Phil, Those are some good ideas. Now a days in retirement I write iDevice Apps for fun and profit and I have been noticing more and more Ham Radio based apps. There is already a digital mode app for the iPad in case you were interested. It is called I-Psk31 but it has had mixed reviews. I too have been doing a lot of thinking about how to take advantage of the iPad. I think I might take on a digital mode app as I think that would be a great use of the iPad. There are also several other Ham Radio apps that I have been using. PockeSat3 which is pretty good on the iPhone; but what you could do with that data on the iPad is just mind boggling (I am easily boggled ;). ARRL Study exams even though that is really an iPhone application it really works well on the iPad. 3D Sun while technically not a Ham Radio app is still just really really cool. HF Beacons isn't too bad either but it is just a port of the PC versions and is just screaming for a more multi touch based interface. Using these apps in conjunction with either The Weather Channel App or the WunderMap really gives you a lot of the information that you need in one place for chasing DX or Sats.
I also think the iPad could be a way to centralize operation and control of all of your radios in one place either in the shack or even remotely. Can you imagine using an iPad in a Contest as a single operator multiple radios and moving frequencies around between the radios with just a flick of a finger? Or having a database that stored configurations that you could change at the flick of a finger ? I can imagine having one radio set to a really important frequency that you are monitoring in the background. When it hears something interesting it can then make that radio move from the background to the foreground alerting you and making control of that radio immediately available. It is definitely very interesting technology. If there are other ideas out their for the iDevices that you either don't have time or the expertise to implement I would be glad to discuss with you. -- Thanks Jon KG6VDW ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
