What's New

Tell HAMgpt where your antenna measures resonant and where you want it — with the wire's current length if you have it — and it now works out the new length and how much wire to add or cut, starting from your own measurement, in the units you gave.

Oct 22 · 10:55 AM

In German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish, the band answer's geomagnetic storm warning now reads entirely in your language, with the storm's G level.

Oct 21 · 12:15 PM

Questions about station software — fldigi, JS8Call, N1MM Logger+, VarAC and more — now get step-by-step help specific to that program more often, such as which macros to set up for an RTTY contact.

Oct 21 · 9:25 AM

The band answer now warns of a geomagnetic storm only while one is under way. When the past 24 hours were disturbed but there is no storm now, it says so instead, with the day's A index.

Oct 21 · 9:25 AM

With the Large or Largest text size, the chat box now stays on screen in an open conversation, so you can keep asking follow-up questions in the same chat instead of starting a new one.

Oct 20 · 6:45 AM

Sending a photo is easier: paste a screenshot straight into the chat box, send WEBP images, and large phone photos go through — in most browsers they are shrunk on your device before upload. If a file type can't be read, you're told which ones can.

Oct 16 · 10:55 AM

When you send a photo with a question — "which connector is this?", "what tone is channel 2 set to?" — the photo is now read with your question in mind, so the details you asked about are not left out.

Oct 16 · 10:55 AM

Photos you send in the chat are now described in detail even when they are not a meter or analyzer screen — a connector, a toroid, an antenna install, a wiring diagram, a screenshot of your radio's programming software — so you can ask about what is in them.

Oct 16 · 10:55 AM

After you share a photo of your radio, analyzer or antenna, the next few follow-up questions about it keep the photo in mind, instead of only the first one.

Oct 16 · 10:55 AM

Step-by-step help for your radio or station software now lands on the exact procedure you asked about far more often — the right button sequence for a setting, a connector's wiring, the steps of a calibration — instead of a nearby section that only mentions it.

Oct 16 · 7:44 AM

Follow-up questions about a radio you named earlier in the conversation — "I don't see that button", "yes, show me how" — now get the same model-specific setup help as the question that named it, even several messages later.

Oct 15 · 1:54 PM

With the app in Spanish, the Home band card now reads naturally when it says which region a band is reaching.

Oct 15 · 8:21 AM

Building or tuning gear for a frequency outside the ham bands — a CB antenna, a LoRa node on 868 MHz, an FM broadcast or weather-satellite receive antenna — now gets the same hands-on help as any other project. When the question is about transmitting on such a frequency, the answer ends with a short note that the frequency is outside the amateur bands and that its own rules apply.

Oct 14 · 6:00 PM

Questions typed entirely in capital letters now reach the right reference material and tools far more often.

Oct 14 · 8:51 AM

LoRa mesh questions get real answers now. Ask about MeshCore or MeshCom and you'll hear what each one is, how it differs from Meshtastic, which boards run it, where to flash it, and where its map shows the nodes near you. Meshtastic gets a proper getting-started guide too — flashing, the app, the region setting, private channels and modules — plus a plain explanation of what LoRa is and what runs on it.

Oct 14 · 7:47 AM

When you ask what is active on a band, the answer now names the frequency to set on your radio for FT8, FT4, JS8 and WSPR, and says where a station outside the usual frequencies was heard.

Oct 13 · 10:56 AM

Help for eight Icom radios goes much deeper — the IC-7300, IC-9700, IC-7760, IC-705, IC-7610, IC-718, ID-5100 and ID-5200: far more of each radio's settings, with their defaults and options, and its advanced functions — the scope, recorder and memories, and GPS, D-PRS and the D-STAR gateway modes on the radios that have them.

Oct 13 · 7:47 AM

The band card's “busiest from your QTH” line now says where each of its two bands is reaching, instead of naming one region for both.

Oct 12 · 12:23 PM

A question that merely contains the word “plan” — an antenna ground plane, a build plan, “planning to add a tuner” — no longer takes a detour through what is on the air right now.

Oct 11 · 11:37 AM

HAMgpt now knows three more devices and gives model-specific setup and operating help for each: the Quansheng UV-K1 and TIDRADIO TD-H8 handhelds, and the Ameritron AL-811H amplifier. It also recognises the TD-H8 when you call it the Tidradio H8.

Oct 11 · 11:32 AM

Setup and troubleshooting help now covers more station gear: the Ameritron AL-80B amplifier and its export versions, the Green Heron RT-21 rotator controller (setup, calibration and the wiring for each rotator it supports), the Icom SM-30 and SM-50 desk microphones, and the Xiegu DE-19 interface for the G90, G106 and X5105.

Oct 10 · 2:18 PM

With the app in Spanish, a few more buttons now send their question to the chat in Spanish: the notifications that a band has opened or that a country you still need is on the air, the logbook card on Home, and the Missions lessons. Before, they asked in English.

Oct 10 · 11:25 AM

Answers that include a link keep their formatting. Before, a link anywhere in the answer could flatten its nested lists, strip the indentation from commands and code, and drop empty parentheses such as the ones in f().

Oct 10 · 10:25 AM

Ask HAMgpt whether you can send it a file and it now tells you what it takes and where: an ADIF log under Profile → Logbook, and a NanoVNA .s1p sweep or a photo or screenshot with the paperclip in the chat. For a type it cannot take, such as .txt, .csv or PDF, it says so and suggests pasting the text instead. Before, it could answer that it accepts no files at all.

Oct 10 · 9:16 AM

A repeater net that is too far away to reach by radio, but that also has an EchoLink, AllStar or DMR link, is now listed as a net you can join through that link, with its node or talkgroup — also when its frequency is outside your country's bands or you have no radio for that band. Before, such nets were often set aside as out of range.

Oct 10 · 7:39 AM

When a net that meets on a repeater also has an EchoLink, AllStar or DMR link, HAMgpt now knows the node or talkgroup to reach it through, and can give it to you along with the repeater.

Oct 9 · 4:43 PM

Before you have verified a callsign, HAMgpt now reads your grid square, not just the wider region around it, to tell where you are — which matters in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela and the Caribbean. Until it knows your licence it keeps answers about what you may transmit general, and suggests verifying your callsign so it can use your own country's rules.

Oct 9 · 11:49 AM

Asking which band is open now no longer names one band group as your best bet when several are rated the same. It now goes by what is being heard from your location, and when nothing sets the groups apart it says so and lists them. The band card on the Home screen follows the same rule.

Oct 9 · 10:08 AM

What's New, the how-to guide, Terms and Privacy now have a Back button at the top of the page, and it stays in view as you scroll.

