Anybody has some news about the SOTA Spotter by @YO3SAW. I read on his website http://yo3saw.ro/ that it is no longer in development. All the other links on his website are not available (at least on my browser):
The app is not available on the Google Play Store anymore …
73 Martin, OE5REO
Hi Martin,
I am seeing the same things on the YO3SAW (dot) RO website - all links appear to have been chopped and bad return codes are being sent. Only the home page appears to still be working.
On Google Play, the App appears to still be there until you try to install it
73 Ed.
I use SOTA Spotter and contacted Bogdan in June to suggest some changes. He said he doesn’t do much with it any more.
So I guess it’s gone 
That is no good news. I hope he is fine. If that is the case let’s hope he makes it open source so others can continue his excellent work.
Would be a shame.
I found an app on the google play store called SOTA ACTIVATOR …
Had a quick look at it but think the app by Bogdan YO3SAW is much better.
I hope that as well.
73 Ed.
I have used SotaGoat for a few years (apple only). My only disappointment is the inability to see an activators name. There is at least one competing app that shows the name, but I can’t find one that works for apple products. Any help??
Elliott, K6EL
For the links Bogdan seems to have misconfigured the webserver. The links direct to https-pages, but the pages delivered are http. So simply change the protocol to http and the links work:
http://yo3saw.ro/?page_id=402#eol
Now I have to look for another app displaying spots and the ability to self-spot easily. Any suggestions?
73 de Michael, DB7MM
Sotawatch on your phone’s browser?
Hi Andy,
for many use cases I agree: Why a dedicated app, if a website in the browser does the same? But in this case I still see advantages of a dedicated app to the current state of SOTAWatch. SOTAWatch has significantly improved on mobile devices, but it is still lacking some of the advantages SOTASpotter has offered (from high to low priority):
). In addition the “mouse over” tooltip displaying this does not work well for me with Firefox for Android. I prefer the “extend button” of SOTASpotter.Of course this is a very subjective list and I agree, I just got used to some features of SOTASpotter. Many of the topics could also be done with the SOTAWatch website and I would appreciate if these were added in future.
73 de Michael, DB7MM
Great shame to see SOTA Spotter is End of Life, as I use it all the time.
I use SOTAWatch for Alerts, and have occasionally used it for Spots. Guess I will have to start using it more if SOTA Spotter fails.
73’s
David
Me too.
I tried to activate the app on phone xyl. Did that time ago as a backup when I forget my phone hi hi.
Now I see no SMS gateways.
What do you use when no Internet available?
Had a hard time today without spot… Was at FL/VO-021.
73 from Hans in FL/VO?
Hans:
In the remote locations in the Canadian Rockies, SOTAmat has been a great tool for self-spotting sotamat.com. It works flawlessly by sending out an FT8 signal over HF. No more worry about not having any other method of communication other than your HF rig.
Paul
VA6MPM
APRS2SOTA with my old FT2DE or SMS. And recently set up SOTAmāt.
73, DIZ
Sota Activator works the same as Sota spotter
Gerald
Some features are missing with the new app …
With the app SOTA ACTIVATOR you can send your spots only via INTERNET, not via SMS.
When you are sending a spot with the app SOTA ACTIVATOR all the fields are empty. It does not save the entries from the previous spot. So you need to fill out all fields again.
So there is still a lot to do until I would say that SOTA ACTIVATOR works like SOTA SPOTTER. I hope that the app by Bogdan, YO3SAW will continue to work in the future.
73 Martin, OE5REO
I am still using SOTA Spotter, works fine for me.
Switching to a new phone will be the crossroads…
73 Heinz
