Carrier Wave

About Carrier Wave

This is a big one. Months of updates arrive together in this release. Carrier Wave Sync keeps your log in step across all your devices with end to end encryption. Create an account with a verified email, and the emailed magic link now opens the app directly to finish sign in. Your log stays encrypted with your passphrase. Contests are now first class. Start a contest session from the Sessions tab, pick from a full contest calendar, and log with a compact strike card that fits above the keyboard. CWT exchanges auto fill for members and non members alike. Starting a session is faster and smarter. The rebuilt wizard leads with the essentials, auto picks a clear starting frequency nestled between live spots, prepopulates your most likely park, and offers one tap Same as Last Session. Activation, casual, and contest starts each get their own tailored flow. Hunters get plenty. POTA n-fers are fully supported, so one QSO can credit multiple parks with per park dedup in the spot list. The hunter list refreshes with a pull, publishes spots within about a second of fetching, marks what is new since you last looked, and can filter by saved queries. The new Band Scope gives you a two lens spot browser with mode filters. The logger keyboard gains a Prefixes row that stamps callsign prefixes with one tap, and a new Keyboard Rows screen lets you enable and reorder every accessory row with a live preview. A callsign free quick entry line like 14.046 CW CN87 updates the session frequency, mode, and grid in one go. Radio macros arrive: build CAT command macros in the new editor, browse a shared catalog, and run them from the logger. SOTA logging gains an inline S2S summit field, self spotting, summit accurate session grids, and the correct 4 QSO activation threshold. New home screen widgets show hunting conditions and space weather storms. Maps are faster everywhere, and the club map now opens instantly. Settings were reorganized around what you are trying to do, onboarding asks how you operate to tailor the app, and the new Explore gallery helps you find features. Plus many fixes: background sync no longer risks a crash on suspension, ended sessions stay ended, stale callsign lookups refresh properly, FT8 audio warnings behave, and much more.

App privacy

The developer, James Vana, reported these privacy practices to Apple.