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Title: Radio Romania DRM 6040am
Post by: nycrich425 on February 09, 2022, 0003 UTC
Getting Radio Romania DRM on 6040, had to tune down to 6035 am to get carrier. Bandwidth 10000 Hz on USB. Generally Radio Algerienne from Issoudun, FR gets cut off due to stronger signal by Radio Romania at 22:00UTC. Using free software "Dream".
(https://i.imgur.com/SmWki4N.jpg)

Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040 AM 0003 UTC 09 FEB 2022
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on February 09, 2022, 0008 UTC
00:06 UTC - Getting a standard AM broadcast with news segment in my area.


RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040am
Post by: nycrich425 on February 09, 2022, 0012 UTC
Yes they will switch off DRM after 2-3 hours of broadcasting. This is the only DRM I can get from Florida. I can hear all of Brazil HF clearly but cannot hear the DRM they were suppose to be using on HF.
The channel on Radio Romania is id on DRM as is RRI Galbeni TX1 (AAC + Mono 20.96kbps). I have a screen capture but cannot figure out how to attach a pic to this thread.
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040 AM 0003 UTC 09 FEB 2022
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on February 09, 2022, 0022 UTC
If you are referring to Radio Marti DRM, unfortunately they use a newer CODEC which is not compatible with DREAM.

As for posting images, the image has to be hosted off-site and linked into the post. There is "how to" on the board here somewhere ... I just can't find it right now.

Here is the thread on how to post images.
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=26834.0 (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=26834.0)
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040am
Post by: nycrich425 on February 09, 2022, 0058 UTC
Thank you SIGINT, much appreciated.
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040am
Post by: nycrich425 on February 09, 2022, 0102 UTC
15 JAN THE LATEST FROM BRAZIL
In December Brazilian public broadcaster Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), assisted by Brazilian DRM Platform chair Rafael Diniz, transmitted 60mW of DRM at 6.180kHz (Rádio Nacional da Amazônia’s lower frequency) via a 20db gain SW antenna from Brasilia. The signal was heard on a Morphy Richards receiver at Ariquemes, 1,700km away.

Ahead of the official digital radio SW trial in Brazil, EBC engineers have been working hard to adapt their SW transmission equipment for DRM, already approved and much anticipated by the ministry and government. After this short transmission the plan is to purchase a 100W amplifier to boost transmission power.

https://www.drm.org/the-latest-from-brazil

As of this posting I can hear Radio Nacional da Amazonia on 6180 am, S9  but not DRM at 0104UTC in Portuguese broadcasting from Brasilia DF.

Looking at https://www.short-wave.info/index.php?                                                                               
11910    EBC (Digital)   00:00   00:00   1234567   Portuguese      Brasilia DF   
I can hear 11910 during the day but no DRM so far.
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040 AM 0003 UTC 09 FEB 2022
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on February 09, 2022, 0204 UTC
Be sure to see some of my other DRM log entries:

RRI Galbeni TX1 6030 DRM 2110 UTC 05 DEC 2021
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,89936.msg288460.html#msg288460 (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,89936.msg288460.html#msg288460)

SNR Tiganesti E2 7235 DRM 1930 UTC 28 NOV 2021
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,89664.msg287723.html#msg287723 (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,89664.msg287723.html#msg287723)

TDF (Radio France) DRM 5875.0 kHz
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77560.msg255245.html#msg255245 (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77560.msg255245.html#msg255245)

Experimental DRM station in Brazil, 11910 kHz, 09 JAN 2020, 2313 UTC
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,76670.msg255425.html#msg255425 (https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,76670.msg255425.html#msg255425)

Other stations which I have successfully decoded with DREAM include: WINB (15752) and Radio Kuwait Digital (15105).

After a lot of experimenting, these are what I found to be the ideal settings for DREAM to lock and decode over an HF circuit.

(http://www.milspec.ca/board/img/dream-ideal-settings.png)
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040am
Post by: nycrich425 on February 09, 2022, 1345 UTC
Thanks for the list of DRM stations. Most important I saw a new Dream ver 2.2.1 that have the new codecs, etc that I will install.
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040 AM 0003 UTC 09 FEB 2022
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on February 09, 2022, 1443 UTC
Lots of issues with DREAM 2.2.x. A lot of people cannot get it working, including myself, and it requires Windows 8.1 or later to run. It is a bit of a "hack job".

Further info can be found here:
Installing Dream 2.2 on Windows
https://sourceforge.net/p/drm/discussion/general/thread/21b4467660/?page=0 (https://sourceforge.net/p/drm/discussion/general/thread/21b4467660/?page=0)

DReaM v2.2.1 for Windows (with xHE-AAC support)
https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/grp6m2/dream_v221_for_windows_with_xheaac_support/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/grp6m2/dream_v221_for_windows_with_xheaac_support/)

You might want to try this version first and save yourself a lot of trouble.
dream-2.2-win32-vs2017-full-deployed
https://sanctuary-cdn.beacoworks.xyz/s/38LYicM2ge2mxzi (https://sanctuary-cdn.beacoworks.xyz/s/38LYicM2ge2mxzi)
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040am
Post by: nycrich425 on February 10, 2022, 2147 UTC
I got Dream 2.2.X running using my Win 10. I got an error for PC CAP driver. Downloaded the program and Dream works good without crashing.
Title: Re: Radio Romania DRM 6040 AM 0003 UTC 09 FEB 2022
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on February 10, 2022, 2236 UTC
Now if they can only figure out how to compile this version for us non-Windows 10 users we would all be a bunch of happy campers.