[donniefitz2]

TIDRadio make something similar to this with a Bluetooth interface instead of the cable. It's a decent piece of hardware, but the app is pretty bad and limited.

There's a market in ham radio for a Bluetooth interface to replace the ancient programming cables and software we all use for both HT's and mobile transceivers.

One radio does this (the VGC VR-N7500), the interface for the entire radio is an app, but the app again is horribly designed. If it were some kind of open protocol, app developers could do some truly interesting things with it.

[toomuchtodo]

Are there any radios with a good app experience you could recommend?

[donniefitz2]

Unfortunately that's the only one I know of with an app interface. I did reverse engineer the app and tried to get some cooperation with the manufacturer of the radio to create an app of my own, but they weren't interested.