FT Ham vs PhosphorTEX

FT Ham – FT8/FT4 Decoder & Audio Transmitter for Amateur Radio. FT Ham puts a complete FT8 and FT4 station in your pocket. Decode, reply and log QSOs from your iPhone or iPad in real time. Decoding runs entirely on your device. No interface yet? Hold your iPhone near your radio's speaker and start decoding in minutes. WHAT YOU NEED - A transceiver that can work in USB mode (upper sideband), on HF, VHF or UHF. - To receive: just your device. Place it next to the radio speaker and the built-in microphone picks up the signals. - To transmit and get the best decodes: an audio connection between the radio and your device, such as a radio with built-in USB audio, a USB sound card or an audio interface cable. - An amateur radio license to transmit. Anyone can listen. WHAT FT HAM DOES - Live waterfall: color palettes, level controls and a label on every decoded signal. Tap near a signal to reply. - Real-time decoding: FT8 and FT4 from the microphone or a USB audio interface, with callsign, report, SNR and country. - Transmit: FT8 and FT4 audio for CQ, reports, RRR and 73, aligned to UTC slots and played through the speaker or your radio interface. - Auto QSO sequencing: answers CQ, follows even and odd cycles, retries when needed and logs the QSO when it is complete. - Manual control at any time: choose any message yourself. - Clear decode list: columns, an active QSO bar, NEW GRID and NEW DXCC badges and a Needed filter. - Call alerts: sound, vibration or a notification when someone calls you or a watched station is heard. - Accurate timing: slots follow network time for more reliable decodes. - Compound callsigns, optional 11 m and CB callsigns, and HF to 23 cm bands. - Logbook: edit, batch select, filter by date, undo, and ADIF import and export. - Contact map: see your logged QSOs and coverage on a map. - English, German, Spanish, French and Italian. FT HAM PREMIUM (OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASE) - CAT radio control through rigctld on your computer, with frequency sync and PTT. - QRZ Logbook, LoTW and eQSL upload with confirmation sync. - PSK Reporter spotting. - QSO statistics: charts by band and mode, DXCC counter and activity heatmaps. - iPad dashboard with the waterfall and messages side by side. Everything that was free before stays free. Premium is not a subscription. PRIVACY Your logbook and settings stay on your device. FT Ham sends anonymous crash reports and usage statistics (you can turn statistics off). QRZ, LoTW, eQSL and PSK Reporter only receive data after you turn them on. Full details at ftham.turrion.dev/privacy. GOOD TO KNOW FT Ham only produces audio and your radio does the transmitting. Always follow your local regulations. The FT Ham core is open source under the MIT License. Premium features are proprietary. Third-party licenses are listed in the app.

PhosphorTEX decodes NAVTEX maritime safety broadcasts in real time on your iPhone or iPad. Tune a receiver to 518 kHz, 490 kHz or 4209.5 kHz, hold your device near the speaker, and watch navigational warnings, gale warnings, ice reports and search-and-rescue notices arrive on an authentic phosphor CRT display. No internet connection required. No account. Nothing leaves the device. WHAT NAVTEX IS NAVTEX (Navigational Telex) is the worldwide maritime safety broadcast of the IMO's Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS). Coast stations send storm warnings, navigational hazards, search-and-rescue notices and weather forecasts to ships at sea, each station in its own ten-minute slot. PhosphorTEX puts that live feed on your screen. SIGNAL PROCESSING PhosphorTEX decodes CCIR 476 SITOR-B entirely on the device, with signal processing written for the app: Synchronous 7-bit decoding with phase-locked clock recovery Automatic character alignment that finds the character boundary on its own Automatic polarity detection, so maritime receivers and SDR tuning both work with no toggles Automatic frequency control that finds and tracks the 170 Hz tone pair anywhere from 800 to 2500 Hz Every character checked against the NAVTEX error code, with errors shown rather than guessed Error statistics for every message, measured against the second copy NAVTEX sends of each character Live 512-point FFT spectrum and scrolling waterfall FIVE TABS DECODE: every message as a colour-coded card, with the station letter, subject, serial number, UTC time, a signal quality badge and the full text. Switch to TAPE for the raw teleprinter stream. SIGNAL: FFT spectrum with mark and space cursors, a scrolling waterfall, mark and space tone bars, and an FEC HEALTH panel showing how cleanly each character arrived. SCHEDULE: a built-in database of 43 NAVTEX coast stations across thirteen NAVAREAs, from Cullercoats, Niton and Malin Head to Reykjavik, Las Palmas, Singapore and Valparaíso. A live grid shows which stations transmit in the current ten-minute slot against a running UTC clock. LOG: every decoded message kept on the device, with its header, time, full text and error statistics. Copy, share or delete a message, or export them all as text. CONFIG: amber or green phosphor, three text sizes, automatic or manual tuning, mark and space inversion, alert colours for search-and-rescue and vital messages, and a mute list for subjects you do not want on the cards. Search-and-rescue messages can never be muted. IPHONE AND IPAD On iPad PhosphorTEX runs natively in every orientation, with larger type and the cards, spectrum, waterfall and station schedule opened out across the full width of the screen. PRIVACY PhosphorTEX makes no network requests. No account, no cloud, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party code. Audio is processed in memory as it arrives and is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere. The microphone is used only while decoding. WHERE TO FIND NAVTEX 518 kHz carries the international service in English, 490 kHz carries national services in local languages, and 4209.5 kHz carries the tropical HF service. Any receiver that covers these frequencies with SSB will do, and so will WebSDR audio played through a speaker. REQUIREMENTS iPhone or iPad with a microphone iOS or iPadOS 26.4 or later A receiver tuned to a NAVTEX frequency, or WebSDR audio played through a speaker No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No network access. PhosphorTEX is part of the Phosphor range of retro-CRT radio tools, alongside PhosphorRTTY, PhosphorCW, PhosphorFeld and PhosphorSSTV.