Ham Imaging can now read your radio, and key it if you choose. A new Rig control (CAT) panel in Settings connects to your radio over your network — rigctld, FLRig, Icom WLAN, Kenwood KNS, an Elecraft K4, serial over TCP, TCI or the FlexRadio API — or straight over Bluetooth LE, an IC-705 for example. It stays off until you switch it on. While it is connected, the MHz box on the QSO tab and the Frequency box on Receive follow your radio by themselves, and the contact you are working takes the frequency, so every contact carries its band. Ham Imaging only reads your radio: it never changes your frequency, mode or split. Transmit keying stays VOX unless you choose CAT PTT: then Send keys the radio before the first tone and releases it when the picture ends or you stop it. The app checks that the radio really keyed and really let go, will not key a radio that is already transmitting, and releases it after the picture's own length plus 8 seconds whatever happens. Hunt on the QSO tab now starts with Their CQ, with a Listen button that works before you pick a photo: read their callsign off the decoded picture, type it in, tick the step, and Your report comes next. A new QSO Management panel in Settings opens your past contacts, exports them as ADIF or JSON for Ham Logging, another logger or a log service, and clears them after asking. Every past contact has a pencil, to correct their callsign, the reports or MHz and to add their grid as the station sent it, before you export. About has a fifth link, Licences & Notices. A tap just under a text box now reaches what you tapped, and on a small phone with the largest font a question's two buttons no longer cut the second one off. de A41UX 73

Decode a saved recording, in more formats — the file button beside Receive used to open a WAV file and nothing else. It now opens what the Tools tab opens: WAV, MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG and FLAC. Pick the recording and its picture is decoded exactly as it would be from the air. A recording longer than any single SSTV picture, a whole pass for example, is handed to Tools with one tap, where you trim the part you want; a video goes there too; and a file that is not a recording is refused by name, in a sentence. OGG recordings of the common kind — the kind a SatNOGS recording of a satellite pass is — now open in Receive and in Tools: where the system has no decoder for them, the app uses its own, offline like everything else. Audio files are now read by the system’s audio-file reader, to the last sample — which matters because the end of a recording is the bottom of its picture. A recording handed from Receive to Tools no longer leaves a copy of itself behind in temporary storage. And the About page now has four links on one row — User Manual, Support, Version History and Privacy Policy — with the Privacy Policy opening in your browser. A message that carries a button, Saved to Ham Imaging Gallery with TO PHOTOS for one, now goes away by itself after seven seconds instead of staying until it is swiped. de A41UX 73

Trim a Recording — the Tools panel now takes an audio file as well as a video. Hand it a pass you recorded in Ham Satting, an HF session from Ham Listening, a screen recording, or a file somebody sent you, and the phone reads the sound out of it with its own decoder. When a recording opens, the app looks through all of it for SSTV headers and marks each one on the waveform, listing the ones in view with the mode and its two times — tap one and the times are filled in for you. They are hints, and you still place the edges yourself: drag a handle, type the start and end exactly with Set times, nudge by one, three or five seconds, or zoom in with the plus and minus buttons on whichever end you are working. A single recording often carries several pictures in different modes, so the mode picker returns to Auto after every decode and the ones you have already done stay crossed off the list. A picture decoded from a recording is now stamped with when it was RECEIVED, worked out from the recording's own file name plus how far into it you trimmed — so a pass decoded days later no longer carries today's date into your log, and the frequency in the name is filled in for you as well. From Files now always opens the phone's own file browser rather than its photo library. Decode a saved recording, on the Receive tab, checks the length first and offers to open a long one in Tools instead of trying to read it whole. A recording already in the form the app reads opens instantly and uses no extra space at all; the panel tells you how much room it is using, and the copies your file browser makes are now cleared after each pick instead of being kept. de A41UX 73

Tools — pull SSTV pictures out of a video. Screen-record a satellite pass or an HF stream, hand the video to the app, and it reads the sound out with the phone's own decoder and draws it as a waveform you trim by hand. An overview strip crosses a long recording in one drag, a zoomed strip sets each end precisely, and one- and five-second nudges place the edges when a thumb cannot. A pass often carries two or three different pictures rather than repeating one, so the recording stays loaded: trim, decode, save, then drag to the next picture and decode that, without importing anything again — the parts you have already done stay marked on the waveform. Play selection checks you caught the right part through the phone's own loudspeaker; nothing in Tools goes on the air. Save WAV hands the trimmed audio to the share sheet for Files, mail, or any other SSTV software, and a picture decoded here offers the same Save, Share and Save to Photos actions as one received live. Saving a received picture now says “Saved to Ham Imaging Gallery” instead of just “gallery”, so it is clear the picture went to the app's own Gallery tab and not to your photo library — and the same message offers a one-tap TO PHOTOS if that is where you wanted it. Nothing ever reaches your photo library without you asking. The save button no longer goes quietly dead once a picture is saved; it now tells you the picture is already in the Gallery. Also fixed: a long mode name such as Wraase SC2-180 could run past the edge of the mode picker on narrower phones. de A41UX 73