Oct 9 · 8:49 AM

On a phone, the Create account button on the welcome screen is no longer cut off, and a long list of antenna bands on the Home screen now stays inside its card, in band order.

Oct 9 · 8:49 AM

The reminder about charged capacitors in amplifiers and power supplies now appears on answers about working inside equipment, and no longer on answers about antennas, operating or software that only happened to mention an amplifier or a power supply.

Oct 9 · 8:42 AM

Ask when you can work a place — "when can I work Japan?", "what are the best hours to Europe tomorrow?" — and HAMgpt now answers with the hours: which band is predicted to carry the path at each hour of the day, in UTC. You can also ask from a grid other than your own, such as a park you plan to activate. It is the typical pattern for the current month, not a forecast for one particular day.

Oct 8 · 6:08 PM

If your licence is from outside the United States, nets on the air are now checked against your own country's band limits: a net on a frequency outside them is shown as listen-only.

Oct 8 · 6:08 PM

Nets on the air now include the radio nets of the country your grid is in — in the UK, Canada, Australia, India and elsewhere — even before you have verified your callsign. On a grid square that two countries share, you see the nets of both.

Oct 8 · 1:17 PM

Ask for your local time and HAMgpt now gives it, worked out from the grid locator in your profile — no need to tell it your UTC offset. If your grid square spans two time zones, it gives UTC and asks.

Oct 8 · 11:42 AM

Operating away from the country that issued your licence? Answers about band plans, calling frequencies and nearby repeaters now say where your grid places you and remind you to confirm your reciprocal operating status there before you transmit.

Oct 8 · 10:22 AM

Asking what time it is, or what day it is, now gets the current UTC time and date — also as the first question of a conversation.

Oct 8 · 7:21 AM

If your licence is from one country and your station is in another, HAMgpt now keeps the two apart: your licence says who issued it, your grid says where you are. Ask for your local time and you get the UTC time and a question about your UTC offset.

Oct 7 · 6:01 PM

HAMgpt now knows today's date and the current UTC time. When it tells you about a contest or an event, it can say whether it is under way, later today or tomorrow.

Oct 7 · 3:18 PM

Asking where a six-character grid locator is no longer gets the countries of the larger square around it reported as the locator's own.

Oct 7 · 3:18 PM

In exam practice, a slip of the keyboard on "next" — like "nex" — now brings the next question.

Oct 7 · 11:02 AM

Eight FlexRadio radios are in the radio picker, with model-specific setup help: the FLEX-6400, 6400M, 6600, 6600M, 8400, 8400M, 8600 and 8600M. You can name yours the way it is printed on the radio, and HAMgpt knows what differs between them — which have the antenna tuner built in, which have it as an option, and how many receivers each has.

Oct 6 · 4:37 PM

When you ask which radios have a feature — a built-in tuner, full duplex, GPS — one maker with many models no longer fills the list: it now takes one radio from each maker in turn.

Oct 6 · 4:37 PM

Setup and usage help now covers EchoLink — the Windows program and the iPhone, Android and web apps: callsign validation, node numbers, firewall and proxy settings, and running a link or repeater node — AllStarLink nodes on the current ASL 3 system (installing on a Raspberry Pi or Debian, the setup menu, node registration, everyday commands, Allmon3), and the HamClock shack display.

Oct 6 · 12:00 PM

Setup and usage help now covers the HackRF One software-defined radio: getting it recognized by your computer, its tools, gain settings, firmware updates, clock and trigger connections, and what it can and cannot do.

Oct 6 · 10:05 AM

Setup and troubleshooting help now covers the Ameritron ALS-600 and ALS-606 solid-state amplifiers, including their power supplies and the ALS-600 export versions.

Oct 6 · 9:35 AM

Asking which radios cover a band no longer lists amplifiers among the radios.

Oct 6 · 9:35 AM

Setup and usage help now covers the NanoVNA V2 boards and the NanoVNA-F V2 and V3 vector network analyzers, the JS8Call program, and five receivers: the SDRplay RSP1B, RSPdx-R2 and RSPduo and the RTL-SDR Blog V3 and V4. Ask about the classic NanoVNA, the NanoVNA-H or H4, or the original NanoVNA-F and you still get an answer, based on the closest model we cover, with a note that says which one it is so you can check it against your own.

Oct 6 · 7:55 AM

Setup and troubleshooting help now covers more station gear: the Digirig Mobile and Digirig Lite sound-card interfaces, the microHAM micro KEYER III and DXP radio interfaces, the ATU-100 automatic antenna tuner (the extended 7x7 board) and the LDG Z-100A tuner. If you just say "Digirig", you are asked which of the two you have, because their PTT works differently.

Oct 6 · 7:05 AM

Asking what you can do with your radio today, or which parts of the world you can work, no longer stalls before the answer begins. Once in a while that kind of question sat for close to half a minute first.

Oct 5 · 5:15 PM

HAMgpt now knows the Yaesu FT5DE, FT3DE and FTM-510DE — the European versions of radios it already supported — by the name printed on the radio, so you get help for those radios, and saving or removing the radio in chat works with that name too (saving is a Plus feature).

Oct 4 · 8:30 AM

HAMgpt now recognizes a few popular radios by their common short name — "FT5D" for the Yaesu FT-5DR, and "FTM-300", "FTM-6000" and "TH-D72" — so you get model-specific help without typing the full model name. Removing the radio from your profile in chat works with the short name too, and so does saving it (a Plus feature).

Oct 3 · 6:41 PM

When you name your radio with a space between the series and the number — like "Yaesu FT 1000" or "Kenwood TS 450" — HAMgpt no longer mixes it up with another maker's radio that shares the number.

Sep 27 · 5:00 PM

When you tell HAMgpt about a radio in chat and it isn't one of the models offered, you're now pointed to Profile to add it with its bands, instead of being asked about the same models again.

Sep 27 · 12:00 PM

Setup and troubleshooting help now covers more of your station gear: the SignaLink USB and Yaesu SCU-17 interfaces, the Yaesu HRI-200 WIRES-X kit, antenna tuners such as the Yaesu FC-40, LDG AT-1000ProII, MFJ-939, Antuner ATR-1000 and FlexRadio Tuner Genius XL, Yaesu rotators, the K1EL WKUSB WinKeyer, the SCS P4dragon, the RigExpert AA-650 ZOOM analyzer, the Elecraft K3's KRX3A sub-receiver, and more.

Sep 26 · 9:00 PM

Eight more radios are in the radio picker, with model-specific setup help, classics included: the Yaesu FT-890, FT-290R II and VX-7R, the Kenwood TS-830S, TS-811A and TM-732A, the Icom IC-37A, and the Pebble HF 20 m QRP rig.

