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. I
just did a search of http://www.walmart.com/ - the entire site - for DRM
and got NO finds. It DID automatically CONVERT my DRM to tell me there
were 1140 occurances of DRUM! :-)

Someone may want to check about once a week and let us know when they
are in stock.

Al

AP,
..
I did not find DRM on the Walmart website, but I did find
- - - " Passport To World Band Radio " @ $14.36 + S&H
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=2618511
..
"DRM" also gets a lot of Hits for 'Digital Rights Management' (DRM)
..
more than you wanted to know ~ RHF
..

For One and All,
..
FWIW - Here is a Link to the "Ask Walmart"
OnLine Inquiry-Request Form webpage.
http://www.walmartstores.com/wmstore...OnlineForm.jsp
..
hth ~ RHF
..

They REQUIRE way too much info just to send them email!

RHF wrote:

For One and All,
.
FWIW - Here is a Link to the "Ask Walmart"
OnLine Inquiry-Request Form webpage.
http://www.walmartstores.com/wmstore...OnlineForm.jsp
.
hth ~ RHF
.

Does wal fart fire a wal fart lady employee when the wal fart lady
employee on her lunch break takes an eldery lady customer of wal fart to
the eldery lady's home and the wal fart lady employee makes it back to
the wal fart store before her lunch break is over? There is at least one
instance of that,that did happen.wal fart Gestapo,they meet you at the
front doors going and coming.
cuhulin

"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....?

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.

Go to www.drm.org to learn all the nitty gritty details.

DRM: Technical Aspects of The On-Air System

The DRM on-air system will propel the AM broadcasting bands below 30 MHz
— short-wave, medium-wave and long-wave - to the next level.

DRM is the only universal, non-proprietary digital AM radio system with
near-FM quality sound available to markets worldwide.

The quality of DRM audio is excellent, and the improvement upon analogue
AM is immediately noticeable. DRM can be used for a range of audio
content, including multi-lingual speech and music.

Besides providing near-FM quality audio, the DRM system has the capacity
to integrate data and text. This additional content can be displayed on
DRM receivers to enhance the listening experience.

Unlike digital systems that require a new frequency allocation, DRM uses
existing AM broadcast frequency bands. The DRM signal is designed to fit
in with the existing AM broadcast band plan, based on signals of 9 kHz
or10kHz bandwidth. It has modes requiring as little as 4.5kHz or 5kHz
bandwidth, plus modes that can take advantage of wider bandwidths, such
as 18 or 20kHz.

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The above, except the first line, is a cut & paste from that site.

Al

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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....?

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:30:37 -0500, Al Patrick wrote:

Go to www.drm.org to learn all the nitty gritty details.

DRM: Technical Aspects of The On-Air System

The DRM on-air system will propel the AM broadcasting bands below 30 MHz
short-wave, medium-wave and long-wave - to the next level.

DRM is the only universal, non-proprietary digital AM radio system with
near FM quality sound available to markets worldwide.

The quality of DRM audio is excellent, and the improvement upon analogue
AM is immediately noticeable. DRM can be used for a range of audio
content, including multi-lingual speech and music.

Besides providing near-FM quality audio, the DRM system has the capacity
to integrate data and text. This additional content can be displayed on
DRM receivers to enhance the listening experience.

Unlike digital systems that require a new frequency allocation, DRM uses
existing AM broadcast frequency bands. The DRM signal is designed to fit
in with the existing AM broadcast band plan, based on signals of 9 kHz
or10kHz bandwidth. It has modes requiring as little as 4.5kHz or 5kHz
bandwidth, plus modes that can take advantage of wider bandwidths, such
as 18 or 20kHz.



Now people can listen to their pantload of commercials on AM in FM quality
sound! WOW! Can't freakin' wait!!!!

Commercial radio sucks anymore. It's all commercials now.

Fredrick Garvin wrote:

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:30:37 -0500, Al Patrick wrote:


Go to www.drm.org to learn all the nitty gritty details.

DRM: Technical Aspects of The On-Air System

The DRM on-air system will propel the AM broadcasting bands below 30 MHz
short-wave, medium-wave and long-wave - to the next level.

DRM is the only universal, non-proprietary digital AM radio system with
near FM quality sound available to markets worldwide.

The quality of DRM audio is excellent, and the improvement upon analogue
AM is immediately noticeable. DRM can be used for a range of audio
content, including multi-lingual speech and music.

Besides providing near-FM quality audio, the DRM system has the capacity
to integrate data and text. This additional content can be displayed on
DRM receivers to enhance the listening experience.

Unlike digital systems that require a new frequency allocation, DRM uses
existing AM broadcast frequency bands. The DRM signal is designed to fit
in with the existing AM broadcast band plan, based on signals of 9 kHz
or10kHz bandwidth. It has modes requiring as little as 4.5kHz or 5kHz
bandwidth, plus modes that can take advantage of wider bandwidths, such
as 18 or 20kHz.




Now people can listen to their pantload of commercials on AM in FM quality
sound! WOW! Can't freakin' wait!!!!

Commercial radio sucks anymore. It's all commercials now.

Something or someone has to pay for the costs (and there are many)
involved with air time. If you, or anyone else, prefers to pay for
commercial free radio that is an option. There are $10 per month plans
and $13 per month plans with two well known companies. Most, I think,
would prefer to put up with the commercials than pay to listen.

Of course, there are always, CDs, tapes, MP3 players, DVDs, etc. that
one can purchase and they may be commercial free.

About Wal-Mart and the radios. They are not "Wal-Mart radios" but will
be sold by Wal-Mart. OTOH, Don't be too surprised if you learn that
Wal-Mart actually OWNS some of the plants that manufacture for them! :-(