Flander's Fartwhistle wrote:

DRM and it's digital broadcasting mode
children will never appear on shortwave.
Mark it in your book. Analog will be here
for a very long time to come, as any digital
dependent mode requires a clear signal
path for reception. When was the last time
we heard a clear shortwave program or
station that had ZERO fading, noise or
propagation issues with it's signal?
My guess is you can count them on one hand.

A perfect example is how everyone has had
to endure poor signal degradation from someone
using a modern cellphone. 20% of the calls
I get from people out in the field usually cut out
or are partially garbled, and I am using a brand
new Samsung and Nokia digital phone. Any loss
of "data" between you and 'over there/wherever'
on the other end of the cellphone line and your
call is useless or interrupted. If it's this bad with
local Verizon cell phone service in a major metro area
(NJ/NY/Ct) then how bad will it be with a digital
shortwave signal comming halfway around the world
on a much lower frequency prone to atmospherics
and other degradation...?

Digital Shortwave???? Sounds alot like New Coke
or the Yugo car or any one of another 'brilliant' consumer
technology or product ideas that are now in the rubbish
bin of history.

The success of DRM doesn't depend on perfect propagation conditions. If
it did, the proponents of this technology wouldn't consider using it for
ionospheric propagation. It's a matter of how degraded the conditions
can be before the digital signal can not be decoded properly. DRM has
considerable tolerance for poor propagation. The cell phone comparison
is apples and oranges. They are two very different technologies and
frequency ranges. If DRM fails to catch on, it will most likely be
because people don't want to buy new receivers for international
broadcasting when it appears to have an uncertain future at this time.


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