Sep 26 · 7:00 PM

Four kit and QRP radios are in the radio picker, with model-specific setup help: the QRP Labs QMX+, the HF Signals sBitx, the ADX-S digital-modes kit and the Ten-Tec Triton IV. Setup and operating questions about the Alinco DJ-X100, Drake R8A and Sangean ATS-909X2 receivers are now answered too.

Sep 26 · 4:00 PM

Fourteen more radios are in the radio picker, with model-specific setup and troubleshooting help: the Icom IC-756PRO III, IC-7600, IC-910H, IC-707, IC-245E and ID-5100, the Radioddity GD-88 and GA-5E, the Alinco DJ-MD5, the AnyTone AT-D168UV, the BTECH UV-25X4, the Baofeng BF-F8HP Pro, and the Retevis MA1 and RT95.

Sep 26 · 12:00 PM

Fourteen more radios are in the radio picker, with model-specific setup and troubleshooting help: the Yaesu FT-1000MP MARK-V, FTDX3000, FT-450D, FT-747GX, FT-767GX, FT-480R, FTM-400XDR, FTM-150E and FT-7900R, and the Kenwood TS-480SAT, TS-480HX, TH-D72A, TH-D7A and TM-G707. Menu-setting answers for several Yaesu radios are also more precise.

Sep 25 · 8:38 PM

Eleven more radios are in the radio picker, with model-specific setup and troubleshooting help: the AnyTone AT-D890UV and AT-D578UV DMR radios, the Yaesu FT-817ND, FT-897D, FT-450, FT-8900R and FTM-510DR, the Kenwood TS-2000, TS-850S and TS-50S, and the Radtel RT-880G. Asking which radios do DMR or C4FM digital voice now also finds every model in the picker that has it.

Sep 25 · 7:35 PM

Six more radios now get model-specific setup and troubleshooting help: the Icom IC-2730A and ID-5200 dual-band mobiles, the Icom ID-50A D-STAR handheld (menus, D-PRS, terminal and access-point modes, firmware updates), the Yaesu VX-6R handheld, the classic Kenwood TS-940S — including its microphone, amplifier, transverter and accessory connector pinouts — and the ACOM 1000 amplifier (tune-up and band switching).

Sep 25 · 6:41 PM

Contests that are on the air right now are now marked as live when you ask what you can do with your radio or which contests are on — and a contest that runs in separate sessions is marked live only while a session is on.

Sep 23 · 11:00 AM

Answers now stay in the language you are writing in. A short reply such as "no, all good" or "vamos a buscar DX" could flip the answer to the other language, and so could tapping a suggestion or a card action when your app is set to a different language from the one you write in.

Sep 22 · 6:00 PM

Nets on the air now take your location into account. Repeater nets near you are listed first, nets show where they meet, and a VHF/UHF net that is too far to reach by radio is described as such — with its internet link when it has one — instead of being mixed in with the ones you can actually check into. Set a six-character grid in your profile for the most accurate distances. Net data via netfinder.radio.

Sep 20 · 6:00 PM

Tell the antenna calculator how high your mast, tower or tree is. Ask for an inverted V "on a 14 m mast, with all dimensions" and you now also get how high the wire ends will sit, how much ground the antenna covers, and what that height means on that band — whether it favours long-distance contacts or regional ones. If the antenna will not fit on your support, it says so and tells you how far to open the angle. The drawing shows the heights and the ground span too.

Sep 17 · 11:00 PM

When HAMgpt ends an answer by offering a next step and you reply with a short "yes" in your own language — "Ja", "oui", "sim", "tak", even "yea" — it is now pointed at the question it just asked. Before, a short yes that was not in English or Spanish could pick up an older thread of the conversation instead. Short picks and a "no thanks" are read against that same last question too.

Sep 17 · 8:00 PM

Operators in Spain and Italy now get their amateur band allocations answered — where each band starts and ends for you, sourced from your own country's published frequency tables. The detail goes deep: in Italy the answer knows 160 m runs 1830–1850 kHz and that 70 cm comes in four separate segments between 430 and 438 MHz, and in Spain it knows the 60 m and 4 m bands and which part of 160 m is shared with other services.

Sep 17 · 5:00 PM

Ask what you can do with your radio today and the answer now starts from what is actually on the air right now — contests live or starting soon, POTA and SOTA activators near you with the mode they are running, and nets on the air — grouped by mode, so a phone operator sees phone opportunities instead of "tune around".

Sep 16 · 6:00 PM

Tell HAMgpt in chat which modes you operate — "I only do SSB", "I mostly run FT8 and CW" — and it's saved to your profile, the same setting as Profile → Modes, so every later answer leads with what you actually run.

Sep 16 · 12:00 PM

The "busiest from your QTH" line — on your Home dashboard and in the band card in chat — now tells you where a band is being heard, not which mode to use. If digital is among the modes you list in your Profile, the chat card still points you to the FT8 calling frequency.

Sep 15 · 10:00 PM

Tell HAMgpt which modes you operate — phone, CW, digital — in your Profile (or when you sign up), and chat answers lead with the modes you run and stop steering you toward the ones you don't. Leave it blank and nothing changes.

Sep 15 · 6:00 PM

Asking for contests by mode or band ("any SSB contests this weekend?", "contests on 20 m") now finds the contests whose names give the mode or band, and mentions the ones that don't say instead of leaving them out.

Sep 10 · 4:00 PM

Added the FlexRadio Aurora AU-510 and AU-510M — the 500 W HF SDR transceivers (200 W on 6 m) with a built-in antenna tuner — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help. The AU-520 and AU-520M get more detailed setup help too.

Sep 10 · 11:00 AM

Instant answers — band conditions, nearby repeaters, POTA spots — now come back in the language you are writing in, along with the daily-limit notice and the exam drill's prompts. If you chat in German, French, Dutch, Italian or Portuguese, these no longer arrive in English.

Sep 7 · 6:00 PM

Ask a detailed question that happens to mention repeaters, bands or the exam, and you now get an answer to the question you actually asked. Before, a keyword could pull up a stock list or a drill instead. Short, direct asks like "2m repeaters near me" still get the same quick answer.

Sep 6 · 4:30 PM

Tell HAMgpt about your station in chat and it remembers. Say "my radio is an FT-891" or "my antenna is a 40 m dipole" and it's saved to your profile (a Plus feature) — the same list you see under Profile — so every future answer knows what you run. Changed your mind? Say "remove the FT-891" or edit it in Profile.

Sep 5 · 12:00 PM

Ask how to use DXLook and get a real answer. How to switch views, turn a map layer on, put your logbook on the map, why a view looks empty, how often the spots refresh — answered with the actual names you see on screen, in your language. And if something is not covered, you are told that instead of being sent guessing.

