"Mike Terry" wrote in message
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May 19 2004

SHORTWAVE BROADCASTERS TO PROMOTE DRM IN U.S.
Shortwave broadcasters in the United States want to promote Digital Radio
Mondiale, a digital transmission technology for shortwave, medium-wave/AM
and longwave.

The idea of transmitting digital-mode signals
on the short-wave bands, with their characteristic
susceptibility to fading, noise, solar blackouts and
other natural and man-made noises is almost
**as laughable** as WBCQ's plan to utilize a single
wind powered generator to supply the electricity
for their 50KW transmitters.


(WBCQ's wind power idea is akin to what the
PRR Railroad Historical Club wanted to do in the
70's, when someone came up with the idea to
power a GG1 electric locomotive +via batteries+ for
a railfan run down the NE Corridor, since the PCB
filled Xfmrs in the Locomotive were banned from
Amtrak catenary power - they discovered that 10 boxcarloads
of submarine batteries could not power a single GG1 for
more than 10 miles....amazing how history repeats.)