Ever listened to your favourite radio station (SubEther) on DAB? No?
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Want to give a hand to free DAB to world?
In his lecture about Digital Radio, Russell Trafford-Jones introduced the audience to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). After giving a short introduction to the details of DAB, he focused on the benefits and probllems for broadcasters. The audience was especially interested in the Community- and Pirate-Ratio part of his talk.
Most of the questions were about setting up a transmitter and/or receiver, and doing so on the proper DAB frequencies without having to pay truckloads of money to some monopolistic transmitters. Another big concern was that DAB will prevent community-stations from broadcasting due to expensive fees for broadcasting. Russell Trafford-Jones gave a rather pessimistic future forecast for them but, the after talk questions and comments revealed that, with some effort normal PC's and other rather cheap FPGAs can be used to set up a DAB transmitter. And they are already used by official DAB broad casters to get the entire radio program DAB broadcasted.
To sum up, there is a chance to get your favourite Communitiy-Station onto DAB without huge truckloads of money. The only thing lacking at the moment is your support to drop prices for broadcasting and even more important to create a public need and opinion for open accessible DAB.
For more information goto:
* Russell Trafford-Jones' site: http://www.orderedwords.net * More information on DAB: http://www.orderedwords.net/dab
- there was an idea to use modern gfx cards to create a DVB signal which has enough bandwidth/frequency. "use red and put it in a box which transfers the band up one more" - maybe such a hack is possible with DAB too?
