This week sees a series of special events in Dallas, Texas organised by
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). The week is hosted by founding DRM member DRS
Broadcast Technology (formerly IDT Continental Electronics). DRM's board
meetings will take place November 8-11, and the recently formed DRM USA
group will also have a meeting on November 11.

On Friday, the DRM consortium will hold the first-ever DRM International
Symposium for North & South America. It will feature live DRM shortwave
broadcasts demonstrated on a variety of DRM-capable receivers. A range of
live DRM broadcasts will originate overseas (demonstrating digital skywave
reception), while others will be local broadcasts from within Dallas
(demonstrating groundwave reception).

For the first time ever, DRM test transmissions from Chile and Ecuador will
be transmitted across Latin America and into the US. DRM member Christian
Vision will relay test broadcasts from Santiago, Chile, and DRM member HCJB
World Radio will send test broadcasts from Quito, Ecuador. At the symposium,
digital radio experts from 8 countries, including the US, Canada, Ecuador
and Peru, will outline the technical, regulatory and marketing aspects of
DRM implementation.

Symposium speakers will include DRM Chairman Peter Senger (Deutsche Welle);
DRM Vice Chairman Jan Hoek (Radio Netherlands); DRM Technical Committee
Chairman Donald Messer (IBB/VOA); DRM Commercial Committee Chairman Michel
Penneroux (TDF); Adil Mina and Daniel Dickey (DRS-BT); Jeff White (Chairman,
DRM U.S.A Group); Mike Adams (NASB); Charles Jacobson (HCJB World Radio,
Ecuador); Paul Linnarz (KAS Peru); Stefan Meltzer (Coding Technologies);
Michael Schlicht (Fraunhofer IIS); and John Sykes (BBC).

North American radio listeners can now hear DRM broadcasts from the BBC
World Service, Deutsche Welle, National Association of Short-wave
Broadcasters (NASB), RCI, Radio Netherlands, Swedish Radio International,
and Radio Vaticana. DRM broadcasts from China Radio International, Radio
Kuwait and TDP Radio (a commercial, dance mix station from Belgium) are also
available in North America.

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