# OrbitDeck — Ham satellite tracker & CAT

> Ham satellite tracker & CAT (iPhone/iPad app by Paul Stoetzer.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orbitdeck/id6802070968 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Paul Stoetzer](https://appshunter.io/developer/6802070970)
- Category: Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-20
- Data updated: 2026-09-29
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orbitdeck/id6802070968/reviews.md

## What is OrbitDeck?

OrbitDeck is a complete amateur-radio satellite station for iPhone and iPad. Track the birds, predict passes, tune your radio for Doppler, decode images, and log your contacts — all from live orbital elements.

TRACK & PREDICT
• Live look angles, range, range-rate, sub-point, and footprint
• Next-pass predictions with quality scoring and elevation profiles
• Daily schedule of every favorite's passes, ordered by AOS
• Ground-track map, multi-day pass progression, and an all-sky radar
• Animated 3D globe and a polar sky plot with AOS/LOS and direction-of-travel arrows

WORK THE BIRDS
• Four-dial Doppler for DX plus a single-station playbook
• Per-satellite calibration shared across every Doppler screen
• Link budgets, SatNOGS transponder data, AO-7 mode timer, and mutual-visibility windows

RIG CONTROL (CAT)
• Doppler-tune your transceiver over a Bluetooth serial adapter or an Icom network (Wi-Fi) radio
• Icom CI-V, Yaesu, Kenwood (including TS-2000/790 satellite mode), and any Hamlib radio via rigctld
• One full-duplex radio, a separate uplink/downlink pair, or two radios; follows your dial as you tune

ROTATOR CONTROL
• Azimuth/elevation control via GS-232, Easycomm, SPID, rotctld, PstRotator, SAEBRTrack, and OZ9AAR URC

DIGITAL MODES & AUDIO
• Over a USB audio interface or Icom network audio: record a pass, decode SSTV (Doppler-aware, with a post-pass re-decode and image fix-up), and work full-duplex FT4 on a linear transponder

LOGGING
• On-device QSO log with ADIF export and LoTW and Cloudlog/Wavelog upload

Plus orbital analysis, live space weather, MUF/propagation, and classic OSCARLOCATOR overlays.

OrbitDeck works fully as a tracker with no radio and no account. Rig control, rotator control, SSTV, and FT4 require your own amateur-radio equipment and a valid license; transmit only within your privileges.

Orbital elements from AMSAT and CelesTrak; transponder data from SatNOGS; space weather from NOAA SWPC. FT4/FT8 use the MIT-licensed ft8_lib.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-21

No release notes.

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