SSTV QSO — work a station, not just a picture A new QSO tab, second along the bottom. Pick one photo, choose whether you are calling CQ or hunting someone else's call, and walk down the steps. Each step either sends a picture or listens for theirs. Your callsign, grid and the signal report are baked onto the picture for you, and the same photo carries the whole contact. You can add a short message of your own — up to 28 characters, with a countdown — which rides your CQ and your 73. You also choose where the text sits: Split (the default) puts the identity row at the top, so it decodes in the first seconds, with the grid, report and message at the bottom; Top and Bottom put everything at one end. With two long callsigns the identity splits too and your own call rides below. Up to 1.1.1 everything sat in one band along the bottom — pick Bottom to keep that. The Imaging tab's Transmit overlay follows the same choice; the chips on the QSO tab are where you change it. If a contact runs long, + Add round appends another send-and-listen pair. You stay in charge of the radio. The app never keys your rig, never decides a reply has arrived and never ticks a step for you — you do that when you are happy with it. Reports use RSV (Readability, Strength, Video), default 595, and you can type whatever you actually heard and saw. Portable and reciprocal callsigns are handled properly. A41UX/P, A6/A41UX/M, ZL4ABC/MM all fit: if a pair of long calls will not sit on one line, the picture lays them out over two rather than cutting one short. A truncated callsign is a wrong callsign. If something still will not fit — Robot 12's raster is too short for a QSO identity row — the app asks first. A contact survives being interrupted. Every picture and the contact's details are written to its own folder as they happen, so if the phone reclaims the app while you are looking something up, the QSO tab picks up where you left off. A finished contact and its pictures are kept under Past contacts — the clock icon at the top of the QSO tab. They never reach the Gallery and never reach your photo library on their own; Save to Photos and Share are always an explicit tap. Save to Photos Save to Photos is available on every picture — in the Gallery, on a QSO step, and on a past contact. It is always an explicit tap; nothing is ever copied to your photo library on its own. Fixed: pictures disappearing from the Gallery A serious bug. If you opened the app, received or sent a picture and saved it WITHOUT visiting the Gallery tab first, the gallery index was rewritten with only that one picture and every earlier entry vanished from the list. The image files themselves were never deleted, but the app could no longer see them. That is fixed. Pictures already lost from the list before this update cannot be recovered automatically — they are still in the app's storage, but there is no reliable way to rebuild the date, mode and callsign that went with them. Also fixed Changing your callsign or grid in Settings now takes effect immediately on the Transmit tab. Previously the old callsign stayed on the picture until you restarted the app. The transmit fields can no longer be edited while a picture is going out, which could swap the picture mid-transmission. If a picture cannot be prepared in the mode you chose, the app now says so and puts the mode picker back, instead of quietly transmitting in the previous mode. A transmission that fails for lack of storage now says so, instead of reporting an audio problem. Leaving the Transmit tab mid-picture now asks first — it used to stop the transmission silently, with the rig still keyed. The temporary file used for transmitting is now cleaned up. A cancelled long picture could leave around 26 MB behind indefinitely. The app no longer declares a microphone or Bluetooth as required hardware. Both were being implied automatically, which could hide Ham Imaging from devices that are perfectly able to run it.

Sharing a contact to Ham Logging now actually works The gallery's ADIF action used to copy a snippet to the clipboard and tell you to paste it into Ham Logging. There was nowhere to paste it — Ham Logging has no paste import — and saving the text as a file imported nothing, behind a cheerful green "0 QSOs imported". The action is now Share ADIF: it writes a proper .adi file you hand to Ham Logging's Import ADIF, and the contact lands. Two things inside that file were wrong as well. The SSTV mode was written as an ADIF submode, but the standard gives SSTV no submodes at all, so that value could only ever be dropped — or worse, get an upload rejected by a logger that kept it. The mode name now travels in the comment, where free text belongs. And a picture from the ISS is now marked as a satellite contact, so your logbook stops treating it as an ordinary 2 m QSO and can match it up properly. Band and frequency now travel together or not at all, so a picture received outside the amateur bands no longer exports a frequency with no band beside it. 73 de A41UX

Decode a picture from a saved recording Receive has a new folder button, just right of the Receive button. Pick a WAV recording and Ham Imaging decodes it exactly as if the audio had come from the air — same decoder, same result. Useful when the signal has already passed: record it off the radio, or off a web receiver, and decode it afterwards at your leisure. It reads mono or stereo, 8 to 32-bit, at any sample rate, and if a file cannot be used it says why in plain words. Auto (VIS) now decodes stations that are slightly off frequency If your receiver sat even 90 Hz away from the signal, Ham Imaging read the picture's header as noise and refused to identify the mode — so Auto (VIS) failed on transmissions that decoded perfectly well if you chose the mode by hand. It now measures how far off the signal is and reads the header relative to that. Nothing changes for stations that are already spot on. The tuning meter now tells you the truth The little level bar was on a linear scale, so a strong, perfectly decodable signal moved it barely a fifth of the way and the "too hot" warning could never appear at all. That is backwards advice: a dead-looking meter invites turning the volume up, and too much volume is exactly what stops a picture decoding. The bar is now on a proper audio (decibel) scale — a good signal sits high, a quiet one is still clearly visible, and if the input really is too loud the bar turns red so you know to turn it down. 73 de A41UX