The FT-817 CAT frequency field is 4 BCD bytes at 10 Hz resolution, so the
largest representable value is 999,999,990 Hz. encodeFrequencyBcd is exact
below that, but for anything above it the %08d formatting silently drops the
leading digit: 1,267.6 MHz encodes as 126.76 MHz. Verified against the release
bytecode - 1,000,000,000 Hz -> [10 00 00 00] -> 100,000,000 Hz, ten times
lower - and the SatNOGS catalogue has 17 transmitters with uplinks over 1 GHz
(QO-100 at 2400.05 MHz, several 23 cm links), so the wrong value is reachable
via RadioTrackingService when an FT-817 is mis-configured as the TX radio.
The tracking loop's read-back then locks onto the wrong band with no warning.
Reject out-of-range frequencies at setFrequency with a log and return false
instead of sending a corrupted command. In-range values are unaffected
(probe: 7.074/145.5/435.1 MHz and both 999,999,98x/99x MHz round-trip exactly;
every value above the limit is refused before the encoder runs).
mckero
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