The remote station
The antennas are at home; you are not. Or the antennas are at a quiet rural site and you live in a town full of noise. Either way, you want your own station, your own layout, wherever you happen to be.
Remote operation is planned and is not in DX Pro today. This page explains how it is designed to work so you can plan your station around it — and so nobody buys a licence expecting it to be there already.
Server at the radio, Remote in your hand
Two copies of DX Pro, one at each end. They try to connect directly first; only if your networks will not allow that does the relay carry the traffic.
no extra costor relay · £4.99/month
only if P2P cannot connect
Planned — not in today's builds
Same canvas, wherever you are
The Remote is DX Pro, so it has the same widget canvas. Here is the kind of compact layout you might use on a laptop away from home. Every box is dashed blue because remote operation as a whole is planned.
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The pieces of remote operation
Server role Planned
DX Pro running next to the radio, talking to it exactly as it does today on your desk, and serving it to a Remote.
Remote role Planned
DX Pro on the machine you have with you, with your own layout and workspaces.
Peer-to-peer connection Planned
The first thing the two ends try: a direct connection, with no subscription.
Relay, £4.99/month Planned
Some networks will not allow a direct connection. For those, an optional relay subscription carries the link. If peer-to-peer works for you, you do not need it.
Server on Linux and Raspberry Pi 5 Planned
The Server role is written portably so it can run on a Linux machine or a Raspberry Pi 5 beside the radio, , as an alternative to a Windows PC at the station.
A licence seat per machine
Each machine — the Server and every Remote — needs its own licence seat. A one-Server, one-Remote station is two seats at £99 each.
An evening away from home
Before you goAt home, the radio is connected to the machine that will be the Server — a Windows PC running DX Pro, or, once the portable Server role is ready, a Raspberry Pi 5 sitting beside the radio.
19:30In a hotel room, you open DX Pro on your laptop in the Remote role. It connects to the Server directly. On a hotel network that blocks direct connections, the relay subscription would carry the link instead.
19:32Your "Away" workspace comes up: the panadapter from your own antennas, the cluster, a VFO, the Transmit console. You tune to a station on 20 metres just as you would at home.
That is the design. Dates are not promised; this page will change to Available only when it is true.
Build the home station now
DX Pro at the radio Available
Everything in DX Pro today runs on a Windows 10/11 PC connected to your Hermes-class radio. That is the station a future Server will share.
Pop-outs and workspaces Available
Design the compact layout you would want away from home now; it is the same canvas.
Licence per machine
A licence is for one machine. The shack PC you license today is one seat; any further machine — a Server or a Remote — needs its own.
- Remote operation — Server, Remote, peer-to-peer, relay Planned
- Server role on Linux and Raspberry Pi 5 Planned
- Mac and Linux desktop clients — not promised. The Remote is planned for Windows like the rest of DX Pro.
- DX Pro on a Windows PC at the radio Available
Start with the station at home
Remote operation is planned, not shipping. DX Pro at the radio is available now — see it in the live demo first. One licence, £99, perpetual, per machine.