The scope and waterfall

The console shows the radio's scope — the live spectrum — with a scrolling waterfall under it, across the top of the station above the panels. It follows the active VFO, so whatever you tune is in view.

Reading the display

The strip above the spectrum marks the band segments; click a marker to zoom to that segment. The active VFO is drawn as a vertical line at its frequency with its passband shaded. ∆ƒ in the top right is the tuning step the display is using at the current zoom; clicks and drags snap to it.

Tuning with the mouse

• Click anywhere on the spectrum to tune the VFO there. As you hover, a gray ghost shows where it will land.
• Drag the VFO marker to retune it smoothly.
• Drag the background to pan up or down the band, within the span the radio allows.
• Roll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out around the pointer. The magnifier buttons in the top left zoom too.

On a touch screen, drag with one finger to pan and pinch with two to zoom.

Controls

The buttons in the top left:

• The two magnifier buttons zoom out and in.
• Spots draws DX cluster and RBN spots as flags on the waterfall. Click a flag to tune to it; right-click one for Hide for 1h, Hide for 24h or Hide for 48h. The same switch is under Tools → Console Settings → View → Show Spots on Waterfall. See DX spots.
• Speed cycles the waterfall rate: SLOW, MID, FAST.
• The reference level reads AUTO while the console sets it for you. Click it to set the level by hand, in dB, with the slider.

When the FT8 panel is active, the top right offers Locked to VFO / Unlocked. Locked keeps the display on the FT8 sub-band so the decodes line up with the waterfall; see FT8 in the console.

Drag the handle under the waterfall to change its height.