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Yesterday, when I attempted to start my WinRadio Excalibur software, I received an error message from Windows 7. No matter if I restarted my PC, re-installed the control software or the USB driver, I simply could not get the Excalibur software to launch.<\/p>\n
I navigated to WinRadio’s software download page<\/a> and found that on December 20th, 2012, they made a new version of the Excalibur software available to download: version 1.61<\/a>. \u00a0This is the first official upgrade I have seen in months.<\/p>\n I uninstalled my old version (important:<\/strong> being careful to tell WinRadio not<\/strong> to remove my shared libraries!<\/em>) and installed 1.61. I restarted my PC, launched WinRadio and all was back to normal (save, back to default settings, of course).<\/p>\n I then received a message from my buddy, Dave, describing the same problem with his Excalibur and noted that other users had complained about this in a WinRadio discussion group. This morning, I received a comment from a user on the SWLing Post describing the same problem.<\/p>\n I think it’s safe to assume the previous version of the WinRadio Excalibur control software could not deal with the year changing from 2012 to 2013. Not exactly Y2K, but a bit odd.<\/p>\n If you own the WinRadio Excalibur, I would encourage you to visit WinRadio’s software download page<\/a>\u00a0and upgrade to version 1.61<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, when I attempted to start my WinRadio Excalibur software, I received an error message from Windows 7. No matter if I restarted my PC, re-installed the control software or the USB driver, I simply could not get the Excalibur software to launch. I navigated to WinRadio’s software download page and found that on December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,26,158],"tags":[1395,1580,1581],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-software-defined-radio","tag-winradio-excalibur","tag-winradio-excalibur-crashing","tag-winradio-excalibur-software-upgrades"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1mQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4563,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-review-of-the-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-software-defined-radio-sdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":5260,"position":0},"title":"A review of the WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC “Excalibur” software defined radio (SDR)","author":"Thomas","date":"October 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I confess, I'm one of those shortwave radio listeners who has always believed the best tabletop radio is one that looks\u00a0like a radio--a radio with knobs, buttons, a digital or analog display, and one sole purpose in life: to tune in the stations I want to hear. 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