Sep 4 · 6:00 PM

Space-weather alerts now open a briefing about that specific event. Tap a solar-flare notification and you get how big it was, when it began, whether the blackout has already lifted, and whether it is day or night where you are; tap a geomagnetic-storm one and you get its level and whether it has eased or climbed since. Both tell you what is actually being absorbed at your own grid square right now — and remind you that your local VHF/UHF repeaters carry on regardless. It answers about the alert you tapped, whatever else you happened to be chatting about.

Sep 4 · 4:00 PM

Alerts that a DXCC entity you still need is on the air now open with the callsign and the entity in the question, so the answer is about that expedition rather than whatever came up earlier in the conversation.

Sep 4 · 4:00 PM

A one-word reply like "no", "si" or "ok" no longer switches the conversation into another language — a short answer keeps the language you were already using.

Sep 3 · 3:30 PM

Attaching a photo we can't take a reading from — a diagram, your yard, a document, or a shot that didn't come through — no longer adds the "read from your photo" note or asks you for a data file that wouldn't apply.

Sep 3 · 3:30 PM

Satellite pass alerts now open a briefing about that pass: when it rises and which way to look, how high it climbs, the frequency to listen on, the Doppler swing to expect, and which of your radios can hear it.

Sep 1 · 6:30 PM

'Program into my radio' on the Repeaters tab now answers instantly with the repeater's own output, input, offset and tone, plus menu-by-menu steps for radios we know and generic steps for the rest — in your language.

Sep 1 · 6:30 PM

DXCC Challenge tracking from your imported logbook — ask for your Challenge total and you'll get confirmed band-slots counted the way the award counts them (160-6 m), plus the worked-but-unconfirmed slots where a QSL would score you a new credit.

Sep 1 · 4:30 PM

Logbook imports now accept ADIF files up to 25 MB (up from 10) — room for a full multi-year DXKeeper or LotW export in one upload.

Sep 1 · 1:30 PM

Ask which country a grid square falls in — yours or anyone else's — and you get a straight answer. Squares are big enough to cross a border, so when one covers more than one country you'll see all of them rather than a guess.

Sep 1 · 12:00 PM

Calling-frequency answers now follow your station’s grid too, not just your licence. If you’re licensed in one country but operating from another, you get the calling frequencies that are standard where you are, with clear guidance to confirm your reciprocal operating status before transmitting.

Aug 31 · 9:30 PM

Net listings now follow your station's grid, not just your licence. If you're licensed in one country but operating from another, you now see the repeater and simplex nets actually around you. And nets that also run an EchoLink or other internet link now say so, so you know which ones you can join from anywhere.

Aug 31 · 6:00 PM

Ask about APRS on HF and you now get the real answer: the worldwide 30-meter channel with its exact dial frequencies — and, crucially, the sideband, because on HF the sideband is what keeps your signal inside the band. The answer covers both conventions in use, the legacy notation you'll still find in older documentation, and the classic "I tuned there and decode nothing" gotcha.

Aug 28 · 10:00 PM

VarAC users get real help now: ask about setup, calling CQ and connecting, VMail and BBS-style messaging, file transfer, beacons or slots, and the answers come from deep coverage of the program — in any language you ask in. And if you just say "VARA", we'll ask whether you mean the modem or VarAC instead of guessing.

Aug 28 · 8:00 PM

Yaesu's new FTX-1 is now fully supported: ask about either configuration — the portable Field or the 100-watt Optima — and you get model-specific setup, operating and troubleshooting help, from APRS and C4FM to FT8 over its single USB cable. It's also in the radio picker on your Profile, with its real band coverage.

Aug 28 · 6:30 PM

Three more questions hams keep asking now get real answers. "Which logging program should I use?" gets the actual landscape — contest vs day-to-day, Windows, Linux, macOS and web-based options, and why ADIF means you're never locked in. "Where do I send my contest log?" gets the straight path: Cabrillo, the sponsor's upload page, deadlines — and why you should submit even a small log. And "what runs on Linux?" gets the full picture: what's native, how rig control fits together, the one common tool that isn't, and the ready-made ham distributions.

Aug 28 · 5:00 PM

Two topics hams kept asking about now get solid answers. Ask how to get started with AREDN — the amateur broadband mesh — and you'll get the real path: what it is, what hardware to look for, why line-of-sight and height matter more than power, and how it differs from Meshtastic. And if you live under an HOA, asking about antenna options now gets the full playbook: from reading your covenants and asking first, through attic antennas, magnetic loops, flagpole verticals and stealth wire, to digital modes, portable outings and remote stations.

Aug 28 · 3:30 PM

Five more pieces of gear now get model-specific setup and troubleshooting help. Ask about the Kantronics KPC-3 Plus packet TNC (KISS mode, APRS digipeating, the full command set), the Ameritron AL-811 amplifier (tune-up, band switching, care and feeding), or the Baofeng DM-32UV and Radtel RT-950 Pro handhelds — both are also in the radio picker on your Profile now. And N1MM Logger+, the contest logger, gets deep coverage: first-time setup, rig control, ESM and function keys, digital modes and multi-op networking. Loose spellings work too — "KPC-3+" or just "N1MM" find the right device.

Aug 28 · 1:30 PM

See and manage what HAMgpt remembers about your station. Ask "what do you remember about me?" for the full list; say "forget the … thing" to remove a specific memory right in chat; and when HAMgpt learns something important about your station, a small "I'll remember" note appears with a one-tap Undo. The Memory panel in your Profile now also shows whether each item is something you told us or something we picked up along the way.

Aug 26 · 1:30 PM

The "busiest bands" line on your home screen and in chat now shows each active band with its own observed modes — "20m — mostly SSB. Also active: 30m — mostly FT8." — instead of one blended label for the pair. You see what's actually happening on each band, not an average of the two.

Aug 25 · 8:30 PM

The "Explain this" button on missions now gives you the full guided explanation it always promised — grounded in our knowledge base and matched to your setup — instead of a quick definition.

Aug 25 · 2:47 PM

Repeater lists now say which country's band plan they follow. If you're licensed somewhere other than where the machines are, the list tells you so and reminds you to check which rules apply where you'll be transmitting.

Aug 25 · 7:46 AM

The nets suggestion on your home screen goes straight to the catalog: tap it and you get what is on the air now, what starts soon, and how to check in — matched to your licence and radios. Asking in your own words works the same way.

Aug 24 · 12:00 PM

Ask whether a specific repeater carries a net — "does the K6LNK repeater have a net?" — and you now get a real answer from the netfinder.radio catalog, naming which of your nearby machines each net meets on. When the catalog has nothing registered for a repeater, you're told exactly that, so you can check with the local club — instead of a guess.

