Ham Satting

Amateur Radio Sat Tracker

Free

Track amateur radio satellites in real time, predict passes, log QSOs, hunt grid squares — with a live APRS map layer and the new Music Broadcast service. Built by a fellow ham (A41UX) — free of analytics, ads, and tracking. CORE FEATURES • Real-time tracking for FM/SSB linear birds (e.g. ISS, SO-50, etc.), digipeaters (e.g. GRBBeta, Foresail-1p, etc), SSTV + SSDV image birds (e.g. Lobachevsky, GEOSCAN 1-6 , etc.), Weather LRPT (Meteor-M N2-3 / N2-4), and Music Broadcast (e.g. BALKAN-1, Flamingo-1, etc) • Pass predictions with quality indicators (Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor), AOS / LOS, max elevation, duration, azimuth • Interactive footprint mapping with live position + great-circle bearing lines • Compass dialog with theme-aware export image and watermark • AR Tracking (iPhone / iPad) using device compass + accelerometer • Multi-satellite tracking and side-by-side pass comparison • Five-mode AR audio recording (iPhone / iPad): SSTV, SSDV, Digital, Weather, Music — Doppler-corrected RX labelling; consistent WAV naming NEW IN APRIL 2026 • Music Broadcast: 4 satellites transmit short music tones as an RF identifier instead of CW Morse — T.MicroSat-1 plays Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" on 401.025 MHz; BALKAN-1, Flamingo-1, OTP-2 use classical / video-game themes. RX-only on UHF 400-402 MHz; brown toggle on AR page records the pass. • Scheduled Service Events: register a temporary frequency override for SSTV, SSDV, Digital, or Weather (Meteor-M rotation, ARISS channel shifts, etc.) • APRS digipeater added on SONATE-2 (DP0SNX) and NO-44 (PCSAT, W3ADO-1) on 145.825 MHz simplex • IO-86 SSDV downlink added on 145.880 MHz • AMSAT Live Activity Indicator: every prediction card carries a 24-hour activity dot in AMSAT cell colors, sourced from the AMSAT Live OSCAR Satellite Status page. Tap for a 48-hour popup with individual reports per cell (callsign + grid + UTC slot), attribution, and a compact share-image. • 10 new satellites with permanent NORADs: TO-108, GRBBeta, Foresail-1p, Horizon, 239Alferov, Luca, BALKAN-1, Flamingo-1, OTP-2, T.MicroSat-1 • APRS Live Map Layer: read-only APRS-IS feed, age-fading trails, 40+ symbol mappings, SSID filters, heard-by via aprs.fi • SSTV Decoder: multi-mode (Robot 36, PD 120 / 180, Martin, Scottie, Wraase, AVT, etc.) • Q1 2026 batch: 8 new satellites added (HADES-SA, PARUS-T3, HYPERVIEW-1G, MAGNARO-II Piscis, ARICA-2, FSI-SAT2, ZERO-II, OrigamiSat-2) • UI: long sat names auto-fit at any Font Scale; filter pills always one row; (i) info icons; 125 in-app tips LOGGING + AWARDS + EXPORT • Full QSO logbook: callsign, grid, mode, freq (TX / RX), satellite, RST, distance, bearing • Grid Hunters VUCC tracking with worked-grids map + great-circle paths from QTH • Per-QSO QSL card export — themed PNG ready to share or print • Export to ADIF (LoTW / TQSL), JSON, or CSV • Maidenhead 4 / 6 / 8-character grids • DXCC + VUCC dashboards, distance + bearing stats, worked-by-band charts • Calendar integration; smart pass notifications with min-elevation filter TECHNICAL • Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (Apple Silicon + Intel). AR Tracking and live audio recording are iPhone / iPad features; pass prediction, logging, exports, mapping, and the AMSAT indicator run on every Apple device. • N2YO API for orbital data (free key required for non-ISS satellites) • Cached satellite catalogue works offline • Privacy-first: data stays on device, no analytics SDKs, no advertising IDs, no tracking. APRS-IS, N2YO, AMSAT Live OSCAR Status, and the optional aprs.fi REST are the only network calls PERFECT FOR • Amateur radio operators pursuing satellite communications • AMSAT members and CubeSat / PocketQube enthusiasts • Contest participants and award hunters (DXCC, VUCC, satellite awards) • SDR listeners curious about Music Broadcast on 400-402 MHz 73 — A41UX (Unixeer, Oman)

  • 3.0
    out of 5
    4 Ratings

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

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Seller
Yousif AL Balushi
Size
32.2 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
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