QSL Eye. A live 3D globe inside Ham Browser: aircraft, satellites, earthquakes, weather, transit, public cameras and world radio on photorealistic imagery. Open it from the ham bar, the Tools menu or the dashboard. Every layer is free.
Your spots and your contacts, on the globe. DX Spots puts every cluster spot where the station is, coloured by band, with a line from whoever spotted it; My Contacts draws every QSO in your logbook as a path from your grid. Click any station for the details.
Built on open source. QSL Eye is Bilawal Sidhu’s God’s Eye View (MIT), restyled to match the rest of the browser, with the surveillance dressing and the paid voice agent left out.
The ham bar: QSL Eye takes the CW Room’s place; the CW Room stays in Tools and on the dashboard.
Version 1.9.744
Ham Browser runs on Linux. An AppImage for ordinary PCs and one for ARM boards such as the Raspberry Pi: download, mark it executable, run. Everything is there except the Radio Programmer and Auto FT8, which still need their Linux runtimes and will follow.
The Send QSL dialog shows the card that is actually sent. It used to draw a rough copy of your design; it now shows the picture QSL World mails for that contact, and Save and Print give you that same picture. Send QSL sits on every tab of a contact.
EDIT QSL no longer puts the other station’s country under yours. The card page was handed the contact’s country in the field meant for your own. Reported by BU2HL.
Voice notes on a contact are kept. Saving a QSO right after pressing Stop lost the recording; Save now waits for it. Offline, the logbook tells you the recording was not kept rather than saying nothing.
Sign-in links from email open. A page that asked for a real window — Apple, Google and passkey sign-ins among them — got nothing and failed silently. It now gets one, shown as a tab.
Updates are noticed within half an hour, and whenever you come back to the window, instead of every six hours.
The card editor keeps a centred line centred, blended pictures come out as designed, and the photo template’s boxes can be moved and resized like any other piece.
Morse Academy. The CW Room is rebuilt as one shell with a training academy: letters, words, exchanges, sounds and a proper ceremony when you pass, and onboarding cards for the first visit.
Signing in and up: through hambrowser.com, with the old address as a way back; signing up no longer waits for QRZ; the app gets through the host’s bot challenge instead of being shut out; and the people who cannot sign up can tell us so.
Logbook: big logs import, a contact keeps both signal reports on its card, and the offline copy says how old its numbers are. The bookmarks bar stops pushing the chips off the end, and Find has its own view.
Version 1.9.689
The Radio Programmer now runs on every computer. It shipped with a Python runtime that could only start on the machine the build was made on. It now carries a complete, self-contained one for each processor — Apple Silicon, Intel, and Windows in both 64-bit and 32-bit — so all 551 radio models are there from the first launch, with nothing to install.
Windows opens links from other programs. Set Ham Browser as your default browser and a link clicked in your mail program now opens in it, as does a file double-clicked in Explorer. Ham Browser also appears in Settings → Default apps, and its notifications now actually appear.
32-bit machines are offered the 32-bit installer. Updates used to point every Windows operator at the 64-bit build.
Websites are no longer told where you are. Location was handed to every site automatically, with no prompt and no way to stop it. It is now off, with a switch in Settings → Privacy if you want it on. Ham Browser’s own pages — grid squares, propagation, local weather — are unaffected and never send your position anywhere.
Websites can no longer see your radio. Any page you opened could list your serial ports. Only Ham Browser’s own pages can now, and a site that asks has to be granted it.
Grid Rush and Spots work without a connection. Both drew their maps from an internet library, so with no signal they never finished loading. The library ships inside the browser now, along with the globe and satellite libraries.
Your contacts stay yours. Contacts logged offline could be uploaded into the next operator’s logbook after signing out and in on a shared computer. And a contact the server refused five times was deleted silently — it is now kept aside with the reason, and you are told.
The logbook says when it is showing old figures, and how old, instead of quietly clearing its own offline notice.
Camera sites no longer close the browser on macOS, and the logbook no longer freezes for several seconds on Windows when opening.
Version 1.9
One menu everywhere. The hamburger shows the same list as the menu bar, with the shortcuts written for your platform; Settings and About on Windows; right-click on the toolbar, the sidebar and every page.
Windows in 64-bit and 32-bit, both signed.
Grid Rush: your logbook as a game over 32,400 squares, with 147 badge levels, ten ranks and a ladder.
CW Room: forty channels of live Morse, and HAMilton to practise with.
QSL cards: a designer with twenty templates and bundled fonts, an album of the cards other operators drew for you, and a book with real page turns.
Contest Check: Cabrillo and ADIF checked on your own computer before you submit.
Mail: any IMAP mailbox, with guided setup for the big providers.
Spots and Watch: DX, POTA and WWFF on a globe, and email alerts from your own account.
Grey Line and Sat Tracker, with thirteen satellites and band conditions at your station.
QSO Globe: five projections including azimuthal and Lambert centred on your station.
Logbook: eleven templates, club logs with roles, LoTW through your own TQSL, eQSL upload, a copy on your disk that works offline.
CAT console for 67 rigs, and the Radio Programmer with 551 models built in.
Version 1.7
Drag-and-drop file open, reopen closed tab, inline find bar
Refreshed brand and icons
Version 1.6
Firefox-style menu panel, full right-click menu, redesigned Settings, auto-update notifications
Version 1.5
AI Assistant and sidebar, server-driven home and news
