AntScope

Rig Expert Ukraine Ltd.

About this app

AntScope for Android is a software designed to connect the RigExpert Option Bluetooth antenna analyzers to Android smartphones.
This software allows:
To create:
- SWR chart (standing wave ratio)
- Phase chart
- Charts: R (resistance), X (reactance) and Z (impedance module), series mode
- Charts: R (resistance), X (reactance) and Z (impedance module), parallel mode
- Return loss chart
- Smith chart
Save and share measurement results

Supported analyzers:
- RigExpert AA-55 ZOOM Option Bluetooth (Android 4.4+)
- RigExpert AA-230 ZOOM Option BLE (Android 6.0+)

The list of already tested and working devices (not yet complete):
- HUAWEI Y5
- SAMSUNG 6
- SAMSUNG GALAXY A5

Third-party libraries:
MPAndroidChart library. Copyright 2016 Daniel Cohen Gindi & Philipp Jahoda

Ratings and reviews

Getting the app and the RigExpert Stick Pro to connect it very finicky. I have tried on 5 different devices and it's the same for each one. Once your connected you have a short time before the device will turn off and you loose connection. You can not scan all bands like you can directly on the device to find where your antenna is tuned to. And the biggest gripe is you can't save your preferred settings. This should be an amazing extension to the tool, but it very limited.

Using with rig expert stick pro and Pixel 3. Bluetooth connects and scans can be run but the app will intermittently time out with Bluetooth interrupting whatever you're doing forcing you to save what you've done so far. It also seems that I'm unable to reload saved files as the files don't appear when searching to load them. Some serious debugging needs to be done.

Update: still no go after the 5/21 app update. Stick pro has latest firmware update as well. I think RE needs to update the actual BLE module they're currently using and fix it's error prone firmware. Just bought a stick pro. Device will pair up to pixel 3a then disconnects and won't reconnect afterwards. At this point, this software is useless until there's a fix for the bluetooth connection.

What's new

BLE scanning improved