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.

The standalone plot 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.

Multiple panels

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.

The views

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. Newest sweep at the top; the labels down the left edge show how old each row is, and the legend at the top right shows the colour scale. Hover to read the frequency, amplitude, and age of any pixel. Zooming the plot keeps the history rather than wiping it. The gear next to the view dropdown opens the waterfall options:
- Colormap — Viridis (default), Turbo, Inferno, Grey, or the classic Jet.
- Colour scale — Plot axis spans the same amplitude range as the trace’s y-axis, so the two panels read on one scale; Manual sets a top level in dBm and a dynamic range below it (40–100 dB).
- Scroll speed — ½× to 4× the nominal rate. Slower keeps more history on screen; faster spreads each sweep over more rows. Changing the colormap or scale recolours the history already on screen. These options save with your other plot display settings.
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 frequency → Add; 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.