Nexus 1.13.0 · operator manual
Nexus operator manual
Every section of Nexus gets a page here: what it does, how to drive it, and — at the end of each page — what it deliberately does not do. These pages are the same files that ship with the app, synced out of the Nexus repository on every build rather than copied, so the manual you read here and the manual in the source tree cannot drift apart.
New to Nexus? Start with Quick Start — installer to a logged FT8 contact in about fifteen minutes — then come back for the section you're working in.
Offline manual
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Every section in one file, to read away from the app — on a desktop, a phone, or a Kindle. The PDF is print-ready with page numbers; the EPUB reflows for phones and loads on a Kindle through Send to Kindle. Both are built from these same pages at each release.
The sections
Start here
Operating
- Operate — FT8/FT4 digital the digital cockpit with WSJT-X-grade sequencing, country/worked-before flags on every decode, and one-click "work it."
- Phone (SSB) a traditional rig panel: live dial read-back, fast colored bandscope, voice keyer, QSO recording.
- CW a casual/ragchew keyboard CW station with F-key macros.
- RTTY a 45.45 baud Baudot teleprinter: per-character decode confidence, a click-to-net waterfall, macros, and AFSK or true FSK keying.
- Chat (Tempo) Nexus's own weak-signal text mode: a roster, threaded conversations, and messages that queue until the other station is actually heard.
- PSK PSK31 and QPSK31 keyboard ragchewing at 31.25 baud: click a warble on the waterfall and it prints, type into a live transmission, four macros.
- SSTV receive-first slow-scan; pictures decode themselves into a local gallery, and transmit is always an explicit Send.
- APRS a 2 m AFSK-1200 packet monitor with its own map, plus position beacons and short messages you send by hand.
- JS8 JS8Call-compatible keyboard chat on FT8's waveform: heartbeats, directed messages, relay and a store-and-forward inbox, all four speeds decoded at once.
- Memories the saved-channel bank behind the cockpit MEM strip: one click tunes the rig, applies the shift and tone, and opens the cockpit that mode belongs in.
DX & awards
- Needed — DX that's on the air now every station on the air ranked by what it's worth to your log, each row carrying the evidence.
- Spots the same cluster and RBN traffic raw: the last twenty minutes unranked and unscored, sorted however you like.
- DXpeditions active and upcoming expeditions, your modelled best window per day, and a wake-me alarm.
- Logbook & QSL the ADIF logbook, confirmation sources, and the online-service connectors (LoTW/QRZ/ClubLog/eQSL/HRDLog).
- Awards & Journey offline DXCC/Challenge/Honor Roll/WAS/WAZ, plus the local-only Journey achievement layer.
- Stats the same logbook counted rather than judged: QSOs by band, mode, year, hour, entity and confirmation.
Propagation & satellites
Contesting & portable
System
When something is wrong
This page is synced from docs/guide/index.md in the Nexus repo. Corrections belong there.