bandsaunter/tests/test_ident.py
The Dust Council 3d7f76118e Read the pictures, the aircraft, the meters and the sensors
Hexadecimal is a true answer to "what did that say" and not a useful one.
This is the work of turning the rest of what a receiver hears into
something a person can read, and most of it is pictures.

PICTURES

Three of the things on the air are images rather than sounds, and all three
arrive as the audio a scan already records:

  SSTV     14.230 and 144.5 MHz   Martin M1/M2, Scottie S1/S2/DX, Robot 36/72
  APT      137-138 MHz            the NOAA weather satellites
  HF fax   2-20 MHz, sideband     the marine weather charts

Each is written from its published specification, and the generators used to
test them are written from the same specification without reference to the
decoders -- so a picture that comes back matching the one that went in is
evidence about the format.  Every SSTV mode reproduces its published line
time exactly, which is worth failing a test over: a line a few milliseconds
long walks the picture off the screen inside ten lines.  Against synthetic
transmissions at 30 dB SNR, SSTV is 96-98% of pixels exact, APT correlates
at 0.97 and fax at 0.998; all three still read at 6-12 dB.

None of the three is guessed at, and that is what makes it safe to try them
on every recording.  SSTV needs its VIS header, APT needs both line syncs at
the right distance from each other, fax needs the phasing signal.  No false
pictures in 295 attempts over noise, tones, speech and swept whistles.

Two things had to be got right beyond the arithmetic.  A band-pass does not
switch between two tones, it slides between them, so every edge is measured
at the midpoint of the slide rather than at the first sample past a
threshold -- the earlier version was reading the coarse search stride back
as the edge and shifting Martin M1 sideways by a whole colour bar.  And a
picture now keeps its capture whatever the content check made of it: a
satellite is a steady tone with a wobble on it and SSTV is a whistle, so
both were being discarded as "no signal content" having already been
recognised.

PNG is written here rather than pulled in from Pillow.  A scanner that
cannot start because an imaging library is missing is worse than one that
cannot draw.

saunterbrowse marks a picture in the list, gives its path in full -- wrapped
rather than cut off, because half a path opens nothing -- and moves or
deletes the PNGs with the recording.  o prints the picture's path, not the
audio's.

GRIB is not a modulation and is not pretended to be one.  It is the format
weather models are published in and it travels by satellite link and by
e-mail; where a decoded byte stream begins with its magic number it is
named, and that is all.

AIRCRAFT

`bandsaunter adsb` parks the receiver on 1090 MHz and reads Mode S extended
squitter: address, callsign, altitude, position, speed.  A command of its
own because a megabit a second will not go through a channel twelve and a
half kilohertz wide.  Every frame carries a 24-bit checksum so there is no
threshold anywhere in it -- with one trap, which is that a frame of all
zeros satisfies that checksum and silence is exactly that.  Positions round
trip exactly through compact position reporting, and a pair straddling a
longitude-zone boundary is refused rather than resolved against two grids.

METERS AND SENSORS

Itron ERT utility meters on 900 MHz and AcuRite weather sensors on 433 MHz
are named rather than reported as hex, and neither is believed without its
own checksum -- BCH(255,239) for the meter, a checksum and four parity bits
for the sensor.  Both are implemented from published descriptions and
checked against frames built from the same descriptions, which proves the
framing and the arithmetic and is not the same as having held a meter.

HEX INTO WORDS

Everything else that decodes to bits now gets its fields named where the
shape is standard, its text read out where there is text, and its bytes laid
out in groups with the printable characters beside them.

The text search is where the care went, because printability is not
evidence.  Forty framings of each packet, and seven-bit values printable
three in four, meant a bar set on printability called 64% of random payloads
text.  Real text is nearly all one case where random letters are half and
half, two fifths vowels where random is a fifth, and mostly alphanumeric
where random draws punctuation one time in four.  Together: under 0.5%,
measured in the suite.

CALLSIGNS

The licensed address is recorded in full -- the street, not merely the town
-- and goes into the KML with everything else.  US amateur records are
public by law and carry it; holding it and not saying so is worse than
either showing it or not asking, and --no-lookup asks for none of it.

