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Sound, Reception, Value! Listeners’ Reactions to DRM

November 23, 2007

Digital shortwave broadcasts sound better, are easier to receive and make it possible to send text and photos along with the normal sound program.

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We have collected some of our listeners’ reactions to this new offer:

“The reception on 3995kHz is still excellent here in the middle of the UK. I enjoy the classical music program and the jazz program that follows. Thanks so much for putting forth the effort. Thanks also for the evening program that I can receive without interruption. The reception for this type of music is normally very broken up – but DRM sounds as good as every local FM broadcast. I really hope that you can carry on with this program.” (R. Glyn.Jones, UK)

“Right now I receive and listen to your digital program in stereo (Radio Journal with Catrin Brackmann) using the Sines (Portugal) transmitter on 17710kHz (20.96 kbps). The reception is fantastic – even though there is a shortage every now and then. The receiver is the do-it-yourself-device from Elektor with a long-wire antenna.” (Gottfried Sennenkamp, Germany)

“I live in Vienna in the ground floor of six-floor, concrete house in a real Faraday cage. Like I (…) expected, I had a negative result the first couple times I tried to receive programming with the Digital World Traveller (Coding Technologies) and the wire FM aerial provided. Absolute dead-air.”

“So I put a 5 by 2.5 m wire loop on the front wall of my computer room and wouldn’t you know it – I can now receive DW on 3995 kHz with SNR between 15 and 17 db in uninterrupted stereo. Those who don’t know think it’s FM!” (Dr. J. Braunbeck, Austria)

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Europa
DRM reception in Europe.

"Today at 12:30 UTC I could receive your broadcast from Jülich and I ‘discovered’ a data-broadcast as well: Journaline with news in English and German. Fantastic! I live near Venice and use a Kenwood R2000 modified with a DRM-Mixer and a 30-meter wire antenna.” (Andrea Russo, Italy)

Note: Journaline is currently being broadcast as a test.

“I receive (the DW program) Trincomolee (from Sri Lanka) on 21675 kHz between 8:00 am and 10:00 am daily using a Coding Technologies Digital Traveller. The quality is exceptional!” (Mark Williams, South Africa)

"I just wanted to tell you that the reception in southern Sweden is excellent. I have tested different frequencies in the last little while and most of them work very well." (Jens Koefoed, Sweden)