[Ham-Mac] fldigi 3.23.09.08 alpha posted

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Alpha 3.23.09.08

NAVTEX update
Author: Rik van Riel <riel at surriel.com>

       * change the distance between early, prompt, and
         late accumulators to be an integer number of samples.
       * noise and QSB processing
         - average the accumulator values over a longer time period
         - tighten bit tracking feedback loop
           .signal lock takes a little longer
       * make the AFC window a little wider to deal with some signals.
       * instead of requiring 5 consecutive correct characters
         to start decoding, store a stream of bit confidence values and
         require 9 good ones out of 14 total. FEC can take care of the rest.
       * add FEC calculations to do single bit permutations on
         bad characters, flipping the bit with the lowest confidence value.
       * code cleanup - remove unused variables.

RxID enhancement
Author: David Freese <iam_w1hkj at w1hkj.com>

       * Add right click pop-up menu
         - PASSBAND - check box ON/OFF
       * Color code ON illumination for
         PASSBAND ON/OFF

TX timer
Author: David Freese <iam_w1hkj at w1hkj.com>

       * Added TX timer display to the menu bar

rigcat mod
Author: David Freese <iam_w1hkj at w1hkj.com>

       * Add min, max settings for pwr control
       * Add testing mode if no xcvr serial port available
       * Made opMODE and opBW combo controls readonly
         - pull down values can only be added and not inserted
       * Added debugging tags to xml definitions:
         - <NOSERIAL>true/false</NOSERIAL> - default false
           suppress all serial port i/o
         - <ASCII>true/false</ASCII> - default false
           if true, print all CAT i/o events as ASCII strings
           if false, print all CAT i/o events as HEX sequences
       * Added polling for pwr level query

PSK IMD
Author: David Freese <iam_w1hkj at w1hkj.com>

       * add IMD generator
       * modified IMD computation for continuous operation
         vice only during DCD


73, Dave, W1HKJ
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