Also here: Morse is decoded again from the whole recording where the capture
was made in cw mode.  The first pass works from the classifier's buffer,
which holds a few seconds -- enough to say "this is Morse", not enough to
catch a callsign whole between two word gaps, so a beacon repeating every
eight seconds through an eight-second window was never identified.

And classify._psk_order took the logarithm of zero on a silent block.

1318 tests, up from 1161.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016PsWPTweCT6pwxKngvVxcg
2026-08-29 19:38:37 -07:00

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"""A station that identifies itself, and what happens to it after that.
Most stations on the air never say a word. A repeater, a beacon or an
unattended transmitter sends its callsign in Morse and stops, and until this
existed the text was decoded, written into the sidecar, and read by nobody:
the callsign book and the map were built where the transcripts were, and a
CW ident produces no transcript.
So these are about the whole path -- decode, find the callsign, look it up,
say so, put it on the map -- and about the two places it is allowed to say
nothing rather than say the wrong thing.
"""
import json
import wave
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
import pytest
from rich.console import Console
from bandsaunter.browse import Browser, Player
from bandsaunter.callsign import CallsignBook
from bandsaunter.config import ScanConfig
from bandsaunter.morse import decode_morse
from bandsaunter.quality import assess
from bandsaunter.ranges import parse_range_list
from bandsaunter.scanner import Scanner
from bandsaunter.simulator import SimulatedDevice, default_transmitters
from morse_gen import morse_audio
FS = 16000
class StubBook(CallsignBook):
"""Answers every lookup from itself, so no test goes to the network."""
def __init__(self, tmp, **kw):
self.asked: list[str] = []
super().__init__(cache=Path(tmp) / "calls.json", **kw)
def _request(self, call):
self.asked.append(call)
return {"status": "VALID", "current": {"callsign": call},
"name": "Newington Radio Club",
"address": {"line2": "Newington, CT"},
"location": {"latitude": "41.71", "longitude": "-72.72",
"gridsquare": "FN31pr"}}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The scan
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _scanner(tmp_path, mhz: str, **over) -> Scanner:
cfg = ScanConfig(ranges=parse_range_list(mhz),
output_dir=str(tmp_path), transcribe=False,
record_seconds=over.pop("record_seconds", 10),
hang_seconds=1.5,
max_runtime_seconds=over.pop("seconds", 45),
**over)
scanner = Scanner(cfg, device=SimulatedDevice(realtime=False).open())
scanner.prepare()
scanner.callsigns = StubBook(tmp_path)
return scanner
def test_the_book_and_the_map_exist_without_a_speech_recogniser(tmp_path):
"""They used to be built inside the transcription branch.
Callsigns arrive in Morse and in packets as well as in speech, neither of
which involves a recogniser, so a machine with none installed found none
of them -- which is most of the machines this runs on.
"""
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "147.0M-147.1M")
assert scanner.transcriber is None
assert scanner.callsigns is not None
assert scanner.kml is not None
def test_a_repeater_identifying_in_morse_reaches_the_map(tmp_path):
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "147.0M-147.1M", seconds=45)
scanner.run()
assert scanner.hits, "the ident was not recorded at all"
assert any(h.morse_text for h in scanner.hits), \
"recorded it and read nothing out of it"
assert "K1AA" in scanner.heard
assert "K1AA" in scanner.kml.contacts
contact = scanner.kml.contacts["K1AA"]
assert contact.name == "Newington Radio Club"
assert contact.located
def test_the_map_is_written_out(tmp_path):
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "147.0M-147.1M", seconds=45)
scanner.run()
written = (tmp_path / scanner.cfg.kml_file).read_text()
assert "K1AA" in written and "<Point>" in written
def test_a_beacon_is_identified_from_the_words_that_survived(tmp_path):
"""A continuous beacon is always caught partway through.
