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HAM RADIO HF DIGITAL MODES SOFTWARE INFORMATION AND LIST

Also includes a link to help you identify the sounds of ham radio digital communications signals.
This page contains a description of many of the popular HF digital modes software.

The list and descriptions have been compliled from various sources and descriptions on the internet and the ham radio world and should be as up to date as possible.
This list is by no means a complete list of all of the digital software programs in use by hams worldwide. Most of the listed digital mode programs are designed for transmitting and receiving these fun modes of operating on the HF bands.
Listings with Green backgrounds below are the more popular digital mode programs. But everyone has an opinion so use the list as needed.

It appears that the easiest digital mode software program that is user friendly without a huge learning curve would be DigiPan. It is an older program that has been used for years by hundreds of thousands of hams on an every day basis.

The list below is in no particular order...have fun and enjoy using your computer sound card on ham radio digital modes! If you don't find the HF digital mode software you are interested in, do a search on Google !

What are those strange digital sounds you hear on the HF digital frequencies?
Need help with the identification of them and many more that can be heard on various frequencies?
Listen to the recorded sound files here (
external link) to KB9UKD. Then come back here and download the program for them in the below chart links.
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DIGTRXDigital SSTV software for sound card
WSPRWSPR implements a protocol designed for probing potential propagation paths with low-power transmissions. Normal transmissions carry a station's callsign, Maidenhead grid locator, and transmitter power in dBm. The program can decode signals with S/N as low as -28 dB in a 2500 Hz bandwidth. Stations with internet access can automatically upload their reception reports to a central database called WSPRnet, which includes a mapping facility.
PC ALEPCALE software is an ALE software controller for PC computers.
Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) is a suite of Windows programs providing CAT control for commonly used transceivers and receivers. HRD also includes mapping and PSK31 software.
HRD is designed for Windows 2000 or higher (XP, Vista), also Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is required.
WinPSKPSK31 terminal with improved accessibility features.
Airlink Express
Much like DigiPan. Very easy to use.
Airlink Express Box Airlink Express is a user friendly digital mode software package for the Amateur Radio Operator. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, and Microsoft Windows 7. It offers PSK, MFSK and RTTY digital modes with logging and macro capabilities. If you have ever used the Digipan software you will be immediately familiar with Airlink Express.
With the release of Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a new sound architecture. Airlink Express is developed to support this new sound architecture, yet it maintains complete backward compatibility with Windows XP. Airlink Express brings back the familiar volume slider interface you've become used to from older Windows versions.
DigiPan
Very Popular! Easy to use!
DigiPan stands for 'Digital Panoramic Tuning' and brings the ease and simplicity of PANORAMIC reception and transmission to PSK31and PSK63 operation. DigiPan provides a panoramic display of the frequency spectrum in the form of an active dial scale extending the full width of the computer screen. Depending upon the transceiver IF bandwidth, it is possible to 'see' as many as 40 to 50 PSK31 stations at one time.
