Re: [Swprograms] New Zealand DRM

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

There was an interesting programme on RNZI's DRM plans
in Mailbox earlier this year. They said one major use
of it would be for stations in the Pacific to pick it
up and then rebroadcast it on local FM.

Mike

--- Ricky Leong <rleong@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Regarding this item in DXLD 5-181:
> 
>                  DRM SERVICE Begins 22 January 2006
> 
> 1651-1750  7230 NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook
> Islands
> 1751-1850 11610 NE Pacific, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa,
> Cook Islands
> 1851-2235 13595 All Pacific
> 2236-0358 15720 All Pacific
> 0400-0759 13690 All Pacific
> 0800-1059  9460 All Pacific
> 1100-1300 13840 NW Pacific, Bougainville, PNG,
> Timor, Asia
> 1300-1650  7230 All Pacific
> 
> This will be a true test of the long-distance
> capabilities (or weakenesses) of 
> DRM. The robustness of RNZI's analog service is
> quite good. At the height of 
> this summer (and their winter), I was able to
> receive RNZI here in Calgary from 
> about 0400 until 1400 the next morning.
> Now, if I only had a DRM-capable receiver to test my
> theory ...
> 
> Ricky Leong
> Calgary
> 
> -- 
> The whistle shrill still lingers on
> In the hearts of everyone
> Every day from dusk till dawn
> - Orangedale Whistle, Jimmy Rankin/Rankin Family




		
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