The seven-receiver wall
Propagation does not announce itself. Ten metres opens for twenty minutes while you are watching twenty; the long path to the Pacific comes and goes on thirty. The only way never to miss it is to watch everything, all the time.
On a Hermes-class radio, DX Pro runs up to seven receivers at once — each with its own panadapter, its own DSP and its own channel in the Audio Mixer. Lay seven panadapters out as a wall, put the Band Ribbon across the top, and the whole of HF is in front of you at once. The skimmer service that will turn those receivers into your own spot source is in development; the wall itself is available today.
Seven bands, one glance
Every tile below is live in DX Pro: a receiver with its own panadapter. The highlighted one is the receiver you are listening to; the others are watching. The dashed amber box is the skimmer service, in development.
Seven receivers, kept manageable
Seven panadapters Available
Up to seven receivers at once on Hermes-class radios, each with its own panadapter and waterfall, each sized however you like. Big for the band you are working, small for the bands you are watching.
Band Ribbon Available
The whole of HF as one strip, marking where every receiver sits and how dense the cluster spots are on each band. It is the index to the wall.
Receivers widget Available
RX1 to RX7 keys. Tap a number to make that receiver the one you are working with.
Audio Mixer Available
Seven receivers would be chaos in your ears. Per-receiver volume, mute and balance let you listen to one, keep a second faintly in the other ear, and mute the rest.
3D terrain waterfall Available
Signal history drawn as a landscape for the active receiver. An opening that builds over twenty minutes shows as a rising ridge rather than a slow change of colour.
Per-receiver DSP Available
Each receiver has its own chain — AGC, noise blankers, notches, Static Reduction — so 40 metres at night and 10 metres in the afternoon can each be set up for their own noise.
DX Cluster on every panadapter Available
Spots, classed by mode and filtered once, drawn on all seven panadapters together.
Skimmer service In development
CW and FT8 spots generated from your own receivers, plus PSKReporter upload and a local cluster port so other programs can use them.
A Sunday afternoon watch
12:00 UTCYou open the Wall workspace. Seven receivers come up on 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 metres. In the Audio Mixer, everything is muted except RX4 on 20 metres, where you are listening to a ragchew.
13:20The 10 metre tile has been empty all day. Now a few faint traces appear on its waterfall, and the Band Ribbon starts to show spots on 10. You did not change band to find this; it appeared in the corner of your eye.
13:22Tap RX1 in the Receivers widget — 10 metres is now the active receiver and its tile is the big one. Unmute it in the mixer, drop RX4 to a whisper in your right ear, and switch on 3D terrain for RX1. Over the next quarter of an hour, the ridge climbs.
13:40A spot on 12 metres lands on RX7's panadapter as well. Two bands open at once and you are already watching both.
ComingWith the skimmer service In development, those seven receivers will produce your own CW and FT8 spots — what your antennas hear, not just what others report.
A wall wants space and faders
A big monitor, or two
Seven panadapters want room. Pop the watching tiles out to a second monitor and keep the main screen for the receiver you are working.
MIDI fader box
Seven receivers, seven faders. Map each Audio Mixer volume to a physical fader with Learn mode and mix the bands like a desk.
Works with Stream Deck
One key per receiver to make it active — the quickest way to jump between seven bands.
- Seven receivers, panadapters, Band Ribbon, 3D terrain, Audio Mixer Available — on Hermes-class radios.
- Skimmer service, PSKReporter upload, local cluster port In development
- FlexRadio In development — receive and panadapter supported now; the seven-receiver wall above is drawn for a Hermes-class radio.
Watch every band at once
See the panadapters and the canvas working in the live demo. One licence, £99, perpetual, for one machine.