iFTx 4+

Interesting and Easy to use, lacks some features for now

I’m very excited for the progress on this app. The software seems there and it decodes and encodes FT8/FT4 just fine, but I hope it could be expanded to JS8call or other modes potentially in the future. It seems that running an integrated sound card such as the one in my Xiegu X6100 is not yet supported, as on both my iPad Pro 2020 and my iPhone 12 Pro connecting an Apple USB-C to C/Lightning cable was ignored and played the audio through the speaker. I hope in the future this method could be implemented as I would use it very regularly for SOTA in order to lighten my kit.

Decent application - couple minor nits

The program works very well and is very intuitive. A couple things that would make it almost perfect - first, fix the option to export only QSOs since the last export. It exports everything all the time. Second, add the option for station ID and Operator. Right now, if I operate with a club call sign, I have to manually edit the ADIF to indicate that I was the OP. Third, add the option to add a park number to the export. The MY SIG INFO field gets POTA, but again has to be edited to add in the entity.

ADIF includes unnecessary info

Works fine with internal sound card of QrpLabs QMX. My only complaint is that the ADIF output from the log contains superfluous info which makes importing into another application problematic as it reports that there are too many characters. The complete qso exchanges are sent as “message” and latitude and longitude of both ends of the qso are included. I had to edit the adif to remove this but would like it to have not included the data in the first case.

Developer Response ,

Hi Gary,
thank you very much for your constructive feedback. I fixed the longitude and latitude fields to comply with the ADIF standard and I added an option to exclude non-standard fields (application specific fields). The update will be available in a couple of days.