RTL Group Digital Radio Mondiale Promotional Video 1 (SVCD)

[bratina501]

I can't say no receivers are available in the US now which are stand alone but its $360 US still a bit too expensive for me. The average price for a DRM ready receiver is about $1,100 US and given that some programs are airing and targeting the US which interest me I will be building the SA602 based downmixer featured in the October 2003 issue of QST magazine as soon as I can get a copy of the article and the needed parts. The receiver to be modded will be an Icom IC-R75.

[AnthonyUK]

@Salisbury2015 Problem is;internet radio and radio via mobiles good though it can be,has to be paid for thru extortionate and expensive mobile data charges,DRM is a forward looking technology that works on existing MW/LW/SW bands and eventually 87-108Mhz FM to provide digital radio services at much less cost using existing transmitter infrastructure or using new DRM capable AM and FM transmitters from scratch and they don't need quite as much power as analogue using several thousand KW of AM/FM.

[SadAnorak]

Interesting promo.

I hope the DRM platform takes off, I think the future for the AM bands. RTL has always been a forward thinking broadcaster in Europe.

[AnthonyUK]

There are no receivers in the market due to Roberts/Sangean/Visteon/Panaso­nic/Technisat/

Morphy Richards not introducing them onto the market. Yes Digital Radio Mondiale on MW/LW/SW is a valid replacement for analogue AM with near FM quality mono/stereo transmissions over AM distances and it is very robust in combatting fading and interference and improving quality/reception for the listener but if the receivers don't become available then what future for it?

[bratina501]

@AnthonyUK I agree with you there, I want a DRM receiver but I can't buy one here in the US either. If your only option is to modify existing receivers then DRM is doomed to failure. Until receivers are sold worldwide for DRM I can quite accurately say "What future?" in reference to the technology. This technology is very promising but if it does not live up to the promise that it brings then broadcasters will be reluctant to adopt it eventually causing it to die out.

[AnthonyUK]

@bratina501 The DRM system is excellent,and when executed properly can sound as good as FM with better audio fidelity and better reception without the fade and whistle and multipath distortion you get on MW/LW at night and on SW generally,and it has good ease of use in that you find stations by name and not by frequency and if the station changes frequency or waveband the radio automatically follows it to the next frequency or waveband and retunes without any effort needed,piece of cake!

[bratina501]

I am lucky enough to have heard DRM broadcasts streamed from a receiver in southern Sweden which can be controlled through the internet and was greatly impressed by the sound quality. For one of the broadcasts I listened to, which was RTL on 6.095 and later on 1440 KHz it was close to FM quality and in stereo. I never thought of a retune feature for DRM receivers but it would not work in North America where we don't have DRM broadcasts at all times.

[AnthonyUK]

@bratina501 RTL Radio/KBS World Radio and the RTL Religeous Programme share 6095kHz SW in Digital Radio Mondiale format for a joint DRM broadcast during the day;the airtime is hired out from the 6095kHz 50kW erp transmitter at Junglinster Luxembourg Europe by WRN Transmission a subsidiary of World Radio Network.

[dynamitedummies]

confused but a five star in my book, lol

[AnthonyUK]

Possibly on MW the UK broadcasters will transmit DRM;there is a local trial in Plymouth England currently on MW855kHz(351m)with BBC Radio Devon.

[kraftneu]

Wonder if the main UK broadcasters will adopt DRM, we have DAB, perhaps in the UK they could make receivers with both DRM/DAB in one.