SDR-Control For Icom Negative Reviews

SDR-Control for Icom App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

SDR-Control for Icom app received 6 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using SDR-Control for Icom? Can you share your negative thoughts about sdr-control for icom?

SDR-Control for Icom for Negative User Reviews

✓ Does NOT restore existing radio settings on exit.The current versions of both the Ipad and MacOS apps Do NOT restore existing radio Data Mod settings on exit which changes the audio in / out paths for the radio. The authors solution is to “manually restore” the settings on the radio after exit - not a useful solution for remote use. A well behaved (useful) app WILL restore existing radio settings on exit..Mollie9999Version: 1.0.3

✓ Great Potential - Disconnect Issues plague…Overall this is a great app and comes strong out of the gate! One thing I would like to see is an actual waterfall of which I can tap in my transmit location instead of having to input it manually. It’s just awkward the way it’s set up and not easy to do quickly or often. I’m using an iPad Pro fourth generation. I am also experiencing the random disconnects from the IC-705. It gets tiring after a while. I would hope that there is an easy fix to this. Minus the ever present random disconnects, I would give the app five stars! It’s still better than anything out there! Fix the disconnects and this is a rock solid app!.W1WOWVersion: 1.0.17

✓ Lots of potentialI want to start off by saying I really like this app. I do a lot of portable operations such as POTA and keeping an iPad powered up is a lot easier than a laptop. I am running an iPad 2018 with latest update and the radio was an IC-705. I recently did a POTA activation where I used the app for approx. 24 hours straight using FT8. You could say I put it through the ringer. Overall, I enjoyed the user interface and how the app was setup. That being said, I found some nits that really need to be addressed. In order of severity. 1) All through the operating period, the app would randomly disconnect from the radio or completely shut down. It would often take several restarts to get it up and running again. Unfortunately, it would also clear all the data in the FT8 window. If you were in the middle of a QSO, you lose the data. For this reason, I am going to refrain from using this app until this get fixed. I turned my radio off and on and I restarted my iPad several times to no avail. The app was doing this enough to become annoying, and I did end up losing some QSO’s. 2) In FT8, the app has a pause function if another station contacts the DX first, the app waits until it hears a CQ from the DX before it will transmit again. However, other stations are transmitting their info to the DX before the DX calls CQ again, so you are caught waiting a long time while everyone else jumps ahead. I suggest the behavior be changed that the app allow transmit after 73 with a button push or automatically at CQ. Right now you can trick the app to transmit early, but it is a hassle. 3) Logging, change the auto log to log after the report exchange and not 73. It is the report that is important. What happens now, is if another stations transmits to you before 73, the app switches over to the new station, and the old QSO is lost and not logged. 4) Add at least one user defined field to the log that can be sticky. For POTA we use my_sig_info ADIF data field to record which park we are at (eg K-4450). This data field is necessary when uploading logs to the POTA portal. RumLog has a good example of this. I know this is a long review. I like this app and I think once these few issues are taken care of it will be a great app. Right now my use of the app will be limited, but I am looking forward to future versions..Scot123456789Version: 1.0.16

✓ Bit dodgy to link; doesn’t do International CW charactersTook me almost a week to get it to connect and then only direct from radio (IC-705) to iPad. All else now appears to work. At least the regular stuff. . . . But if you work CW in Norwegian, German, Spanish or Italian, you won’t get Å or Ñ out of the CW keyer. And no cyrillic alphabet either. Strange, considering the developer is in Germany. Maybe an update? . . . All in all, appears to be a pretty interesting app for armchair ops. Be interesting to try it on ARRL Field Day. ;-).W8IJNVersion: 1.0.10

✓ Connection dropsIpad no longer stays connected. Constantly drops wifi connection with the rig. At times it requires powering off and on again to reconnect..Joseph HolleranVersion: 1.0.17

✓ Choppy Audio, freezes up, had to reset my radio.The audio through the iPad on this application is choppy. If you try to tune around using the panadapter it freezes up and stops responding altogether. The software reset something on my radio that made so that my hand mic no longer transmitted audio when using SSB. I’m sure it’s some setting buried deep in the menus, but I couldn’t find documentation on it anywhere and so had to reset my radio to get my hand mic back. There’s a lot of potential here, but my radio should be returned to working condition after the software is disconnected and I shouldn’t be seeing things freeze up or hearing choppy audio. Overall, this still seems a little bit half baked. If I wanted to fiddle with flakey software, I would have just kept using my Xiegu..SnifferofdaisiesVersion: 1.2.01

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