M3OYQ Amateur Radio Station

M3OYQ’s Repeater Range Android App Home Page Click Here

There are a currently only a few apps on the Android platform specifically for amateur radio, so I thought I’d add my 2p worth.

I’ve recently written a simple free application for the android platform to help locate, and find useful information about the UK’s Amateur Radio Repeaters whilst out ant about.  The idea is that instead having to use the internet to lookup the appropriate CTCSS frequency, Tx/Rx frequency etc… for a particular repeater, you can see what settings you need to use on your radio by just running the app. - dont forget to switch your GPS on!

The main screen on Repeater Range shows a list that updates every 30 seconds with the distance and bearing of all the repeaters (nearest first) then if you select a particular repeater from the list you can see/update more detailed information.  If you’ve got an android phone - give it a try and let us know what you think.

Repeater Range Screen Shots

Scan the QR Code below with your android handset to find the app on the Android Market

M3OYQ’s Repeater Range Android App Home Page

As we are at a solar cycle minima everyone seems to be watching the sunspot number.  Once the number of sunspots rises the possibility of better HF contacts increases on the higher bands.

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can now display the sunspot number on your website as an embeddable widget.  The display colour changes with the sunspot number

To add the sunspot widget to your site cut and paste the following html code and add it to your page

<iframe width=100% src=http://www.m3oyq.com/widgets/sunspot_display.php scrolling=no frameborder=no></iframe>

You can also add it as a google gadget on your igoogle homepage

http://www.m3oyq.com/gg/daily_sunspot_number.xml

UK repeater google map is going to get widgetised next

Not really a fan of Facebook myself, but in the interests of a bit of experimentation I had a crack at making a very noddy ham radio application for Facebook.

You can add it to your Facebook applications by going to

http://apps.facebook.com/daily_sunspots/