[A-DX] Fw: [dxld] New DRM receiver

[Wolfgang Bueschel]

> so ugly ?

und Vatikan SMG sowie BBC
haben dazu die passenden Testaussendungen, SMG noch bis morgen 25. 8.

1930-2000 UT on 17510 kHz, 250 kW digital, AHR 4/4/.5 at 292degr,
16QAM-ModeB-Protection level 0.62 – Bit rate 14560 – SDR On

BBC dann am 28.8.

73 wb

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Christof Proft <>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:27 AM
>Subject: [A-DX] The PantronX Titus II: A New DRM Receiver
>
>Moin,
>primär als DRM-Empfänger gedacht, gibt es einen neuen tragbaren RX auf
>Android-Basis. Eine Art Kofferradio als SDR mit Handybildschirm. Man
>darf gespannt sein...


http://drmnainfo.blogspot.de/2016/08/twr-presents-titus-ii-drm-radio-at-hfcc.html


>----- Original Message -----
>From: [dxld]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 6:57 AM
>Subject: [dxld] New DRM receiver
>Here we go again. Another poor quality DRM (Doesn't Really Matter)
>receiver.
>The PantronX Titus II even has an annoying name. It looks like
>something put out by Fisher Price.
>
>Like the Newstar and Avion. No sense of design. Do they have to make
>something that look so ugly?
>
>drmna.info: TWR presents the Titus II DRM radio at HFCC!

>The PantronX Titus II is actually a full SDR solution in a boombox
>case. Few details yet, but it is running Android, has a 100 kHz to 2
>GHz receiver on-board and de...
>View on drmnainfo.blogspot.tw
>Preview by Yahoo
>Posted by: 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christof Proft" <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [dxld] New DRM receiver

Moin Wolfgang,
also auch wieder indischer Schrott... Schön in der Tradition eines Morphy
Richards, wo das HF-Teil auch Müll war...
vy73 Christof

------ Originalnachricht ------
Von: "Wolfgang Bueschel" >
An: "Christof Proft" <>
Gesendet: 24.08.2016 13:38:12
Betreff: Fw: [dxld] New DRM receiver

>Lefz, lefz,
>-- geil nach echten News.
>Schau' ihn Dir an.
>wb df5sx
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Christof Proft <>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:27 AM
>Subject: [A-DX] The PantronX Titus II: A New DRM Receiver
>
>Moin,
>primär als DRM-Empfänger gedacht, gibt es einen neuen tragbaren RX auf
>Android-Basis. Eine Art Kofferradio als SDR mit Handybildschirm. Man
>darf gespannt sein...
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: [dxld]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 6:57 AM
>Subject: [dxld] New DRM receiver
>Here we go again. Another poor quality DRM (Doesn't Really Matter)
>receiver.

>The PantronX Titus II even has an annoying name. It looks like
>something put out by Fisher Price.
>
>Like the Newstar and Avion. No sense of design. Do they have to make
>something that look so ugly?
>
>drmna.info: TWR presents the Titus II DRM radio at HFCC!
>

>The PantronX Titus II is actually a full SDR solution in a boombox
>case. Few details yet, but it is running Android, has a 100 kHz to 2
>GHz receiver on-board and de...
>View on drmnainfo.blogspot.tw
>Preview by Yahoo
>
>Posted by: 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jeff, No doubt you are very busy with HFCC, but would appreciate a quick
reply to this if you know the answer. Have been hearing DRM on 17510, today
until off at 2000 UT. Also heard August 13 at 1933. Pretty strong. Not in
HFCC or any other reference I can find, including DRM`s own schedule {very
outdated}. Is this by chance some unpublicized test for HFCC, and if so from
where, full schedule details, please?
Tnx, (Glenn to Jeff White, 2025 UT Aug 23, via DXLD)

Glenn: It's a special test from Vatican Radio for the HFCC Miami Conference.
In fact it was publicized in some places, such as

http://www.facebook.com/nasbshortwave

We were just listening to it here at the hotel in Miami with excellent
reception on the new Titus II DRM radio and the Newstar DR111
(Jeff White, 2035 UT Aug 23, via DXLD) Viz.:

National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters
August 17 at 7:32am ·

SPECIAL DRM BROADCAST FROM VATICAN RADIO

I would like to inform you about a special broadcast on occasion of the next
HFCC International Broadcasting Delivery coordination conference in Miami,
22-26 August 2016.

