v 1.8.4.0
Display 1-8 Satellites At Once.
New InfoBar Page: Earthquake Info (Shortcut: IQ).
New InfoBar Page: Map Markers (Shortcut: IR).
New InfoBar SubPage: PskReporter > Best Frequency.
Plot PskReporter Grid Squares.
Fixed Weather-Data Download Bug.
New Layers Menu Window (Shortcut: LM).
Fixed Layers Menu positioning-bug.
New Layer-Groups Window (Shortcut: LG).
PskReporter Params moved to Settings.
PskReporter Layer now shows live MQTT Feed data.
Settings Option: Maximize Map at Startup.
Settings Option: Show InfoBar at Startup.
Fixed Marker Creation Bug.
Simplified process of Marker-Creation.
Some programs show lots of satellites, but I never wanted the screen of the 'Time Mapper UHD' to be too crowded, especially if we are showing the satellite footprints and leading/trailing tracks as well. The intention is that what is showing should always be useful. However, I have had requests for more than one satellite, so after some experimentation, I have increased the number to eight. Configuration is done from 'Settings Menu > Satellites'. Choose a Group of satellites in the upper-control, then click a satellite in the list on the left. Click the 'Add Satellite' button to add it to the 'Selected Satellites' list - these are the ones that are chosen to plot on the map, though you can turn off the plotting of a specific satellite by clicking its 'Active' box. Click a Selected Satellite name to see its parameters on the right. There are now 10 icons to choose from, and more minute-values for the Leading and Trailing Tracks. If you want to see more information about the satellites, you should also view the Satellite InfoBar page, by typing the shortcut 'IG'. You can choose to see a rotation of all the available satellites by typing the shortcut 'SA', or lock it on a particular one (if available) by typing 'S1'-'S8'. If locked on a particular one, you will get a change of display when the satellite is overhead, with an arrow pointing to the current satellite-azimuth.
New InfoBar page: although there was a certain amount of Earthquake information in the 'Map Legend (IB)', there was more that I could show. The new page 'Earthquake Info (IQ)' has a color-key for the Magnitude of each earthquake, plus a reminder of the currently selected option, and then a list of the most powerful earthquakes, with extra information on each one.
New InfoBar page: I thought that it would be useful to show more information on the Map-Markers, even if their map-layer is not showing. This InfoBar page lists a variety of information about each Map-Marker: name, position, Grid Locator, Time Zone, Local Time, UTC Dawn, UTC Sunrise, UTC Postrise, UTC Preset, UTC Sunset, UTC Solar Midnight, UTC Moon Rise, UTC Moon Set, current Sun Altitude, Sun Azimuth, Total Daylight, and the Direction and Distance of the Marker from the User Location. (Map-Markers are added and edited in the 'Settings Menu > Markers' page.) I'd like to hear how you are using Map Markers - please email me.
New InfoBar SubPage: PskReporter > Best Frequency. Not a new page, but a sub-page inserted in to the carousel of other sub-pages of information about the 'PSK Reporter' layer, which plots data about real-time digital QSOs, courtesy of Philip Gladstone (N1DQ). As well as the feeds of QSO details, he provides a service to tell you which is the 'best frequency' to listen on to hear PSK31 traffic in your grid square at the current time. This is useful if you leave your radio unattended, yet controlled by software. If there is insufficient data, then no frequency will be returned.
The Weather-Data Download Bug caused a program-crash from time to time, as a database was being written to at the same time as it was being read. If you get a crash, please tell me about it, so that I can fix the problem.
The Layers Menu Window (Shortcut: LM) has had a major re-write to make it easier to use, and faster to operate. Rather than a long list of Map-Layers, which might not fit on some screens, the layers are now shown by 'Class'. Click a 'Map Layer Class' to show the layers that it contains, then check the box next to its name to add it to the stack of layers that are currently being plotted on the map. The 'stack' is now shown on the right of the window, in the order that they will be plotted. You can move then up or down, too. Clicking on a layer in the stack also loads its Class on the left, meaning that it is quicker to see or adjust a layer's Style Settings: Point, Line, Label, or its Additional Layer Features.
When you have chosen a variety of Map-Layers to plot on the map, it might be useful to store them as a named 'Group', so that they can be easily selected on a different occasion, rather than having to reload and position them individually via the 'Layers Menu'. I have therefore added a new 'LayerGroups' button to the Controls Panel that opens the new 'Layer-Groups' Window that does just that. Not only does it remember which layers are to show on the map, but their plotting order. It can also save the state of the InfoBar and DataBar in the named Group.
The PSK Reporter layer has also had a major re-write. Although the Style settings for the Layer: Points, Lines, and Labels are still set from the 'Layers Menu'Layers Menu, as you'd expect, the other settings have been moved to their own page in the 'Settings Menu'. These settings include: Callsign, ADIF Entity, Grid Square, Time Period, Band, and Mode, that are used to create Topic Filters to limit the reports that are plotted on the map. Rather than display historical data from the PSK Reporter website, I now use live data from an MQTT Feed supplied by Tom Fanning (M0LTE). This does not overload the PSK Reporter website API, as my previous code might have done.
I have added two extra Startup-Options, which are acceseed from the 'Settings Menu > User' sub-page: you can now choose to have the program-window in a maximized state at program-startup, and to show the Info Bar at program-startup. The page that the InfoBar will show is the one that it was last showing at program-close. Note that you cannot choose which monitor of a multi-monitor setup the program will start in.
Fixed a bug in the Marker Creation code, which caused a permanent program-error if you tried to create a new Map-Marker from within the Settings Menu. I also re-wrote the Create New Marker code to make it a bit easier to create a new Marker. Don't forget that you can also create a new Map-Marker by right-clicking the map at the place where you want the new marker, and selecting the option 'Add Map Marker at this Position'. A new Marker will be created. You should then go to the 'Settings Menu' and edit the values to suit.