SOTA Spotter
SOTA Spotter
The official app & game
Distributed by UptoPlay
SCREENSHOTS
DESCRIPTION
Use UptoPlay to play online the game SOTA Spotter.
SOTA Spotter is a simple application that retrieves spots from sotawatch.sota.org.uk and displays them in an easy to read manner.
Summits on the Air (SOTA) is an award scheme for radio amateurs and shortwave listeners that encourages portable operation in mountainous areas. You can learn more about it at https://www.sota.org.uk/
Main features:
* Sends spots - via internet or via SMS (useful on summits where cell coverage is not good enough for reliable internet traffic)
* Sends alerts (planned activations)
* Retrieves spots/alerts
* Map of nearby summits
* Spot filtering (by band, mode, call sign, association, region and summit)
* Notifications (vibrations, ringtone, LED and read aloud)
Enjoy with UptoPlay the online game SOTA Spotter.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Developer: Bogdan Lazanu
Genre: Tools
App version: 2.6.595
App size: 10M
Recent changes: * Updated the SMS gateways list so that its contents is no longer randomly sorted
* Added an option to copy the SMS text to the clipboard when posting new spots by SMS
* Fixed color theme issue (the text cursor was not visible)
* Other minor UI improvements
Comments:
This app was great, but became a lot more frustrating since the big redesign. First of all, I was unable to submit spots with the Internet because it did not make it clear that it switched from sotawatch2 to sotawatch3 which uses completely different credentials. Once I realized that, I was able to fix it and submit spots after being without that feature for a month. The more pressing issue, however, is that it only seems to show very recent spots, like 30 minutes or less. This means the screen is nearly always blank now. It used to show spots much farther back, several hours. This should be a configurable setting and I can't find it.
this is an ok app. the summits list refreshes back to top when you look through it. kind of frustrating when you want to just look through summits. the filtering is nice, but kind of clumsy to get right. it took me four or five tries to get it right.
Doesn't work. No summits in database. Won't find any by either means. Gives error messages when spots and alerts are clicked on. Database reports up to date and I'm not the only reviewer with the issue. Edit: this error means the app needs reinstalled. Hope this helps.
Cannot for the life of me get filters to work. No matter what filters I set, or if they are set to accept or drop, any time I have a filter, no spots come through at all.
Why cannot I send an alert or a spot? Each time I try, I get "Error authorizing with SOTA SSO [1
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