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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: NJQA on March 08, 2020, 1238 UTC

Title: What is replacing Short Wave radio?
Post by: NJQA on March 08, 2020, 1238 UTC

https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/what-is-replacing-shortwave

Title: Re: What is replacing Short Wave radio?
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on March 08, 2020, 1408 UTC

I do not see DRM being anything more than the ultra niche market it is today. It requires a very strong signal to reliable decoding, and well before that point a regular AM signal sounds pretty good.  That said, the recent addition of DRM in the KiwiSDR software is certainly an improvement over past implementations, certainly.

Title: Re: What is replacing Short Wave radio?
Post by: redhat on March 08, 2020, 2035 UTC

IDK, give me wideband AM back on the Kiwis anyday.  If RCI had been running conventional AM, at least I could have heard them.  With DRM all I got was the occasional blip of audio.

+-RH

Title: Re: What is replacing Short Wave radio?
Post by: Josh on March 09, 2020, 2051 UTC

Time was when every 3rd worlder carried a sw portable, now they carry iphones just like the 1st worlders.