Message posted by lone wolf on July 31, 2005 at 13:38:09 PST:

These "black box" radios have their place, but I'm not a fan of them if you have to scan "in the field." The notebook computer battery life is a killer. You may recall Grove used a PCR1000 in that Area 51 special.

Most of the features on the winradio website can be done with open source software. You can google "spectrum lab", winscope, acarsd, etc. The spectrum analysis feature of the winradio sounds good on paper, but I've seen that feature done with other radios and it is simply too slow. What the software does is it puts the radio in AM mode, sweeping a band and logging the level of the S-meter. But this is no faster than just stepping the VFO on the radio and letting the squelch due it's job. To really make such bandscanning work, you need a FFT analyser.

In Reply to: Re: Uniden close call posted by -Blackbird- on July 30, 2005 at 20:35:39 PST:

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