I've got lots of plans for what you will be able to do with Hamadapter. Let's list them:
- Use Hamadapter to Control amateur radio transceivers and receivers, including base stations, mobile stations, handheld transceivers, SDRs, and remote receiving stations. Control multiple radios at the same time in a coordinated way.
- Listen to and understand more communications with tools and analysis powered by machine learning: transcription, QSO assistance, denoising, signal classification, and wideband "skimming." Hamadapter will Demodulate and decode the most popular and some unpopular communication modes.
- Log your contacts effortlessly, more quickly, and with more detail than ever. Logs can include automatic transcription, geographical and time-related information, information about the environment such as solar weather, and high-resolution power, loss, and reflection measurements. Analyze your logged data later to help you improve your station and achieve your goals.
- Tune your setup and plan using valuable tools for analysis. These include solar weather, HF propagation analysis, antenna analysis and design, repeater registries, noise analysis and noise reduction, and reduction, as well as simple calculators that are commonly needed.
- Connect with amateur radio communities such as QRZ.com, POTA, SOTA, LotW, and others. Update QSO logs and synchronize them between multiple providers.
- Learn using interactive educational resources built into Hamadapter that guide you to helpful solutions and improvements without being overbearing—no boring videos or books to read.
- Plan your contacts and activities with propagation prediction, DX window identification, net calendars, and satellite windows.
- Do a lot of these things without a radio through online shared receivers. Share your receiver with friends.
Not all of this can be version 1, of course! That's why I intend to embark on this project carefully. The first thing I will be working on will be the "front-end" of the radio usage. To make that work, I want to make this application the greatest SWL (shortwave listening) application you have ever experienced. If you can't hear them, you can't work them. It's better in radio to have good ears and a weak mouth than a large mouth and no ears - sometimes called an "Alligator" by amateur operators.
This blog will contain a series of posts documenting the app's development. It will be pretty simple - I will be covering the broad design ideas of the app and how it works rather than getting into the nitty-gritty of the code itself. Remember, this app isn't open-source and does not have plans to be. These articles allow those interested in an app like this to follow its development.
The first posts will be a series on the overall architecture of the audio pipeline and culminate in the "panadapter display," which will be a central feature of the app. Be aware that what you'll see here is some initial iteration and experimentation - I expect the final product to be radically different. I also may keep some details private to maintain some delightful surprises for when the app launches.