The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

On 04/10/2011 12:37 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

Too bad you need a computer running Windows to get it to work...

On Apr 10, 1:02*pm, dave wrote:
On 04/10/2011 12:37 PM, bpnjensen wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. *It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. *Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? *IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

Too bad you need a computer running Windows to get it to work...

Well, not EVERYBODY hates windows.or is too autistic to use it ;-)

On 04/10/2011 02:11 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Apr 10, 1:02 pm, wrote:
On 04/10/2011 12:37 PM, bpnjensen wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

Too bad you need a computer running Windows to get it to work...

Well, not EVERYBODY hates windows.or is too autistic to use it ;-)

I neither hate it nor fail to understand it. I can't afford it.

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:37:31 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

I have a Perseus which is very similar in specs. The best thing about
these radios are the filters which are truly brick wall. The bad thing
is that you have to boot up the computer and update it. But, once you
have the computer running there are many benefits. Like constant
readout of the station on freq., running decoding programs like MMSSTV
in the background, recording a big chunk of spectrum on the HD for
later playback, and excellent noise reduction.

I use a dedicated laptop to run the SDR and have had no problems
running multiple programs using Virtual Audio Cable to connect them
together. In fact, I got a perfect SSTV picture from Wolverine Radio
last night with MMSSTV set to Auto and running in the background along
with the SDR.

BTW Channel Z Radio is on 6925kHz AM right now 2148 UTC

Jim(MI)

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:49:41 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:37:31 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

I have a Perseus which is very similar in specs. The best thing about
these radios are the filters which are truly brick wall. The bad thing
is that you have to boot up the computer and update it. But, once you
have the computer running there are many benefits. Like constant
readout of the station on freq., running decoding programs like MMSSTV
in the background, recording a big chunk of spectrum on the HD for
later playback, and excellent noise reduction.

I use a dedicated laptop to run the SDR and have had no problems
running multiple programs using Virtual Audio Cable to connect them
together. In fact, I got a perfect SSTV picture from Wolverine Radio
last night with MMSSTV set to Auto and running in the background along
with the SDR.

BTW Channel Z Radio is on 6925kHz AM right now 2148 UTC

Jim(MI)

@ 2157 playing theme from "A Summer Place" with the thunderstorm
static in the background, ID and s/off @ 2158UTC

Jim

On 04/10/2011 02:49 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:37:31 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

I have a Perseus which is very similar in specs. The best thing about
these radios are the filters which are truly brick wall. The bad thing
is that you have to boot up the computer and update it. But, once you
have the computer running there are many benefits. Like constant
readout of the station on freq., running decoding programs like MMSSTV
in the background, recording a big chunk of spectrum on the HD for
later playback, and excellent noise reduction.

I use a dedicated laptop to run the SDR and have had no problems
running multiple programs using Virtual Audio Cable to connect them
together. In fact, I got a perfect SSTV picture from Wolverine Radio
last night with MMSSTV set to Auto and running in the background along
with the SDR.

BTW Channel Z Radio is on 6925kHz AM right now2148 UTC

Jim(MI)

They aren't real filters at all on the Winradio. The Perseus has front
end bandpass filters. A DSP bandpass filter does nothing for close-in
intermod; not like a crystal lattice roofing filter.

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:00:50 -0700, dave wrote:

On 04/10/2011 02:49 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:37:31 -0700 (PDT), bpnjensen
wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

I have a Perseus which is very similar in specs. The best thing about
these radios are the filters which are truly brick wall. The bad thing
is that you have to boot up the computer and update it. But, once you
have the computer running there are many benefits. Like constant
readout of the station on freq., running decoding programs like MMSSTV
in the background, recording a big chunk of spectrum on the HD for
later playback, and excellent noise reduction.

I use a dedicated laptop to run the SDR and have had no problems
running multiple programs using Virtual Audio Cable to connect them
together. In fact, I got a perfect SSTV picture from Wolverine Radio
last night with MMSSTV set to Auto and running in the background along
with the SDR.

BTW Channel Z Radio is on 6925kHz AM right now2148 UTC

Jim(MI)

They aren't real filters at all on the Winradio. The Perseus has front
end bandpass filters. A DSP bandpass filter does nothing for close-in
intermod; not like a crystal lattice roofing filter.

I think WinRadio still has an improved version on the drawing board:

http://www.winradio.com/home/g33ddc.htm

added features:
4 MHz instantaneous processing bandwidth
Low-noise preamplifier
Configurable preselection filters

Att Cuhulin: (pirate) Blue Ridge Radio on 6925kHz USB with bluegrass
music @ 2217UTC.

Jim

On 04/11/2011 08:25 AM, BDK wrote:
In . com,
says...

On 04/10/2011 02:11 PM, bpnjensen wrote:
On Apr 10, 1:02 pm, wrote:
On 04/10/2011 12:37 PM, bpnjensen wrote:

The WRTH 2011 has a glowing review of this radio, the WinRadio
Excalibur. It sounds like first consumer-class software-defined
blackbox radio to finally get most everything right. Anyone here have
any experience with this radio? IT looks mighty attractive...

Bruce

Too bad you need a computer running Windows to get it to work...

Well, not EVERYBODY hates windows.or is too autistic to use it ;-)

I neither hate it nor fail to understand it. I can't afford it.

You can easily find a cheap XP machine for $100 or even less. ****, I
just gave one to someone in exchange for a toner cart.


I have one in the garage, thanks. To get the most out of Power
SDR-esque applications you need a more current version of DirectX.