{"id":532,"date":"2011-01-22T13:17:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/?p=532"},"modified":"2013-11-21T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:25:00","slug":"winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/01\/winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur\/","title":{"rendered":"WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC &#8220;Excalibur&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_533\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WinRadiog31ddc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-533\" title=\"WinRadiog31ddc\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WinRadiog31ddc-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WinRadiog31ddc-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WinRadiog31ddc.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC &#8216;Excalibur&#8217; software defined receiver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC &#8216;EXCALIBUR&#8217; is a high-performance, low-cost, direct-sampling, software-defined, shortwave receiver with a frequency range from 9 kHz to 50 MHz. It includes a real-time 50 MHz-wide spectrum analyzer and 2 MHz-wide instantaneous bandwidth available for recording, demodulation and further digital processing. The Excalibur receives impressive reviews and tops the SDR category in affordable performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 kHz to 49.995 MHz continuous frequency range<\/li>\n<li>Direct sampling<\/li>\n<li>Digital down-conversion<\/li>\n<li>16-bit 100 MSPS A\/D conversion<\/li>\n<li>50 MHz-wide, real-time spectrum analyzer<\/li>\n<li>2 MHz recording and processing bandwidth<\/li>\n<li>Three parallel demodulator channels<\/li>\n<li>Waterfall display functions<\/li>\n<li>Audio spectrum analyzer<\/li>\n<li>Audio and IF recording and playback<\/li>\n<li>Recording with pre-buffering<\/li>\n<li>EIBI, HFCC and user frequency databases support<\/li>\n<li>Very high IP3 (+31 dBm)<\/li>\n<li>Excellent sensitivity (0.35 \u00b5V SSB, 0.16 \u00b5V CW)<\/li>\n<li>Excellent dynamic range (107 dB)<\/li>\n<li>Selectable medium-wave filter<\/li>\n<li>USB 2.0 interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Winradio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winradio.com\/home\/g31ddc.htm\">Manufacturer&#8217;s Product Page &#8211; WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC &#8220;Excalibur&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reviews:\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"SWLing Post\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-review-of-the-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-software-defined-radio-sdr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our review of the WinRadio Excalibur<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See WRTH 2011 for a comprehensive review (not online)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Radio User\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winradio.com\/pdf\/g31ddc-review-radiouser.pdf\">Radio User<\/a> (UK)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"RadCom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winradio.com\/pdf\/g31ddc-review-radcom.pdf\">RadCom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Monitoring Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winradio.com\/pdf\/g31ddc-review-mt.pdf\">Monitoring Times Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Eham.net reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eham.net\/reviews\/detail\/9333\">Eham<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ARRL (see embedded video below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Retailers\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Grove Enterprises\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grove-ent.com\/excalibur.html\">Grove<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UuiySRhgHRk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC &#8216;EXCALIBUR&#8217; is a high-performance, low-cost, direct-sampling, software-defined, shortwave receiver with a frequency range from 9 kHz to 50 MHz. It includes a real-time 50 MHz-wide spectrum analyzer and 2 MHz-wide instantaneous bandwidth available for recording, demodulation and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/2011\/01\/winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[435,196,210],"tags":[213,582,215,212,211,312,214],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-made-in-australia","category-software-defined-radios-sdr","category-winradio","tag-excalibur","tag-made-in-australia","tag-winradio-2","tag-winradio-excalibur","tag-winradio-wr-g31ddc","tag-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-reviews","tag-wr-g31ddc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f4Ph-8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}