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[email protected] May 9th 08 02:48 PM

DRM for Alaska on SW?
 
On May 8, 5:28�pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message

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David Eduardo wrote:


Serving areas of Alaska that do not have reliable... or any... radio
service
is dumb? I think the idea is good.


Yeah, retards like you think that QRM is good. That's why you promote
IBOC,
right?


This has nothing to do with IBOC. It's about Alaska, and an interesting plan
to bring SW to a high level of visibility.


SW is dying.

RHF May 9th 08 03:11 PM

DRM for Alaska on SW?
 
On May 9, 6:48Â*am, wrote:
On May 8, 5:28�pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:





"dxAce" wrote in message


...


David Eduardo wrote:


Serving areas of Alaska that do not have reliable... or any... radio
service
is dumb? I think the idea is good.


Yeah, retards like you think that QRM is good. That's why you promote
IBOC,
right?


This has nothing to do with IBOC. It's about Alaska, and an interesting plan
to bring SW to a high level of visibility.



- SW is dying.

This To Will Come To Pass . . .

-wrt- Dying - Some Day Some How We All Do ~ RHF

Telamon May 10th 08 01:33 AM

DRM for Alaska on SW?
 
In article
,
D Peter Maus wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article
,
D Peter Maus wrote:

dxAce wrote:
msg wrote:

dxAce wrote:

David Eduardo wrote:


"dxAce" wrote in message
...

More QRM.


On the other hand, if this works, it could become a revitalizing force
for
SW to cover sparsely populated and remote areas of the world and even
reverse the decline in SW station numbers.
Like your stupid IBOC works?

Pay attention, 'Eduardo', it will only mean more QRM.


I do not have the luxury of living in a radio quiet area; I battle
monumental QRN and RFI from hosts of consumer and industrial devices.
I for one, would welcome a reliable modulation method that punches
through that mess, and if a digital scheme on SW that respects
known adjacent channels will do this, I am interested.
Forget it. DRM = QRM.



I know I'm going to hell for this, but.....


If IBOC kept it's crap within the channel of the station's
allocation, it wouldn't be near the problem it is, today. That's where
it differs from DRM. DRM is contained within channel, and provides,
often-but not always, better audio clarity, with surprisingly less power.


You are psychic.

I wish that was true Peter but even the narrow mode of DRM trashes the
adjacent SW channels and the wide mode even more. I find it shocking
that you would say DRM sounded "good". I think it sounds terrible. How
is low bit rate audio supposed to sound other than like crap? The
codexes employed generate artifacts that are hard to take no different
than IBOC.


I"ve heard DRM broadcasts that were largely artifact free. More like
listening to a decent MP3 than a low bit webfeed.


Must have been the wide mode that takes up three channels and trashes
the two adjacent channels for a grand total of 5 channels.

Not to say I'm a big fan of DRM, because, right now, more often than
not, it's a pain in the ass, but if implemented as promised, DRM offers
more to the radio listening public than IBOC ever will.


Maybe the wide mode that takes up a bunch of channels.

What DRM has to deal with is the propagation characteristics of HF.
And that may be the razor by which we judge DRM.


The DRM modulation scheme does a very simplistic job at best of dealing
with fading and drop outs. You need a lot of bandwidth to keep the bit
rate up and you need more bandwidth for FEC overhead so that you could
claim any kind of improvement over analog.



Perhaps. I"m not of teh belief that DRM is the beginning and the
end, here. Only that what's being proposed is a decent start to a better
solution than what's been implemented for domestic broadcast.


Actually is the beginning of the end. First the consortium tried to pass
off the one channel that trashed the adjacent channels as sounding
"good" and when that didn't work they started (duh) increasing the
bandwidth used.

But...and I say this with caution, and knowing that I stand a great
risk of agreeing with those with whom I've disagreed in the past...I'm
of the opinion that if DRM can be implemented in such a manner as it
respects the SW bandplan, and can keep it's splatter within it's own
channel, DRM may well be the solution that IBOC was meant to be.


DRM is as bad an idea as IBOC.


DRM and IBOC both suck big time.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Telamon May 10th 08 01:34 AM

DRM for Alaska on SW?
 
In article
,
wrote:

On May 8, 5:28?pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
"dxAce" wrote in message

...



David Eduardo wrote:


Serving areas of Alaska that do not have reliable... or any... radio
service
is dumb? I think the idea is good.


Yeah, retards like you think that QRM is good. That's why you promote
IBOC,
right?


This has nothing to do with IBOC. It's about Alaska, and an interesting plan
to bring SW to a high level of visibility.


SW is dying.


If SW is dying then DRM is stillborn.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

RHF May 10th 08 08:09 AM

Shortwave Radio Lives . . .
 
On May 9, 5:34*pm, Telamon
wrote:

- - SW is dying.

- If SW is dying then DRM is stillborn.
-
- --
- Telamon
- Ventura, California
-

You are Born : And Then You Live : To Die.

* Shortwave Radio was Created by Man.
* Shortwave Radio Lives in the Hearts and Minds of Men.
* Shortwave Radio Will Live in some form or fashion as
long as One Man continues to to Love It as a Medium.
* When the Last Shortwave Radio Listener (SWL) Dies
-then- Shortwave Radio Itself Will Die.

it is the nature {life cycle} of all things that live ~ RHF

Mats Peterson May 10th 08 08:12 AM

Shortwave Radio Lives . . .
 
RHF wrote:
On May 9, 5:34*pm, Telamon
wrote:

- - SW is dying.

- If SW is dying then DRM is stillborn.
-
- --
- Telamon
- Ventura, California
-

You are Born : And Then You Live : To Die.

* Shortwave Radio was Created by Man.
* Shortwave Radio Lives in the Hearts and Minds of Men.
* Shortwave Radio Will Live in some form or fashion as
long as One Man continues to to Love It as a Medium.
* When the Last Shortwave Radio Listener (SWL) Dies
-then- Shortwave Radio Itself Will Die.

it is the nature {life cycle} of all things that live ~ RHF
.
FWIW - The Talking Pictures : The Movies : TV : Digital Media
all did not Kill Books - Books Are Still Alive -because- People
Still Love To Read Books.
.


Good talking.

--
Mats Peterson
http://www.geocities.com/matsp888/

Mats Peterson May 10th 08 08:26 AM

Shortwave Radio Lives . . .
 
RHF wrote:
On May 9, 5:34*pm, Telamon
wrote:

- - SW is dying.

- If SW is dying then DRM is stillborn.
-
- --
- Telamon
- Ventura, California
-

You are Born : And Then You Live : To Die.

* Shortwave Radio was Created by Man.
* Shortwave Radio Lives in the Hearts and Minds of Men.
* Shortwave Radio Will Live in some form or fashion as
long as One Man continues to to Love It as a Medium.
* When the Last Shortwave Radio Listener (SWL) Dies
-then- Shortwave Radio Itself Will Die.

it is the nature {life cycle} of all things that live ~ RHF
.
FWIW - The Talking Pictures : The Movies : TV : Digital Media
all did not Kill Books - Books Are Still Alive -because- People
Still Love To Read Books.
.


Just testing something, don't bother this posting.

--
Mats Peterson
http://www.geocities.com/matsp888/


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