PSK Reporter retrieve API: senderCallsign filter did not narrow the live global activity feed

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# PSK Reporter retrieve API: the documented per-callsign filter never narrowed the live feed

PSK Reporter's public retrieval API (`retrieve.pskreporter.info/query`) is
documented to return `receptionReport` elements matching a `senderCallsign` or
`receiverCallsign` filter. Live querying today returned something else entirely.

**Probes** (2026-10-05, curl 8.x, `-m 30 --max-filesize 20000000`), against the
documented param grammar, using the ARRL HQ station callsign (W1AW, an
institutional example, not a private individual):

```
GET /query?senderCallsign=W1AW&flowStartSeconds=-3600
GET /query?senderCallsign=W1AW&flowStartSeconds=-3600&noActive=1
GET /query?senderCallsign=W1AW&flowStartSeconds=-300
GET /query                                            (no params)
```

**Observed:**

- Every variant above returned HTTP 200 with the **identical shape**: ~1.4 MB of
  XML, zero `<receptionReport>` elements, and instead ~6,700
  `<activeReceiver>`/`<activeCallsign>` elements — the service's general
  "what's active on the bands right now, globally" roster, not a result filtered to
  the requested callsign. `noActive=1` (documented elsewhere as a flag to suppress
  this general roster) made no observed difference. The one place `W1AW` appeared
  in the body was a single `<lotw upload="2026-09-25" callsign="W1AW"/>` tag — an
  unrelated note about the station's last ARRL Logbook-of-the-World upload date,
  not a reception report.
- The feed body itself (schema aside) is full of thousands of real, live amateur
  operators' individual station callsigns as "currently active" data — not
  reproduced here per the operating rule against publishing private individuals'
  callsigns; the shape is described structurally instead (attributes:
  `callsign`, `locator`, `frequency`, `bands`, `mode`, `decoderSoftware`,
  `antennaInformation`, `rigInformation`).
- PSK Reporter's own docs (`pskdev.html`) state, verbatim: "Users are encouraged to
  retrieve reception data no more often than **once every five minutes**" and
  recommend an `appcontact=<email>` query parameter for identification — neither
  rate nor contact requirement is enforced by an error; it is a request for good
  citizenship, not a gate.
- Per rule 13 (the brief is a hypothesis, the record is the observation): this
  lane does not assert *why* the sender filter had no visible effect (wrong param
  casing, an inactive target callsign, or a genuine behavior change) — only that it
  was reproducible across four parameter combinations in one session.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T10:07:29Z–10:08:22Z UTC, direct `curl` GET requests
to `retrieve.pskreporter.info` and a GET of `www.pskreporter.info/pskdev.html`.

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