Does software work with apple computers?

mergerone

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I just purchased a whistler ws1065. Then purchased premium at radio reference and cannot download or open! Does the software downloads not work with apple computers?
 

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I just purchased a whistler ws1065. Then purchased premium at radio reference and cannot download or open! Does the software downloads not work with apple computers?

Radio Reference premium is NOT programming software, it simply gives you added features in RR database. You need to search for programming software for your scanner that allows importing the database to your scanner.

As far as I know there is no Apple version of WS1065 programming software.
 

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Welcome to the forums! The software is all Windows. You can use Parallels Windows Emulator to run on a Mac. The Denver trunked system is P25 Phase 2 which your scanner cannot receive. The WS1065 is capable of P25 Phase 1 only. Police and Fire are fully encrypted which no scanner can receive. In the database Denver Trunking System, Denver, Colorado, you can only receive talkgroups with a "D" (Phase 1) in the Mode column. "T" is Phase 2. "DE" and "TE" are fully encrypted. "De" and "Te" are encrypted part of the time. You can hear State Police and any other Mode "D" talkgroups on the State of Colorado DTRS system State of Colorado DTRS Trunking System, Statewide, Multi-State. Depending upon your location, you may have problems receiving the Denver trunked system due to simulcast distortion. You can also receive conventional frequencies with a Mode of FM (not 72.76), FMN, or P25 Denver County, Colorado (CO) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference. For downloading from the database, you can use ARC500 or PSREdit500 programming software.
 

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I just purchased a whistler ws1065. Then purchased premium at radio reference and cannot download or open! Does the software downloads not work with apple computers?
As has already been noted, none of the software packages that can be used to program your WS1065 will run using Apple's operating system. See this page for some information on what needs to be dome so that you can use your Mac or other Apple machine:
 

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Im surprised you‘ve never realised windows and apple OS are different? .exe is a pretty huge clue its not a mac application. Im all mac for everything bar radios, and have to have a PC in the office. I used to have parallels on the macs but that wasn't always guaranteed to work when dealing with usb devices inside windows.
 

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Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, VirtualBox, et al. are NOT EMULATORS. They virtualize Windows x86 (and now ARM) instructions using the bare metal hardware of the host computer at native speed. NO EMULATION is happening at ANY level. VirtualPC WAS an emulator, back in the decades long-ago days of the PowerPC on Apple Computers. In fact, you can run VIRTUAL Windows machines on Windows. Or Virtual MacOS machines on a Mac. :) NO EMULATION HAPPENS, the OS works as if it installed on the hardware, period.
 

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Then purchased premium at radio reference and cannot download or open! Does the software downloads not work with apple computers?
What specifically won't download or open? The "premium subscriber" badge shows beneath your username here so you have an active premium subscription. "Premium" is a subscription to the services described in the page you would have had to visit to sign up & I linked here, not a standalone app in its own right. You then utilize the RR database web import service with a programming app compatible with your scanner but as mentioned you'll need a Windows virtual environment to run scanner apps on a Mac. Welcome to the RR forums
 
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Im surprised you‘ve never realised windows and apple OS are different? .exe is a pretty huge clue its not a mac application. Im all mac for everything bar radios, and have to have a PC in the office. I used to have parallels on the macs but that wasn't always guaranteed to work when dealing with usb devices inside windows.
seconded: virtualization doesn't solve all your problems. and even when it does it may be too confusing. my dad got a new Surface and when he plugged in a Home Patrol 2 it thrashed wildly and prompted him to install .net Framework 2.0 (!) and i was like NO DONT DO THAT and built him a Windows VM in HyperV and he mailed me the Home Patrol 2 instead of saying thank you ><

so much software for radio equipment is in a state of psuedo-abandoned, or extremely dense to understand.

to avoid layers of abstraction and virtualization being part of the problem i still have a 2013 macpro6,1 on my desk, but it's running windows 10 with an extremely ill-advised "no signed drivers required" flag enabled entirely to run radio software like EZScan. it's got a bunch of USB cables hanging off it for SDRs, my scanners, and to configure the household radios. i am still mad nobody will sign a damn driver so EZScan would work without having to resort to drastic measures.

i should mention that there are native macOS binaries in homebrew for a ton of SDR software (gnuradio, gqrx, the hackrf/flipper toolchains) and of course chirp/next runs on macOS great. but whistler and uniden aren't going to start shipping software for macOS anytime soon, they can barely support the single platform they claim to support. there are a lot of radio enthusiasts running linux which is probably propping up a bunch of products by proxy.
 

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also if you buy a new scanner like an SDS100 or something you can receive updates from the RRDB in the vendor's software. Uniden's Sentinel doesn't know if i even have an account here, but RRDB updates end up on my scanners quickly and if the RRDB went away tomorrow there would be a lot of people stranded in the quiet dark. i don't want to think about a scenario where Whistler maintained a global database of radio licenses and allocated frequencies, trunked system maps; i bet they've tried more than once, too.

i hope RR is being generously compensated, people like my dad would not own any of their products without it.
 
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