Re: [Swprograms] BBCWS American coverage

["Mike Wolfson" <mwolfson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One other comment of Ralph's that stuck with me was that DRM works best when
its aimed DIRECTLY at "you".  A transmission that works for one person seems
to not work as well for someone even relatively close by.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] BBCWS American coverage


> 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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