FDMDV - Frequency Division Multiplex Digital VoiceFDMDV is the latest digital voice mode on HF - it caters to high quality digital voice under poor band conditions, in only 1100Hz bandwidth!.
WinDRM - HF Digital Radio MondialeWinDRM is the hottest digital mode on HF today! Nothing else exists where you can transfer data at almost 1KB/s without using proprietary hardware!
V4ProtocolV4 is a sound card digital protocol optimized for keyboard operation over high frequency Ham radio. It uses 4FSK modulation and strong Viterbi FEC encoding for robustness even in weak signal or poor propagation conditions. V4 can be implemented on most computers using standard PC sound cards with radio interfaces.
RMS ExpressRMS Express is the preferred Winlink 2000 (WL2K) radio email client. It is in active development by the Winlink Development Team and is well-supported. RMS Express is designed to be most easily used by single users with a single call sign but it may be used to access one or two preset tactical addresses or alternate callsigns. RMS Express supports a wide selection of TNCs and multimode controllers, the new sound card mode WINMOR, as well as support for HF Pactor, SCS Robust Packet, VHF/UHF packet and direct telnet to WL2K CMS servers (for amateur radio High Speed Multimedia [HSMM], D-Star DD mode , or internet).
MMTTY By JE3HHT - Makoto MoriRTTY with Windows and Soundcard
WinXP - Vista - Win7
TruTTYA program for amateur radio digital communications via a sound card. Supported modes are RTTY (Baudot code), ASCII (7 or 8 bits), PSK31 (BPSK and QPSK), BPSK63, QPSK63, BPSK125, AMTOR-FEC (SITOR-B, NAVTEX), MultiFSK-16, MultiFSK-8. HF-PACKET and UHF-PACKET (AX25) are supported in KISS-TNC emulation mode. SELFEC SITOR, AMTOR-ARQ (SITOR-A) and DTMF-code decoding is also possible. No additional hardware is required. You only need a transceiver and computer (Pentium-100 or better) with a sound card. A simple circuit for PTT-control can be used. It is fast and convenient to use with many macros for transmitting. Can integrate with AALog logger.
Platform: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7
The multi-purpose FAX, RTTY / SYNOP / NAVTEX and SSTV program for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0, XP, Vista and Windows 7
IZ8BLY HellschreiberIZ8BLY Hellschreiber For many years Hell-writing (which is a type of simple facsimile developed in 1927) has been considered to be no more than an oddity by the Amateur community, in fact most hams have never heard of Hellschreiber. It was however a simple mode, that offered very good performance in noisy conditions without requiring much power, if only you could find the equipment!
Now however, with Digital Signal Processing techniques and very good Windows software, the Amateur Radio fraternity is offered the opportunity to experience an advanced digital mode that requires no apologies for its performance.
Hellschreiber can outperform other modes for DX, and requires nothing more than a CW or SSB rig and a PC with a sound card. If you operate PSK31, you can also operate Hell, and what is more, make contacts that are not always possible with PSK31 due to poor conditions.
Operation is simple, slick, easy to tune, and ideal for QSOs and nets. Because of the unique nature of Hellschreiber, you actually see an actual replica of the transmitted signal, so the font used, bold or italic, is faithfully reproduced. Noise adds fuzziness to the received text, but cannot cause incorrect characters to print.
