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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. 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 on an ordinary PC.
An article describing these early WiNRADiO products appeared in 1998 in the WIRED magazine:
. Other articles or reviews of WiNRADiO receivers appeared in several radio periodicals, including World Radio TV Handbook, and .
The company also acts as official distributor of the DRM demodulator/decoder software, a result of the collaborative project between VT Merlin Communications, Fraunhofer Institute Integrierte Schaltungen and .
Apart from general-purpose radio, some unusual applications of WiNRADiO receivers have been reported, such as in radio astronomy or SETI .
WiNRADiO receivers are also reported applied in audio engineering for stage performances, in particular for spectrum analysis of wireless microphones
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Despite the Windows affiliation implied by the name, the WiNRADiO receivers are also available for Macintosh. A Linux software, , has also been developed. However, the last modification of the LinRadio software was in 2002.