Aug 21 · 12:30 AM

Ask a follow-up about the repeaters near you — which networks they're linked to, what a listing means, anything — and you now get a real answer instead of the same list again. The instant list still comes first, and it now says how many more machines are within reach beyond the five it shows, with the full set one tap away in the Repeaters tab. The same goes for nearby POTA activations.

Aug 20 · 11:30 PM

Two repeater views got clearer. The Today dashboard now leads with what you actually want at a glance — your closest repeater, its band and how far it is — instead of a raw count over a big area. And the Repeaters tab now shows the nearest 25, 50 or 100 machines sorted by distance, so what you see is always the closest ones; each row still shows its real distance, so you can judge reach at a glance.

Aug 20 · 9:30 PM

Repeaters near you are a lot more useful. If your location is set to a 4-character grid square — an area around a hundred kilometres across — the search now covers that whole area instead of only its centre point, so machines well within reach stop being missed; for some grid squares that was the difference between a full list and nothing at all. The list in chat reads better too: it shows where each repeater is, leads with the 2 m and 70 cm machines most people can actually use, no longer fills up with several from the same site, and prefers the bands your radios cover. And when your grid is only 4 characters we now say so, and show you how to set a 6-character one — which makes every distance far more precise.

Aug 20 · 6:00 PM

Ask where to operate a digital mode like PSK31 or RTTY and you now get a useful answer: the band segment where that mode lives for your license, plus where people actually meet on it — instead of a dead end when no single calling frequency exists. Some modes genuinely have no published calling frequency anywhere; the answer now says so and hands you the segment, which is what an operator can actually use.

Aug 18 · 2:30 PM

Ask which country a callsign PREFIX belongs to and you now get a real lookup instead of an educated guess — "what country is YS?" comes back El Salvador, and YN comes back Nicaragua. Neighbouring letters belong to different countries, so this is one of the easiest things to get wrong. Coverage is deliberately partial: when a prefix isn't in the table you are told that plainly, rather than handed a country that might be the wrong one.

Aug 16 · 6:00 PM

Name your radio the way it's actually printed and it's recognised. A model typed without the maker's series letters — "Anytone 878UVII plus" rather than the full AT-D878UVII — used to come back as a radio we'd never heard of; now you get its details, with a note when the exact variant you named isn't the one we hold. Writing a model with or without its hyphen also counts as the same radio.

Aug 16 · 12:00 PM

Ask how something works and you get an explanation, not a list. "How does propagation work?", "Why do repeaters use a 600 kHz offset?" and "What causes a POTA pileup?" used to be answered with today's band conditions, the repeaters near you, or the activations near you — the right data for a different question. Asking what's open now, or for the repeaters or parks around you, still gets the same instant answer it always did.

Aug 13 · 6:30 AM

Answers that point you to your national licensing authority now include a direct link to the authority's own site. The same goes for the home site of a tool an answer recommends.

Aug 12 · 8:31 AM

Operators in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria now get their amateur band allocations answered — where each band starts and ends for you, sourced from your own regulator's published tables. The detail goes deep: on 70 cm in Austria, the answer knows the band runs to 439.100 MHz with one specific extra channel at 439.930 MHz, exactly as the Austrian rules set it out.

Aug 11 · 8:30 PM

Hold a US Advanced class license? Your answers now reflect Advanced as its own class — including the wider phone segments that set it apart from General, starting at 3.700, 7.125, 14.175 and 21.225 MHz on 80, 40, 20 and 15 meters. Privilege answers, band suggestions and the exact segment edges all follow what Advanced actually holds.

Aug 11 · 8:00 PM

The Elecraft K3 joins the radio picker, with model-specific help. It's listed as a 160 m through 6 m radio, and it turns up when you ask for a radio with an internal tuner, since the KAT3 is one you can fit. The K3S is a different radio and isn't covered by this one.

Aug 10 · 9:00 PM

Curious how another country runs its bands? Ask and you now get that country's real numbers — "is 14.195 MHz inside a US amateur band?" comes back with the exact United States segments, split by licence class and mode, clearly framed as that country's rules. Asking about one of its licence classes by name works the same way from anywhere. Questions about your own operating keep following your own country's regulations, exactly as before.

Aug 8 · 3:30 AM

Tell us your radio and the answer is more likely to keep calling it by name. A batch of models — including the way people actually type them, like "DM 1801" — were slipping through and coming back as a generic "your radio", sometimes several messages after you'd said it. Naming yours also helps us pull up the right manual for it.

Aug 5 · 9:30 PM

Two Baofeng DMR handhelds join the radio picker — the DM-1801 and the DR-1801UV that Baofeng sells as its upgrade. They're kept as separate models on purpose, so asking about one never gets you the other's settings, and the newer one comes with model-specific setup help.

Aug 5 · 6:00 PM

Ask about the Icom IC-R30 scanner and you now get real answers about what it does, instead of being told we have nothing on it. More broadly: gear that isn't a transceiver — a receiver, an antenna, a packet controller, a rotator — no longer gets brushed off just because it isn't in the radio list.

Aug 5 · 5:55 PM

Eight more rigs in the radio picker, each with model-specific setup help: the Icom IC-7760 (200 W HF and 6 m, with the radio and its controller as separate units) and the Kenwood TS-890S; the Kenwood TM-D700A, whose built-in packet controller and APRS make it its own kind of radio; the 65 W Yaesu FTM-3200DR for 2 m digital and analogue; the Icom ID-52A PLUS handheld, kept separate from the earlier ID-52A so its own settings are the ones you get; and three classics still in daily use — the Kenwood TS-140S, the Yaesu FT-101ZD and the Ten-Tec Jupiter.

Aug 5 · 12:00 PM

The just-released Icom ID-5200 is recognised, so asking about it gets you what is actually known about the radio rather than a blank — and you're told plainly which details we can't answer for it yet instead of being given a guess.

Aug 5 · 11:55 AM

Help now reaches past the radio to the rest of the station: digital-hotspot software, SDR software, a classic multi-mode packet controller and a popular dual-band base antenna all get specific answers instead of general advice. Naming any of them the short way you'd actually say it now finds the right one — before, only the exact full title worked, which also affected the software guides we already had.

Aug 5 · 11:50 AM

Japanese operators now get answers matched to their actual class. First, Second, Third and Fourth Class differ in which bands they hold — the Third and Fourth Class gaps sit in the middle of HF, not at the top — and band suggestions and privilege answers now follow that. Power is given the way Japan actually sets it: per band, and separately for a fixed station and a station that moves, which can differ by a factor of twenty on the same licence. The 160 m and 80 m bands, which are split into several separate segments in Japan, now have band-edge answers where before they had none, and three bands that do not exist for Japanese amateurs are no longer offered.