This is a computer program for Amateur Radio transmission and reception using a computer and HF radio transceiver. The program provides computer chat-mode operation on the HF bands, using a sound card technique to generate and modulate for transmission using tones at audio frequency, and receive and decode the incoming signals, also at audio frequency. An SSB transceiver translates these signals to and from the HF Amateur Bands. The DominoEX mode is a development from earlier experimental DominoF and DominoG programs, but is not compatible with them. This version (DominoEXFEC V2.0) is compatible with earlier ZL2AFP DominoEX versions, and also with MULTIPSK, with and without FEC.
DominoEX operates using a variation of the MFSK technique (MFSK = Multiple Frequency Shift Keying), since MFSK offers very good immunity to interference and ionospheric effects, and is also very sensitive. However, MFSK can be quite difficult to tune in, and suffers from some interference effects, which are usually masked by using error correction. This unique program addresses these limitations in a special way that wipes away all problems. DominoEX is easy to use, and hence ideal for beginners. You will be impressed with the performance!
MMSSTV By JE3HHT - Makoto Mori
Slow Scan TV with Windows and Soundcard. For WinXP - Vista - Win7
WSJT ('Weak Signal Communication, by K1JT') offers specific digital protocols optimized for meteor scatter, ionospheric scatter, and EME (moonbounce) at VHF/UHF, as well as HF skywave propagation. The program can decode fraction-of-a-second signals reflected from ionized meteor trails and steady signals 10 dB below the audible threshold.
Amateur Radio software for reception/transmission of JT65A protocol with an emphasis upon its usage in the High Frequency Amateur Bands.
MT63 is a digital radio modulation mode for transmission in high-noise situations developed by Pawel Jalocha SP9VRC. MT63 is designed for keyboard-to-keyboard conversation modes, on HF HAM bands.
FLdigi is a complete digital multi-mode program with many advanced features including rig control. Works on Windows XP, NT, W2K, Vista & Win 7. Versions for Linux, Free-BSD and OS X are available from the author's homepage.
MixW is a multi mode multi functional software for every day logging and Contests. It has many useful features that make your QSO logging process almost a 100% automatic procedure.
MixW for digital modes may be used without TNC. The only requirements are a computer running Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating system with compatible soundcard.
MultiPSKF6CTEThe Swiss-Army-Knife of multi-mode software! Operating screen very congested! Practice is needed to use efficiently.
Phase Shift Keying modes:
BPSK: BPSK31-63-125-250 / CHIP (64/128) / PSK10 / PSKFEC31 / PSKAM10-31-50
BPSK with SSTV: PSK63 F - PSK220F + DIGISSTV 'Run'
QPSK: QPSK31-63-125-250
MPSK: MT63
PACKET BPSK1200-250-63-31 + APRS+ DIGISSTV 'Run'
MIL-STD-188-110A - 4285
HFDL
On-Off Keying Modes: CW / CCW-OOK / CCW-FSK / QRSS
Frequency Shift Keying modes:
PACKET: 110-300-1200 bauds + APRS+ DIGISSTV 'Run'
PACTOR 1 / AMTOR FEC-Navtex / AMTOR ARQ / SITOR A
ASCII / RTTY 45-50-75-100-110-150-200 / SYNOP + SHIP / IEC 870-5
1382 / GMDSS DSC / ACARS (VHF) / DGPS / NWR SAME / ARQ-E / ARQ-E3
Multi Frequency Shift Keying modes:
MFSK8 / MFSK16 (+SSTV)
OLIVIA / Contestia / RTTYM / VOICE
THROB/THROBX
DominoF / DominoEX
PAX / PAX2
Automatic Link Establishment (see http://www.hflink.com) MIL-STD-188-141A+
ARQ FAE / ALE400 + ARQ FAE
DTMF, SELCAL
JT65 (A B and C)
COQUELET
Hellschreiber modes: FELD HELL / FM HELL(105-245) / PSK HELL / HELL 80
Graphic modes: HF FAX / SSTV / PSK SSTV modes (mentioned above) / MFSK16 SSTV (mentioned above)
DSP modes: Filters / Analysis / Binaural CW reception
RTTY, CW, BPSK31, BPSK63 and PSKFEC31 Panoramics
Identifiers: Video ID / RS ID / Call ID
TCP/IP digital modem
Integered SdR demodulator/modulator
Includes 'Clock' a program to synchronize your PC to the atomic time stations.


