Number Stations

Screenshots

A look around

Number Stations running live from the ISO, and the art drawn for it. Each picture says which release it shows.

On screen

The Number Stations GNOME desktop: a dock on the left with Files, Firefox, Gqrx, fldigi, WSJT-X, JS8Call, Gpredict and QLog, over a pale blue FT8 waterfall with a red column of five-digit groups down the middle and the label 14.074 MHz, 20 m, FT8 along the bottom.

The desktop Screenshot

Started from a USB stick, straight to the desktop. The radio apps are in the dock, and the installer and your Home folder sit on the right.

Captured by the linuxlive build test of Number Stations 0.1, 22 October 2026. Full size

The Number Stations boot screen: a panel in the middle with the logo, the words Number Stations and tuning in, and a red progress bar, over a waterfall of blue signals with a column of red digits.

The boot splash Screenshot

While the computer starts, the waterfall scrolls down behind the logo, a row at a time, as it does in WSJT-X.

Captured by the linuxlive build test of Number Stations 0.1, 22 October 2026. Full size

Artwork

Drawn in code for Number Stations, and free to use under MIT No Attribution.

A pale WSJT-X waterfall of FT8 signals in blue, with UTC times down the left, an audio-frequency scale along the bottom, and a red column of five-digit groups painted into the band.

The wallpaper Artwork

FT8 on 20 metres, as WSJT-X would show it, with a numbers station’s groups in the middle of the band.

Drawn by a Python script that simulates FT8 signals and a CW carrier, for Number Stations. MIT No Attribution. Full size

See the rest for yourself

The quickest tour is the live session: start it in a virtual machine or from a USB stick, and nothing on your computer changes.

Download the ISO Try it in a virtual machine