VibeSDR for Android 12.0.0 beta61 (598) — a V12 TEST build.
This is an early test of V12, not a finished release. Expect rough edges, and please report what you find. The current release is still 11.0.16.
Before you install
- It installs over 11.x and keeps your settings.
- Going back to 11.x needs an uninstall first, and that loses your settings (favourites, bookmarks, server list, and the app's own server set-up). Export your bookmarks first if you want to keep them.
- Updates to later V12 test builds are posted here; install each one by hand.
What is new in V12
- New in beta61 — tune keys that say where they go: in DAB, ISM and DIGI BAND the tune keys name the block or band they go to, and the one you are on is shown bold between them (11B · 11C · 11D), so a run of presses no longer stops one short.
- New in beta61 — the app's server mode has every VibeServer setting: Background Decoding and the gallery, the whole SDRplay card (broadcast/DAB/AM notches, HDR, 24 MHz reference, VibeAGC, AGC targets, aerial by band), "Scan all DAB blocks", the impulse noise blanker and the Airspy HF+ calibration. VFO B and raw IQ settings now take effect on an ordinary Start.
- New in beta61 — the DRM box can be made big again (BIG / SMALL key).
- VFO A/B on a VibeServer: two frequencies on one radio at the same time, each with its own mode, filter and squelch — the lower in your left ear, the higher in your right. Switch it on from the frequency card. The spectrum and waterfall follow whichever VFO you are tuning.
- Two servers at once: listen to any two servers together — VibeServer, UberSDR, KiwiSDR, Web-888, OpenWebRX or FM-DX, in any mix, or two radios on one VibeServer — one in each ear, or both in both. Listen to a 2nd server is in the Servers menu.
- Icom IC-7300 on a VibeServer, receive only: the radio's own scope as the waterfall and its own audio, tuned over CI-V, with its modes, filters, preamp, attenuator, AGC and noise controls.
- Known-signal labels: well-known utility signals in view are named with the decoder they want — RTTY, WEFAX, NAVTEX, DSC, FT8, VOLMET, the time signals and more — along with your bookmarks and, on FM, station names learnt from RDS.
- Decoders the receiver cannot use are greyed, with the reason — tap one and it tells you why, with the numbers (for example, a radio locked to part of the FM band).
- Broadcast FM defaults, set by the server's owner: de-emphasis by region, which of ST, NR, IMS, CEQ, AUTO BW and NB start on, and whether each new listener gets those defaults or the last listener's settings. Listeners can still change them for themselves.
- The shipping map: the NAVTEX, AIS and DSC maps are now one map in layers — ships, DSC positions, NAVTEX stations, warnings and weather — with a new SEA AREAS layer covering the UK, North America, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Spain, Japan and the southern oceans.
- Feld Hell (Hellschreiber) on a VibeServer: the signal is drawn into strips as it is heard, for you to read by eye.
- MFSK, Olivia, Contestia and Thor on a VibeServer, under one MFSK key: AUTO finds the sub-mode and names it; manual FAMILY and MODE settings sit underneath for when AUTO cannot lock.
- Every decoder with an AUTO starts in AUTO; a manual choice is kept until you close the app.
SHA-256 (VibeSDR-12.0.0-beta61-598.apk): 58faaa908f97b2975aa9405fdb7014e4343750a13e41f2a783aa65ccfa0703c1