Archive for December, 2009

Updates to Passport to World Band Radio:
Prepared by Lawrence Magne, David Zantow and the staff and friends of Passport to World Band Radio.

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Thomson UniWave DRM Receiver Has Color Screen

Friday, December 18th, 2009 | * Comments(2)

Di-Wave100

Di-Wave100

The Di-Wave 100 receiver from Uniwave packs all the digital functionalities that listeners are looking for into a neat, portable model. The attractive new DRM Radio Receiver was successfully demonstrated at various symposiums and exhibitions and showed excellent results during the Olympics at Beijing with the text-based information service known as Journaline®. With its 3.5” TFT LCD color screen, coming Di-Wave models will be able to receive the new DrTV service with Continue reading ‘Thomson UniWave DRM Receiver Has Color Screen’

Thanko RareMono USB Shortwave Radio

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | * Comments(2)

RareMono USB Receiver

RareMono USB Receiver

Here is the strange radio find of the day. Also, see its description at Radio Tanpa in Japan.

—David Zantow

WiNRADiO to Offer Direct Sampling SDR

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | * Comments(1)

WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC

WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC

WiNRADiO is finally getting into the “direct sampling” SDR market with the WR-G31DDC.

Seemingly no pricing or release date as yet, but pre-production specs are here.

—David Zantow