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James wrote: "Al Patrick" wrote in message ... I heard yesterday on shortwave that we can look for DRM radios shortly at a Wal-Mart near YOU! :-) I don't think they mentioned a brand. At the risk of putting my hand into the hollow of a tree and finding a nest of racoons residing therin, could someone in here please explain just what a DRM radio is....? DRM is a form of digital AM radio. Right now, when you receive AM (MW) broadcasts, they are broadcast as analogue. Digital radio digitizes the broadcast and you need a digital receiver to decode it. It improves the signal greatly. It's like listening to FM, and some say it's better than FM. There is no static....just pure audio. Europeans have already been experimenting in the shortwave portion with DRM, and some receivers, like the TenTec 320D, can receive these test broadcasts at this time. Now, there are some U.S. MW (AM BCB) stations also broadcasting in digital. One that comes to mind is WOR out of NYC. But as far as I know -- it's a different standard than DRM. (And I certainly could be wrong about that). In other words -- you would need a different decoder for the U.S. version than the DRM(?). That's really about the size of that. And just off the top of my head, DRM stands for -- Digital Radio Mondial. It's just the name of the European consortium that is formulating all this. Will it go over and digital AM radio become the standard; or will it become like what happened to AM stereo? Only time will tell. |
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