While using the Kraken, I found myself stopped in locations, waiting for the signal to become active. The pause while at low speeds or hold directions doesn’t seem to hold my location or bearing well. It would be nice to see a quick way on map view to set a bearing and possibly a point. Maybe a pause and a set location button. Then add a resume gps button.
Also an option to edit each point or ignore some logged points. And add notes.
Also a live vfo-0 power value on the android app map.
Lastly and option in the android app to have preset configurations and be able to load them from android app. Would be helpful when bouncing between multiple repeater inputs. GMRS/Amature vhf & uhf
Thanks for the suggestions. I didn’t quite understand your first suggestion though can you clarify? Do you mean to set a navigation point manually?
Will look into adding a way to delete points, but if there are only a few wayward bearings it doesn’t really matter as they just get averaged out. The whole point of this idea is to avoid needing to do manual dataset curation, since its possible to get a large number of data points quickly when driving, and any bad bearings get averaged out.
Notes and a power display is a good idea.
For presets, do you mean being able to control the krakensdr frequency through app buttons?
The first one, I want an easy way to turn off gps position and set a manual position on the map view, and be able to drag/set the bearing in set position. It will help when sitting in a parking lot waiting for a signal to become available when you do not have the best gps positioning & bearings. Also a button when using that mode on the map view to resume using gps position and bearing. That would help when leaving the parking lot when the signal becomes active.
The preset, the frequency is exactly what I mean. I want to be able to quickly switch from amature radio 2m to 70cm.
I was just about to post a feature request with almost the same exact things. When driving, if you are going in a straight line, and then come to a stop, such as at a traffic light, the “Hold Heading At Low Speed” generally works OK. But, if you make a turn, such as to pull off to the side of the road, or turn into a parking spot, it is not very accurate.
So, I’ve found that every time I stop some place, I have to get out of my truck, walk 10-20 feet away, and then take a compass bearing of the direction it is facing to enter into the Heading Sensor field, and then use a phone app (What3Words, TopoUSA) to get the Lat/Lon coordinates.
Since the Kraken accesses the Android location services, it should be able to easily auto populate the location fields.
Getting the compass heading is a little harder, since it needs to be “immune” to the vehicles magnetic field (That’s why I get 10’-20’ away to take a reading) so pulling a reading from the device’s internal compass might not be reliable.
But, if I could zoom into my exact location on the Kraken app map, and then draw a line in the direction I’m facing, and the app could show the bearing of the line, I could easily copy that reading into the manual heading field.
Thats why i suggested a GNSS compass in another thread.
What thread was that comment in?