mrtsp91 wrote:

My old Sony portable has just about exhausted its useful life and I am
planning to put it out to pasture soon. I would like to buy a new
radio that is going to take advantage of DRM and IBOC (assuming these
unneeded modes ever do prove to be useful) but am hesitant to buy
something today then have to turn around in a few years and buy another
that will receive DRM and IBOC broadcasts.

Is IBOC and DRM ever going to be ready or should I just assume that
they are never going to become mainstream and just go ahead and buy a
new receiver now that won't receive them?

I'm just about ready to give up on terrestrial radio and just get a
satellite receiver since this seems to be the way to go.

73

I can't think of any radio that can get shortwave, IBOC and DRM.

If I was looking for a radio now, I'd give some value to a 12khz output jack so I could decode DRM later if I wanted, but it wouldn't be a must have feature.

It's the sort of thing that might be a "tie breaker" if I was looking at two radios that seemed about equal. I would not trade performance on garden variety shortwave signals to get it.