A portable digital radio transmitter for DRM+ and DAB+ in VHF band III including a multiplex exciter and a VHF transmitting unit  based on commercially available, low-price components and open-source software was presented in Germany recently. Participants in a seminar held in South-West Germany by the media authority of Rhineland-Palatinate together with local academic institutions could test the benefit of the transmitter binding together the two standards.

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