Docker final stage bakes BUILD_TIMESTAMP into /app/BUILD_TIMESTAMP via
build-arg (only consumed after mix compile, so earlier layer caching is
preserved). Application.build_timestamp/0 reads the file, falls back to
DEPLOY_TIMESTAMP env, then to compile time. Navbar renders a compact
"Deployed Xm ago" with the full UTC time in the tooltip.
Implements the subset of the isitagentready.com checklist that maps to
real capabilities of this site:
- RFC 8288 Link headers on every browser response advertising
service-doc (/algo), about, privacy-policy, and sitemap.
- Markdown-for-Agents content negotiation: requests with
Accept: text/markdown for / or /algo return real markdown
(curated summary + verbatim algo.md) with x-markdown-tokens hint.
Other paths still 406 — no synthesizing markdown from LiveView HTML.
- Content-Signal directive in robots.txt declaring
search=yes, ai-train=no, ai-input=no.
- RFC 9727 API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog with the sole
public endpoint (/api/contacts/map) linking status -> /health and
service-desc -> /openapi.json (a new minimal OpenAPI 3.0 spec).
- Agent Skills Discovery index at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
listing two skill documents (fetch-contacts, read-algorithm) with
sha256 digests computed at compile time; documents served at
/.well-known/agent-skills/{name}/SKILL.md.
Skipped (don't match actual site capabilities): Web Bot Auth JWKS,
OAuth/OIDC discovery, MCP server card.
Band toggles previously roundtripped through LiveView and rebuilt every
polyline + popup + hover handler on each click. Now the hook builds one
L.LayerGroup per band once after the initial fetch; toggling is just
addLayer/removeLayer on the map (O(bands), not O(contacts)). Checkbox
and All/None events are handled directly in the hook via delegated
document listeners — no LV roundtrip. Callsign filter still roundtrips
(debounced) since it's cross-cutting, and now iterates pre-built
polylines without recreating them.
The detail page was hard-coding GHz formatting, so 50/144/222/432/902
rendered as 0.1/0.4/0.9 GHz instead of the MHz labels every amateur
operator actually uses. Switch to MHz when band < 1000, keep GHz for
microwave bands.
Also surface band and mode in the header subtitle so the key QSO
metadata is visible before SRTM/terrain enrichment completes (the
elevation-profile block that previously rendered them is gated on
that enrichment).
Both workers had unique: [period: 300] which only dedupes within a
5-minute window. Re-running the enrichment-enqueue script hours or
days later stacked identical jobs in the available queue — we found
~60k redundant weather + 3k redundant hrrr jobs in prod from the
March and April enqueue passes.
:infinity means Oban dedupes against every live job in the states
list regardless of age, so a second enqueue pass is a no-op as long
as the first pass's jobs haven't completed yet.
Vendors canvas-confetti 1.9.3 and wires an ImportConfetti hook on the
alert-success banner that /imports/:id already renders when
run.status == "complete". The hook uses the "realistic look" preset
from confetti.js.org and runs on mount, so it fires exactly once —
when the banner first appears.
apply_valid_rows only matched {:ok, _} and {:error, %Changeset{}}, so when
Radio.create_contact returned {:error, :duplicate, existing} — the race
window where preview flagged a row as new but another writer inserts the
same contact before the worker picks up the chunk — the reduce callback
crashed with FunctionClauseError. Oban retried the chunk, rolling back
the Postgrex transaction and surfacing the DBConnection errors the
operator was seeing.
Treat :duplicate as a silent skip: the row is already in the DB, there
is nothing to insert, and the counter should not double-count the existing
contact as an error either.
SubmitLive now hands off to the async pipeline:
- confirm_csv/confirm_adif → CsvImport.enqueue/2 → push_navigate to
/imports/:id. ADIF preview shape matches CSV, so one enqueue call
serves both.
- allow_upload(auto_upload: false) so bytes only stream when the user
clicks submit. Progress bar + percentage now gated on
entry.progress > 0 and < 100 — invisible during file selection,
only rendered while the actual upload is in-flight.
- Old in-page csv_results / @csv_result / reset_csv removed; the
/imports/:id page replaces them.