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A program to decode morse code (CW) via sound card to text. It can work as narrow-band sound DSP-filter also. No additional hardware required — you need only receiver and computer with a sound card. Can integrate with AALog logger. It is a software morse decoder that really work!

Platform:Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10
Special version for Windows Mobile exists.

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The working area of the program is divided into three windows, the sizes of which can be changed by the user by dragging the borders.
In the top window the current spectrum of a signal (blue line) and a peak detector of spectral components (green line) is shown. Ruler under this window shows frequencies of sound spectrum.The vertical red line in the top window shows the working frequency of the filter. To change the working frequency, click on the desired frequency (probably a peak). The short thick black line is the marker of TX frequency. It is used to help with zero-beat tuning. To change the TX marker position, click on the desired frequency by right mouse button (or by left mouse button with 'Ctrl' key pressed).
The 'Zoom' menu and 'Alt-1' ... 'Alt-7' hotkeys change frequency scale of spectrogram.
To move a visible part of spectrogram to left or right drag it by mouse with Alt key pressed.
The 'AFC' button (auto frequency control) adjusts the long red line (working frequency) to the closest peak frequency. The numbers to the left of the AFC button determines the limits of AFC. The first number is local deviation in hertzs, i.e. maximal deviation from current frequency. Second number is global deviation in hertzs, i.e. maximal deviation from last user-selected frequency. User-selected frequency is shown at spectrogram by short red line .
When the option 'Setup > Interface >AFC at mouse click' is selected CwGet immediately adjusts the RX frequency to the nearest station after every mouse click on the spectrogram regardless of the 'AFC' button state. But this action is not made after click on the ruler under spectrogram.
The button 'GotoMax' jumps to the peak frequency in the bandpass, The 'AutoGTM' button switches on the automatic mode of 'GotoMax'. It jumps to the peak frequency of the strongest signal after detecting a pause of more than eight 'dots' in the current signal.
The mode of automatic transceiver frequency control can be switched on by the 'Setup > Tune RIG by' menu. In this mode transceiver radio frequency is changed to consist RX frequency to TX frequency. Auto-tuning is made after click on spectrogram or ruler below. Tuning can be made by RIT or by VFO according selected option. Take to attention that not every transceiver has programmable RIT. In this case auto-tuning by RIT is impossible. Tuning is made via Omni-Rig software interface ( http://www.dxatlas.com/omnirig/ ), which should be installed separately.
The Hamport software ( http://www.dxsoft.com/en/products/hamport/ ) also uses this software interface and install it automatically.
The 'Use RIG' option is used to select a rig controlled by Omni-Rig.
The 'Show Omni-Rig Setup' button is used to activate Omni-Rig setup dialog..
The 'Use mouse wheel for tuning' option enables using of mouse wheel for tuning. If tuning transceiver via Omni-Rig is enabled, mouse wheel changes transceiver radio frequency, in another case wheel changes audio frequency.
The 'Wheel tuning speed' control defines speed and direction of frequency changing during wheel rotation.
The 'OnTop' button puts CwGet in front of all windows.
The bottom window is oscillogram of the signal. A red horizontal line shows the threshold of the detection of signal presence. The threshold is changed by the mouse. The threshold needs to be established at some level above the noise. In the presence of a strong signal the threshold can be increased.
The button 'AutoThr' turns on a mode of automatic tuning of the detector threshold under the level of a signal. In this mode two horizontal red lines are shown. First line shows current level of threshold, second line shows estimate of noise level . If the 'Setup > Interface > Enable manual auto-threshold limit' option is enabled, noise level is set manually. This level is used as minimal level of detector threshold.
The 'Setup > View > Logarithmic spectrogram scale' option or Alt-Z hotkey switch spectrogram window between linear or logarithmic scale. Analogously, the 'Setup > View > Logarithmic oscillogram scale' option or Ctrl-Z hotkey change oscillogram window scale. Logarithmic scale is more convenient usually, but it needs more computer resources.
The received symbols are displayed on the middle window. The dash-dot sequence enclosed in curly brackets means a 'wrong' symbol. This usually occurs when the operator does not observe the intervals between characters, actually linking some characters into one. Increasing the threshold of the detector may help slightly.
CwGet defines CW speed automatically. The 'Sp.Lock' button fixes current CW speed (switches the auto speed calculation off). The hotkey for this button is Alt-K.
Options 'English charset', 'Russian charset' and 'User-defined charset' at the 'Setup > Text' page select used alphabet. In last case charset is defined by simple text file. See example in SAMPLE.CWG file.
The received symbols font and colors of interface elements are defined at 'Setup > Fonts & colors' page.
The menu command 'File > Clear Buffer' clears Received Symbols window.
The command 'File > Save Buffer' saves this window content into a file.
The command 'File > Open Buffer in Notepad' saves receiving buffer in a temporary file and opens this file by a text editor. Then you can view this file or print it. The hotkey of this command is Ctrl-N.
The 'File > Open Text Capture File' menu opens a capture-file for received symbols. Then new received symbols are being written into that file. If the file exist, new symbols are appended to it.
