Kristoff Bonne wrote:

Gegroet,

Telamon schreef:
For One and All,
ABOUT - Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM)
DRM = http://www.drm.org/.

ALL you need to know is that the implementation was screwed up and over
hyped.
OH YEAH and it was lied about a lot buy the DRM organization.
AND it takes up more bandwidth than it was supposed too.
BUT it is just another system than the current analog with its mixed bag
of pluses and minuses, which make it no better than the current analog
system so why change to it?
Aren't you mixing up DRM with IBOC-AM?

DRM might bring people back to LW/MW/SW and they might not even know it.

One of the things with DRM (and especially with the DAB/DRM chipset now
available) is that the user will just be presented with a list of
stations and he will just have to pick the one from the list. She will
not know if she is listening to a DAB broadcast at 1.4 Ghz or long-wave
at below 200 Khz.

DRM has two major advantages:
- it does away with fading, which is one of the things people find most
annoying about LW/MW/SW.
The "audio-quality" aspect is a bit mood as it all depends on what mode
you are using and I think for most people is not the most important
element. But if you produce a stable signal without fading, this would
make LW/MW/SW broadcasts quite acceptable by most people.

(The term "near-FM" is marketing talk, just ignore it).

- It allows broadcasters to break into certain markets by broadcasting
from abroad. BCE (RTL's broadcasting arm) plan to use it to broadcast
using DRM on LW, MW and SW towards different countries.

The new frequencies on LW and MW they have requested at the ITU are 279
Khz (Junglinster towards Germany), 567 Khz (Clervoux towards the
Netherlands), 783 Khz (Beidweiler towards France) and 1098 Khz (Clervoux
towards Belgium).

For SW, they have asked the HFCC for coordination for two frequencies:
5990 and 6095 Khz.

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

Cheerio my ass. DRM = QRM any which way you slice it or dice it.

dxAce
Michigan
USA