SatMe

SatMe stays with the radio amateur through an entire satellite pass: when it rises, where to aim, which frequency to use, and logging the contact without letting go of the antenna.

🛰 PASSES
• 48-hour forecast computed on the phone, even offline
• AOS, LOS, maximum elevation and polar track for every pass
• Live satellite status from AMSAT and SatNOGS
• Alerts before each pass of your favourites

🎯 AIMING
• Phone compass, or a WitMotion Bluetooth module fixed to the antenna
• Guided calibration, rings that turn green when you are in the beam

📻 FREQUENCIES AND RADIO
• Doppler correction on receive and transmit, linear and FM transponders
• CAT control: Icom IC-9700, a pair of Yaesu FT-817, FT-817 with an SDR dongle
• USB knob and keys to tune the VFO during the pass

✍ LOGBOOK
• A callsign keypad built for one hand, with memory of your contacts
• Upload to and fetch from Wavelog or Cloudlog, QRZ grids and LoTW confirmations
• ADIF export and PDF activation sheets

🗺 GRID SQUARES
• Your neighbouring grids: worked, confirmed, or still new
• Maidenhead map with POTA parks

📸 QRV PHOTO
• Callsign, grid, flag and pass track burned in, ready to share

📡 LIVE DEMONSTRATION
• Your audience follows the pass on their own phone, nothing to install: position, frequencies, contacts and receive audio
• Remote listening between two SatMe phones on the same network

🎙 ALSO
• Pass recording with contact markers
• Shared skeds and hams.at announcements
• Status reports sent to AMSAT
• FT8, FT4 and SSTV decoding, RTL-SDR dongle

Some features are still being field-tested — GS-232 and rotctld rotators, QO-100 screen, radiosondes — and say so clearly on screen.

Transmitting requires an amateur radio licence.

Developed by F4IOZ.