Every capture of one begins and ends in the middle of the message, so
what can be said about it is whatever lies between two word gaps -- which
means the capture has to be longer than one repeat before any word is
certain to be bounded on both sides. This beacon repeats every eight
seconds; a ten-second capture of it is identifiable only by luck, and a
twenty-second one always.
"""
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "144.05M-144.15M", seconds=50,
record_seconds=20)
scanner.run()
assert "W1AW" in scanner.heard
assert set(scanner.heard) == {"W1AW"}, \
f"invented a station: {sorted(scanner.heard)}"
def test_the_hit_keeps_both_the_text_and_the_part_it_can_be_identified_from(
tmp_path):
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "144.05M-144.15M", seconds=30,
record_seconds=20)
scanner.run()
cw = [h for h in scanner.hits if h.morse_text]
assert cw
for hit in cw:
assert hit.morse_complete in hit.morse_text or not hit.morse_complete
def test_the_sidecar_carries_them(tmp_path):
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "147.0M-147.1M", seconds=45)
scanner.run()
sidecars = [json.loads(p.read_text()) for p in tmp_path.glob("*.json")]
hits = [doc.get("hit", doc) for doc in sidecars]
assert any(h.get("morse_text") for h in hits)
assert any(h.get("morse_complete") for h in hits)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Every capture is offered to the decoder, not only the ones that looked keyed
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_morse_under_a_label_that_is_not_cw_is_still_decoded(tmp_path):
"""A burst of CW is a second or two of a capture the classifier named
after whatever filled the rest of it, or after nothing at all."""
seen = {}
scanner = _scanner(tmp_path, "147.0M-147.1M", seconds=45)
real = scanner._decode_cw
def watch(iq, demod):
got = real(iq, demod)
seen.setdefault("calls", 0)
seen["calls"] += 1
return got
scanner._decode_cw = watch
scanner.run()
assert seen.get("calls"), "nothing was offered to the CW decoder"
def _on_the_air(mode: str, seconds: float = 3.0, freq: float = 147.06e6):
"""A real signal, classified and demodulated the way the scanner does.
Not a stand-in feature object: what `assess` does with a Morse decode
depends on measurements taken off the signal, and a hand-written set of
them would only ever prove that the test agreed with itself.
"""
from bandsaunter.classify import classify
from bandsaunter.demod import make_demodulator
from bandsaunter.simulator import VirtualTransmitter
fs = 240_000
voice = mode == "nfm"
tx = VirtualTransmitter(freq, mode, 0.5, 12_500 if voice else 500,
f"test {mode}", message="DE W1AW", wpm=20)
iq = tx.generate(0.0, int(fs * seconds), fs)
# A receiver always has some. Without it the key-up stretches of a CW
# signal are exactly zero, which is not a thing any aerial produces.
rng = np.random.default_rng(3)
iq = iq + (0.004 * (rng.standard_normal(iq.size)
+ 1j * rng.standard_normal(iq.size))).astype("complex64")
cls = classify(iq, fs, freq_hz=freq)
demod = make_demodulator("nfm" if voice else "cw", fs,
12_500.0 if voice else 800.0, FS)
return cls, demod.process(iq), demod.audio_rate
def test_speech_is_not_relabelled_by_a_morse_decode():
"""Both can be true at once, and the conversation is what was recorded.
Every capture is offered to the CW decoder now, not only the ones that
looked keyed, so a decode can land on a capture full of speech. The text
is recorded either way; the label follows the speech.
"""
cls, audio, rate = _on_the_air("nfm")
spoken = assess(cls, audio, rate, morse=None)
if spoken.category != "voice":
pytest.skip("the speech detector did not hear the synthetic talker")
_, keyed, keyed_rate = _on_the_air("cw")
morse = decode_morse(keyed, keyed_rate)
assert morse.is_morse, "the fixture did not produce a Morse decode"
assert assess(cls, audio, rate, morse=morse).category == "voice"
def test_a_keyed_carrier_is_still_labelled_cw():
"""The families that were always decoded keep their behaviour exactly."""
cls, audio, rate = _on_the_air("cw")
morse = decode_morse(audio, rate)
assert morse.is_morse
