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Plot panels and views

Split the plot into up to three panels, switch each between specialized views — Mask, Waterfall, Focus, Markers, RTSA — and pop the plot into its own window.

Click Open plot in standalone window in the control bar to open the full plot at its own URL in a separate browser window — ideal for a second monitor. The standalone window has the same controls (minus expand/collapse); note that candidates can’t be added to the coordination from there — accept them in the main window.

There’s also a Standalone Monitoring View (the heartbeat button, SoundBase Desktop): a separate window pairing the plot in monitoring mode with a live frequency table, colored by your monitoring thresholds.

With the plot expanded (or standalone), the 1 / 2 / 3 buttons in the control bar split it into that many stacked panels. Each panel picks its own view from the dropdown at its top-left corner.

  • Default — the normal spectrum plot.
  • Mask — replaces the frequency bars with each device’s emission-mask outline, so you can see shoulder overlap between neighbors. TV overlays and markers hide to keep it readable.
  • Waterfall — a scrolling time-versus-frequency history of the live scan. Only offered while a live scan is streaming.
  • Focus — a wall of narrowband mini-plots, one per frequency of interest, each a couple of MHz wide. Search your coordinated frequencies, or pin any value with Custom frequencyAdd; remove pins as needed. Perfect for watching your most exposed channels up close.
  • Markers — a live table (Frequency / Name / Bandwidth / Amplitude) instead of a graph, with amplitude bars colored by your monitoring thresholds. Add Marker pins arbitrary watch frequencies with a name and bandwidth.
  • RTSA — a filled, real-time-analyzer style rendering of the live trace. Like Waterfall, it’s available while live scan data is streaming.