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Open techniques for Digital Radio Broadcasting

Background Open digital broadcasting techniques based on software defined radio. Digital radio transmission and development must also become democratized for experimenters and small broadcasters. Opendigitalradio.org wiki is about creating a community for documenting and exchanging experimentations and gather information about existing projects. Please read Introduction for more information. Opendigitalradio is a non-profit association based in Switzerland (page in french), offering also a broadcast infrastructure for temporary radio stations. This wiki is also the home of the ODR-mmbTools, a fork of the CRC-mmbTools from CRC. Please see Introduction on DAB/DAB+ News: Upcoming events at which Opendigitalradio will be present: FOSDEM 31.1-1.2.2015, Brussels and of course EBU RadioHack 12-13.2.2015, Geneva. The etisnoop ETI analyser by CSP.it has been updated and supports DAB+ decoding (11.2015) Older news

DAB/DAB+ transmission Introduction on DAB/DAB+ DAB/DAB+ encoding: MPEG Layer II or HE-AAC encoding, slideshow encoding DAB multiplexing: putting together DAB/DAB+/DMB programs DAB modulation: create the baseband COFDM modulation DAB hardware: software radio peripheral, filtering, amplification Real cases, examples Presentation and demonstration of the full open source DAB transmission solution at 2010 WorldDMB General Assembly in Belfast First licensed open dab transmission for Label Suisse Festival 17-19 September 2010 Lausanne. Demonstration of open source digital transmission chain at IBC, Stand 10.D21 (EBU), 10-14 September 2010 DAB scripts examples Installer scripts for Debian wheezy How to install CRC DAB+ transmission chain from scratch in Ubuntu 11.04 Warning: Outdated! The ODR-DabMux, ODR-DabMod and Fdk-aac-dabplus pages also contain on install instructions. DAB+ script and infrastructure used for Kanal Plus ensemble in Denmark How to install latest version of gnuradio with CRC MMBtools live CD

Other digital systems, transmission and reception DAB reception (Openmokast and others) DAB measurement (measurement&monitoring tools, planning tools). DRM/DRM+ Digital Radio Mondiale, digital radio system for AM bands (LW, MW and SW) and all VHF bands (FM band and others). FM RDS transmission (not really a digital system except RDS ;) Crazy techniques using a VGA card as radio peripheral Coverage planning

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