Everything on the canvas, and what it is ready for
DX Pro is one native Windows application for the whole station. Every function below is a widget you drop on the canvas, size and arrange — or a capability those widgets share. Each one carries an honest status, so you know exactly what you are buying today and what is still being built.
Layout & touch
There is no fixed main window to fight. The station is a canvas, and you decide what sits where.
Drag-and-drop widget canvas
AvailableEvery function is a widget: drop it from the palette, drag it into place, size it from its grip, and build the station around the way you actually operate.
Several workspaces
AvailableKeep a DX layout, a digital layout and a transmit-setup layout side by side and switch between them with one tap.
Pop-out windows
AvailableAny widget can leave the canvas for its own window — put the cluster or a second panadapter on another monitor.
Finger-first controls
AvailableControls are sized for a fingertip, so a 27-inch touch screen or a convertible laptop works as well as a mouse and keyboard.
Receivers & spectrum
Up to seven receivers at once on Hermes-class radios, each with its own panadapter, DSP and audio.
Up to seven receivers
AvailableOn Hermes-class radios, seven receivers run at once, each tuned independently with its own chain.
Panadapter + waterfall
AvailableOne per receiver, with a glow look. Pinch or drag to zoom, tap to tune, drag the passband.
3D terrain waterfall
AvailableThe waterfall as a landscape: signal history rises as ridges, so a fading opening shows its shape at a glance.
Band Ribbon
AvailableThe whole of HF as one strip, marking every receiver and the density of cluster spots on each band.
Receivers widget
AvailableRX1 to RX7 keys: one tap picks the receiver you are working with.
VFO
AvailableVFO A and B, copy and swap, lock, RIT, and SPLIT and XIT for pile-ups.
VFO Wheel
AvailableA big on-screen tuning knob, made to be spun with a finger.
Bands with band stack
AvailableOne key per band; each band remembers where you left it, so going back puts you where you left it.
S-meter
AvailableSignal strength for the active receiver.
Mode & Filter
AvailableMode keys and filter widths sized for touch.
Audio Mixer
AvailableVolume, mute and balance per receiver — put RX1 in the left ear and RX2 in the right.
Cluster spots on the panadapter
AvailableDX-cluster spots are drawn on every panadapter, filtered by mode — see DX cluster.
Receive DSP & Static Reduction
The usual receive tools, plus DX Pro's own noise reduction with separate methods for CW and for voice — at about 8 ms of delay, so it never feels like you are listening through a pipe.
AGC, noise blankers, auto-notch, squelch
AvailablePer receiver, so each of your seven receivers can be set up for its own band and conditions.
Notch Bank
AvailableEight notches that follow the VFO: notch a carrier once and it stays notched as you tune.
10-band Graphic EQ
AvailableShape receive audio for your ears or your speaker.
SR1 — line enhancer
AvailableStatic Reduction for CW and carriers: it lifts steady tones out of the noise while keeping the tone itself.
SR2 VOICE and SR3 DX
AvailableTwo speech methods: SR2 for everyday voice, SR3 tuned for weak DX speech.
SR5 — spectral subtraction
AvailableA classic noise-floor subtraction method for steady background noise.
SR6 — neural (RNNoise)
AvailableA neural speech-noise suppressor for voice.
About 8 ms latency
AvailableStatic Reduction is built to stay quick, so split listening and fast exchanges still feel immediate.
Transmit
A full transmit chain on Hermes-class radios — from the microphone to the scope that shows what went out.
Transmit console
AvailablePTT tap-to-latch or hold, Tune, Drive and Mic gain, forward power, SWR and ALC, a TX timer and a lockout.
VOX
AvailableVoice-operated transmit with level and hang time on the Transmit widget. The lockout always wins.
TX audio source + monitor
AvailableChoose your microphone or a virtual cable for digital modes, and pick the output you monitor on.
TX EQ
AvailableA 10-band equaliser for your transmitted audio.
TX DSP rack
AvailableNoise gate, compressor/limiter and de-esser.
CQ Caller
AvailableFour recorded voice messages, sent once or on a loop.
QSO Recorder
AvailableEvery over between your transmissions is kept. Play it back, send it back to air, or keep it.
TX Monitor Scope
AvailableYour transmitted audio spectrum plus 30 seconds of power, SWR, ALC and mic level.
Transmit on FlexRadio
In developmentFlex transmit controls are greyed until they have been tested on Flex hardware.
