More great DRM news from Asia

Several fine bits of news...

WINB reports via Twitter: "CNR 6030 DRM service is now 24 hours." 

and Brother Alokesh reports:

"All India Radio, Bangalore has re-commissioned its 500 KW DRM SW transmitter with effect from 3rd August, 2018. DRM transmissions were off air since 27th Feb 2017 as the main tube failed.

Tentative schedule in DRM mode :

European Beam at 320 deg

1820-2230 UTC (2350-0400 IST) - 7550 kHz (Hindi/English)

Japanese beam at 90 deg

2245-0045 UTC (0415-0615 IST) - 7550 kHz (Hindi/English)

Please monitor & post your reception reports to :

rajendiran45@yahoo.com   and spectrum-manager@air.org.in

Noted on air with 2 programs ( GOS - IV  & Vividh Bharati) during check at

1840 UTC, 4th August, 2018."

Following up to some previous posts, Dr. Elliott sent this DRM decode audio via Hebei SDR of the CNR DRM program audio from a day or so ago. See previous post on this topic.

DRM car radio in India

Watch this video. I want one!

I hear a little drop-out, but the audio is nice and the display is clean and simple for a dashboard. I have no details about the unit or specs yet, but will post some when I have them.

Looks like Ruxandra (DRM Consortium Chair) is the passenger. From what I can tell, this was taken recently at BES (early February 2016) in New Delhi.

Here is to hoping India's roll-out has the ability to break-free the hardware situation for DRM.

UPDATE: 20160223 - DRMNA reader Oliver in Brittany, France writes:

"If it may help, the car with the integrated DRM receiver is the new TUV300 from MAHINDRA
launched september-october 2015 (with AM/FM only for the moment).

Sorry, don't know which is the unit manufacturer (Panasonic ? as they work close with NXP on the SAF360x chip).

Some links :
http://www.radioandmusic.com/biz/mobile-digital/digital-radio/151008-drm-receiver-installed-first-time-indian

detail of the receiver  (same as on the video !) : 
https://images2.cardekho.com/images/expertreviewseditor/large/mahindra-tuv-3oo/20160218_180030/mahindra-tuv-3oo0.jpg

lot of photos of this car : https://www.cardekho.com/carmodels/Mahindra/Mahindra_TUV_300
the same on the photo on the DRM Twitter  page... : https://twitter.com/drmdigitalradio

http://www.radioworld.com/article/indias-cars-to-get-drm-receiver-chip/278076

Best regards from Brittany (France) where a new AM radio (Bretagne 5 on 1593 khz, which means Brittany 5) tries to convince the french regulator to authorize them to transmit in DRM mode, and to ad the DRM norm along the DAB+...

Merci Oliver! We greatly appreciate the details.

India ramps up International DRM broadcasts

New DRM transmission schedule for All India Radio External Services via Bengaluru with effect from 16 Aug 2015. Note: Two programs are broadcast simultaneously using single frequency in most cases.

• 0315-0415 UTC 15120 kHz (Program 1 : Hindi, Prog 2 : Vividh Bharati) - Towards East Africa/Middle East
• 0415-0430 UTC 15120 kHz (Prog 1 : Gujarati, Prog 2 : Vividh Bharati) - Towards East Africa/Middle East
• 0430-0530 UTC 15120 kHz (Prog 1 : Hindi, Prog 2 : Vividh Bharati) - Towards East Africa/Middle East
• 1000-1100 UTC 17895 kHz English - Towards Australia, NZ
• 1145-1315 UTC 15795 kHz Chinese  - Towards China
• 1215-1330 UTC 15795 kHz (Prog 1: Chinese, Prog 2 : Tibetan) - Towards China
• 1615-1715 UTC 11620 kHz (Prog 1 : Russian ; Prog 2 : Vividh Bharati) - Towards Europe
• 1745-1945 UTC 7550 kHz  (Prog 1 : GOS-IV English, Prog 2) : Vividh Bharati - Towards Europe
• 1945-2045 UTC 7550 kHz  (Prog 1 : Hindi, Prog 2 : French) - Towards Europe
• 2045-2230 UTC 7550 kHz  (Prog 1 : GOS V English, Prog 2 :Vividh Bharati) - Towards Europe
• 2245-0045 UTC 13605 kHz (Prog 1 : GOS I English, Prog 2 : Vividh Bharati) -Towards Europe
  
  The reception reports on technical quality of the transmission on the above frequencies are welcome and may please be sent to Deputy Director General (Spectrum Management & Synergy) by email at : spectrum-manager@air.org.in

Courtesy of Jose Jacob by way of Alokesh