There is some exciting news that is worth sharing. KTWR will resume regular DRM broadcasts next week. The schedule will be as follows, starting the week of 5 August through at least the next seven weeks and probably through the end of the A19 broadcast season:
Day
Freq
Time
Region
Power
Monday
11580kHz
1215-1245UTC
South Asia
90kW
Tuesday
11995kHz
1026-1056UTC
ANZ/South
Pacific
50kW
Wednesday
11995kHz
1026-1056UTC
China 50kW
Thursday
11995kHz
1026-1056UTC
Japan/Korea
50kW
Each week will have different broadcast parameters that will affect decode rates and audio quality.
Set-up
|
Profile
|
P-Level
|
QAM
|
Sample Rate
|
audio bitrate
|
SBR
|
Mono/ Stereo
|
Target Environment
|
|||
SDC
|
MSC
|
Ionosphere Hops
|
Range
|
Noise
|
|||||||
Aug 5-8
|
A
|
1
|
4
|
16
|
24000
|
18360
|
No
|
Mono
|
Single
|
Short
|
Low
|
Aug 12-15
|
B
|
2
|
16
|
64
|
24000
|
19980
|
No
|
Mono
|
Single
|
Short
|
Low
|
Aug 19-22
|
C
|
3
|
16
|
64
|
24000
|
19980
|
No
|
Mono
|
Multi
|
Medium
|
Low
|
Aug 26-30
|
C
|
1
|
16
|
64
|
24000
|
16440
|
No
|
Mono
|
Multi
|
Long
|
Medium
|
Sep 2-5
|
D
|
3
|
16
|
64
|
12000
|
13980
|
No
|
Mono
|
Multi
|
Long
|
High
|
Sep 9-12
|
C
|
0
|
16
|
64
|
12000
|
13700
|
No
|
Mono
|
Multi
|
Long
|
High
|
Sep 16-19
|
B
|
0
|
4
|
16
|
12000
|
11560
|
No
|
Mono
|
Single
|
Medium
|
Medium
|
We are asking listeners to report as often as possible during this season. This will help us determine the best compromises to make in setting up broadcasts to various regions. Some of you will be able to hear all four broadcasts each week. Others may only hear one each week. That is due to the antenna patterns we will be using. Reports may be sent to ktwrdrm@twr.org or using the embedded form below.
We would love to hear about your hardware / software / antenna and if you tried to test a new smartphone / tablet App to decode DRM (Android based, we hear Apple is on the way)
If you have DRM Logging capability (DR111, DREAM Logs, etc...) We would appreciate receiving this data!
To capture DRM Data with DREAM DRM Decoding software:
- Open the “Evaluation Dialog” Window
- Click the “Log to file” box
Two logs (DreamLog.txt and DreamLogLong.csv) will be written to the root folder of the DREAM
software.
Please upload your Data log files HERE
We have created a special form for DRM broadcast reception reports: