". And when preemption is enabled for an autorun

    "(N decoded, preemptable)" becomes "(N decoded, GRID, pre)".

  SNR measurement:

    Measuring SNR on-demand will now work even though the periodic "SNR measurement interval"

    setting on the admin control tab is set to "disable". On-demand means the "Measure SNR now"

    button on the admin control tab or use of the "/snr?meas" control URL.

  Fixed the anti-HFDL monitoring countermeasure so it does not exclude the 80m ham band.

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v1.683 May 30, 2024

  Antenna switch: Fixed problems with Arduino Netshield backend script. (thanks N8OOU)

  CAT interface: Removed newline characters (\r\n) from end of each transmitted CAT string

  because it was reported to cause problems with some CAT software. (thanks DF6DBF)

  DX community database: UNID FSK signal at 61.84 is Inskip GBR. (thanks HB9TMC)

  Added entries to satellite table for Galileo gsat0227 and gsat0225 launched 2024-04-28 and

  currently under commissioning. (thanks F4FPR)

  We have now formally purchased a license to use the Kiwi logo from Hayes Roberts at

  bluebison.net. Previously we had an informal agreement with Hayes where he allowed us to use

  the logo provided we always included the domain text "bluebison.net" wherever the logo was used.

  By purchasing a licence we can now remove the text and make uses of the logo look a bit cleaner.

  Big thanks to Hayes for giving the KiwiSDR its logo identity recognized by SDR enthusiasts

  around the world.

v1.439,440 March 14, 2021

  Channel queuing and camping:

    When all the Kiwi channels are busy(*) it is now possible to enter a queue to wait

    for the next available channel. The queue is FIFO and multiple parties can

    occupy the queue (your queue order will be shown).

    If all channels are busy you can also now "camp" on an existing connection and

    hear the audio of that channel. The only adjustment is to change the audio volume.

    Otherwise you experience all the changes performed by the owner of the channel

    (tuning, mode, etc).

    You can also be in the queue waiting for your own channel while camping.

    It is possible to use camping even if free channels are available by connecting

    using the URL parameter "camp", e.g. my_kiwi:8073/?camp

    You might want to do this if you know there is already a connection you want to

    camp on, but there are also free channels you don't want to unnecessarily occupy.

    In theory camping requires only slightly more resources because the audio stream

    is simply being duplicated and sent to the camper's network connection.

    The Kiwi admin can configure the maximum number of campers allowed, including zero.

    Later on we can look at adding audio-related features to camping that only require

    browser/javascript resources, hence place no additional load on the Kiwi server

    (e.g. S-meter, recording, audio FFT waterfall/spectrum display).

    These changes are complex and will no doubt have bugs and corner cases to fix.

    (*) or unavailable due to password protection on those Kiwis that have split

    public/private channels.

  Added C-QUAM AM stereo mode to SAM mode button which now cycles as: SAM/SAL/SAU/SAS/QAM

    Based on the work of Github user MaPePeR, see: github.com/jks-prv/Beagle_SDR_GPS/issues/395

    Remember that alt-click will toggle the mode buttons backwards, e.g.

    alt-click on SAM wraps back to QAM (faster than clicking forward on SAM 4 times).

    The same applies to the keyboard shortcut: shift-A is SAM mode forward to SAL

    alt-shift-A is SAM backward to QAM.

  Apply ITU region selection to band display (e.g. 40m ham band now stops at 7.2M for R1)

    It is possible this change will cause problems if extensive customization of

    the kiwi.config/config.js file has been made by the user. Please let us know if

    this happens to you.