[opendtv] Re: Digital radios outstrip analogue Shortwave ?
- From: "Richard L. Hess" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:08:44 -0500
Quoting jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> The real replacement for DAB would be DRM (Digital Radio
> Mondiale, not Digital Rights Management): http://www.drm.org/
>
> Dermot will love this quote:
> "The robustness of the DRM signal can be chosen to match different
> propagation conditions."
>
> DRM was designed to replace AM radio, especially the long-
> distance short-wave radio, where fading due to multipath
> reception is an annoying problem. One former colleague, who
> used to work on DAB, has now moved to another company to
> work on DRM. Who knows, this may finally be the radio that
> works well everywhere.
>
But...hold on a minute.
The beauty of international shortwave is that it can be picked up on old and
primitive radios--perhaps even home-made ones--in countries where
truth, money,
and access to consumer goods are restricted. At least that was the
premise that
I understood when I did some work with VOA.
So, am I hearing it right that there is a move afoot to "improve" internation
shortwave -- especially in a way that means that lots 'o new,
state-of-the-art,
non-home-buildable radios need to be purchased?
Am I missing something here?
Richard L. Hess
Vignettes Media
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
http://www.richardhess.com/tape/
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