Aug 3 · 8:30 PM

Australian operators now get answers that match their actual licence level. Foundation, Standard and Advanced differ in which bands they hold, and band suggestions and privilege answers now follow that — a Foundation licence is no longer offered bands it does not have. Four microwave bands that had no answer before are covered, along with the conditions that apply on them, and power is given per level and per emission mode the way the class licence sets it out.

Aug 3 · 5:00 PM

UK operators now get answers that match their actual licence level. Foundation, Intermediate and Full differ in which bands they hold — not just in power — and band suggestions, privilege answers and digital-mode advice now follow that. Five microwave bands that had no answer before are covered, the 23 cm band gets its full UK width, and two bands that do not exist for UK amateurs are no longer offered. Power is given as the per-band ladder Ofcom actually publishes.

Aug 3 · 2:30 PM

Canadian operators now get band-edge answers for the microwave bands — 13 cm, 9 cm, 6 cm and 3 cm — which simply had no answer before, plus the full 1.25 m picture. Privilege answers are richer too: which bands each certificate actually holds, the power limits, and the conditions that apply on specific bands, all matched to whether you hold Basic, Basic with Honours or Advanced.

Aug 3 · 11:30 AM

Planning a trip to Germany? Ask whether you can operate there with your own licence and you now get the real procedure — which of the three routes applies to you, the call sign prefix to use, how long you may stay, what you need to carry, and where to apply if your licence isn't covered by an automatic arrangement. Germany joins the United States, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom, and you're told plainly when a country isn't covered yet.

Aug 2 · 11:55 PM

Argentine operators now get band-edge answers from Argentina's own band plan — where each band starts and ends locally, including the 220 MHz band and the parts of the plan that differ from the rest of the Americas. The 60 metre band is answered per country as well: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Argentina each allow something different there, and the answer now reflects which one applies to you.

Aug 2 · 11:30 PM

German operators can now pick their real license class — Klasse N, E or A — in their Profile, and privilege answers, band suggestions and digital-mode advice all follow the bands and power your class actually holds under the current German rules. Asking how amateur licensing works in Germany gets a proper answer too.

Aug 2 · 6:30 PM

HAMgpt 2.0 is here — our biggest release since launch. Ask in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Portuguese or Italian and the answer arrives in your language, notices and warnings included. Band-plan answers now span 2200 m all the way down to 23 cm, always matched to your license class. Answers that draw on the live web name their sources so you can check them yourself. And the engine underneath was rebuilt so that every frequency, privilege and power figure you see traces back to authoritative data — in every language we speak.

Aug 1 · 1:00 AM

HAMgpt now speaks German, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Italian — notices, warnings and app messages arrive in your language instead of falling back to English.

Jul 31 · 11:30 PM

When an answer draws on a live web search, it now shows which sites the information came from — so you can check the original source yourself.

Jul 31 · 6:00 PM

Band-plan answers now cover four more amateur bands — 2200 m, 630 m, 33 cm and 23 cm — with per-license segments, and for 630 m and 2200 m the special conditions that apply before you transmit there. Asking what bands you can use includes them too.

Jul 31 · 2:30 PM

Ask where to call or listen for a digital mode and you get the standard dial frequencies for it. Modes that run over repeaters or a gateway network, like DMR and Winlink, say so and point you to the right place instead.

Jul 29 · 12:15 AM

Three more Baofeng handhelds in the radio picker — the UV-5RM, the UV-5RM Plus and the compact UV-5R Mini — each treated as its own model, so setup and programming answers match the radio you actually have rather than its better-known sibling.

Jul 28 · 11:40 PM

Ask about a radio that isn't in our list — a variant like the TS-590S, the FT-991 or an IC-7300 MK3 — and the answer now names the model it is actually based on, so you can see when guidance comes from a close relative rather than your exact rig. Menu-by-menu programming steps are given only for the radio they were written for.

Jul 28 · 11:15 PM

Questions asked in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and other languages now reach the right live data far more often — nearby repeaters, current band conditions and your radio's own settings all come back looked up rather than approximated. English and Spanish are unchanged.

Jul 28 · 9:30 PM

Added the Icom IC-710 — the vintage 100 W HF transceiver (SSB/CW/RTTY) — to the radio picker.

Jul 28 · 4:30 PM

Three more rigs in the radio picker, each with model-specific setup help — the Yaesu FT-818ND (the pocket-sized 6 W all-mode portable that covers HF through 70 cm), the TYT MD-9600 (dual-band DMR and FM mobile, 50 W), and the classic Yaesu FT-757GX (100 W HF desktop with a general-coverage receiver).

Jul 28 · 12:00 PM

Ask in your own language and the answer now comes back in it — including when you switch language part-way through a conversation.

Jul 27 · 9:40 PM

You can now choose whether to hear about new features and plans by email — it's a separate switch in your Profile, alongside the others, so each kind of email is yours to turn on or off independently. Payment, security and account notices are always sent.

Jul 27 · 10:30 AM

Operators outside the United States now get their own country's amateur band limits — ask where a band starts and ends and you'll get the figures that apply where you are.

Jul 26 · 6:30 PM

Added the Icom IC-735 — the classic 1980s all-band HF transceiver (160–10 m, SSB/CW/AM/FM) with a general-coverage receiver — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 24 · 11:00 AM

Technical values and formulas now display cleanly — impedance in ohms, wavelengths, units and simple equations render as proper symbols instead of raw formatting codes, so measurement and antenna answers are easier to read.

Jul 23 · 9:16 AM

Added the Icom IC-7300MK2 — Icom's new successor to the hugely popular IC-7300, a 100 W HF/6 m direct-sampling SDR base transceiver with a built-in antenna tuner and a sharper receiver — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 22 · 12:40 PM

HAMgpt now knows three more rigs — the Icom IC-7000 (HF/VHF/UHF all-mode transceiver), the Guohetec PMR-171 (portable multi-band SDR), and the ACOM 1000 (HF/6 m linear amplifier) — so questions about their bands, features and setup get answers matched to that exact model.

Jul 21 · 8:35 AM

Added the Icom IC-718 — the classic, budget-friendly entry-level all-band HF transceiver (160–10 m, SSB/CW) — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 20 · 9:58 AM

Added the Kenwood TM-D750A — the D-STAR digital tribander mobile (2 m / 1.25 m / 70 cm) with built-in GPS and APRS — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 20 · 9:57 AM

Added the Radioddity DB25-D — the affordable dual-band (2 m / 70 cm) DMR mobile with GPS and APRS — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 20 · 9:20 AM

Added the Alinco DX-SR8T — the affordable all-band HF base transceiver (160–10 m) — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 20 · 9:20 AM

Ask about any band, even ones you can't transmit on yet — antenna designs, DXpeditions, contests, and calling frequencies are answered on their merits, whether you're planning an upgrade, helping another operator, or just learning. On-air advice still follows your own license privileges.