assert assess(cls, audio, rate, morse=morse).category == "cw"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Reading it back
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _capture(directory: Path, meta: dict) -> Path:
stem = "0147.060000MHz--2026-08-29_10_00_00-cw"
with wave.open(str(directory / f"{stem}.wav"), "wb") as w:
w.setnchannels(1)
w.setsampwidth(2)
w.setframerate(FS)
w.writeframes(b"\0\0" * FS)
(directory / f"{stem}.json").write_text(json.dumps({"hit": meta}))
return directory / f"{stem}.wav"
def _browser(directory) -> Browser:
console = Console(width=100, height=30, force_terminal=True)
return Browser(directory, console=console, player=Player([]),
book=StubBook(directory))
def frame(browser) -> str:
with browser.console.capture() as cap:
browser.console.print(browser.render())
return cap.get()
@pytest.fixture
def keyed(tmp_path):
_capture(tmp_path, {"frequency": 147.06e6, "category": "cw",
"classification": "CW / Morse at 20 WPM",
"morse_text": "E DE K1AA",
"morse_complete": "DE K1AA",
"morse_wpm": 20.0, "confidence": 0.9})
return tmp_path
def test_the_morse_gets_the_top_of_the_screen(keyed):
shown = frame(_browser(keyed))
assert "Morse" in shown and "DE K1AA" in shown
def test_the_callsign_is_listed_under_it(keyed):
browser = _browser(keyed)
browser.book.get_all(browser.current.callsigns)
browser.book.wait(5.0)
shown = frame(browser)
assert "K1AA" in shown and "Newington Radio Club" in shown
def test_a_cw_capture_can_be_searched_for_by_what_it_keyed(keyed):
browser = _browser(keyed)
browser.query = "k1aa"
browser.apply()
assert len(browser.view) == 1
def test_the_reader_opens_on_it(keyed):
browser = _browser(keyed)
assert browser.handle("t")
assert browser.reading
assert "DE K1AA" in frame(browser)
def test_only_the_part_it_can_be_identified_from_is_searched(tmp_path):
"""The sidecar keeps both, and the callsign comes out of the safe one."""
_capture(tmp_path, {"frequency": 147.06e6, "category": "cw",
"morse_text": "K1A", "morse_complete": "",
"classification": "CW / Morse at 20 WPM"})
browser = _browser(tmp_path)
assert browser.current.morse == "K1A"
assert browser.current.callsigns == []
def test_an_older_recording_falls_back_to_the_whole_text(tmp_path):
"""Sidecars written before this distinction existed carry only the text."""
_capture(tmp_path, {"frequency": 147.06e6, "category": "cw",
"morse_text": "VVV DE W1AW",
"classification": "CW / Morse at 20 WPM"})
assert _browser(tmp_path).current.callsigns == ["W1AW"]
def test_a_hex_dump_is_not_searched_for_callsigns(tmp_path):
"""Enough two-character groups in a row join into something shaped like
a callsign that nobody transmitted."""
_capture(tmp_path, {"frequency": 147.06e6, "category": "digital",
"data_messages": ["4A 3F 1B 22 9C 04"],
"classification": "OOK data"})
assert _browser(tmp_path).current.callsigns == []
def test_a_packet_header_is(tmp_path):
_capture(tmp_path, {"frequency": 144.39e6, "category": "digital",
"data_messages": ["W1AW-1>APRS,TCPIP*:=4123.45N/"
"07234.56W-"],
"classification": "AX.25 / APRS"})
assert _browser(tmp_path).current.callsigns == ["W1AW"]
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The demo band is invented; the callsigns in it are not
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_the_simulator_identifies_itself_the_way_a_repeater_does():
idents = [t for t in default_transmitters()
if t.mode == "cw" and t.period_seconds]
assert idents, "nothing in the demo band sends a short CW ident"
assert idents[0].on_seconds < 8.0
def test_a_simulated_run_neither_looks_up_nor_maps_anything(monkeypatch,
tmp_path):
"""W1AW is the ARRL's own station, and the demo band is made up.
Looking it up would put a licence nobody heard on the same map a real
scan writes.
"""
from bandsaunter import cli
seen = {}
class Stop(Exception):
pass
def fake_scanner(cfg, **kw):
seen["cfg"] = cfg
raise Stop
monkeypatch.setattr(cli, "Scanner", fake_scanner)
monkeypatch.setattr(cli, "console", Console(file=open("/dev/null", "w")))
with pytest.raises(Stop):
cli.main(["scan", "--simulate", "--no-config", "-r", "144M-148M",
"-o", str(tmp_path)])
assert seen["cfg"].callsign_lookup is False
assert seen["cfg"].kml_file == ""