{"id":27378,"date":"2017-07-31T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27378"},"modified":"2017-07-31T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:01:20","slug":"drm-test-successful-in-crowded-johannesburg-fm-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/drm-test-successful-in-crowded-johannesburg-fm-market\/","title":{"rendered":"DRM test successful in crowded Johannesburg FM market"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Radio Mag Online<\/a> via Larry W)<\/p>\n

The trial has demonstrated that there is no interference with analog stations on either side of the digital signal in the crowded FM spectrum of Johannesburg<\/strong><\/p>\n

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2014 Johannes von Weyssenhoff, representing the community station Wecodec in Johannesburg, presented the case of DRM to an international audience at the \u201cRadio Days Africa,\u201d an annual event taking place at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. His presentation also included results and findings of WECODEC\u2019s ongoing DRM+ trial, the first of its kind on the African continent, according to DRM news.<\/p>\n

The trial has demonstrated that there is no interference with analog stations on either side of the digital signal in the crowded FM spectrum of Johannesburg. The DRM power for the test is \u00bc that of FM, giving similar coverage at 4QAM.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Radio Mag Online via Larry W) The trial has demonstrated that there is no interference with analog stations on either side of the digital signal in the crowded FM spectrum of Johannesburg JOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2014 Johannes von Weyssenhoff, representing the community station Wecodec in Johannesburg, presented the case of DRM to an international […]<\/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":[54,3781,3],"tags":[980,4083,1584,6385,3036],"class_list":["post-27378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-fm","category-news","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-fm","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-77A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28501,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/nasb-digital-radio-mondiale-delivers-at-ibc-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":27378,"position":0},"title":"NASB: “Digital Radio Mondiale Delivers at IBC 2017”","author":"Thomas","date":"September 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 (Source: National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters\u00a0Facebook Page) Digital Radio Mondiale Delivers at IBC 2017 Participants in the four DRM events organised at IBC by Gospell, Thomson Broadcast, Nautel and Ampegon between 15th-17th of September have had an insight into a wide range of DRM activities, from big projects in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NASB-DRMRadios.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NASB-DRMRadios.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NASB-DRMRadios.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NASB-DRMRadios.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9323,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/saba-conference-to-feature-special-drm-broadcast-from-ascension-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":27378,"position":1},"title":"SABA conference to feature special DRM broadcast from Ascension Island","author":"Thomas","date":"April 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: DRM Consortium via Alokesh Gupta) The DRM Consortium is a Sector Partner at The Southern African Broadcasting Association (SABA), Digital Radio Broadcasting Summit in Cape Town from 22nd \u2013 24th April. 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