New ImportLive at /imports/🆔 subscribes to 'csv_import:<id>' PubSub,
shows total/processed/imported/refined/error counters in a daisyUI
stats grid, progress bar, status badge, and a collapsed errors table
when error_count > 0. Missing or malformed run_id redirects to /submit
with a flash.
7 new frontend tests (5 ImportLive, 2 updated SubmitLive), 1902 total,
credo clean.
For large CSVs (e.g. the 34k-row ARRL dump), the synchronous commit
path blocked for minutes and a crash mid-commit left no audit trail.
Refactor to run inserts + enrichment enqueues via Oban.
- New import_runs table: stores preview rows + running counters (total,
processed, imported, refined, error) + status + errors map + timing.
- New :contact_import Oban queue (limit 4) + ContactImportWorker.
Args: {import_run_id, offset, limit}. Each chunk (100 rows) inserts
its slice via CsvImport.commit_rows/1, atomically increments counters
in one update_all, flips status, and broadcasts progress on
'csv_import:<id>' PubSub topic.
- CsvImport.commit_rows/1 extracted from commit/1 (back-compat preserved).
New CsvImport.enqueue/2 persists the run + dispatches N chunk jobs.
Also: submit page copy updated from '902 MHz and up' to '50 MHz and up'
matching the band allowlist expansion done earlier.
LiveView UI for /imports/:id is a separate commit.
57,186 prod contacts stored pos1/pos2 with 'lng'; 1,133 used 'lon'.
Every Elixir caller carried a `pos["lon"] || pos["lng"]` fallback
— which just caused a SQL widget to silently miscount 98% of contacts
(count_narr_done used `pos1->>'lon'` directly, no fallback, so every
lng-keyed row returned NULL and failed the coverage check).
- Migration rewrites every pos1/pos2 JSONB in place, renaming 'lng' to
'lon' and dropping 'lng'.
- Removes all 20+ `|| pos["lng"]` fallbacks across lib/, workers,
scorer, weather, radio.ex, contact show view, and recalibrator.
- lib_ml/propagation_analyze.ex SQL now reads pos1->>'lon' directly
(was reading 'lng' only, which would have broken after migration).
- priv/repo/import_contacts.exs one-time seed script now emits 'lon'
with string keys, matching production shape.
- Test fixtures in 4 test files normalized to 'lon'.
- Two lng-characterization tests deleted — nonsensical post-normalize.
- Updated notebook + old import_weather script to match.
- JS hook contact_map_hook.ts TypeScript type narrowed to 'lon'.
Visitor geolocation already flows via the Cloudflare CF-IPLatitude /
CF-IPLongitude headers into the session; MapLive centers the map on
the visitor's location (or DFW as fallback). Add a banner that appears
above the map when those coords are outside the CONUS bbox
(lat 24.5-49.5, lon -125 to -66.5), letting overseas visitors know
propagation data won't be available at their location yet.
Map still centers on the visitor's actual location — this is a note,
not a re-center. Banner is fully absent from the DOM when not needed
(:if conditional).
parse_cdo_row/1 assumed cdo -outputtab,code,lev,value would always emit
numeric codes in the first column, but Debian's cdo 2.5.1 (the version
in the prod container) emits mixed output:
- 'codeNN' with a literal 'code' prefix for most GRIB1 parameters
- Short GRIB1 names for a few: 2tag2 (PRES sfc), saip (DPT 2m),
tpag10 (HGT)
Result: every row fell through to :error, yielding a 'no parseable
values' error and 986 discarded NarrFetchWorker jobs.
Fix: normalize the code token by stripping 'code' prefix when present
and mapping known 2.5.1 short names. UGRD/VGRD intentionally omitted
(no discard evidence yet) — comment documents the add-when-they-surface
plan.
Also exposed parse_cdo_outputtab/1 as @doc false for testability.
count_narr_done/0 checked narr_profiles.valid_time within qso_timestamp
± 30 min — but NARR analyses live at 3-hour marks (00Z/03Z/.../21Z) and
NarrClient.snap_to_analysis_hour/1 floors qso_timestamp to the previous
mark before fetching. A QSO at 18:50Z snaps to 18:00Z on the fetcher
side; the profile stored at 18:00Z fell outside the widget's [18:20,
19:20] window, so the status page showed 6/208 done when actual
coverage was 208/208.
