Maybe not.

Perhaps what we will see is a 2 tier system. Broadcasts focussed at rich
countries will use DRM while broadcasts for poor countries (perhaps the
majority) will remain AM.

Over time the price of DRm radios should drop allowing more and more people
to use DRM.

cheers Peter


"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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bpnjensen wrote:
I agree, and thus my interest also in amateur astornomy - hunting
down
and experiencing the difficult target is a good deal of the fun -

but -

The people who broadcast don't feel this way. They want to be HEARD,
loud and clear. every person who doesn't get all the info they
broadcast is waste of their time and money. For the big guys,
anyway,
DRM may be closer than we like.

Bruce Jensen

I really don't believe that DRM will result in larger audiences for the
shortwave broadcasters. If the broadcasters think that DRM will lure
even one percent of the people listening to mainstream AM and FM over
to shortwave, they're living in a dream world. That's just never, ever
going to happen.

Ten years from now, someone will post to rec.radio.shortwave inquiring
about what DRM was.


I figure they'll lose at least 80% of the listeners they already have,
because the poor folk in most countries that listen to SW won't be able to
afford to upgrade to a DRM radio.

"peter berrett" wrote in message
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Maybe not.

Perhaps what we will see is a 2 tier system. Broadcasts focussed at rich
countries will use DRM while broadcasts for poor countries (perhaps the
majority) will remain AM.

I'm not sure there's much practical value in one first world country
broadcasting propaganda to another first world country, but if there is,
satellite radio/TV makes about much sense as DRM on shortwave.

I suppose there might be some value if the government SW broadcasters were
to lease time on their DRM transmitters to commerical and religious
broadcasters.



Over time the price of DRm radios should drop allowing more and more
people
to use DRM.

cheers Peter



The price will go down when someone decides to invest what it takes to go
into DRM mass production. However, the costs of that investment aren't
trivial, and I don't see much demand for DRM.

Frank Dresser