The broadcast is from Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican Radio transmitting
site, at 1930-2000 UTC on 17510 kHz, 250 kW digital, AHR 4/4/.5 at 292deg,
16QAM-ModeB-Protection level 0.62 – Bit rate 14560 – SDR On. The broadcast
is already on air even if officially it would start on 22 August till 25
August 2016; the content currently broadcast is in French and English but
during the "official" period it would be an ad-hoc program with announcement
and music.

Best regards. Sergio Salvatori, Vatican Radio (via DXLD)

I have been posting about it lately on DRMNA.
http://drmnainfo.blogspot.co.id/2016/08/hfcc-2016-drm-special-from-vatican-radio.html?m=1
Regards, (Christopher for DRMNA ``Fibber,`` Rumbaugh, 2048 UT Aug 23, ibid.)


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On Wed, 8/24/16, Philip Hiscock  [dxld] wrote:

 Subject: Re: [dxld] New DRM receiver
 Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2016, 1:29 PM

Richard,

I have been picking up this week's Vatican DRM tests very close to
flawlessly. Mind you, I appear to be on the touchdown of Hop Two of a
three-hop trip from the txr at Santa Maria di Galeria to Miami. I am in
eastern Newfoundland.

I have two DRM sets. For reasons unknown to me, my Avion DR-1401 (with a
Sony 18-inch loop attached) gets these Vatican tests better than my 
MorphyRichards 27024 with an outdoor eight-metre wire attached.

Usually it is the other way around (with All-India R, R Romania Intrntl and,
until a few weeks ago, V Nigeria DRM signals).

Philip

 On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at
 10:38 AM,  [dxld] wrote:
 I think the religious training some of us had as youngsters did us some 
good. I would hazard a guess that even Glenn had some, given his knowledge 
of the Bible. ;-)

 By the way, Radio Vaticana is conducting DRM tests this week for the 
delegates to the HFCC in Miami. Might be a chance for North Americans with 
appropriate equipment to hear a DRM broadcast.
 -- Richard  Langley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alokesh Gupta  [dx_sasia]"
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 4:39 PM
Subject: [dx_sasia] DRM part of the Ascension Island 50th Anniversary – DRM
for Africa and now for BRAZIL too!

Special DRM transmission for Africa and Brazil from Ascension Island on its
50th anniversary – Sunday 28th August 2016

DRM will be part of a big anniversary on a small island in the Atlantic
Ocean. On 28th of August at 1155 GMT. Babcock International will ensure a
special BBC digital transmission from the BBC Atlantic Relay station,
marking the fiftieth anniversary of the BBC’s first short-wave radio
broadcast from Ascension Island.

The first 2-hour transmission will be the regular BBC programmes for West
and South Africa and will end at 1400.From 1400-1430 another DRM
transmission ( BBC English) will be aimed at South America/Brazil !

This special transmission  will be sent with greetings from Ascension
Island’s BBC and Babcock International staff and visitors, who will be
celebrating half a century  of sterling broadcasting on August 28th.

To confirm details of Sunday’s DRM transmission from Ascension, as follows:

FREQ   TIME (UTC)  SERVICE      TX        kW      Bearing Day      LANG
          TARGET

21715   1155-1201  BBC DRM         ASC     250       114       1
 English             SOUTH AFRICA    (Special Announcement)
21715   1201-1400  BBC DRM         ASC     250       114       1
 English             SOUTH AFRICA   (English)
21715   1400-1430  BBC DRM         ASC     250       250       1
 English             BRAZIL (English)

Related :
http://babcock.media/latest/010816/
(Ruxandra Obreja, Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium)
---
Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi