The console · Remote Ham Radio

Radio control

Tune by eye

Every control you'd reach for at the radio, laid out for a mouse, a keyboard or a touch screen.

Panadapter & waterfall

Click a signal to tune it. Zoom, set the waterfall speed, and see DX spots and band edges drawn right on the spectrum.

Up to four slices

On Flex stations, run up to four receivers, each with its own filter, AGC, noise reduction, volume and stereo panning.

Tune your way

Knobs, buttons or a slider, at coarse, normal or fine steps — or type the frequency. One click on a band preset sets the mode too.

Split & filters

Split, A/B swaps, filter width, NR, NB, notch, preamp and attenuator, with S, ALC, SWR and power meters.

Operating profiles

Slice and transmit settings saved per mode, or as your own custom profiles, on Flex stations.

FM repeaters

On Icom stations, pick from the repeaters local to the station and the offset and tone are set for you.

CW & phone

Macros for every pileup

Built for running and for chasing — at a contest pace.

Type-ahead CW

Send as you type or press Enter to send, at 5–50 WPM. Esc stops it.
CW macros on F1–F5

With auto-repeat, plus a separate set of run-mode messages: CQ, report, thanks, again.
Recorded voice macros

Record your own CQ and exchanges once, then play them on F1–F5 with auto-repeat.
Check RBN

One click shows who on the Reverse Beacon Network is hearing you right now.
Bring your own key

Paddles or a straight key over USB MIDI, with a built-in iambic keyer.

Antennas & amps

Point it anywhere

Go Anywhere

Type a bearing or a place and the rotor turns to it — long path too. The map shows your beam, the grayline and spots.

Amplifier control

Full, half or standby, with live output power, SWR and temperature, and fault reset.

Moon tracking

On EME-capable stations, the antennas follow the moon, with its azimuth and elevation live.

Satellites

Upcoming passes, az/el tracking and automatic Doppler correction, on stations built for it.

Digital modes

FT8 without the setup

FT8, FT4 and Q65 are decoded at the station and shown in the console. No WSJT-X, no audio cables, no virtual sound cards.

Filter the noise

CQ only, calling me, DX only, or by continent, with search.
Automatic sequencing

Auto sequence, auto reply and find a clear TX frequency, then log with one click.
DXpeditions

Hound and SuperHound, and Fox on stations that support it.
The FT8 skimmer

Real-time FT8 spots from across the RHR network, on a Telnet feed for your cluster software.

Logging & contesting

Log it as you work it

Built-in logbook

Every QSO in your RHR logbook, with separate logbooks for DXing, contests and satellites.

Contest logging

CQ WW, CQ WPX, IARU and SP DX exchanges, single or multi op, with dupe checks and Cabrillo export.

Enter Sends Message

N1MM-style ESM for CW running and search-and-pounce: Enter always sends the right message.

Super Check Partial

Partial calls matched against the master list as you type.

Score & rates

QSOs, points, mults and DXCC, with 10- and 60-minute rates. Spots are flagged as new mults or dupes.

Multi-op teams

See every team station's frequency and operator, with a transmit interlock to keep one signal per band.

Spots

The cluster, built in

DX cluster and RBN spots in a table, on the waterfall and on the map — with what you need marked.

Worked & confirmed

Each spot is marked worked, confirmed, all-time new one or mult.
Tune and turn

One click tunes the radio and points the beam.
Filters

By band, mode, and spotter and DX region.
Solar & grayline

A, K, SFI and sunspot numbers, plus the station's sunrise and sunset.

Your setup

Make it yours

Your ham software

LocalMate links the console to the apps on your computer: TCI for full control, and WSJT-X, JTAlert or GridTracker for decodes and logging.

Knobs & controllers

A FlexControl knob, or a CTR2-MIDI controller with buttons you map to tuning, PTT, modes and bands.

Light, dark & colorblind

Light and dark themes, each with deuteranopia and protanopia variants.

Your layout

Arrange the panel columns, resize the waterfall and dock the toolbox — or use the tab bar on a phone.

Audio made easy

A setup wizard for your mic and speakers, stereo mic meters, and VOX.

Chat & DX calendar

Talk with other operators, and keep the announced DX operations a tab away.

Keyboard shortcuts

Run the station without the mouse. Push to talk on a key you choose.

Connect / disconnect: Ctrl-Shift-C / D
Focus slice A – D: Ctrl-Shift-1 – 4
Transmit panel: Ctrl-Shift-T
Amplifier panel: Ctrl-Shift-A
Logbook: Ctrl-Shift-L
Go Anywhere (rotor): Ctrl-Shift-R
Station list: Ctrl-Shift-S
CW and voice macros: F1 – F5
Every shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-/

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