The radio hobby market has MOSTLY rejected the winradio.
I suspect it is due to their high price and lack of third party software
and extemely poor marketing,

The hobby has long embraced the ICOM PCR 1000.
There are DOZENS of FREEWare and shareware titles
that can do everything from trunk tracking to
ship tracking, conventional scanning, tuning from
free shortwave broadcaster databases and decode many digital modes
WITHOUT MODIFICATION Pretty cool.
Check out DX-Tuners,

(extra cost to do alot of these fun things: zero )

The Icom PCR FUN FACTOR IS VERY HIGH.
Winradio has almost completely failed in this respect.


Why?

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:03:36 GMT, "SamSez"
wrote:


Only because the credibility index went to zero with the statement that the
1550e "runs circles around" the 1000. Little point to rational arguments in
that environment.


Don't know why it should have. Such is my experience. And it looks I
am not alone.

Geoff

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:29:49 GMT, "B L R"
wrote:

(extra cost to do alot of these fun things: zero )

The Icom PCR FUN FACTOR IS VERY HIGH.
Winradio has almost completely failed in this respect.


Why?


Is this question really justified? I can't see why. I for one am
certainly having much more fun with my WR-1550e than I ever had with
my PCR-1000. Putting aside Winradio's professionally crafted and fully
supported software which comes with the receiver (there really is no
comparison to the crap that Icom supplies with their radios), there
are plenty of *free* software add-ons as well.

See for example:

1. http://www.rbasic.com (now where is Icom's equivalent to that? -
see also under "Programs")
2. http://xrs.winradio.com (ditto - see all the free plugins under
"Downloads")
3. http://www.linradio.com (source codes for Linux buffs)
4. http://www.winradio.com/home/macradio.htm (native software for Mac)
5. http://www.winradio.com/home/developer.htm (open programming
standard)
etc. (I better stop here before Sam accuses me again of being a
salesman for Winradio... :-))

Maybe Winradio's marketing "mistake" was to supply good software in
the first place, so that people can actually use it as it is without
having to look for third party stuff... :-)

Geoff

The PCR 1000's "fun" factor may be high, but its "performance" factor leaves
much to be desired. Read the reviews found all over the net.

When I buy a radio, I buy it to listen to... what good is a radio that has a
million "fun" features, but can't receive worth a ****?

"B L R" wrote in message
.. .

The Icom PCR FUN FACTOR IS VERY HIGH.
Winradio has almost completely failed in this respect.

B L R wrote:
The radio hobby market has MOSTLY rejected the winradio.

Oh no, not yet another self-appointed expert on the radio hobby market.
Winradio rules. Great products, great service, great company.

PB