WiNRADiO receivers are no ordinary radios, as they link to computers for awesome performance. Why have few Australians heard of WiNRADiO? Because 95% of its products are sold overseas, to clients like the US and UK Defence Departments.

Originally a small Melbourne-based start-up, WiNRADiO introduced its first product, an ISA-bus based receiver WR-1000i back in 1995 at the Sydney PC show. The receiver won the show’s ‘Best New Hardware’ award. Featuring a frequency range of 150kHz to 1300MHz, the product was the world’s first commercially available wideband scanning receiver for the PC.

Radio receivers and computers have kept a respectful distance apart until recently. The main reason for this was the electromagnetic ‘storm’ of noise emanating from computers, making PCs unfavorable to radio reception. There is also the dissimilar technologies and jargon.

To a computer aficionado, a "megahertz" is the frequency the CPU runs at, not something you actually tune to.

Engineers at WiNRADiO made the first successful attempt to marry radio and computer technologies with innovative concepts, resulting in international radio-related patents and trademarks.