On December 1st Hungary will celebrate the centenary of its regular radio broadcasting. There will be official events to mark the occasion, accompanied by a DRM transmission on the day.
Currently there are no digital radio services on air in Hungary. For one day only, in honour of the engineers and technicians who embraced the cause of radio broadcasting in the past century, a DRM programme will be aired. It will carry a test audio stream and a short Journaline text service to showcase the benefits of DRM digital radio. This demonstration will take place after four years after the last major DRM campaign in Hungary in 2021.
This time the transmission will be delivered in co-operation with Fraunhofer IIS, 4iG Műsorszóró Infrastruktúra Kft. (the Hungarian broadcasting company) and the DRM Consortium’s Associate Member, SZOMEL Kft.
As this is a 100-year anniversary, the transmitted power will be 100 W on 26060 kHz (the frequency might be subject to change). Although this is a relatively small transmitter power, the signal could be received in countries surrounding Hungary, and even in some areas of Germany and the Netherlands, as it happened in 2021.
More details will follow next month.
