I agree with this comment - DRM is going nowhere and it certainly isn't going to "save" shortwave radio. In the midst of high-powered international shortwave broadcasters leaving this spectrum in droves, the most successful shortwave operations now are religious broadcasters with low-powered stations who can reach indigenous populations with few other communications options, primarily in Africa and Latin America - these populations are donated fixed-tuned Galcom radios at very low, to no cost - these radios work great for their intended purpose. Other successes appear in Europe with low-powered transmitters that focus on pop music alternatives to government broadcasters who have, in the main, left shortwave. Without the spectrum dominated by 500 KW transmitters, shortwave could become more, rather than less interesting. Time will tell...
Bruce Bruce W. Churchill Adjunct Lecturer, SDSU Homeland Security MS Program President/CEO, InfraGard San Diego Members Alliance, an FBI-Affiliated 501(c)3 Corporation Infragard CI/KR Sector Coordinator, San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center 5500 Overland Avenue Suite 330 San Diego, CA 92123 Tel: (714)562-5725 x2544 / (858)503-5601 Mob: (760)803-2181 E-Mail: [email protected] / [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mac Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:58 PM To: Greg and Joan; Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Radio World: Will Digital Radio Mondiale Save Shortwave Broadcasting? 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 Please consider the environment before printing this email. ____ This communication may contain information that is confidential, privileged or subject to copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments immediately without reading, copying or forwarding to others. _______________________________________________ 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
