I find it odd that people will still talk about DRM and DRM to save SW. DRM is dead in the water. The receivers are poor quality and perform like the cheapest radio you can by. They can almost not even pick up the strongest signal. One of the 3 we bought we sent to Victor Goonitelleke to test. Same results. He was unable to pick up any of the DRM transmissions. When I met Nigel Holmes at Radio Australia, which ordered a number of them for testing. He referred to them as paperweight.
DRM is goo at making announcements and that's all. There is talk about Brazil and India adopting DRM. This won't happen. It's just talk. 2 years ago there was talk about the Russian's adopting DRM. The Russian's stopped it saying there was other technology that was better than DRM. What you hear about from DRM is we are testing. We are doing some test transmissions. That makes more than 10 years of test transmissions. Are they nuts? Sangean who had a DRM receiver in R&D a few years back ended the project. They said there was no market for a DRM receiver. And there won't be a market is there is no programming. So they scrapped it. I have the prototype DRM receiver from DRM and it works well. But the retail cost would be over 200USD. DRM has fail and is nothing more than a bunch of European bureaucrats. Keith On 23/10/2012 9:49 PM, "Greg and Joan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Cuff <[email protected]> >> Sent: Oct 21, 2012 9:12 AM >> To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Swlfest] Radio World: Will Digital Radio Mondiale Save >> Shortwave Broadcasting? >> >> A look at the disappointments that have plagued DRM, along with a look >> at how the technology works. >> >> > > Reminds me very much of "HD radio" - which has been around for a decade, but > very few people know it even exists. > > I just fired up my old SW-4 - having had it in storage for six years. After > cleaning it up - it still works fine, but, there isn't as much worth > listening to -- it's not like it was. Oh for the days of the Beeb at > 5.975.... > > > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown > above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
