WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

(Ralph Brandi-USA, DXplorer Feb 19)
DRM test Langenberg 1593 kHz WDR plans to start DRM tests on 1593 in
summer. They will be run with 20 kW and are scheduled for a period of 18
months. Objective is to gather experience with the system in order to find
out if it has a future. DRM receivers are expected (by WDR it seems, but
the actual source of this statement remains unclear) to be available in
summer of this year.
As reported earlier two new Transradio (ex Telefunken) mediumwave txs of
100 kW each are to be installed on WDR's Langenberg station where 1593 can
be used again after IBB's Holzkirchen tx went to Kuwait. In the nineties
WDR let IBB have 1593 after shutting down the 2 x 600 kW txs at Langenberg
by the end of 1993 (due to PCB and asbestos in them) and got in exchange
fulltime authorization for the ex-Holzkirchen channel 720 (previously
available at Langenberg during daytime only).
And I seem to recall that DRM receivers were just recently promised for
Easter or a bit less specific for spring of this year. Just another missed
deadline.
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 19)
Re: WDR plans to start DRM tests on 1593 in summer. They will be run with
20 kW and are scheduled for a period of 18 months. Objective is to gather
experience with the system in order to find out if it has a future. DRM
receivers are expected (by WDR it seems, but the actual source of this
statement remains unclear) to be available in summer of this year.