The 'File > Close Text Capture File' command closes a capture-file. Capture-file state is shown in the status line. The hotkey for capture on/off commands is Alt-L.
If the 'Setup > Text > Put time marks to a capture File' option is selected, time marks are placed to this file with interval about one minute.
If the 'Setup > Text > Use UTC Time' option is selected, UTC time is used in these marks, in another case local time is used.
The 'File > Open Wave Capture File' command opens wave-file to save all received from soundcard sound. File is closed by the 'File > Close Wave Capture File' command. The hotkey for these commands is Alt-V. Take to attention that a minute of sound recording need above 1 MByte disk space.
The 'Filters > Main Filter' menu selects signal filter bandwidth. Wider filter bandwidth is appropriate for more speed keying. There are two sets of FIR and IIR filters. FIR filters work slightly better then IIR filters usually, but FIR filters need much more processor time. So you can prefer IIR filters in case of not very fast computer.
The 'Filters > Burst Filter' menu selects the burst filter maximal speed. The burst filter is a filter against short noise bursts. When program is detected signal presence, signal length is compares with a threshold. When signal is shorter then a threshold, it is ignored. Burst filter with '100 LPM' setup means that a threshold is about one half of 'dot' length at 100 LPM (20 WPM).
You can use CwGet as narrow-band sound DSP-filter also. So CwGet can help you to decode Morse code 'by ears'. The bandwidth of a sound filter is selected by the 'Filters > Sound Output' menu. A soundcard used for this DSP-filter output is defined by 'Setup > Interface > Output soundcard number' menu. If your sound card supports a full-duplex mode, the same card can be used for sound input and output simultaneously. The 'Ctrl-F' hotkey is used to switch sound on and off.
CwGet can decode signals from sound file (WAVE-file) also. A desired file is selected by the 'File > Decode From File' command. WAVE-file must be Windows PCM file, without compression. Preferred file parameters are mono, 16 bit, 11025 Hz.
CwGet has one minute sound buffer. 'Replay' and 'Save' buttons are used to control this buffer.
The 'Replay' button click makes CwType to replay previous 10 seconds of received signal.
The 'Save' button writes previous 60 seconds of a sound to a wave file in the 'Waves' directory.
This wave file is saved with time-stamped name (HH_MM_SS.wav) in a sub-directory with date-stamped name
(YEAR-MM-DD). For example, the file 'Waves2004-06-0315_10_43.wav' is a piece of sound started at 15:10:43 UTC on 03 June 2004.
Special macrosequences can be used in the CwType software(V1.32 and later) to control this sound buffer also.
The 'File > Multi-Channel Decoder' command opens additional Multi-RX Window.
CwGet decodes up to five strongest signals in about 1600 Hz bandwidth and shows them in this window. To reduce amount of 'garbage' in this window an squelch is used. Squelch threshold is shown by horizontal line in the Spectrogram window. This threshold can be changed by mouse with 'Shift' key pressed.
The 'Setup > Interface > Enable Squelch in Main RX Window' option enables squelch in the main RX window also.
The 'Setup > Multi-decoder > Use manual auto-threshod limit from main decoder' enables using of manually defined threshold limit in multi-channel decoder.
Selected options of the program are saved by the 'Setup > Save' button. By default options are written into the CWGET.INI file. The program looks for this file in the working directory. If the CWGET.INI file is not found in a working directory, working directory is changed to a default value. You can have several variants of the ini-file for different situations. Just create several shortcuts to CWGET.EXE each with a different working directory and copy CWGET.INI file to each of this directories. Another way is to define configuration file name in command line after /F key, for example CwGet.exe /F C:MyDatacwget2.ini . If /F key is present, a working directory is not changed. Take to attention, that if full path to a file is absent after /F key, Windows directory is used for reading and writing of ini-file.
The program can transfer received data to AALog HAM logger by Alexander Anipkin, RZ4AG (see http://www.dxsoft.com/en/products/aalog/) To transfer data from RX-window, double-click on word or select words by mouse. Then select the field from popup-menu. CwGet removes all spaces in text transferred to a logger.
When the 'Setup > Text > Catch word by one mouse click' option is enabled, you can catch a word from RX-window by a single mouse click, not double-click but you still can select part of the text by mouse dragging.
When the 'Setup > Text > catch words in contest mode' option is enabled, the program doesn't use popup-menu to catch word to logger. In this case CwGet recognize callsign or control number automatically.
When the 'Setup > Text > Copy transferred data to clipboard' menu option is enabled, data transferred to logger is also copied to the Windows clipboard.
The number shown in a 'FrB' field of status bar means the number of free buffers for recording a signal. If it is reduced to ten or less the speed of the computer will not keep up. Try to reduce number of simultaneously running programs or replace the computer :-)
CwGet transfers some hotkey hits into the CwType programs if you use it. So you don't need to switch between CwGet and CwType windows too often.
CwGet interfaces with logger software and CwType via ini-file and Windows messages. CwGet can be used as COM-server (ActiveX object) also. CwGet can also transfer received symbols to another software by DXSOFTEX.DLL library.
See http://www.dxsoft.com/dxs-exch.zip for details about programs co-operation.

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  • “Break-In magazine” review of CwGet and CwType .
    http://www.dxsoft.com/en/misc/cw-review/

  • WM2U’s review of CwGet and CwType.
    http://www.qsl.net/wm2u/cw.html

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