Repository navigation
Grid squares and skeds
Where you are in Maidenhead terms, which locators are next door, which parks are around, and when you can meet another station on a satellite.
The locator page · its map
Tap your locator under the app title (e.g. JN18FT).
- Your locator in big type, your coordinates, and the Field / Square / Subsquare breakdown.
- Neighbouring locators — all 8, nearest first: direction, locator and distance to its border. Marks: ★ never worked on satellite · ✓ already done · ✓✓ confirmed (from your log, the online logbook or LoTW).
- An interactive map: tap any point to read its locator; pinch and drag to move. Locators you have worked are painted on it.
Map backgrounds: offline drawing (no network needed), OpenStreetMap, Topo, Dark, Satellite.
Tip — hunting grid lines portable: the distances tell you how far you are from the next locator, and in GPS mode they follow you as you drive.
Settings › POTA — Parks on the Air
- Tap your continent to download the park catalogue from pota.app.
- Turn on Show POTA parks near the QTH: nearby parks are listed with their distance.
- Park boundaries, ahead of time: fetch the outlines around you while you still have a network — on site there often is none.
When you are near a park, SatMe proposes it (I am in …); it cannot know whether you crossed the boundary, so confirm only if you are inside.
Meetups and activations announced on hams.at show up on the passes and the satellite pages.
| Setting (Settings › Skeds (hams.at)) | Effect |
|---|---|
| Workable skeds only | keeps the ones where the satellite is also visible from your QTH |
| hams.at API token (optional) | with it, hams.at computes your visible windows, max elevation and match % (token from hams.at › settings › API) |
⋮ › Mutual sked — for a contact arranged with another station.
- Pick a satellite.
- Type the other station's locator (4 or 6 characters, e.g.
FN20) and its minimum elevation. - Compute (48 h): SatMe lists the windows where the satellite is visible from both stations.
- Play the window on the double polar plot, then Share sked to send a picture to the other operator.
- Locators announced with yours (QRV photo, log, ADIF) are shown in amber on the map.
- The QRV photo (📷 on a pass page) puts your locator and the satellite on a picture to share before an activation.