With tone shift off and the operator tuned outside 400-1200 Hz, the page did not
go quiet - it went confidently wrong. Three measurements, all reproduced against
the real spectrogram path:
estimatedPitch is (32 + loudestBin) * 12.5 - shiftHz with the bin confined to
0..64, so with no shift applied it can only ever report 400-1200 Hz. It cannot
express 1500 Hz, and it does not try: it publishes whichever window edge the
leakage piles against. For a 1500 Hz tone that is 1200 Hz.
That leakage is not faint. The waterfall normalises to the loudest value on
screen, so 50 of 65 bins clear the 0.06 draw threshold and the picture shows a
keyed-looking column pinned to the right edge - the 1200 Hz column runs 25 times
the 400 Hz one.
signalStrength is prominence over the window mean, so the same leakage scores
0.78 and paints the meter to 78% of full width.
So the operator got a strong-signal bar, a plausible 1200 Hz readout, a picture
that looked like a signal, and an empty transcript, with nothing saying why.
The scan that can see past the window now runs whether or not shifting is
enabled - it is the only measurement that can - and publishes through a new
detectedToneHz flow kept separate from estimatedPitch. Overloading the latter is
what let the 1200 Hz claim out in the first place, so the two meanings stay in
two flows. The shift decision still only happens when the setting is on. Cost is
one 121-bin scan every 2 s.
The meter now reads zero when a tone is out of range and not being shifted in: it
is a claim that something decodable is present, and in that state nothing is.
A line under the waterfall says which case the operator is in - the tone was
moved in, or it is out of range and tone shift is off, naming the frequency and
the remedy. Strings in all nine locales; feature:cw only had five, so values-es,
values-ru, values-si and values-uk are new, with the Turkish apostrophe escaped.
CwToneShifterTest pins the premise the hint rests on: that the scan reports tones
the model window excludes, at 120, 250, 1400 and 1500 Hz.
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