Hi Brian, Welcome!
I am not familiar with your receiver, but I believe it is just a 'conventional' radio that uses the PC for controlling it and as a display. If so, the answer is unfortunately no. Software Defined Radio (SDR)is a completely different thing. In the case of the simple SoftRock range of receivers produced by Tony Parks, KB9YIG, the external hardware 'receiver' acts as a down converter to produce two quadrature signals know as 'I' in-phase and 'Q' quadrature (90 deg phase shift) at base band frequencies (DC to say 48kHz range). These two signals are fed into the stereo line input of a sound card. The SDR software packages like Winrad, PowerSDR or Rocky carry out all of the demodulation, filtering and processing of this 'block' of frequencies, and graphical display. So using the same external simple hardware you have the choice of many different programs, each performing differently, so the function of the receiver is 'Defined' by the software capability not the hardware. If you are interested, take a look at the Yahoo Softrock radio group. There are good links in the file section to a lot more information about the kits. A basic single band receiver kit costs around $15, up to the latest v9.0 which covers 1.5MHz to 30MHz for around $55. Hope that helps, Bob G8VOI --- In [email protected], "Brian" <sjinndoaw...@...> wrote: > > I am new to this group and I am very interested in using Winrad but I > have a IC-Pcr 2500. Is it possible that I could use Winrad in > conjuction with my 2500? Or is this software defined to other types of > receivers? > Any input would be appreciated > > Thank you > Brian >
