Blog
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Mobiles nearby: an alert when a moving station comes into range
How Mobiles nearby in APRS Connect decides a moving station is close enough to work, what the range and frequency settings do, and what it cannot see.
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The audio modem hears more
In version 1.10.0 the software modem copies weaker and more distorted packets, repairs slightly damaged ones, and has a switch for how much of the phone it spends listening.
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Taking the map where there is no signal
How the APRS Connect map keeps drawing with no signal, the difference between the tile cache and a downloaded region, and what a radio still does offline.
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A digipeater that waits its turn
APRS Connect 1.8.0 can run your phone as a fill-in digipeater that stays quiet when another digipeater already repeated the packet, or as a wide-area one if that is genuinely your job.
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Where your signal has actually reached a digipeater
The coverage layer in APRS Connect 1.8.0 is a heat map of the places a transmitter provably reached a digipeater from: your own, everyone's, or one digipeater's footprint.
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Pinned stations
Star a station in APRS Connect 1.8.0 and it sorts to the top, is followed on APRS-IS wherever it goes, and can be the only thing on the map, the list and the packet log.
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Your grid square, and the distance to any other
APRS Connect 1.8.0 has a Grid square screen: your own Maidenhead locator, and the distance and bearing to any other locator or callsign, worked out on the phone with no connection.
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The tab bar is yours to arrange
In APRS Connect 1.8.0 the More menu is gone. The tab bar is the first row of a drawer holding every screen in the app, and you drag tiles to decide what sits on the bar and which screen the app opens on.
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Your phone as an IGate
APRS Connect 1.8.0 can gate traffic between your radio and APRS-IS in either direction, and it transmits only for stations your radio has actually heard.
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Retry when heard: a message that waits for the other station
Why APRS messages fail, how retry when heard waits for the other station, what the Waiting to be heard list shows, and where QRX fits in.