{"id":20794,"date":"2016-08-24T12:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2016-08-24T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:57:01","slug":"details-emerge-the-pantronx-titus-ii-drm-portable-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/details-emerge-the-pantronx-titus-ii-drm-portable-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Details Emerge: The PantronX Titus II DRM Portable Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20795\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"TitusII-DRM-Receiver\" width=\"625\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-624x397.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Harald Kuhl (DL1ABJ), who shares more details about the new Titus 2 DRM receiver via the DRM Consortium Chairman,\u00a0Ruxandra Obreja:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>NEW DRM RECEIVER UNVEILED at HFCC MEETING IN MIAMI, FLORIDA THIS WEEK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The HFCC meeting is being held <span data-term=\"goog_1237155398\">22-26 August<\/span> in Miami and on this occasion there was a live DRM transmission form Radio Vaticana received on\u00a0 the <strong>new Titus2 DRM receiver<\/strong> (pls. see attached document with picture and details) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmna.info\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.drmna.info\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1472140015274000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFIpf6aAxggk7FeX6UkY_POCE54UA\">http:\/\/www.drmna.info\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is also a little testimony of how this prototype to be sold \u201cat under 100 dollars\u201d performed from Ray Robinson, Operations Manager at KVOH (Voice of Hope \/ Voz de Esperanza):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I&#8217;m currently at the HFCC conference in Miami, and reception of the DRM broadcast here this afternoon was very successful.\u00a0 Reception was made outside the hotel on two receivers &#8211; a \u00a0NewStar DR-111 and a brand new pre-production receiver from Pantronix called the Titus 2, with a cluster of attendees gathered round taking photos and videos.\u00a0 The latter receiver is based on an Android tablet in a stereo radio format with one speaker each side of the central horizontal tablet.\u00a0 Reception on both radios was solid throughout, on a day when analog reception on 16m was plagued with a lot of atmospheric noise.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t done detailed calculations, but figure there were probably at least three hops from Italy to Miami, and for a daylight path, the reception quality was nothing short of astounding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B4hTm2wk0Fk8QXVmems5eTBHTjZabEd3Q0NRNVhXNThheURj\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the Titus II PDF brochure<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20796\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications\" width=\"625\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications-624x376.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TitusII-DRM-Receiver-Specifications.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Harald Kuhl (DL1ABJ), who shares more details about the new Titus 2 DRM receiver via the DRM Consortium Chairman,\u00a0Ruxandra Obreja: NEW DRM RECEIVER UNVEILED at HFCC MEETING IN MIAMI, FLORIDA THIS WEEK! The HFCC meeting is being held 22-26 August in Miami and on this occasion there was a live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,836,3,3196,43],"tags":[980,4083,72,1068,5396,633,5394,5397],"class_list":["post-20794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-new-products","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-drm-consortium","tag-drmna-info","tag-harald-kuhl-dl1abj","tag-hfcc","tag-pantronx-titus-ii","tag-ruxandra-obreja"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5po","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21442,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/hfcc-collecting-pre-orders-for-the-pantronx-titus-ii-drm-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":20794,"position":0},"title":"PantronX Titus II DRM receiver: HFCC posts &#8220;pre-order&#8221; form","author":"Thomas","date":"September 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Aaron Kuhn, who writes: The HFCC is now collecting \"pre-orders\" (really expressions of interest in purchasing\/demand) for the PantronX Titus II Android Radio at http:\/\/hfcc.org\/delivery\/receivers.phtml \"The purpose of this form is to collect the information on the demand for pre-production samples of the Titus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DRM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DRM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/drm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"titus 2 big","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/titus-2-big.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20776,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-pantronx-titus-ii-a-new-drm-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":20794,"position":1},"title":"The PantronX Titus II: A New DRM Receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"August 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I had heard rumors that a new DRM receiver was in the works, but had not yet seen any specifications. 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If you preordered someone will contact you when the order comes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DRM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DRM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/drm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Titus-II-PantronX-1024x561.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Titus-II-PantronX-1024x561.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Titus-II-PantronX-1024x561.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24916,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/air-launching-phase-ii-of-drm-conversion\/","url_meta":{"origin":20794,"position":5},"title":"AIR launching Phase II of DRM conversion","author":"Thomas","date":"March 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio Mag via Dennis Dura) AIR Launching DRM Conversion, Phase II NEW DELHI \u2014 All India Radio was recently congratulated by India\u2019s Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri Venkaiah Naidu for having completed phase I of the national DRM digital radio roll-out in India. 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