Live band decoding & waterfall
Watch the whole 3 kHz passband at once. The waterfall scrolls continuously with UTC timestamps drawn at every period boundary, so you can read propagation at a glance and pounce the instant a needed station appears.
- Continuous scroll with period-boundary time markers
- Taller spectrum strip, configurable width & zoom (Wide → 500 Hz)
- Tap a signal to tune; TX marker stays aligned; junk decodes filtered
Three modes, one app
FT8AF started as FT8-only and now decodes and transmits FT8, FT4 and FT2 — each with the correct slot timing and band plan. Switch modes in a tap, and chase DXpeditions with Fox & Hound support.
- FT8 (15 s) and the faster FT4 (7.5 s) for contests & pileups
- Experimental FT2 mode with its own canonical frequencies
- Fox & Hound (DXpedition) operating for FT8
QSO monitor, hunting & alerts
A collapsible panel tracks your current contact through every step of the exchange — call → report → roger → 73 → log. A caller queue keeps you locked on your target, and smart hunting works the band so you don't have to babysit it.
- Hunt mode & Auto-CQ — chain calls without re-tapping
- Needed-DX alerts: sound + notification for a new DXCC or state
- Directional-CQ awareness, callsign blocklist & decode filters
World map & QSO paths
A dedicated map tab plots the stations you're hearing and draws the great-circle path to whoever you're working — with the distance, the DX location, and US state borders so you can see exactly where your signal is landing.
- Distance & DX location right in the QSO panel
- Path map with US state borders drawn in
- Choose your units — miles or kilometers
POTA activation mode
Take FT8AF to the park. Activation mode runs your whole outing — a live, growing contact list with hunter callsigns and grids, a contact map, and park-to-park detection — then uploads your log straight to POTA when you're done.
- Two-fer / multi-park activations and P2P pills
- Activation map, QRZ avatars & tap-through history
- Resume after closing the app, and upload in-app to POTA
USB CAT for 75+ radios
Plug your rig straight into your phone with a single USB-C cable. FT8AF handles CAT frequency control, USB audio, and PTT across 75+ rig models — Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, Xiegu, Elecraft, FlexRadio, Lab599 and more — with a pile of auto-connect reliability fixes.
- New rigs added: Yaesu FT-710, Kenwood TS-440, Lab599 Discovery TX-500
- ALC auto-leveling and an SWR-triggered TX halt to protect your finals
- Real-time TX volume — adjust drive live, mid-transmission
Logs everywhere, automatically
Configure your log services once and forget them. The moment a QSO completes, FT8AF pushes it straight to Cloudlog, QRZ and Wavelog — and every signal you decode is spotted to PSKReporter so the propagation maps light up with your station.
- Automatic upload to Cloudlog / Wavelog and QRZ logbook
- PSKReporter spotting of every decode you hear
- Station-ID picker plus ADIF export, both SNR reports captured
Material 3 dark UI
The whole interface is a fresh Jetpack Compose rebuild on a Material 3 dark theme — high-contrast, legible at a glance in bright sun or a dark shack, and laid out for thumbs. Settings are organized into clean drill-down categories, and a compact decode mode tightens things up on smaller screens.
- Drill-down Settings, configurable decode highlights & compact mode
- Operator card with your QRZ photo, antenna & power
- Status-coded decodes: new, needed, worked, confirmed
Localized in 16 languages
FT8CN was Chinese-only. FT8AF now ships in sixteen languages — all contributed by the community — and auto-switches to your Android device's locale, with right-to-left layout for Arabic.
- Community-contributed translations, including right-to-left Arabic
- Android auto-locale detection — no manual switching
- More languages welcome — PRs open on GitHub