There are already many good ham radio applications for the Palm. Probably the most comprehensive list is the VA3PKH Palm Ham Page. It looks like there are quite a few good logging programs, and even several good Morse code training programs. There’s certainly no need to reinvent those wheels.
Even so, I wanted to develop some kind of ham radio application for my Palm, so I began casting about for what I could do. It hit me that one of the things that the Palm is well suited for is supplying reference materials. Doctors, for example, use Palms to give them information about drugs before prescribing them.
So, that’s what my application–HamHandy–is going to do: supply reference information and perform simple calculations. Here’s the list of functions and information that I’ve targeted for version 0.1:
- Dipole Length Calculator
- Ohm’s Law Calculator
- Calculate resistance value from resistor markings
- Q Signals
- Phonetic Alphabet
- License Class Frequency Allocations
- DX Callsigns
- Local hams
- Coax cable characteristics
If you can think of other information that you’d like me to include, please let me know.
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