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Today, 1st May 2014 is the start of the pilot transmission of new DAB+ stations over Geneva for the licence awarded by Swiss OFCOM administration on channel 10D. The transmission is here to stay but is still in testing phase at the moment. It is using free open source tools developed by François Lefebvre and Pascal Charest from CRC since 2007 and continued then under [[ODR-DabMux]] for multiplexing, [[ODR-DabMod]] for modulation, [[fdk-aac-dabplus]] for encoding with [http://www.ettus.com Ettus] hardware (USRP: Universal Software Radio Peripheral) connected to a power amplifier.

[[Image:IMG 20140501 173624.jpg|thumb|reception report in Commugny]]

An ensemble of 13 stations is broadcasted with many new stations or stations that never had access to terrestrial radio before:
*[http://www.globalfm.ch/site/ Global FM]
*[http://www.maxxima.org Maxxima]
*[http://www.frequencebanane.ch Fréquence Banane]
*[http://lafabrik.ch/ LaFabrik]
*[http://www.spoonradio.com/ Spoon Radio]
*[http://www.radiocite.ch/ Radio Cité]
*[http://www.openbroadcast.ch/en Openbroadcast]
*[http://www.backstageradio.ch Backstage Radio]
*[http://www.radioouistiti.ch Radio Ouistiti]
*[http://www.radio74.org Radio 74]
*[http://www.romradio.ch/ Rom Radio]
*[http://www.radio-tropic.ch/ Radio Tropic]
*[http://www.worldradio.ch/ WRS] (now on public service ensemble but to be migrated)

More information to follow...but please don't hesitate to put your reception reports on our [https://twitter.com/opendigiradio Twitter] or [https://www.facebook.com/opendigitalradio Facebook page]