Fix: use equality against the Postgres equivalent of the snap
(date_trunc('hour', ts) - make_interval(hours => hour % 3)).
Comment cites NarrClient.snap_to_analysis_hour/1 so future changes keep
them in sync.
Backtest branch's unknown-feature guard was dead code: the if block's
{:error, _} return was discarded and execution fell through, running the
backtest with a just-created atom and writing a report for nonsense
features. Two compounding issues:
- function_exported?/3 returns false for modules not yet loaded in the
BEAM, so even valid feature names triggered the warning path on a
cold VM.
- String.to_atom/1 on caller-supplied strings created unbounded atoms.
Fix: Code.ensure_loaded?(Features) before the check, String.to_existing_atom/1
with rescue (Features exports __info__(:functions) so every valid function
atom already exists), and an explicit early return via a with pipeline so
the error tuple actually leaves the worker.
FreshnessMonitor's comment claimed 'Oban unique constraint on
PropagationGridWorker prevents duplicates' — but the worker declared
no unique: option. During a long outage the monitor's 5-min stale-check
tick would pile up identical jobs (a 2h outage = 24 stacked jobs, each
doing the full f00-f18 HRRR chain).
Put the dedup on the worker (vs. the monitor's insert call) so anything
enqueuing it benefits — FreshnessMonitor, the hourly cron, or a manual
mix propagation_grid run.
unique: [period: 3600, states: [:available, :scheduled, :executing,
:retryable]] aligns with the hourly cron cadence. The seed job args
(%{}) collapse with themselves while chain-step jobs keep distinct
run_time/forecast_hour and remain enqueuable.
build_messages_per_message/3 was slicing the wgrib2 -lola bin output as
a packed float32 stream, ignoring the 4-byte record-length header + 4-byte
trailer that Fortran unformatted records prepend/append around each
message's data block. First value of message 0 came back as ~2.24e-44
(little-endian float32 of the int-16 record length), and every subsequent
message was shifted by 8 bytes so values spilled into neighbouring cells.
Fix: propagate the correct offset math already used by parse_lola_binary/3
(record_overhead = 8, stride = bytes_per_message + 8, data_offset =
msg_idx * stride + 4).
Flipped the characterization test from metadata-only to per-cell physical
asserts (200 K < TMP, DPT < 340 K; DPT <= TMP) and a 0.01 K cross-check
against extract_grid/3 output on the same fixture + bbox. Latent bug —
no production callers of extract_grid_messages*.
Same fix as rtma_client: MrmsClient had a hardcoded req_options/0 —
switched to a Keyword.merge with Application.get_env so tests can stub
HTTP. 13 new characterization tests: cache put/get/clear/broadcast and
worker listing/download/up-to-date paths. Full GRIB2 parse happy path
deferred to the wgrib2 coverage task.
RtmaClient was the only weather client without a Req.Test plug seam —
added the standard req_options() helper matching NarrClient/HrrrClient/
etc. so its HTTP calls can be stubbed in test.
17 characterization tests: URL construction, idx fetch 404/503, hour
truncation, malformed idx, range-GET error propagation, worker's
existing-row short-circuit, client-error propagation. GRIB2 byte
parsing paths deferred to the wgrib2 coverage task.
Status page NARR progress counted `hrrr_status = :unavailable` as the
candidate set, which swept in ~13.6K post-2014 HRRR retry rows and
showed "0 / 13,652". Candidate eligibility is qso_timestamp-based, not
hrrr_status-based — switch both the numerator and denominator to
`qso_timestamp < NarrClient.coverage_end()` so pre-2014 rows are
counted whether their hrrr_status is :queued, :unavailable, or
:complete.
ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker: short-circuit hrrr_points_for_contact/1
for pre-coverage timestamps and mark the contact :unavailable when no
HRRR jobs are built. Was producing a ping-pong where reconcile flipped
pre-2014 :queued → :unavailable and the same cron run flipped it back
to :queued from a rebuilt HRRR job that could never land data.
