JAGUAR PRO ONLY

JAGUAR contains a builtin scanner subsystem which can be used to produce a detailed offset history for all or selected frequencies. This scanner subsystem can be used in the MANUAL SCAN or AUTOSCAN mode.

While MANUAL SCAN can dig out the offset history only from the recorded data, AUTOSCAN can analyse the selected frequencies live whenever the hardware is connected. AUTOSCAN is running in the background. The user just defines what he/she wants and JAGUAR takes care of timing.

HOW TO

AUTOSCAN is defined in AUTOMATIC SCAN SETUP panel which can be invoked from STATUSBAR > S button.



When the S button is clicked, the user will see a small control panel where he/she can either quickly disable/enable scans (including AUTOSCAN), or modify the features of AUTOMATIC SCAN.



AUTOSCAN is the heart and soul of generating the offset history. It is disabled by default but if you are interested in offsets, this feature is a must for MW DXers. AUTOSCAN runs independently as specified by the user: the user just defines the following details on the AUTOSCAN control panel:

• target frequency set (MW10/MW9/VFO)
• time period (FROM - TO) during which AUTOSCAN collects the offset history
• speed: what is the time interval used for analysis, in seconds

If you choose to enable AUTOSCAN, you can actually monitor the whole MW dial 24x7 even without a single recording. AUTOSCAN uses "shadowing", i.e. temporary data files on the C drive: a bit stream from Perseus is written to the TEMP folder (created automatically). JAGUAR maintains two buffer files which are used for scanning. Nowadays, the C: drives begin to be SSD disks, offering huge speed improvements. Furthermore, we can get rid of a lot of the I/O burden from the USB channel/main recording disk. So, this is safer also as far as stability is concerned. Please whitelist C:\TEMP in your antivirus scanner to allow for a faster, trouble-free I/O.

The S button has four status modes:

* GRAY - No automatic scans are defined
* GREEN - One or more scan has been activated
* YELLOW - AUTOSCAN has been activated
* RED - AUTOSCAN is analyzing data

Just as with MANUAL SCANs, the results of the AUTOSCAN can be zoomed/viewed on the EXTENDED spectrum screens. After AUTOSCAN has been run, you can still run MANUAL SCANs for the data, e.g. if you want increase the resolution for some parts of the data, provided you have recorded the target time slot: click S to define and launch a new MANUAL SCAN. Your MANUAL SCAN results will be integrated into the correct time position in the offset history file used.

You can use ALT-E to rotate the display levels of the offset history - and the keyboard key E to toggle the current EXTENDED view zoom level and the HOME screen. EXTENDED DAY has a fixed time frame but EXTENDED is dynamic, showing only the scanned times on the screen.

The default SPEED in AUTOSCAN is 60 i.e. one FFT sweep per minute. Quite likely you can go down to SPEED 30 without issues if you do not have an outdated computer. If you have a high-end computer with an Intel Core i7 processor and an SSD disk as C:, you can safely go to the ultimate SPEED 8 to generate a very high resolution offset history for all MW10/MW9 frequencies and have it running all the time. JAGUAR is designed for the total control of the MW dial 24/7!

You can also schedule the change of the scan target (MW9 <> MW10) in MESTOR if you want, for example, to scan the MW10 frequencies during the night/morning and the MW9 frequencies in the afternoon (see MESTOR HELP > Advanced Usage for more details).