Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) demonstrated the new Indian-produced commercial receiver with crystal clear audio at this year’s International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.

Pressing the emergency button on the new Indian–produced receiver was the highlight of the first DRM event at the Fraunhofer IIS booth.

The rich features of the Indian receiver from the new Consortium member Communication Systems Inc. include: colour LCD with million colours, 10-12 hours of backup on single charging, xHE-AAC audio coding, emergency warning, alternative frequency search (AFS), DRM text and scrolling messages.

The receiver, available on www.amazon.in, was used to capture a daily SW DRM live broadcast between September 10 and 13 transmitted by Babcock International on 6040kHz, 100kW from Woofferton, UK. Featuring BBC, NHK and Radio Vaticana content, the transmission was crystal clear even on a boat under the many bridges of Amsterdam.

Recent and exciting market developments in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America featured large at the DRM events. 

The Nautel event featured new developments in DRM transmitter technology, more about the continued roll-out of DRM in India, news about the DRM+ trial in St. Petersburg and new innovative multi-band receiver in development.  

Ruxandra Obreja, the Consortium Chairman, says: “IBC 2015 has been the best ever for us and all those interested in the most modern and flexible truly global audio broadcasting standard, DRM.  During IBC 2015 we shortened our presentations and demonstrated more how DRM can close the loop between excellent transmitted sound with multimedia services, at much lower cost than before, and reception on state of the art receivers”.