Jul 19 · 9:00 AM

Added the Yaesu FTM-6000R — the rugged 50 W FM dual-band (2 m / 70 cm) mobile — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 18 · 9:00 PM

Added the BTECH UV-PRO — the app-programmable dual-band handheld with GPS, APRS, Bluetooth and IP67 waterproofing — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 18 · 6:00 PM

Added the Yaesu FTM-200DR — the 50 W C4FM/FM dual-band mobile with built-in GPS and APRS — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jul 18 · 2:00 PM

Model-specific rig help now works when you ask in Spanish or German — questions about your rig's setup, wiring or troubleshooting get answered even when you're not asking in English, instead of finding nothing.

Jul 17 · 12:30 PM

See which ham radio nets are on the air right now — or coming up soon so you can be ready. A new home-screen card (or just ask "any nets on now?") lists the scheduled on-air gatherings near you: traffic nets, rag-chews, SKYWARN, club and DX nets, with the frequency or repeater/talkgroup, how to check in, and when the next ones start — matched to your license and radios so it leads with the ones you can actually join. Net listings come from netfinder.radio.

Jul 16 · 6:00 PM

Understand a band's harmonics — ask "what are the harmonics of 20m?" (or of any frequency) and HAMgpt lays out each harmonic: its frequency, which amateur band it lands in (if any), and whether a dipole is naturally resonant there. Handy for working a wire antenna on more than one band, and for spotting when your transmitter's harmonics could fall into another band and cause interference.

Jul 16 · 1:00 PM

Clearer free-trial details on the Plans page — it now shows when your trial ends and explains that a plan you pick during the trial takes effect once the trial finishes, so there are no surprises about what you have and when.

Jul 13 · 6:30 PM

Better help when you paste a troubleshooting question — describe a problem in your own words ("I can decode FT8 but can't complete any contacts"), even about a specific radio you name in the message, and HAMgpt now recognizes the rig and walks you through it with model-specific help, instead of missing the point of what you're asking.

Jul 13 · 5:30 PM

Tidier antenna picker — a Yagi/beam is now a single choice that works on whatever bands you give it (HF or VHF/UHF) instead of separate HF and VHF entries, the 5/8-wave vertical covers HF too, and antenna types no longer repeat the band in their name. What defines the band is simply the bands you pick for the antenna.

Jul 13 · 2:00 PM

Band tips now match your radios — if your only rig is a VHF/UHF handheld, your dashboard and "what band is open?" answers point you to your local repeaters and VHF/UHF instead of HF bands you can't work, and DXpedition chances won't call one workable on a band your gear can't reach.

Jul 13 · 12:00 PM

More reliable callsign lookups — ask "who is W1AW?" and HAMgpt now gives you the operator's country and grid square straight from the callsign registry, plus a QRZ link for the name. Accurate and consistent, for any callsign worldwide.

Jul 11 · 8:30 PM

Help fixing and understanding your rig — ask why your radio isn't working right, or how part of it works, and HAMgpt now gives model-specific help, covering troubleshooting and how-it-works, not just the menu and setup steps. Especially handy for kit and QRP rigs.

Jul 8 · 6:30 PM

Set up Winlink Express, step by step — getting Winlink radio email working can be fiddly, so now you can ask HAMgpt and it walks you through the whole thing: your account and registration, VARA HF and VARA FM, wiring up your radio (Digirig, SignaLink, or a CAT cable — COM port, PTT and audio levels), sending your first message, and sorting out a connection that won't go through. It knows the exact ports, menus and settings that usually trip people up.

Jul 8 · 12:00 PM

Design a Moxon antenna — the compact 2-element beam that gives you directional gain and an excellent front-to-back (to knock down interference and noise coming from behind you) in about 70% the width of a full-size beam, and feeds directly with 50-ohm coax. Get the exact rectangle dimensions for your band and wire size, a to-scale diagram, and the critical tip-gap measurement that sets how well it works.

Jul 7 · 7:00 PM

HAMgpt now has optional paid plans — they raise your daily question limits, add more live web look-ups, and unlock answers tailored to your own station: your antenna, radios and logbook. The free plan stays, and going paid helps keep HAMgpt independent and ad-free. You can pick, change or cancel a plan anytime from the account menu.

Jul 7 · 12:30 PM

Importing a logbook now works with accented characters — an ADIF export with names or place names containing á, é, í, ó, ú or ñ (common in Spanish, Portuguese and French logs) no longer fails to import.

Jul 6 · 8:30 PM

Adding a radio is quicker — choose handheld, mobile or base and the band selection now fits that type, so a base HF rig no longer starts with VHF bands checked.

Jul 5 · 6:05 PM

Practice exams now follow your license class — ask to be quizzed and HAMgpt serves the right question pool instead of always starting at Technician. You can also say "quiz me on the Extra exam" to pick any level yourself.

Jul 5 · 6:00 PM

Better satellite-pass answers — ask for the next ISS (or any satellite) pass and HAMgpt now finds it even when the next one is many hours away, tells you which way to look and how high it climbs, and says plainly when there's nothing coming up soon.

Jul 3 · 4:00 PM

Solar-flare alerts no longer repeat themselves — a single flare now shows up once, labeled with how strong it got, instead of posting again each time its intensity ticks up or down as it fades.

Jul 3 · 1:00 PM

Snap a photo, get a read — take a picture of your antenna analyzer, SWR meter, or your rig's screen and HAMgpt reads the values and explains them right in the chat. Handy when you don't have the data file on hand; for exact numbers, a NanoVNA .s1p upload is still the most precise.

Jul 3 · 7:30 AM

Your dashboard now stays current on its own — leave the page open and the band conditions, space weather and DX keep refreshing in the background, so what you see is always up to date.

Jul 2 · 9:30 AM

Signing up outside the US? The license picker is now country-aware — verify your callsign and it offers your own country's licence classes (Canada, the UK, Australia, Japan, Argentina and more), so your privileges are right from the start.

Jul 1 · 9:00 AM

Clearer space-weather panel on your dashboard — when solar flux is high but the geomagnetic field is stormy, it now says so in plain language instead of a confusing mix, and solar-flare alerts describe the flare's real strength (from minor to severe) rather than always calling it "strong".

Jun 30 · 6:30 PM

The welcome screen now lets you preview the assistant — type a question or tap a starter prompt to see what HAMgpt can do before you sign in.

