diff --git a/docs/rx-spectrum-sensing.md b/docs/rx-spectrum-sensing.md
index 4bc4bed9..d019f887 100644
--- a/docs/rx-spectrum-sensing.md
+++ b/docs/rx-spectrum-sensing.md
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ hardware it runs on:
 |---|---|---|
 | returns | `ChannelBusy` — busy airtime + energy-above-floor | `RxEnergy` — the phydm counter set |
 | available on | any backend with a hardware busy-airtime counter | Realtek only |
-| today | Jaguar1/2/3 (CCX CLM), MT7612U (MAC channel timers, **unvalidated**) | Jaguar1/2/3, Kestrel (floor only) |
+| today | Jaguar1/2/3 (CCX CLM), MT7612U (MAC channel timers) | Jaguar1/2/3, Kestrel (floor only) |
 | not available | Kestrel, RTL8733B — both report *no reading*, never zero | RTL8733B, MT7612U |
 
 Advertised statically by `AdapterCaps::busy_airtime_ok` /
diff --git a/src/AdapterCaps.h b/src/AdapterCaps.h
index a2c6adb8..772dd20d 100644
--- a/src/AdapterCaps.h
+++ b/src/AdapterCaps.h
@@ -280,10 +280,14 @@ struct AdapterCaps {
    * channel timers. FALSE on Kestrel (its NHM rides the halbb glue, not
    * NhmReader, so it has no CLM) and on the RTL8733B.
    *
-   * busy_airtime_measured: that reading has been separated arm-vs-quiet ON AIR
-   * for this family (tests/ccx_clm_probe.sh), not merely implemented. False on
-   * Jaguar1 (shares the validated Jaguar2 11AC map, unmeasured) and on the
-   * MT7612U (no adapter available). False-as-unmeasured, per the house rule.
+   * busy_airtime_measured: that reading has been separated from a quiet
+   * channel ON AIR for this family, not merely implemented. The harness is
+   * tests/busy_window_probe.sh, which pits an armed window against the quiet
+   * floor under a known load, and against each way a window can be spoiled.
+   * True today on all four backends that set busy_airtime_ok. The flag stays
+   * because the two facts are independent: a port can land the engine before
+   * anyone has run it on air, and false-as-unmeasured is the house rule for
+   * that state.
    *
    * rx_energy_ok: IRtlRadio::GetRxEnergy returns real phydm FA/CCA/IGI
    * counters. Always false on a non-Realtek radio; false on the RTL8733B and
diff --git a/tests/busy_window_selftest.cpp b/tests/busy_window_selftest.cpp
index 25c3d2f4..59eb0b18 100644
--- a/tests/busy_window_selftest.cpp
+++ b/tests/busy_window_selftest.cpp
@@ -244,6 +244,40 @@ int main() {
     check("early: consumed by the completed read", w.armed() ? 1 : 0, 0);
   }
 
+  /* --- the other half of that rule: a SPOILED window IS consumed.
+   *
+   * "Not elapsed" keeps the window because nothing disturbed it — the caller
+   * was merely early. Interrupted and Retuned are the opposite: the hardware
+   * window was re-armed underneath it, or it spans two channels, so there is
+   * nothing left to wait for.
+   *
+   * Consuming it is what hands the caller BACK to the sampled path.
+   * IRtlRadio::GetChannelBusy takes the armed branch on armed(), so a spoiled
+   * window left armed strands every later call there: `spoil_` is sticky
+   * (only arm() clears it), so each one re-enters the spoil branch and
+   * returns invalid-Retuned, and the sampled fallback is unreachable for
+   * every unrelated consumer until something re-arms or resets the window.
+   * Not a wrong number — a sensor that stops answering.
+   *
+   * Without this block the asymmetry is invisible to the suite: a build that
+   * keeps the window armed on EVERY verdict passes every other test in this
+   * file. It is exactly the difference a later editor removes while tidying,
+   * so it is asserted rather than only described in the header. --- */
+  {
+    MockBb bb;
+    ClmWindow w;
+    w.arm(regs, 240000, 0, bb.wr());
+    w.note_retune();
+    const ChannelBusy spoiled = w.read(regs, 0, bb.rd());
+    check("spoiled: refused", spoiled.valid, 0);
+    /* On the READING, not just in last_spoil(): the block above checks the
+     * accessor, so a branch that reported every spoil as Interrupted would
+     * pass it. What a consumer acts on is the field. */
+    check("spoiled: with its reason", static_cast<long>(spoiled.spoil),
+          static_cast<long>(BusySpoil::Retuned));
+    check("spoiled: window consumed", w.armed() ? 1 : 0, 0);
+  }
+
   /* --- reading without arming is not a quiet channel --- */
   {
     MockBb bb;
diff --git a/tests/channel_busy_selftest.cpp b/tests/channel_busy_selftest.cpp
index c412ac95..bf42cfee 100644
--- a/tests/channel_busy_selftest.cpp
+++ b/tests/channel_busy_selftest.cpp
@@ -219,6 +219,21 @@ int main() {
             static_cast<long>(b.spoil),
             static_cast<long>(BusySpoil::Interrupted));
     }
+    { /* The negative control for the block above. The SAME dead counters
+       * with no window armed are the sampled path finding a backend that is
+       * not counting — "no sensor here", which is what a bare invalid
+       * reading means, and it must stay bare. A build that reported a spoil
+       * reason here would tell every sampled caller that its window was
+       * lost, when it never armed one.
+       *
+       * This is what pins the `w.armed &&` half of the guard: without it the
+       * reason leaks onto the sampled path and no other test notices. */
+      ChTimeWindow w; /* unarmed */
+      const ChannelBusy b = busy_from_ch_time_window(w, 0, 0, 250000, false, 0);
+      check("mt unarmed over dead counters: no reading", b.valid, 0);
+      check("mt unarmed over dead counters: and no window to have lost",
+            static_cast<long>(b.spoil), static_cast<long>(BusySpoil::None));
+    }
   }
 
   if (g_fail) {