Oh joy. Ordered a radio from Alex and I'm having a blast. Had no problem getting it connected with sdrdx (hint...don't use a crossover Ethernet cable if you're running a Mac). I've got my discone plugged in for vhf, and a h800 connected for HF....and sdrdx is apparently good for the vhf side of things too. I haven't tried scanning with it yet but that is next on my list.
I think this will do just fine...at least until someone commercializes PA3FWM's web SDR and its 30 MHz of bandwidth.....