UKAFG Frequency Guide 2027: pre-order now
- New The 2027 guide can be pre-ordered now and ships in mid-December. Read more
Satellites: passes over you
- New A Satellites layer shows the passes over your location of the ISS and amateur and weather satellites. Read more
- New Each pass gives the frequency to listen on, as it changes through the pass.
Airshows on the map
The 2027 airshow season is on the map, with a page for each show.
- New Airshow pins under Events, each opening the show's own page.
- New Show pages list arrivals and departures on the arrival, practice, show and departure days.
- New A Display teams and flypasts tab, with UK times and On map links.
- New Each show page lists the airfield's frequencies, including AFIS or air/ground radio where there is no tower.
Tell us which frequency an aircraft is on
If you know the frequency an aircraft is working, you can now report it from the map.
- New A Confirm button beside each Listen on frequency in the aircraft panel.
- New A box for another frequency when it is none of the ones shown; an 8.33 kHz channel name is accepted.
- Fixed Squawk meanings are back on the aircraft panel.
Airport delays
- New Airport boards say how late the airport is running. Read more
- New Airports running late are marked on their Locations pins.
Ships layer rebuilt
- Improved The Ships layer loads faster and copes with busy areas. Read more
- Improved Ships move smoothly between position reports, and faster ships are refreshed more often.
In range now, Watch, the Today board and an alert inbox
- New In range now lists the aircraft above your horizon and what to listen on for each. Read more
- New Watch: be alerted the next time a particular airframe is seen. Read more
- New The Today board lists the military aircraft seen so far today. Read more
- New The alert inbox keeps the alerts you were sent for two weeks. Read more
- New The aircraft panel shows the days an airframe has flown.
- New Copy a link to an aircraft or a board to share it.
- New Military departures show their departure radar frequency and standard route.
- Improved Clicking a push alert opens that aircraft on the map.
Aircraft photos and a fuller history replay
- New A photo of the aircraft on request in the aircraft panel.
- New Location pins can be labelled by ICAO code, name or both.
- New Radar view has a 40 mile range, with range rings on whole miles. Read more
- Improved History replay shows the flight, the squawk and a photo, and its popup follows the aircraft as the replay plays. Read more
- Improved Replaying one aircraft opens the same panel as the live tracker. Read more
- Improved In military mode, aircraft labels and hover details show at any zoom.
- Improved The vector base maps now cover the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and North Africa.
Scanner Follow: the map follows your scanner
With Squawker PC, the map and your scanner now work together in both directions.
- New When your scanner stops on a frequency, the map shows the airspace that frequency works and the aircraft in it. Read more
- New Tune and Track buttons in the aircraft panel send an aircraft's likely frequencies to your scanner.
- New Scan these on an airfield, transmitter or WTR popup sends its frequencies to the scanner as a temporary scan list.
- New Military frequencies are followed too: tanker towlines, ranges, squadron and air defence channels.
- New A frequency outside the airbands shows the licensed sites, repeaters and locations using it within reach of you.
- Improved The map uses your Scanner postcode or Your Location pin to show only what is within reach of you.
Squawker PC 2.3.5: staying logged in, and an update you can follow
- Improved The in-app update shows its progress, needs no administrator prompt, and says which version you were updated to. Read more
- Improved Scanner Follow uses your Scanner postcode to show what is within reach of you.
- Fixed Members with an active subscription are no longer logged out or told their membership is not active.
- Fixed The login window no longer reappears after an automatic login.
Better Listen on suggestions for military aircraft
- New A military aircraft showing no callsign says which callsigns it is possibly using.
- Improved Also try keeps to frequencies of the aircraft's own air force.
- Improved For an aircraft that has just taken off, the airfield's radar frequency is the first Also try.
- Improved The confidence badges have been recalibrated, so High means more than it did.
Squawker PC 2.3.4: Scanner Follow, Scan Lists, Auto mode and Marine HF
- New Scanner Follow: a Follow on map switch beside the Connect frequency box shows who is on the frequency your scanner has stopped on. Read more
- New A Tune or Track on the map reaches the Fast Scanner and Uniden, SDS, Quansheng and Icom scanners.
- New Auto mode lets the Fast Scanner pick AM, NFM or DMR for each frequency. Read more
- New A Marine HF database. Read more
- New Quansheng radios: remote key presses.
- Improved Custom Lists are now Scan Lists, with a tick box per list so two or more can be scanned together. Read more
- Improved Changing the scan list or range while scanning takes effect at once.
- Improved Exports show how many rows were written.
Updates page: your own start date, and exports
- New Pick any start date with the calendar, as well as the quick ranges. Read more
- New Export each table to CSV or Excel.
- New A Copy button on every row.
- New A Date column shows when each frequency was added, changed or removed.
Search the map by frequency
- New Locations, the WTR Browser and amateur repeaters can be searched by frequency.
- New Show all on map puts every result of a search on the map at once.
Airspace layers rebuilt, with one height control
The airspace on the map has been redrawn and is kept up to date, with one control for the height you want to see.
- New One height control for the airspace overlays: show every height, a band, or an exact level. Read more
- New London and Scottish en-route sectors and the London Terminal Control sectors are drawn at their real levels. Read more
- New LARS units are shown with their frequency, radius and hours.
- Improved Control zones, danger areas, restricted areas and military training areas have been redrawn and are kept up to date. Read more
- Improved Area control sector names follow the current sectorisation, including Borders, Solway, Grampian and Pennine.
- Fixed Long airspace popups no longer lose their last rows.
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