release v.20.5

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Features:

• ✨✨ new messenger modulations available in menu MsgMod ✨✨
  • FSK 450 - for bad conditions
  • FSK 700 - for medium conditions
  • AFSK 1.2K - for good conditions
• new messenger menu options:
  • MsgEnc - determines whether outgoing messages will be encrypted
  • MsgRx - determines whether fsk modem will listen for new messages
  • MsgAck - determines whether the radio will automatically respond to messages with ACK

Fixes:

• FSK audio mute will be disabled when listening to CTCSS enabled channels (if it causes more random mutes, it will be disabled completely, it can now also be disabled with ENABLE_MESSENGER_FSK_MUTE Makefile flag)
• slightly lowered FSK TX deviation for 25k bandwidth

release v.20.4

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Fixes:

• fix #111 false positive message rx
• fix #116 Triggering the 1750 Hz tone by pressing PTT+Fn2 also triggers actions

release v.20.3

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Fixes:

• fix: messenger long message ack display
• fix: ENABLE_MESSENGER_UART Makefile flag by @cb1986ster by importing appropriate changes from @spm81

Changes:

• acked messages display + sign at the beginning of the message line, instead of the end of the line

release v.20.2.1

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Fixes:

• fix #118 audio stops randomly

release v.20.2

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Fixes:

• fix #68 mic on during messenger tx
• fix #114 backlight switched to high if you scroll down through settings
• fix: messenger only ACK message and encrypted message packets
• fix: enc key initialization after boot
• fix: spectrum auto frequency step was wrong when frequency spectrum was entered for the first time after boot
• other minor fixes and adjustments to messenger

Changes:

• RP STE menu item removed (undocumented functionality that didn't work anyway)

release v.20.1

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Features:

• spectrum attenuate, blacklist, normalize functions are now available in
  • channel mode
  • frequency mode
  • scan range mode
• there were a lot of confusion even for me with the different keybindings across different spectrum modes, so now key bindings are unified across all spectrum modes:
  • KEY FN1 blacklist
  • KEY FN2 attenuate
  • KEY 2 normalize
  • KEY 8 toggle backlight
• attenuate usage has been simplified so now it can be applied anytime to current peak bar
• spectrum attenuate, blacklist, normalize modifiers reset if we switch spectrum modes

Changes

• spectrum attenuate function doesn't work when there are more than 128x samples, so it cannot be activated in such case to prevent errors
• spectrum frequency change step adjustment with KEY 2 and KEY 8 has been removed and is now always auto-adjusted to half a spectrum bandwidth, and its display have been replaced with status indicators for blacklist and attenuate functions

Fixes:

• fixed messenger to work reliably with all the channel bandwidths
  • deviations for all the channel bandwidths have been calibrated
• 🎉 fix #106 by a new developer @T1MOXA who found the bug and submitted the first contributor pull request for this project 🎉

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🎉 Also shout out to @ErikS-web, who is doing a great job working on the Wiki! 🎉

release v.20

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Features:

• ✨✨ new ChaCha20 256 bit encryption for the messenger ✨✨
  • allows sending and receiving encrypted messages
  • new EncKey menu item
  • for more details please see the encryption
  • if you are testing with two radios locally make sure:
    • TX on LOW power
    • use 25k bandwidth
    • make sure there is at least 1 meter distance between two devices

Fixes:

• issue #68 fixed

release v.19.10

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Fixes:

• fixed #90 DUAL WATCH RESPOND not responding on the right frequency
• radio transmitted 1kHz tone if screen was dimmed (reported by LordVertice at egzumer#405)
• memory channel copy to VFO was bugged, when PTT pressed it transmitted on a different frequency
• fixed #86 by importing @egzumer fix

release v.19.9

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Fixes:

• fix AM audio clipping in spectrum bug introduced in v.19.4
  • the sticky squelch solution was resetting the AGC during RX, so the audio was overloaded each time the AGC was reset
• #76 - remove beep on startup option
• add slight delay to spectrum RSSI read during active RX to save battery life
• charging indicator turned off, as it doesn't work anyway

release v.19.8

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Features

• ✨✨ new spectrum channel mode attenuate function ✨✨
  • sometimes there is a channel that has some interference, opening squelch randomly etc., before we had to either blacklist such channel or move the squelch threshold line higher, with this feature we can just attenuate particular channel
  • in order to use it press F2 when RX is on, it will apply attenuation to the currently listened channel
• ✨✨ new spectrum channel mode indicators ✨✨
  • BL - blacklist applied indicator
  • ATT - attenuation applied indicator
  • N(0x) - normalization function applied indicator
• screen auto-adjusts after normalization function has been applied

Changes

• key assignment changes in spectrum channel mode:
  • KEY 2 normalization function toggle
  • KEY 8 backlight toggle

Fixes

• fixed normalize function toggle to work more reliably (previous release fix)