This month was focused primarily on preparation for and attending Orlando HamCation (more information about our experience at that event here). However, there were some improvements made to the FreeDV application in the meantime:
- The official 80/160 meter calling frequencies were tweaked based on user input to better fit with the Japanese band plan.
- Fixed an issue preventing suppression of the User Message tooltip for shorter messages in the FreeDV Reporter window.
- Fixed an issue causing the User Message column to randomly change sizes on user connection and disconnection.
- Tweaked the SNR display in the main window to only show whole numbered SNRs (i.e. no decimals). This was done to make it more obvious that slow/fast SNR calculations were occurring.
- Updated Hamlib in the macOS and Windows builds to 4.6.2. As part of that, loading the Hamlib supported radios was also changed to prevent issues with the names changing during runtime.
- The “short” timeout for RX display in FreeDV Reporter was lengthened to five seconds to reduce flickering in the FreeDV Reporter window.
- The ezDV implementation of FreeDV Reporter support was adapted for freedv-gui to eliminate a dependency on the sioclient-cpp library. This also has the effect of fixing issues with users being unable to reconnect if the FreeDV Reporter server goes down (or if there are network issues causing the connection to drop).
More information can be found in the commit history below:
(Note that all commit logs above were generated with the following command line:)
git log --author="member@email" --after "Month 1, 2025" --before "Month 31, 2025" --all > commit.log