JS8 Firefly
JS8 Firefly by Nathan Rigg: rank, rating, keywords, reviews and trend on the Apple App Store.
- Publisher
- Nathan Rigg
- Category
- Utilities
- Store
- Apple App Store
- Price
- $4.99
- Top paid rank
- #41
- Released
- 2026-11-05
- Last updated
- 2026-11-07
About JS8 Firefly
JS8 Firefly is a JS8 client for amateur radio operators. Connect your iPhone or iPad to your HF radio and you can chat keyboard-to-keyboard, send heartbeats and leave store-and-forward messages with JS8 stations around the world, all from your pocket. Its JS8 modem is written from scratch in Swift and checked against JS8Call's original code, so it works with any JS8Call station on all five speeds: Slow, Normal, Fast, Turbo and Ultra. RECEIVE AND DECODE • Decodes all five speeds at once • Live waterfall with every decode labeled on it; tap a signal to tune to it • Band activity, with directed messages to you highlighted • Watch list: pick callsigns, @GROUPs and words, each in its own color, and they glow wherever they appear, with an optional alert in the background • Stations heard, with grid, distance, bearing and signal report • Set your grid square from GPS with one tap, or keep it updated as you move FULL JS8 MESSAGING • Directed queries: SNR?, GRID?, INFO?, STATUS?, HEARING?, QUERY MSGS and more • Automatic replies, just like JS8Call • Heartbeats and acknowledgements, CQ, groups, relays and compound callsigns • Inbox and store-and-forward: receive MSG messages and hold messages for other stations • Follow every conversation on the band, or just the one on your offset MADE FOR PORTABLE OPERATING • Digirig Lite over USB-C, with PTT keyed by a tone on the right audio channel • QRP Labs QMX and QDX plug straight in for audio, and PTT switches to VOX for you • Rig control
Keywords
radio, audio, js8, usb, js8call, so
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