Is www.radioreference.com legit or a scam?
RadioReference is the world's largest radio communications data provider, operating legitimately since 1998 with zero security flags and a massive global community.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The website displays a professional, fully-rendered interface for a radio communications data provider with no visual indicators of scamming or phishing.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional layout with high-quality custom imagery and consistent branding
Functional navigation menus for Databases, Community, Wiki, and Live Audio
Presence of a legitimate login and registration portal
Dynamic content sections including community news and latest database updates
No fake trust badges, urgency tactics, or intrusive pop-ups detected
Design matches the established RadioReference.com brand identity
MT Intelligence
The domain has been active for over 23 years, which is a primary indicator of a stable and legitimate business. Our antivirus network shows a perfect clean sweep with zero detections across 92 different engines. The site is operated by a registered US-based company, RadioReference.com LLC, and is led by a known industry figure. Visual analysis confirms a professional, high-quality interface that matches its established brand identity. Furthermore, the site hosts a massive community with over 428,000 forum discussions, reinforcing its status as a trusted resource.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www.radioreference.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain active since approximately 2003 (8420 days old as of 2026), with the service operating since 1998.
- Operated by RadioReference.com LLC, a Texas company; Founder/CEO Lindsay C. Blanton III (also associated with Broadcastify).
- Describes itself as "the world's largest radio communications data management and media provider" with a database of over 224K frequencies, 7.1K trunked systems, 4M+ updates, and 71K+ premium subscribers.
- Hosts active forums (428K+ discussions), wiki, and premium subscriptions; widely recommended in scanner, amateur radio, and emergency services communities on Reddit, Facebook, and YouTube.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative Trustpilot/ScamAdviser listings found across multiple searches.
- Some Reddit discussion about premium subscription value ($30/year) and past anti-adblocker measures, but overall viewed as a valuable reference resource.
- Company has been involved in at least one dismissed lawsuit (Priority Dispatch Corp vs. RadioReference.com LLC and Lindsay Blanton).
- Reddit (r/amateurradio)open
"You should support radioreference.com if you use it"
- Facebook groupopen
"Yes, radioreference.com will have everything you need."
- RadioReference.com About pageopen
"Since 1998, our database administration team has processed over 261K+ submissions of user data and curated the largest, most complete authoritative data source of radio communications and trunked radio systems in the world."
RadioReference.com LLC, Texas (Dallas/San Antonio area); founded and led by Lindsay C. Blanton III since 1998
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2025-12-13).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on www.radioreference.com and not a lookalike like w-ww.radioreference.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on www.radioreference.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- www.radioreference.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. www.radioreference.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 191 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- www.radioreference.com is 23.1 years old, registered on 6/5/2003 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report www.radioreference.com as clean.
- No. www.radioreference.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- www.radioreference.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 24, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around www.radioreference.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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