Frank Dresser wrote:

"Colin" wrote in message
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Hmmm - just like IBOC is 'QRM' for FM reception?

IBOC sure is QRM for AM reception!


SW broadcasting is funded so that listeners can hear programs, not for the
benefit of amateur DXers.

So why have so many countries been defunding international broadcasting?
Could it be they think international broadcasting is a waste of money? Why
would clearer signals make it less of a waste? If the programming is worth
hearing, the listener will put up with occasional distortion and fading.


DRM lets the intended listeners actually hear those programs clearly, and
tune them in easily. It sounds like you don't like it cause it sounds like
noise on your (probably highly expensive) set-up, and you like the tuning
process to be as difficult as possible.

International broadcating is boring, and bored listeners are tuning out.
DRM won't fix that. The internet is a much better source for news. End
time preachers and conspiranoics are much more fun to listen to.


Yes, without co-ordination there may be interefernce problems during the
transmition period, but the sooner the world goes DRM the better
international radio broadcastings prospects IMHO.


Satellite radio does every thing DRM promises.

Yes it does, and it doesn't make a mess of the shortwave spectrum.

dxAce
Michigan
USA