Ham Satting

Worked grids as squares on the map, SSTV satellites in the QSO entry, and rig control on the family's newest connection core. MAP • Under Enable Grid Hunting, "Show Worked Grids" is now "Show Worked Grids Icons", and a new tick, "Show Worked Grids Rectangles", draws each grid square you have worked as a green square of its real size, with its name, such as LL93, in yellow in its middle once the square is big enough. A tap inside a square picks that grid. The grid button shows and hides both. • The worked-grid dots are 15% smaller and grow and shrink with the zoom; showing them no longer makes them jump. SATELLITES • Seven SSTV satellites fill in the QSO entry, receive only, mode SSTV: VIZARD-METEO, GALAPAGOS-UTE-SWSU (HC1PX), MONITOR-3, MONITOR-4, UTMN-2, Sakhacube and Luca. Rig control tunes an SSTV downlink in FM. • UNNE-1B (HADES-E2), HADES-L and ERMINAZ-2V, now AMSAT-OSCAR 130 (AO-130), are tracked on their right catalogue numbers: the ones they had were early names given to three other satellites of the same launch. • New: ERMINAZ-2U, now AMSAT-OSCAR 129 (AO-129), a packet digipeater on 435.900, with SSDV pictures planned on the same channel. It arrives switched off; tick it in My Settings. RIG CONTROL (Experimental) • Rig control runs on the same connection core as Ham Signaling, Ham Logging and Ham Imaging. • Icom network and Kenwood KNS links have a Network username field; for KNS, choose Administrator or User. • The Bluetooth device field can stay empty for the first radio found, or hold the radio's name. • What only you can fix, such as a login the radio rejects, now stops rig control with one message saying why, instead of trying again and again. • An IC-705 keeps the identity it accepted, and now lists the app as HamSatting705: an IC-705 that already knew it asks once to accept it again, on the radio. YOUR KEYS AND PASSWORDS • On iPhone and iPad, your N2YO, Hams.at and aprs.fi keys, your APRS-IS passcode and your rig and rotator passwords now live in the Keychain. They move there by themselves the first time this version opens, and they stay on this device: on a new one, enter them again in My Settings. On a Mac they stay in the app's settings, as before. ALSO • On a small screen with the largest text, a question's second button sits below the first instead of being cut off. • If your saved settings cannot be read, the Settings page now says so each time you change something. 73 de A41UX