The USA DRM Group's annual meeting for 2006 took place at the headquarters of Adventist World Radio in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 11. It was part of a two-day event called the American Shortwave Conference 2006. The second day of the conference (May 12) was the annual meeting of the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters (NASB).
The audio files of the USA DRM meeting contain the following items:
Welcome by Greg Scott of Adventist World Radio, intro to AWR
Welcome by Mike Adams & Jeff White of the US DRM Group
The Status of HF and DRM, by Adil Mina of Continental Electronics
DRM Consortium Technical Committee Chairman Don Messer speaks about the introduction of DRM in Region II (the Americas) -- specifically in the US, Mexico and Brazil -- with respect to various test and demonstration projects, as well as work he has done in Washington in preparation for support in testing DRM in two versions, including 26 MHz.
Live monitoring of the special Radio Canada International DRM transmission
DRM receiver demonstration by John Sykes, Project Director Digital Radio for the BBC World Service
John Sykes (continued) - BBC video about mobile phones in Africa, explanation of AMSS (AM Signaling System)
Johannes von Weyssenhoff, Technical Director of Starwaves GmbH in Germany, talks about and demonstrates his company's new Starwaves DRM-DAB receiver.
Charlie Jacobson of HCJB Engineering presents a report by Andy Giefer of Deutsche Welle about their DRM shortwave monitoring network in Europe and the reliability of HF DRM
Kim Elliott reports about DRM monitoring at the 2005 Winter SWL Fest
Richard D'Angelo of the North American Shortwave Association (NASWA) talks about DRM from a DXer and SW listener perspective
Alan Heil, former deputy director of the Voice of America and author of "Voice of America: A History," speaks about the present situation facing U.S. international broadcasting.
Presentation about DRM antennas by Gordon Sinclair of TCI International
Don Spragg of Continental Electronics speaks about modification of transmitters for DRM operation
Brainstorming session on how the US DRM Platform can promote the implementation of DRM in the US
Election of officers for US DRM Platform
To listen to any or all of these files, plus the audio files of the NASB Annual Meeting, go to the following website: http://www.shortwave.org/audiofiles.htm
The audio files are in mp3 format.