Makes the 'always recompute' intent explicit by removing the dead-code
short-circuit in add_distance_change — the candidate query already
requires at least one nil pos, so any previously stored distance is
tied to a stale grid/pos pair and must be overwritten.
10K+ HRRR-pending contacts were starving the 200-ish NARR candidates
out of the 500 per-run slot each 30 min because NARR candidates sort
last by the :hrrr_status priority. Drop the cap so every eligible
contact gets enqueued on each cron run; queue concurrency still paces
the actual fetches. Worker keeps supporting an explicit "limit" arg
for ad-hoc runs and tests.
The US 9cm amateur allocation was cut from 3300-3500 to 3300-3450 MHz
in 2020, so 3456 (the legacy weak-signal calling frequency) is no
longer in-band. Move the canonical key to 3400, migrate existing
contacts, and keep 3456 input resolving to 3400 via the
nearest-band snap so historical ADIF/CSV logs still import cleanly.
Expands submittable-contact bands to include 6m, 2m, 1.25m, and 70cm
(as 432 rather than the old 440 placeholder). Each new band gets an
explicit allocation window in BandResolver.nearest_band so ADIF FREQ
fields near the amateur allocations resolve correctly while 60-900 MHz
frequencies outside those windows are still rejected. Microwave
(>= 900 MHz) snapping is unchanged — nearest-band match across the
full @allowed_bands list.
Also adds BandConfig entries for 50 and 222 (tropo-only config, same
pattern as 144/432). Sporadic-E / F2 / meteor scatter modeling is not
yet in scope — ionosphere data is only used to compute an Es readout
on /path for 50/144/222/432.
Safety net for rows that land via direct DB writes (manual fixes, bulk
imports) and bypass Radio.create_contact's grid-resolution requirement.
Runs every hour on the :admin queue with a 500-row per-invocation cap.
Fills whichever side resolves — if one grid is invalid, the other still
gets populated; distance_km is only written when both positions end up
set.
Widen dedup match to 4-char grid prefix so an upload with a longer grid
(e.g. FN42aa25) finds the existing FN42 contact. Within a match, classify
as a refinement when the upload strictly extends the existing grid or
fills a missing mode; as a contradiction (still skipped) when grids or
modes genuinely disagree. Refinements flow through a new preview bucket,
update the existing row in place, and re-enqueue enrichment when the
position changed.
The /contacts LiveTable export produces a 12-column CSV with label-style
headers (Station 1 / Grid 1 / QSO (UTC) / ...) in a different column
order plus extras (id, distance_km, hrrr_status, flagged_invalid,
inserted_at). The old positional import rejected it with "expected 6 or
7 columns, got 12".
Replace the positional parser with header-driven mapping:
- Parse the header row, normalize each cell (downcase + trim), and look
it up in an alias map that covers both the raw field names and the
export labels.
- Required columns: station1, station2, grid1, grid2, band, qso_timestamp
(mode stays optional). If any are missing the header, return
{:error, {:missing_required_columns, [...]}}.
- Unknown columns are silently ignored so the export's extras don't break
round-trip.
- Per-row validation stays the same (changeset errors still reported by
row number).
Existing 6- or 7-column positional CSVs that already have a header still
work — the header parser recognizes `station1`, `station2`, etc.
directly.
Prod cdo 2.5.1 (Debian) emits named shortnames (tpag10, 2tag2, saip, code11…)
where cdo 2.6.0 (Mac) emits var11/var33/etc. The parser only recognized
varNN, so every prod NARR fetch failed with "no parseable values in cdo
output" and all 350 in-flight jobs discarded.
Switch cdo args from `-outputtab,name,lev,value` to `-outputtab,code,...`.
cdo then outputs the raw numeric NCEP GRIB1 parameter code regardless of
version, and @cdo_code_to_name maps that integer to the semantic name we
already use downstream (TMP/HGT/SPFH/…).
Verified by reproducing on both a 2010 NARR file (fixture) and a 2007 file
fetched live — both now emit identical numeric code rows.
