Great video. I am just getting into FT8 and don't want to spend any money. So I intend to use an old Android outdated free phone. A Chinese battery powered transceiver into my homemade mag Loop Antenna. That uses car brake pipe. The radio interface will be an old headphone cable I found on the pavement. Lastly a few capacitors resistors left over from other projects etc. Video to be uploaded soon. Cheers from old George in the UK 🇬🇧
I just purchased these apps for my iPhone and iPad about a week ago. I’ve got it setup up now and will be trying them out soon. Hopefully it will be worth it, LOL.
Would love to see a part two that gets a little more granular. I just got a 705 a couple of weeks ago and primarily operate portable, having the ability to easily run FT8 in the field to help activate a tough summit (or whatever) might be the perfect plan B.
I am not sure I agree with you. Small independent developers and a really well functioning app. This takes a lot of hours of development, and the sales are not as great as the more general app. They still need to get a return of investment on this. That being said it is really expensive. Thanks for commenting though, love your channel!
I love seeing the adventures of simplifying and miniaturizing radio and digital operations. Doing this can make a setup so much easier to pack and go, wherever you're going or traveling. 👍🍺Tom - WA7FLY
Absolutely. And since we are having The European Ham Radio Show meetup camping trip this weekend I have an alternate motive for exploring this. Being off grid for 48 hours makes you focus harder on power consumption.
Not the same app, but according to the University of UA-cam you can do the same with FT8CN, and guess what, I am going to try that out. Not sure if I will make a video on it though, as it would be very similar to a couple of other videos.
Great video. I am just getting into FT8 and don't want to spend any money. So I intend to use an old Android outdated free phone. A Chinese battery powered transceiver into my homemade mag Loop Antenna. That uses car brake pipe. The radio interface will be an old headphone cable I found on the pavement. Lastly a few capacitors resistors left over from other projects etc. Video to be uploaded soon. Cheers from old George in the UK 🇬🇧
That is some serious creativity. I love it!
I just purchased these apps for my iPhone and iPad about a week ago. I’ve got it setup up now and will be trying them out soon. Hopefully it will be worth it, LOL.
It is worth it if you are in an Apple only universe, if you also use Android you can just use FT8CN the exact same way.
Bear Down!!! 🏈
Interesting minimalist setup!
It is, but it doesn’t come cheap. Looking forward to testing it more though.
Would love to see a part two that gets a little more granular. I just got a 705 a couple of weeks ago and primarily operate portable, having the ability to easily run FT8 in the field to help activate a tough summit (or whatever) might be the perfect plan B.
I will be doing a follow up at some point, probably in a week or two.
Nice app, does it also do FT4? Shame it's only for iPhone/iPad
According to the manual it also does FT4, so I need to check that out.
Nice review, would like to understand the setup for both iPhone as the access point & 705 as the access point.
Then I will look into making a video on exactly that.
Looks like I don't need to do that, this video shows it in great detail: ua-cam.com/video/UNH5mdsCJ38/v-deo.html
Please make a deeper dive into this app.
I will probably do that, just give me a week or two.
When you load the app onto an iPhone, will it also be on your iPad?
I would assume you need to download it on your iPad as well.
The developers for this apps have a bad approach. Insteas of selling it a $79 they should sell lt a $19 and everyone would buy it happily
I am not sure I agree with you. Small independent developers and a really well functioning app. This takes a lot of hours of development, and the sales are not as great as the more general app. They still need to get a return of investment on this. That being said it is really expensive. Thanks for commenting though, love your channel!
I love seeing the adventures of simplifying and miniaturizing radio and digital operations. Doing this can make a setup so much easier to pack and go, wherever you're going or traveling. 👍🍺Tom - WA7FLY
Absolutely. And since we are having The European Ham Radio Show meetup camping trip this weekend I have an alternate motive for exploring this. Being off grid for 48 hours makes you focus harder on power consumption.
Does this work on an Android? 🤔
Not the same app, but according to the University of UA-cam you can do the same with FT8CN, and guess what, I am going to try that out. Not sure if I will make a video on it though, as it would be very similar to a couple of other videos.