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    Bill Cheek-World Scanner Report
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IT'S ABOUT TIME !!  WINRADIO IS HERE - OH YES !
Rosetta Laboratories of Victoria, Australia (of all places!) throws their hat 
into the ring of olympic scanning with WINRADIO, the first all-band 
receiver-scanner on a PC card for the hobbyist!
Television on a PC-card has been old-hat for a couple of years now, but 
WinRadio is the first serious PC receiver I've seen, and is it ever hot 
uff!
And just in the nick of time, too, I might add.  WinRadio offers a whole new 
approach to scanning and monitoring that promises to lend a real infusion of 
life to the wallowing, floundering hobby radio scene.  And does it ever do it 
in style, too! WinRadio is cool. But enough of the blubbering and slobbering 
for a minute.  Let's get down and dirty and see what WinRadio is really all 
about.
WinRadio is a world-caliber radio on a standard AT card that plugs into an 
expansion slot on an IBM-PC/compatible computer with 386 or higher processor. 
Operating system requirements are MS-DOS 3.3 or higher or Windows 3.1 or 
higher, including Windows 95.
A minimum of 640-k RAM is required for DOS, but 4-Mb is minimum for any 
Windows environment.  Your computer must have a vacant 16-bit slot and you 
have to supply your own plug-in speaker or headphones. This completes the 
mandatory requirements.
Now let's talk specs in plain English. WinRadio covers 500 kHZ to 1300 Mhz 
continuously except in some countries where certain bands may be omitted in 
order to comply with government regs.  For the USA, that means the cellular 
bands are not available.  At this writing, I don't know if a cellular hack is 
possible, but I will try to find out.
Tuning Steps are user selectable from 1 kHz to 1 MHz, and a BFO is provided 
to enhance tuning of SSB or CW signals in +/-5 Hz increments.
Four modes are available: AM, NFM, WFM, and SSB/CW
CONTINUED TO WINRADIO REVIEW 2/12
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