Prod hit "no parseable values in cdo output" for a 2007 record.
Without the actual cdo output it's guesswork whether it's a different
parameter-table format, an empty result, or something else. Capture
stderr (stderr_to_stdout: true) and include first 500 chars of output
so the error message has enough signal to diagnose.
Post-2014 contacts with hrrr_status=:unavailable were being dispatched to
NARR, which 404s because NCEI's archive ends 2014-10-02. 14K of the 14.3K
candidates in prod are post-2014 — these are HRRR's responsibility.
- NarrClient.in_coverage?/1 returns true only inside 1979-01-01 → 2014-10-02
- narr_jobs_for_contact and maybe_enqueue_narr (contact_live) bail out of
coverage returning []
- BackfillEnqueueWorker.type_filter scopes :narr to qso_timestamp <
coverage_end so the cron doesn't keep picking post-2014 candidates
- /status progress bar, status-by-type card, and internal map keys now
read "NARR" (data-progress-key="narr", narr_candidates/narr_done).
era5_profiles table stays as the DB landing spot (historical artifact).
- BackfillEnqueueWorker cron now passes "era5" in types so pre-2014
contacts whose hrrr_status is :unavailable actually get NarrFetchWorker
jobs enqueued every 30 min. The :era5 type key still maps internally
to NarrFetchWorker via era5_jobs_for_contact/1.
After the NARR backfill landed, nothing reachable from the app calls
any of these modules. Net removal: ~2700 lines.
Deleted:
- Microwaveprop.Workers.{Era5Fetch,Era5Submit,Era5Poll,Era5MonthBatch}Worker
- Microwaveprop.Weather.{Era5BatchClient,Era5Client}
- Mix.Tasks.Era5Backfill (superseded by BackfillEnqueueWorker cron)
- Matching test files (~1100 LOC of test)
- era5/era5_submit/era5_poll/era5_batch queue blocks from runtime.exs
- era5_req_options Req.Test stub config from test.exs
Kept (actively used or intentionally preserved):
- Era5Profile schema (the era5_profiles table is the NARR target)
- Era5CdsJob schema + its test (inspection handle on the era5_cds_jobs
table, which retains rows from the failed CDS runs)
- :era5 type key in ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker / BackfillEnqueueWorker
(the symbol still means "historical backfill", just routed to NARR now)
Swapped the one remaining live Era5FetchWorker call site in
contact_live/show.ex's maybe_enqueue_era5 path to NarrFetchWorker
(with NarrClient.snap_to_analysis_hour for the 3-hourly slot).
Test suite: 1513 tests, 0 failures (-50 from the deleted era5 test
files). No compile warnings. Credo clean.
Swap the body of era5_jobs_for_contact/1 to enqueue NarrFetchWorker
instead of Era5FetchWorker, and snap qso_timestamp via
NarrClient.snap_to_analysis_hour/1 so it lands on a 3-hourly NARR
analysis slot (00/03/06/09/12/15/18/21 UTC) — NarrFetchWorker raises
on anything else.
The :era5 type key, the era5_jobs_for_contact function name, and
the era5_status field are kept as historical artifacts — they
still refer to the era5_profiles table, which is reused 1:1 by
NARR. A schema rename is a follow-up PR.
The CDS Era5* workers (Era5FetchWorker, Era5SubmitWorker,
Era5PollWorker, Era5MonthBatchWorker, Era5BatchClient) are now
unreachable from the live submission flow. They stay in tree until
the deletion follow-up PR.
Per-contact Oban worker that fetches one NARR profile via
NarrClient.fetch_profile_at/2 and inserts it into era5_profiles.
Replaces Era5FetchWorker for pre-2014 contacts. Unlike the ERA5
router, NARR fetches are per-point so this worker does the fetch
+ insert directly — no downstream batch worker, no routing.
Args shape matches Era5FetchWorker: %{"lat", "lon", "valid_time"}.
Lat/lon get snapped to 0.25° (same dedup granularity as ERA5).
valid_time MUST already be on a 3-hourly NARR analysis slot
(00/03/06/09/12/15/18/21 UTC on the hour) — the worker raises
ArgumentError via NarrClient.url_for/1 otherwise. Caller-side
snapping (in ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker) lands in the next task.
