RepeaterPhone 4+
Connect to ham radio repeaters
Weston Bustraan
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- $7.99
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Description
Note: This app is for licensed Amateur Radio operators only.
RepeaterPhone provides the ability to connect your mobile device to EchoLink or AllStarLink nodes, including repeaters and conferences. Push to talk today!
You will need an account with either the EchoLink or AllStarLink networks. Please see https://www.echolink.org or https://www.allstarlink.org, respectively, for more details
- Push-to-talk interface
- Browse or search the directory for available nodes
- Mark favorites with a star for quick access
- Supports various audio devices, including Bluetooth headsets
- Fully integrated into your phone's recent call system
- Includes a watch extension for dialing favorites and controlling push-to-talk
- Sharing your device with a licensed family member? Switch accounts easily
What’s New
Version 1.1.6
Fixed crash due to concurrent callsign lookups
Ratings and Reviews
Exactly what we needed!
I want to start off by saying this app is absolutely fabulous. This fills the entire IAX hole for iPhone brilliantly.
Just one potential bug to report. We have a system around here that uses private nodes instead of public allstarlink nodes. I can make the IAX connection to them fine by adding it with node authentication in the favorites menu, but after I unkey when I talk with the app the node stays keyed as if I am still transmitting. The only way to stop it is to drop the connection. It looks on Supermon, like I never stopped transmitting but the audio is cut off.
Other than that this app is perfect.
Great start, needs a few features
I really appreciate what the dev has done here. Until this, only the one (beta, buggy) app allows for a direct allstar node connection. Anyway, this one works! Some wants in a perfect world: The watch app lacks the ability to hear through its speaker, and is merely a simple one-way PTT for the phone(Apple restriction). It'd be cool have more sorting for the large repeater list, and a last heard map/list which would be really useful. Another feature would be listen-only mode or just a dialer where I can connect to ASL nodes with allstar's codes like *72 etc... most of the nodes I regularly connect to like WinSys and hubnet error out with "Rejected: No authority found". I think the hub owners have blocked this type of client (and not DVSwitch which is weird). In any case, great effort by the dev and looking forward to seeing what it can become.
Update after reading dev response: most of the issues here are Apple's restrictions. Oh, Apple.
Developer Response ,
A couple clarifications: Apple does not provide developers with a way to access a live audio stream from an Apple Watch. The apps that appear to do that, like Apple's Walkie-Talkie app actually make a recording and send the recording. This isn't really workable in a VoIP situation like AllStar. The "No authority found" messages are because some node admins have decided to ban the "allstar-public" form of authentication. I would encourage you to email me your other suggestions at wbustraan@gmail.com so that I can get a better understanding of what you are looking for.
Finally!! iOS version has been made!
This is an excellent program and special
thanks to WES for making this happen! I would like to report a bug, and I have not been able to find any means of doing so. When connecting locally to a private node, Supermon stops reporting during the connection. Once I disconnect, everything returns on all allmon.
If I connect via AllStar network, it’s OK. It’s an interesting bug but I wanted to report it.
KA4EPS
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Information
- Seller
- Weston Bustraan
- Size
- 12.9 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Wes Bustraan W8WJB
- Price
- $7.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.