Re: Sunday Herald yesterday

Richard L wrote:
In message <1177577376.689915.3450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Shortwave is little known in the UK only because our existing domestic
radio stations adequately meet most people's listening interests. In
countries where that isn't the case, listeners have been willing and
even eager to make the (significant) effort to learn how to use a
short-wave receiver.

Part of the promise of DRM is that it will de-skill short-wave
reception, making foreign stations as easy to find and listen to as
local ones. Many people, I think, would welcome this additional
choice. DRM could prove to be at least as attractive as Internet
'radio' and will probably be much more convenient.


Wow, I actually more or less agree with you.

I would also add that I have used short-wave in the past while abroad on holiday. It can be useful to be able to tune into the World Service from time to time, just to get broadcasts in English. DRM will be a great improvement in this respect.

As far as DRM+ goes, it is a shame that it is taking so long. It's hard to see why, other than pro DAB people deliberately dragging their feet on the development of DRM+. Hopefully it will get here eventually. I agree with Steve (in the medium term a least) that broadcasters will prefer to use DAB/DAB+ as there will be more receivers in use. In the longer term though more multi-standard receivers will be in use, and so DRM+ will start to become a lot more attractive.

I think DRM+ will probably be used initially by small local stations, but I wonder whether it will eventually find an additional use for larger local stations. Reginal and national stations I presume will end up using mostly DAB+.

Another point in favour of DRM+. It looks like most DAB/DAB+ receivers will be software driven. If a lot of these also include FM, then the FM part will probably also be defined in software. Therefore when DRM+ has finally been defined, it may be possible to update the software on many of these receivers to receive Band-II DRM+. They will have the tuning hardware to receiver Band-II and sufficient processing power (they must have if they support DAB+), so it would seem that the rest would simply be a matter of software.

Richard E.
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