First DRM demonstration on commercial receiver in Pakistan

 

Last month, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) successfully demonstrated the first ever DRM for FM test transmission on a consumer receiver in Pakistan. 

The country joins Russia, Indonesia and South Africa that have recently demonstrated the quality and efficiency of DRM in the FM band. Many other countries in Europe, in Latin America, like Brazil have conducted DRM trials.

The current demo setup is located at the National Broadcasting House PBC headquarters in Islamabad.
From a low power of 75 watts, the DRM signal reaches an area of between 5-10 kilometres in the city. Using the 101.6 MHz frequency the receiver auto tunes three services pushed from a single FM transmitter (while additional text information including Journaline is also available):

The setup details and equipment used included 1Kw Flexiva transmitter by GatesAir, USA, Exgine card by GatesAir, DRM Content Server and DRM+ professional receiver by RFmondial, Germany, Bay antenna system by Label, Italy and Consumer DRM receiver by Gospell, China.

The project was also supported by Hedra Technology, Pakistan, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany and the DRM international Consortium.

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