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Answer. Yes with receiver, computer and software.
2. "And in case that your answer is yes: again, in case your answer is
yes, give your impressions about those DRM broadcasts regarding quality
and reliability of reception."
Terrible and useless. Broadcast was Radio Sweden via Sackville, Canada. So
many dropouts and signal not locking that program was useless. Analog
signal from Sackville, Canada is usually very strong.
As we know a digital signal is either received or not. There is nothing in
between. We need a new Q code for DRM. I propose QRD (as in crud. Crud is
English slang for rubbish). DRM also causes hash to analog broadcasts
making analog broadcasts often useless. Unsure how people will receive DRM
broadcasts without affordable receivers.
And he continues by making a comment that I fully agree with, regarding
the present use of DRM transmissions
If DRM continues, specific out-of-band frequencies should only be used for
DRM. Signed Kraig, from Virginia
Another answer to the DRM poll came from the United Kingdom, where
listener Alan has experimented with a very expensive commercial version of
a receiver that is advertised as fully DRM capable. Alan says that he has
very carefully evaluated DRM reception from different transmitting
stations, and notice he makes a very good reference to transmitting
stations, and not to the program source, something that speaks highly
about the excellent analytical job Alan has done for more than a year now.
He comes forward with a one sentence opinion that I fully endorse:
Arnie, DRM, Digital Radio Mondiale, is doomed to failure, because it the
technology is simply not good for short wave broadcasting applications.
The dropouts, those black holes during the reception of DRM broadcasts are
horrible, making the reception of stations using DRM very annoying to say
the least.
Now more about DRM, its problems, difficulties and its very bad impact on
analog short wave broadcasts that are operating legally near the
frequencies of the DRM transmissions that are generating so much unwanted
interference, that is certainly producing a lot of problems on the
international high frequency broadcast bands where DRM transmission are
taking place on frequencies adjacent to analog broadcasts.
According to several senior broadcast engineers that yours truly has asked
for opinions about DRM, the problems of this technology are divided into
three main areas:
One: the technical characteristics of the transmitter used for DRM and how
the actual DRM signal to be broadcast is adjusted to comply with the
bandwidth regulation in effect on the HF bands
Two: The lack of "memory", that is according to one of Cuba's most
prominent broadcast engineers and university telecommunications
engineering professor Jorge Inclan Artze, who unfortunately passed away
recently, the DRM technology is fundamentally wrong for short wave
broadcasting, because those who designed it, according to Inclan and I
quote from my notes of an interview about this topic "they simply forgot
that short wave propagation via the ionosphere is totally different from
the ground wave propagation used by daytime AM broadcast band and FM
broadcast band stations."
And Inclan added that the basic idea of digital broadcasting is good, but
that it must be combined with sophisticated computer hardware and software