Existence check tightened to ±15 minutes (vs ERA5's ±30) since NARR
is exact 3-hourly. On error, logs a warning and returns {:error,
reason} so Oban retries with backoff (max_attempts: 3).
The :narr Oban queue config and the ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker
swap are deliberately NOT touched in this commit — those are the
next two tasks of the plan.
extract_profile_from_file shells out to cdo:
cdo -outputtab,name,lev,value -remapnn,lon=X_lat=Y <merged.grb>
parses the text output (varNNN ↔ NCEP GRIB1 param number lookup),
maps surface records to era5_profiles fields, builds the pressure
profile from each (TMP, HGT, SPFH) triple, and merges in the derived
fields from SoundingParams.derive/1. Returns the same attrs shape as
Era5BatchClient.build_profile_attrs/5 so the existing
bulk_insert_profiles path can ingest NARR rows unchanged.
fetch_profile_at picks records from a fetched inventory, byte-range
fetches each one into a per-record temp file, runs cdo -merge to build
a composite, calls extract_profile_from_file, and cleans up via
try/after.
Drive-by fix: ThetaE.dewpoint_from_spfh/2 returns Kelvin (its existing
test asserts that explicitly). Era5BatchClient was passing that
Kelvin value straight into "dwpc" (Celsius), which would then crash
SoundingParams.compute_refractivity_profile when it called Buck's
saturation-vapor-pressure equation with t=294 instead of t=21. The
bug never surfaced because era5_profiles is empty in production —
no ERA5 backfill has ever succeeded. Fixed in both era5_batch_client
and the new narr_client by subtracting 273.15 in the wrapper. Both
wrappers now have a comment pointing at the K→C conversion.
Test fixture test/fixtures/narr/narr_dfw_2010-06-15_12z.grb is the
spike-captured composite (1.1 MB — Lambert conformal projection
isn't sellonlatbox-subsettable so we can't shrink it further).
parse_inventory walks the wgrib1-format .inv text and returns a
{var, level} -> {byte_offset, length} index, computing each record's
length from the next record's offset (or file_size for the last one).
fetch_inventory does a GET on the .inv URL plus a HEAD on the .grb URL
to learn its size, then delegates to parse_inventory.
Both stubbable via Req.Test (config/test.exs adds narr_req_options
matching the existing era5_req_options / giro_req_options pattern).
Spike fixture at test/fixtures/narr/narr-a_221_20100615_1200_000.inv
backs the parser test — verifies the ("TMP", "2 m above gnd") and
("WVVFLX", "atmos col") records line up with the real bytes.
First slice of the NARR backfill client: url_for/1,
url_for_inventory/1, and snap_to_analysis_hour/1. Pure functions,
no network. Validates that NARR analyses only exist at 3-hourly
slots (00/03/06/09/12/15/18/21 UTC). The byte-range fetch and
cdo-driven point extraction land in follow-up commits per
docs/plans/2026-04-15-merra2-historical-backfill.md.
The persisted grid_data files contain atoms (:base_m, :top_m,
:thickness_m, :min_freq_ghz, :native_min_gradient, :ducts, etc.) that
live in modules which aren't eagerly loaded during application start.
warm_grid_cache_from_latest_profile runs in Application.start/2 before
those modules get pulled in by their first call sites, so [:safe] was
rejecting our own legitimate files at boot — every weather page hit
crashed with "invalid or unsafe external representation of a term".
The whole point of [:safe] is to refuse atoms from untrusted external
ETF input. ProfilesFile.write!/2 in this same module is the only writer
of these files, so the input is trusted by definition — drop the flag.
The test additions round-trip the production data shape including duct
fields as a regression guard.
