iFTx

App works in a basic sense, but needs basic CAT to trigger the PTT for RX. A USB-C cable betewwen the iPad and Xiegu x6200 results in audio going back and forth but you have to trigger the PTT manually. Less than ideal. One of the advantages of radios like this is the built in sound card and USB-C data flow and control. It doesn't have VOX so we're out of luck that way. Note that you can acoustically couple the iPad to the radio by simply setting the two near each other. The iPad decides the sound out of the radio speaker just fine, and the radio accepts the sound from the iPad, but only if you keybtge handset manually at the correct moment.

Let me say that this works, and sometimes I think it “hears” more than my laptop running WSJTX. I have run it with my Elecraft KX2 and a Digirig no problem and activated several parks with it running on a iPad Mini and IPad Air, I have not tried it on my IPhone. Much lighter and easier footprint than bringing a laptop along. It is not, however, as “flexible” as WSJT-X. By that, i mean, if you have several stations calling you, your callsign is not highlighted in the large “Listen” page, you have to go back and hunt through everything you are receiving, though perhaps under the “reply” page the developer can add all that stations calling your callsign with all of the stations calling ‘CQ’. I also would like a feature to clear all of the “QSO”s in the “log” versus having to delete them individually. Though I only ask for this since I also found that it would always download the entire log, not just “new entries since last export”, which for a POTA guy makes managing each activation cumbersome. Overall, i give it 4 stars because it does a good job for what it does. Fix atleast those 2-3 issues above and I’d give it a full 5.

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.