Winradio

Infobox Company
company_name = WiNRADiO Communications
company_
company_type = Private
genre = Technology
foundation = 1991
founder = Milan Hudecek
location_city = Melbourne
location_country = Australia
area_served = Worldwide
industry = Communications
products = Radio communications products
company_slogan = The Future of Radio
homepage = [http://www.winradio.com www.winradio.com]

"WiNRADiO" is the name of a manufacturer of radio communication equipment as well as a brand name applied to computer-based radio receivers, software, antennas and accessories. [http://www.winradio.com WiNRADiO] is based in Melbourne, Australia. The name "WiNRADiO" is in fact just a brand name, or trading name, of the company, whose real name is "Radixon Group". This trading name was adopted as a result of market success of the company's first product, the "WinRadio Card". This was an ISA bus card which transformed a Windows-based computer into a wide-coverage communications receiver, making it possible to receive point-to-point communications (ham radio, utilities, police, space research, etc.) on an ordinary PC.

An article describing these early WiNRADiO products appeared in 1998 in the "WIRED" magazine: [http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/technology/1,10805-0.html WiNRADiO Gives Low-Fi Tech a New Face] .

Other articles or reviews of WiNRADiO receivers appeared in several radio magazines, including [http://www.wrth.com World Radio TV Handbook] , [http://www.monitoringtimes.com Monitoring Times] and [http://www.passband.com Passport to World Band Radio] .

The company also acts as official distributor of the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) demodulator/decoder software, a result of the collaborative [http://www.drmrx.org DRM Software Radio] project between [http://www.vtplc.com VT Merlin Communications] , [http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de Fraunhofer Institute Integrierte Schaltungen] and [http://www.codingtechnologies.com Coding Technologies] .

Apart from general-purpose radio, some unusual applications of WiNRADiO receivers have been reported, such as in [http://www.astro.helsinki.fi/~lehtinen/mettheory.html radio astronomy] , or SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) [http://www.setileague.org/photos/remote.htm Project Argus] .

WiNRADiO receivers are also reported applied in audio engineering for stage performances, in particular for spectrum analysis of wireless microphones( [http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_neil_diamond_2 Neil Diamond tour] , [http://www.shure.com/ProAudio/Products/WirelessMicrophones/us_pro_wirelessworkbenchdetail Shure Wireless WorkBench] ).

Despite the Windows affiliation implied by the name, the WiNRADiO receivers are also available for Macintosh and Linux platforms. Linux source codes to control WiNRADiO receivers is available on several sites as a result of collaborative user effort, including the [http://www.linradio.com LinRadio] and [http://www.sourceforge.org SourceForge] .

External links

*en icon [http://www.winradio.com WiNRADiO home page]
*en icon [http://www.winradio.co.uk WiNRADiO UK website]
*en icon [http://www.winradio.com.au WiNRADiO Australian website]
*de icon [http://www.winradio.de WiNRADiO German website]
*en icon [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/winradio Probably the 1st WiNRADiO discussion group]