Prod has 0 era5_profiles rows after ~500 submit cycles: every CDS job
either gets marked "rejected" (likely cap mismatch) or runs for 13+h
without transitioning to successful, so the handle_both_done branch
has literally never fired and the ERA5Batch: stored log line has
never been emitted once. Tighten Era5PollWorker's @stuck_after_seconds
from 18h to 8h so dead rows recycle within a work shift instead of a
full day, and pause the era5 / era5_submit / era5_poll / era5_batch
queues in runtime.exs so existing rows stay put for inspection while
we figure out why CDS is rejecting everything. Flip paused: true back
once the root cause is identified.
Timeline scrubs on /weather were reading a 21 MB NFS ProfilesFile and
then calling SoundingParams.derive on all 92k CONUS points before
filtering to the viewport. Flip the order: filter the raw grid_data map
by bounds first, so derivation work is bounded by the viewport (~4k
points on a DFW box) instead of the full grid.
Add build_grid_cache_rows/3 with an optional bounds argument; the /2
arity is unchanged so PropagationGridWorker still derives the full grid
on f00.
First HF prediction building block. GIRO publishes MUFD — the F2-layer
maximum usable frequency at the 3000 km reference distance — directly
from station measurements, already calibrated against CCIR M(3000)F2
climatology. Rather than recomputing MUF from scratch (which would
require the ~2 MB CCIR coefficient tables), this module treats the
measured MUFD as the anchor and scales it to the actual path distance
using a thin-layer secant-of-incidence ratio.
That keeps the measurement calibration (~3.3× foF2 at our fixture, vs
~5.1× from a naive thin-layer formula) and only uses the thin-layer
math for the relative distance correction.
* adjust_mufd/2 — scales MUFD(3000) to an arbitrary hop distance.
At D=3000 it's a no-op; shorter paths get lower MUF (near-vertical),
longer paths within the single-hop window get higher MUF.
* fot/1 — standard 0.85 × MUF Frequency of Optimum Traffic.
* hf_score/2 — 0-100 band-vs-MUF score with 5-tier curve:
100 (≤ 0.75×MUF) / 80 (FOT) / 50 (≤ MUF) / 20 (fringe) / 0 (dead).
Limitations are in the moduledoc: single-hop only, nearest-station
bias, no LUF/D-layer absorption, no Kp geomagnetic storm modeling.
Those are separate commits once this has bake time.
Not yet wired into PathLive — follow-up commit will add HF bands to
BandConfig and wire the panel.
Adds the second ionospheric data source layer. Polls NOAA SWPC's free
public JSON services every 5 minutes for three products:
* Planetary K-index (1-min cadence) → geomagnetic_observations
* 10.7 cm solar flux (hourly) → solar_flux_observations
* GOES X-ray flux (1-min, 0.1-0.8nm long-wave band only) →
solar_xray_observations
All three products feed HF / Es scoring inputs that the propagation
engine will start using in a follow-up commit:
* Kp drives HF absorption and Es damping (memory notes Kp is inversely
correlated with tropo/Es stability).
* F10.7 is the SSN proxy for ITU-R P.533 HF MUF prediction.
* GOES X-ray long-wave flux is the short-wave fade (SWF) / D-layer
absorption proxy — a C-class flare starts attenuating HF within
seconds of the X-ray peak.
New context `Microwaveprop.SpaceWeather` exposes `upsert_*/1` and
`latest_*/0` per product; `SpaceWeatherFetchWorker` pulls all three
independently so one endpoint's outage doesn't block the others.
Fixtures captured from live SWPC endpoints on 2026-04-15 for the
parser tests.
Not yet wired into scoring — that's a separate commit.
Closes the GIRO → SporadicE → display loop. When a 144 or 440 MHz path
is calculated, PathLive looks up the nearest polled ionosonde's latest
foEs via Ionosphere.nearest_foes/3, runs SporadicE.es_score for the
actual (band, distance) pair, and renders a panel showing:
* Live foEs / foF2 / station-code / timestamp
* Computed single-hop Es MUF for this exact path length
* 0-100 Es score for the selected band
* Human-readable interpretation ("strong opening", "tropo only",
"out of single-hop window", etc.)
Panel only appears for 144/440 (Es isn't relevant on microwave) and
only when the nearest station has data within the last 2 hours — if
ionosonde data is stale or missing, the panel is omitted entirely
rather than shown with misleading values.
