I know a little about eye patterns for analyzing the quality of digital communications, but what does the scope in the upper right portion of the HF window indicate? What do each of these four patterns mean? What does the blue line mean? Why is the pattern white in panel D? I haven't found (or missed?) an explanation in the ON2AD manual and a Google search. TIA!
It all relates to the speed, keep an eye on SL speed down at the bottom where I circled. This is the speed I just had on 10M with K5RWG who is 0ver 1600 miles away. This was SL13 which is 32QAM and had the 32 squares. Unfortunately the message went so fast I missed the screenshot!
Gary has already explained this to you so just keepon connecting. IF you are VERY LUCKY and condiitions are very good you might be lucky and get a 32 QAM connection. It does happen, but it is very rare. When that happens, VARA will truly run like a bat out of hell ! You can'yt miss it...as Gary mentioned, you will have 32 little blocks in that window !!!
Good Luck.. and do not feel bad about asking.... I had no idea when i first started what all those colors and weird blocks meant.
Albert EI7II.
That is the Constellation pattern and indicates the modulation type, quality and SNR all in a simple display. Color wise green is good, white and red are SNR's not so good.
There are a lot more than you show above that will pop up depending on speed and as such the modulation type from FSK to BPSK to 4PSK to 8PSL to 32QAM (which will have 32 blocks up there).
Your A and D example are for the same modulation but A has a nosier signal than D which you can see is nice and tight.