Skywave: RF Field Kit

Robert Corbin · Utilities

$2.99

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About

Skywave is a complete amateur-radio and RF reference that runs entirely on your device. Every lookup and every calculation happens locally — so the whole shack works on a summit, in a basement, on a plane, or anywhere the signal drops. No account. No subscription. No cloud round-trips. Nothing you enter ever leaves your iPhone or iPad. Built for licensed hams, shortwave listeners, preppers, and anyone who wants serious RF tools without ads or logins. REPEATER DIRECTORY • 22,000+ repeaters worldwide, searchable offline by callsign, city, or network • Output and input frequency, shift, CTCSS/DCS access tones, mode and status • Filter by band, mode, digital-only, tone, or operational status • Sorted by distance from your location, with bearing, distance and a map for each BAND PLANS & PRIVILEGES • Full US HF/VHF/UHF band plan by license class (Novice → Extra) • Tap in any frequency to see who may operate there, in which modes, at what power • Grouped by LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF with per-segment detail ANTENNA & FEEDLINE MATH • Dipole, quarter-wave vertical, 3-element Yagi and full-wave loop dimensioning in metres and feet • Coax loss for a dozen common cable types, including the extra loss from SWR • VSWR, return loss and mismatch loss from power, or from a complex load impedance • Propagation: free-space path loss, radio horizon, dBm ↔ watts GRID & GEODESY • Maidenhead grid ↔ latitude/longitude conversion • Great-circle bearing (short and long path) and distance between any two grids or cities • A bundled database of 230,000+ world locations for instant grid and beam headings SATELLITES • On-device SGP4 orbital propagation from bundled amateur two-line elements • Live look angles — elevation, azimuth, range, sub-satellite point and altitude • Pass predictions for the next 48 hours from your station, with AOS/LOS and max elevation • Real-time Doppler shift for any downlink frequency CALLSIGN / DXCC LOOKUP • Resolve any callsign or prefix to its entity and continent • Beam heading, short/long path and distance from your grid CW / MORSE TRAINER • Send any text as clean, click-suppressed Morse synthesised on-device • Koch-method practice with adjustable character sets and group counts • Full reference chart; adjustable speed, Farnsworth spacing and sidetone PRIVATE BY DESIGN Skywave collects nothing and connects to nothing. Location is used only on-device to set your grid and sort nearby repeaters, and it degrades gracefully when unavailable. Bundled reference data is drawn from openly-licensed public sources (HearHam repeater listing, GeoNames under CC-BY, CelesTrak/AMSAT public TLEs, the ITU call-sign series and the FCC/ARRL US band plan) and is fully attributed in-app. Skywave is a reference tool. Verify current regulations and refresh satellite elements before operating. Not affiliated with the FCC, ARRL, AMSAT, CelesTrak, GeoNames or HearHam.

Details

DeveloperRobert Corbin
ReleasedJul 2026
UpdatedJul 2026
Version1.0
Size16.7 MB
RequiresiOS 17.0 or later
Age rating4+
LanguagesEnglish
Price$2.99
Categories UtilitiesReference
Bundle IDcom.realbobcorbin.Skywave