Re: [Swprograms] BBCWS American coverage

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

What I believe you'll see is a few key relays - like Sackville,
Montisnery, Bonaire, perhaps even Delano - install sufficient DRM
capacity for smaller broadcasters to rent DRM airtime vs. upgrade
their own sites.

As for Sackville, you'd be surprised, Bill -- due to phase distortion
and fading, Sackville has generally underwhelmed as a DRM transmitter
site for us in the northeastern USA.  Ask Ralph Brandi what he thinks.
 You can get plenty of DRM signal from Sackville, but is often not
intelligble.  I recall seeing our DRM Fest guests three years ago
shake their heads in amazement when a beefy signal yielded an
inadequate S/N ratio to decode the DRM signal.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


On 9/10/05, Bill B <ka2emz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> Personally Istill wonder if the smaller broadcasters such as Radio
> Romania, Voice of Turkey et al will follow suit and go to DRM; I sort of
> doubt it, and then we have the dilemna of DRM from large broadcasters
> doing a number on the stations still on analog. (Still imagine if
> Sackville goes digital and relays such as Radio Sweden on 6010 which
> blast innow  goes  to DRM- what a beautiful thought that is!)
> Something I keep forgetting to ask, can a station run less poweron DRM
> than needed now on analog to reach a target area?
> 73s
>

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