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Ipad Issues Resolved
Awsome App. More modes like WSPR and Winlink would be fun, or APRS. If your Ipad keeps randomly disconnecting try turning off your routers 5g radio forcing your Ipad to stay on 2g.
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Earl
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Fantastic App
I use this App for my ICOM 9700 around the house or when I’m away. It works WAY better than the official ICOM remote control software does and is more feature rich. Dual VFO Watch , for example, is not even a feature on the ICOM official software for the 9700. Great contribution and well worth the cost! This is a must if you have a IC-9700, 7610 or a 705Show lessDavydotcom
Great Potential - Disconnect Issues plague…
Overall this is a great app and comes strong out of the gate!
One thing I would like to see is an actual waterfall of which I can tap in my transmit location instead of having to input it manually. It’s just awkward the way it’s set up and not easy to do quickly or often.
I’m using an iPad Pro fourth generation. I am also experiencing the random disconnects from the IC-705. It gets tiring after a while. I would hope that there is an easy fix to this.
Minus the ever present random disconnects, I would give the app five stars! It’s still better than anything out there! Fix the disconnects and this is a rock solid app!Show lessW1WOW
Developer Response
Please contact me regarding the random disconnects. That’s of course not normal. Selecting TX or RX frequency directly from the waterfall is also already there. It’s explained in the App manual as well as possible causes and solutions of your connection issues but please feel free to contact me any time. I am always there to help.Connection drops
Ipad no longer stays connected.
Constantly drops wifi connection with the rig. At times it requires powering off and on again to reconnect.Joseph Holleran
Developer Response
Joseph, this must be an isolated issue on your end. Why don't you contact me and we can work on your issue together. I am always available for help. Please use the contact developer feature included in my App to contact me. Thanks. 73s, Marcus, DL8MREIcom IC-R8600 (experimental) works perfectly
Absolutely brilliant…
I have been using the free open source WFVIEW software to access the radio from my Mac, but find this iPad App to be a more elegant and superior highly mobile / portable platform.
Love the layout, functionality and awesome swipe tuning capability this app provides on the iPad.
Tempted to look at the developer’s Mac offering, but understand the price reflects comprehensive transceiver operability, so wish a receive only light version was available for IC-R8600 users.
Perhaps the IC-R8600 could be added to the list of supported products as it took a little research on the developer’s website to discover it was supported.
Thank you Marcus Roskosch (developer) - you are a legend!Show lessGuernsey Bunker
Lots of potential
I want to start off by saying I really like this app. I do a lot of portable operations such as POTA and keeping an iPad powered up is a lot easier than a laptop. I am running an iPad 2018 with latest update and the radio was an IC-705. I recently did a POTA activation where I used the app for approx. 24 hours straight using FT8. You could say I put it through the ringer. Overall, I enjoyed the user interface and how the app was setup. That being said, I found some nits that really need to be addressed. In order of severity.
1) All through the operating period, the app would randomly disconnect from the radio or completely shut down. It would often take several restarts to get it up and running again. Unfortunately, it would also clear all the data in the FT8 window. If you were in the middle of a QSO, you lose the data. For this reason, I am going to refrain from using this app until this get fixed. I turned my radio off and on and I restarted my iPad several times to no avail. The app was doing this enough to become annoying, and I did end up losing some QSO’s.
2) In FT8, the app has a pause function if another station contacts the DX first, the app waits until it hears a CQ from the DX before it will transmit again. However, other stations are transmitting their info to the DX before the DX calls CQ again, so you are caught waiting a long time while everyone else jumps ahead. I suggest the behavior be changed that the app allow transmit after 73 with a button push or automatically at CQ. Right now you can trick the app to transmit early, but it is a hassle.
3) Logging, change the auto log to log after the report exchange and not 73. It is the report that is important. What happens now, is if another stations transmits to you before 73, the app switches over to the new station, and the old QSO is lost and not logged.
4) Add at least one user defined field to the log that can be sticky. For POTA we use my_sig_info ADIF data field to record which park we are at (eg K-4450). This data field is necessary when uploading logs to the POTA portal. RumLog has a good example of this.
I know this is a long review. I like this app and I think once these few issues are taken care of it will be a great app. Right now my use of the app will be limited, but I am looking forward to future versions.Show lessScot123456789
Excellent value and ease of setup
After spending over an hour trying to get ICOMs RS-BA1 up and running, this app was recommended by a good friend. Took less than 5 minutes and I was making QSOs using my earbuds. Not much else to say, but a good, solid, product.WD0ERU
Brilliant!
I was a very early adopter of this app and sure enough at the beginning there were a few bugs which have been ironed out by the developer. There are constant updates and the app does exactly as asked. I run remotely as well as locally and not no issues as long as there’s a good connection to home. The Mac OSX app is also well worth considering for familiarity and more function. Great job! Don’t hesitate, especially for the 705!Show lessM0UJD
The killer ham app for IC-705
Works great, awesome built-in FT8, just wish it did JS8. The Mac app is also a must.san anton ham
Bit dodgy to link; doesn’t do International CW characters
Took me almost a week to get it to connect and then only direct from radio (IC-705) to iPad. All else now appears to work. At least the regular stuff.
. . . But if you work CW in Norwegian, German, Spanish or Italian, you won’t get Å or Ñ out of the CW keyer. And no cyrillic alphabet either. Strange, considering the developer is in Germany. Maybe an update?
. . . All in all, appears to be a pretty interesting app for armchair ops. Be interesting to try it on ARRL Field Day. ;-)Show lessW8IJN