CW
CW Keyer
AvailableIambic A and B or straight key, 5 to 60 WPM.
Touch paddles
AvailableOn-screen DIT and DAH pads, big enough to key with two fingers on a touch screen.
CW Peak Filter
AvailableA narrow audio peak on your sidetone pitch to pull one signal out of a crowded band.
SR1 line enhancer
AvailableThe Static Reduction method built for CW and carriers — see Receive DSP.
CW skimmer from your own receivers
In developmentPart of the skimmer service: CW spots from your own receivers alongside the cluster.
Digital modes
DX Pro's decoders are written in-house from the published protocols and run inside the application, straight off the receiver. The station automation that turns them into a complete FT8/FT4 station is being written now.
Run an FT8 contact in the demoFT8 decoder
In developmentWritten in-house. On a set of 140 real off-air signals it decodes 91 % with no false decodes, using several passes with subtraction and a callsign hash table. The engine is tested; its decode window in the application is being built now.
FT4 decoder
In developmentDecodes cleanly down to about −14 dB SNR today; work continues.
Decode list & reply list
In developmentEvery decode, plus a separate list of who is calling you.
Auto-sequence
In developmentCQ → report → RR73 → 73, stepped for you.
Automated run with TX watchdog
In developmentRun a frequency hands-off, with a TX watchdog keeping watch on the transmitter.
ADIF auto-log
In developmentCompleted digital contacts written to an ADIF log.
More digital modes
In developmentFurther modes, also written in-house.
Virtual-cable TX audio
AvailableThe TX audio source can take a virtual audio cable instead of your microphone.
DX cluster & intelligence
DX Cluster widget
AvailableLive spots; tap one to tune the active receiver to it.
Mode detection
AvailableEach spot is classed CW, SSB, DIGI, FT8 or FT4 from its comment, the FT8/FT4 windows and the band plan.
One filter everywhere
AvailableSet the mode filter once; the spot list and every panadapter obey it.
Spot density on the Band Ribbon
AvailableSee which bands are busy before you change band.
Skimmer service
In developmentCW and FT8 spots from your own receivers.
PSKReporter upload
In developmentShare what your receivers hear.
Local cluster port
In developmentFeed spots to other programs.
Hardware hub
Physical controls are built in — no extra driver programs to keep running alongside.
MIDI controllers
AvailableKnobs, faders and buttons on a MIDI controller.
HID foot switches and buttons
AvailableA USB foot switch for PTT, or any HID button box.
Works with Elgato Stream Deck
AvailableA built-in bridge over WebSocket and HTTP puts DX Pro functions on Stream Deck keys.
Learn mode
AvailableTouch the control and it is mapped.
Themes
Themes
AvailableSeveral colour themes for the whole canvas, including Tron and Matrix.
Animated backdrops
AvailableMoving canvas backdrops behind your widgets for the shack that wants to look the part.
Remote
Remote operation is on the roadmap and is not in DX Pro today. Here is how it is planned to work.
Server and Remote roles
PlannedDX Pro as a Server at the radio, and DX Pro as a Remote wherever you are.
Peer-to-peer connection
PlannedDirect connection between the two machines, at no extra cost.
Relay — £4.99/month
PlannedAn optional relay subscription for networks where peer-to-peer cannot connect.
Server on Linux and Raspberry Pi 5
PlannedThe Server role is being written portably so it can run on Linux and a Raspberry Pi 5.
Licensing
Each machine — Server and Remote — needs its own licence seat. See the remote station example.
Radios & platforms
Works with Apache Labs ANAN / openHPSDR Hermes-class
AvailableOver Protocol 1 and Protocol 2, with up to seven receivers.
Works with FlexRadio (SmartSDR API)
In developmentReceive now: receive and panadapter are supported. Transmit and second-slice split are in development.
TCI radios and TCI server
PlannedTCI radios such as Expert Electronics SunSDR as radio sources, and a TCI server so other apps can use DX Pro.
CAT radios and rigctld
PlannedConventional transceivers over CAT, and Hamlib rigctld in and out.
Windows 10/11, 64-bit
AvailableDX Pro is a native Windows application. Mac and Linux desktop clients are not promised.
See it before you buy
There is no trial — the live demo runs in your browser instead. Drag the widgets, tune the panadapter, run an FT8 contact. Then one licence, £99, perpetual, for one machine.