Does not touch the grid scorer on /map — a grid cell has no intrinsic
path length, so Es scoring there is conceptually muddy. PathLive is
the right home for path-specific predictions.
Adds the missing link between the GIRO ionosonde data we just started
ingesting and the VHF/UHF band scoring:
* `Microwaveprop.Propagation.SporadicE` — ITU-R P.534-6 / Davies 1990
thin-layer Es MUF (sec(i) · foEs with h=110 km), plus an `es_score/3`
that maps (foEs, target band, hop distance) into a 0-100 single-hop
propagation likelihood. Calibrated against literature: 50 MHz Es at
2000 km needs foEs ≳ 5.5 MHz (routine summer); 144 MHz needs
foEs ≳ 15.8 MHz (rare Jun/Jul peaks only); 440 MHz Es does not occur
at physical foEs values. Multi-hop Es and Es-scatter are separate
factors and explicitly out of scope.
* `Ionosphere.nearest_foes/3` — given a lat/lon, returns the latest
observation from the nearest polled GIRO station (Millstone Hill or
Alpena for now), with a configurable staleness cutoff (default 2h).
Returns `{:error, :stale}` or `{:error, :no_data}` so callers can
choose whether to apply the Es factor at all.
Neither is wired into the grid scorer yet — that's a separate commit
so the integration can be reviewed on its own.
First step toward physics-based HF / sporadic-E scoring. Polls GIRO's
DIDBase tabular endpoint every 10 minutes for two US ionosondes
(Millstone Hill MHJ45, Alpena AL945), parses the plain-text response
into observation rows, and upserts into a new ionosonde_observations
table keyed on (station_code, valid_time).
This gets foEs (E-layer sporadic critical frequency) into the database
as a direct measurement — the key input for predicting 144 MHz Es
openings via ITU-R P.534-6. foF2 + MUFD are the F2-layer inputs for
HF MUF predictions.
Not yet wired into scoring. Boulder/Wallops/Austin/Idaho/Point Arguello
are in the GIRO catalog but were silent when probed — add them back
if/when they come online.
Next steps: SWPC JSON (Kp, F10.7, sunspot), GOES X-ray flux, D-RAP text,
and the P.534-6 Es scoring factor that uses foEs at midpoint for the
144/440 band configs.
Both bands share the physics of low microwave: humidity and refractivity
gradient build ducts the same way, and rain + gas absorption are
effectively zero at VHF/UHF. humidity_effect is :beneficial, rain_k /
rain_alpha are (0, 1), and o2_db_km / h2o_coeff are 0.
Range estimates reflect tropo reality: 2m ducts can reach 2500+ km
under exceptional conditions (e.g. documented Hawaii ↔ California
openings), 70cm a bit less. The seasonal base matches the low-microwave
summer-peak curve.
These configs do NOT capture sporadic-E, meteor scatter, or aurora —
those need ionospheric data (GIRO ionosondes, NOAA SWPC) we don't yet
ingest. The scoring on these bands is therefore "tropo-only" and will
underestimate openings driven by ionospheric modes.
Corrections to the previous weather-map pass:
* The "helper" that was supposed to live in the top-right was the
color legend, not the layer description. Move the Leaflet legend
control to `topright` (was `bottomright` on desktop).
* Put the layer description back in the desktop sidebar where it
used to live, now with a "Group · Label" header above the body
text so it matches the new style in the mockup.
* Add play/stop controls to the weather forecast timeline, ported
from the propagation map: start plays "now" → end at 1s/step and
loops; stop returns to the time closest to wall clock. A manual
click interrupts playback the same way it does on /map.
* Fix the reconnect/reload loop I introduced by making mount do a
synchronous ProfilesFile read + derive for the full 92k-point
grid. That was pushing mount past the LV socket join timeout on
a cold pod, which makes the LV client fall back to a full HTTP
reload every ~20 seconds (no server-side error). Mount now uses
the original `latest_weather_grid/1` cache-only hot path and only
`weather_grid_at/2` (sync disk read) on user timeline scrubs.
* Clean up the playback timer in the hook's `destroyed` callback.
