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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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What's new in APRS Connect 1.8.0
APRS Connect 1.8.0 is on Google Play: an IGate, a digipeater, a digipeater coverage map, pinned stations, a grid square tool, and a tab bar you arrange yourself. Every feature, with a link to its post and its documentation.
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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.