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Digital Radio Mondiale receivers(where can I get one)?
AnthonyUK
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I am interested in this new format for the AM band but don't know where I can purchase a receiver to pick up the transmissions;Morphy Richards have shelved theirs and Himalaya is virtually unheard of in the UK but known on the the european continent and Technisat have a model but this is difficult to get hold of. I know there has been a test by BBC Radio Devon on 855kHz(351m)MW and little else apart from the temporary Digital Radio Mondiale test transmissions on Shortwave 7145 and 7295kHz in the 41m band by the world famous Radio Luxembourg targeted on a directional beam to the United Kingdom from SW outlets in Germany, but an am avid SW listener and would love to access the european and international DRM transmissions that float and bounce over the ionosphere straddling into UK territory from time to time because of the unpredictable and varying degrees of propagation/fading endemic to SW and AM bands in general making interesting catches and listening! Does anybody know of any shops in the UK that sell the receivers over the counter that I can just walk in and walk out the showroom having paid the cash with a new DRM multiband receiver in my hands? Don't like internet shopping and the inevitable wait for delivery. The Morphy has no external aerial socket making difficult to catch signals hard to receive if weak, the Himalaya DRM2009 i've heard has poor performance, and the Technisat seems a better bet than either of them.
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