{"id":42753,"date":"2020-04-09T07:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42753"},"modified":"2020-04-09T07:09:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:09:26","slug":"radio-purga-russia-turning-to-drm-shortwave-to-reach-chukotka-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/radio-purga-russia-turning-to-drm-shortwave-to-reach-chukotka-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Purga: Russia turning to DRM shortwave to reach Chukotka region"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Radio World<\/a> via Mike Terry)<\/p>\n

Russia has resumed Digital Radio Mondiale broadcasts on shortwave. The country originally aired the Voice of Russia via DRM a few years ago. The new service is tentatively called Radio Purga (\u201cRadio Blizzard\u201d). The target area is the Chukotka region of the Russian Far East. Analog shortwave transmissions once served the area, but those ended in the early 2000s when the broadcaster left analog shortwave.<\/p>\n

Chukotka is vast and the target audience only numbers a few thousand. Thus, shortwave is the only practical way to reach the population. The transmitter site, Komsomolsk Amur, used to broadcast Voice of Russia\u2019s analog programming and is now being used for the DRM program.<\/p>\n

The new service is a joint project between the government in Chukotka and the Far Eastern regional center of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network.<\/p>\n

Using DRM for Radio Purga has several advantages over analog shortwave. Radio Purga over DRM, for example, offers a static-free and higher fidelity signal. Studies have shown that DRM is just as reliable as analog shortwave over this distance via single-hop transmission.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster is considering transmitting two audio programs from a single DRM transmitter. This is something analog shortwave can\u2019t do. It\u2019s also planning on using DRM\u2019s ability to transmit short text message or a type of RSS feed (Journaline). DRM transmissions also use only a quarter of the power that analog transmissions do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have in these remote places 2,000 residents who need to be provided with communications services \u2026 the Northern Sea Route also requires attention,\u201d said Roman Kopin, the governor of Chukotka, last spring when the project was initiated, according to a Russian press report. In addition to mariners on the Northern Sea Route, the audience includes geologists, miners, reindeer herders and hunters.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

(Source: Radio World via Mike Terry) Russia has resumed Digital Radio Mondiale broadcasts on shortwave. The country originally aired the Voice of Russia via DRM a few years ago. The new service is tentatively called Radio Purga (\u201cRadio Blizzard\u201d). The target area is the Chukotka region of the Russian Far East. Analog shortwave transmissions once […]<\/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":[54,3,43],"tags":[980,4083,8420,634,2093],"class_list":["post-42753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-radio-purga","tag-radio-world","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b7z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32825,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/drm-feeds-rnz-pacific-relays\/","url_meta":{"origin":42753,"position":0},"title":"DRM feeds RNZ Pacific relays","author":"Thomas","date":"June 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World via Mike Hansgen) RANGITAIKI, New Zealand \u2014\u00a0Radio New Zealand Pacific, the official international arm of Radio New Zealand, is using\u00a0Digital Radio Mondiale\u00a0digital radio transmission\/reception equipment to feed studio-quality audio to some of its 20 relay stations in the Pacific Ocean region. 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