HotPaw Basic vs QSO Globe

Calling all early-personal-computing fans, remember typing Basic programs into your home computer? HotPaw Basic recreates the retro-experience of a text-mode Basic interpreter, and it runs right on your iPhone or iPad. You can also use HotPaw Basic as a programmable calculator, or for displaying simple line graphics. The HotPaw Basic interpreter supports the minimal Basic language, including: Commands: let if then else endif dim data read restore for to step next while wend goto gosub return ? print input open close end stop mat run new list del save load dir cls rem Functions: int() abs() sgn() rnd() sqr() exp() log() log10() sin() cos() tan() atn() len() val() asc() str$() chr$() hex$() mid$() timer() date$ time$ pi Operators: + - * / mod ^ = and or xor not Also includes new command and functions to support line graphics, Morse Code audio, FFT analysis, GPS location, MQTT and BTLE communications. Line numbers are required. Type in the text of your program and type "run" to run them. See: http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/basic/iphone/ for a more complete description of the Basic language syntax, commands and functions which this Basic interpreter supports.

Log a contact and watch it fly. QSO Globe is a ham radio logbook built around a living 3D globe. Every QSO you log launches a golden arc from your station to theirs — across a planet that shows the real day and night, with the greyline crawling as you operate. THE GLOBE • Real solar terminator — watch dawn and dusk sweep the earth and work the greyline like the old-timers taught • City lights at night, band-colored arcs, a pulsing beacon at your QTH • Country outlines, animated / static / dots-only line styles, km or miles LOG FAST • Callsign + LOG is enough — everything else is optional • Tap a band chip and the frequency prefills; reports fill themselves (59/599) • Dupe warnings the POTA way (call + band + mode per UTC day) • Session log and lifetime log, swipe to delete, UTC times throughout • A drawn-in-app band plan reference, one tap away POTA, PROPERLY • Activation mode: enter your park by ref or name and your arcs launch from it • Live spots: activators on the air appear as green pins — tap one and the log bar fills itself • Park-to-park contacts resolve to the actual park KEEP YOUR LOG YOURS • ADIF import and export, ready for LoTW and POTA uploads • Push to QRZ Logbook and eQSL with your own accounts • No account, no analytics — everything stays on your phone END THE SESSION WITH A SOUVENIR • Replay your session, arc by arc • A share card that tells the truth: "WORKED 4 COUNTRIES ON 2 CONTINENTS" only when you actually did Made by one ham for the rest of us. 73!