[Elecraft] K3 Programmer's Reference iPhone App Available

[Jon Moody]

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