Jun 30 · 6:00 PM

Find any past conversation — the sidebar keeps your recent chats, and the new "All chats" view lets you search your whole history, filter by date, and scroll back through everything (older chats are no longer hidden).

Jun 30 · 4:30 PM

Charts now stay with the conversation — generate an antenna blueprint or an SWR plot, switch to another chat and come back, and it's still there instead of disappearing. SWR sweep charts are also larger and easier to read.

Jun 30 · 11:00 AM

Added the FlexRadio Aurora (AU-520 / AU-520M) — the 500 W HF SDR (200 W on 6 m) — to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help, so band tips and answers know its built-in tuner and capabilities.

Jun 29 · 12:30 PM

Design a magnetic loop antenna — the compact, capacitor-tuned HF antenna that works in an apartment, on an HOA lot, or on a trip. Get the loop size, the exact tuning capacitance, the efficiency to expect on each band, the very narrow bandwidth, and the high-voltage capacitor rating you need to build it safely.

Jun 28 · 6:45 PM

See your antenna design as a diagram — ask for a Yagi, dipole, vertical, inverted-V or magnetic loop and a to-scale blueprint is drawn right in the chat, with the key dimensions, the feedpoint, and (for a loop) the tuning capacitor and its voltage labeled.

Jun 28 · 4:37 PM

See your antenna sweep as a chart — attach a NanoVNA .s1p and the SWR-versus-frequency curve is drawn right in the chat, with the resonant point, the usable band, and the 2:1 line all marked.

Jun 28 · 3:44 PM

Attach files right in the chat — drop in a NanoVNA antenna sweep (.s1p) and get a plain-language read: where it's resonant, the SWR, the usable bandwidth, and how much to trim it to land on your target frequency.

Jun 28 · 10:31 AM

Ask which radio fits what you want to do — a full-duplex rig for satellites, a handheld that does DMR, or a mobile with a built-in tuner — and get matching models to consider.

Jun 27 · 9:36 PM

Added the heavy-duty Yaesu FT-2600M 2-meter mobile to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jun 27 · 7:26 PM

Hands-on help building antenna hardware — how to wind a choke balun or a 49:1 matching transformer, feed and match a beam, pick the right wire, tubing and weatherproofing, and trim any antenna to resonance with an analyzer.

Jun 27 · 1:55 PM

Design a beam (Yagi) antenna and get a complete build sheet — the exact length and spacing of every element, the boom length, the gain to expect, and how to feed and match it — for any band and any number of elements.

Jun 27 · 1:53 PM

Smarter answers about your radio — its bands, whether it has a built-in tuner, if you can run FT8 with just a USB cable, its digital-voice mode (D-STAR / DMR / Fusion), and whether it's full-duplex for satellites. It also understands the short model code ("991a", "7300").

Jun 27 · 12:15 PM

Ask in your own language — questions in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, German and more now get the right guidance in your language, not just English.

Jun 27 · 9:14 AM

Edit your saved radios and antennas (not just add or remove them), with a quick HF-range picker for multiband antennas.

Jun 26 · 8:50 AM

Add all your antennas to your profile — pick each one's type and the bands it covers — so band tips and DX suggestions fit everything you can actually get on the air.

Jun 26 · 7:51 AM

Added the classic Yaesu FT-857D to the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jun 25 · 9:24 PM

Planning a trip? Ask how to operate in the US, Argentina, the UK, Canada, Australia or Japan with your home licence — reciprocal agreements, visitor permits (IARP/CEPT) and the call sign to use.

Jun 25 · 4:52 PM

Ask about the amateur license categories and band privileges of any supported country — handy when you're planning to travel and operate abroad.

Jun 25 · 1:19 PM

Argentine amateurs are now supported — pick your category (Novicio, General, Superior or Especial) and guidance follows Argentina's own bands and power limits.

Jun 25 · 12:14 PM

Japanese amateurs are now supported — pick your operator class (First through Fourth) and guidance follows Japan's own bands and power limits.

Jun 25 · 11:42 AM

More reliable when traffic is heavy — brief hiccups now retry on their own, and if the assistant is momentarily busy you'll get a clear 'try again' message instead of an error.

Jun 25 · 10:19 AM

Even more radios in the picker — Icom IC-7610, IC-7100 and the classic IC-706, Yaesu FTDX10 and FT-891, the Kenwood TS-940S, plus more Baofeng and Yaesu handhelds — with model-specific setup help.

Jun 24 · 12:23 PM

Popular QRP and portable rigs added too — Elecraft KX2/KX3, Lab599 TX-500, Xiegu X6100/X6200 (and the G90), and the QRP Labs QMX — with model-specific setup help.

Jun 24 · 10:16 AM

Flagship transceivers added to the radio picker — Yaesu FTDX101, Icom IC-7851 and IC-9700, Kenwood TS-990S, and Elecraft K4 — with model-specific setup help.

Jun 24 · 10:02 AM

FlexRadio (6000 and 8000 series) and Apache Labs (ANAN-7000DLE, ANAN-G2) SDRs are now in the radio picker, with model-specific setup help.

Jun 24 · 9:42 AM

Australian and UK amateurs are now supported too — pick your licence (Australia: Foundation / Standard / Advanced; UK: Foundation / Intermediate / Full) and guidance follows your own country's bands and power limits.

Jun 23 · 8:19 PM

Canadian amateurs are now supported — choose your certificate (Basic, Basic with Honours, or Advanced) and every answer respects the bands you're allowed to use and your power limits, based on Canada's own rules.

Jun 23 · 6:00 PM

Better answers about radios and equipment — specs, features, and setup help.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

DX recommendations now factor in the bands your antenna actually covers — so you only see contacts you can realistically make.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

See recent on-air activity for each band at a glance, with the bands your antenna covers highlighted.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Ask for POTA parks near you to activate, not just spots to hunt.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Get a summary of your on-air activity from an imported logbook (ADIF) — now supporting files up to 10 MB.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

A new 'My rig' card on your Home screen.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Light and dark themes, with a redesigned, easier-to-read interface.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Support for the legacy Advanced and Conditional license classes.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

A plain-language 'How to use HAMgpt' guide for newcomers, plus Terms and Privacy pages in the menu.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Notifications now show the exact date and time (UTC) of each alert, so you can tell at a glance whether a satellite pass or band opening has already passed.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Your notifications feed stays tidy — alerts clear out once they're no longer relevant.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Your antenna setting is now used everywhere it matters, and the profile screen is cleaner and easier to edit.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

A lot of mobile polish — smoother scrolling, better keyboard handling, and fixes for iOS layout.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

A live UTC clock on the dashboard.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM

Your 👍 / 👎 on an answer now feeds directly into making the assistant better.

Jun 21 · 12:44 PM