by Jeffrey Pawlan, WA6KBL
Winrad is a free amateur radio program conceived by Jeffrey Pawlan, WA6KBL, and written by Alberto, I2PHD, that implements many Software Defined Radio (SDR) functions which are needed for weaksignal reception including EME, troposcatter, cloudscatter, and very long distance microwave terrestrial contacts. It also works well for general HF reception.
Winrad will accept input from any Windows soundcard, from Virtual Audio Cable, or direct digital input from several SDR receivers which have appropriate drivers written for Winrad in the form of a DLL plus support files. These files must be installed in the Winrad progam directory in order to run. You must do all installation and run Winrad with Administrator privileges.
Alberto, I2PHD wrote the code from its beginning until retiring from it in Oct, 2008. Jim Austin and Charles Buse helped from 2008 - 2010. We do not have any programmers at this time. If you are interested in helping, note that you will need to use the Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero IDE version 2007. Please contact Jeffrey Pawlan.
If you start from the original source code and make a new program that is not part of this project, please do not call it Winrad as this name is my own creation and the program Winrad will remain on this website which I own.
You may contact me, Jeffrey Pawlan (WA6KBL) at (jpawlan at yahoo dot com)
All recent versions of Winrad run under Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 1.6.1 has been tested on Windows 7 (32 and also 64 bit) with a Perseus. An earlier version v1.23 is also provided because it will still run under Windows 98SE. There are problems with Windows 10.
The yahoo discussion group for Winrad has been inactive for a long time so it will be discontinued.
OmniRig working very well now
The last radio used is saved so when you start Winrad again your radio will be automatically selected.
The last state of the I/Q mode is stored so if you use I/Q swapped, Winrad will remember that and come up with this selected.
The issue of the Internationalization: use of "." or "," decimal fraction separators depending on country has been fixed.
New: you may adjust the parameters of the AGC buttons by right-clicking on them. A pop-up window will appear and you can change the values. Slow and Fast AGC are separate except for one common parameter. Note that you can "break" Winrad by moving the values too far. You must have the Threshold slider up most of the way or perhaps all of the way to really hear the effects of the AGC.
| Keyboard Command | Function |
|---|---|
| C | change LO so that received frequency is at center |
| H | shows GUI for external hardware (if it has one) |
| U | change unit (cycles through Hz, kHz, MHz) |
| Z | same as pressing the ZAP button |
| ctrl A | switch to AM mode |
| ctrl B | same as pressing Noise Blanker button |
| ctrl C | switch to CW mode |
| ctrl D | switch to DRM mode |
| ctrl E | switch to ECSS mode |
| ctrl F | switch to FM mode |
| ctrl L | switch to LSB mode |
| ctrl O | enter LO frequency value from keyboard |
| ctrl P | same as pressing CW Peak button |
| ctrl R | same as pressing N. Red. button |
| ctrl T | enter tune frequency value from keyboard |
| ctrl U | switch to USB mode |
| Arrow Up | change tune frequency by 0.1 kHz |
| Arrow Down | change tune frequency by -0.1 kHz |
| Arrow Right | change LO frequency by 10 kHz |
| Arrow Left | change LO frequency by -10 kHz |
| Sh. Arrow Up | change tune frequency by 1.0 kHz |
| Sh. Arrow Down | change tune frequency by -1.0 kHz |
| Sh. Arrow Right | change LO frequency by 100 kHz |
| Sh. Arrow Left | change LO frequency by -100 kHz |
| Page Up | increase LO frequency by size of the spectrum window |
| Page Down | decrease LO frequency by size of the spectrum window |
