RadioScape has just won the TechCon Product of the Year 2006 for its RS500 module.

RadioScape has won the TechCon Product of the Year 2006 for its RS500 module, which combines the ability to receive six frequency bands and four radio standards, enabling truly multistandard digital radios to be created at consumer prices. These multistandard radios will open huge new markets for broadcasters and provide listeners with a wealth of new stations to choose from - all with digital clarity - and keep the various technologies transparent to the user who simply selects the station required from an on-screen list. RadioScape's pioneering software defined digital radio concept enables the company to create this innovative module, which uses a standard hardware platform running software to provide the functionality thereby keeping costs down.

It simply uploads the appropriate software to handle DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), FM or AM and automatically configures the RF front end and baseband as required via software.

The RS500 module is already in production and consumer radios based on it will be available soon.

A production model was shown at the conference so that delegates could see the features and listen to the quality of the reception across all the radio technologies.

The result of the prestigious award was announced on the 3rd of July 2006 at TechCon, which is organised by the Radio Academy at Cambridge in the UK.

There was a shortlist of five products, each of which was presented at the conference and the delegates then voted with the RS500 emerging as the clear winner.

This is the second TechCon that company has won - the first was in 2004 for its innovative RS200 DAB/FM receiver module.