Harris Corporation Announces DRM Symposium in Romania to Discuss Modernization Programs
February 10 2005 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Harris Corporation Announces DRM Symposium in Romania to Discuss
Modernization Programs Two-Day Program to Outline the Transition to
Digital Radio and Romania's New Nationwide Radio and Television
Digital-Ready Infrastructure CINCINNATI, Feb. 10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today
announced the agenda for a two-day DRM Symposium March 1-2 at the
Marriott Hotel in Bucharest, Romania. The event is designed to
inform and educate radio broadcasters from Europe, North Africa and
the Middle East on how they can prepare for a digital future with
DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) technology, and will focus on
Romania's countrywide upgrade and expansion of its national
broadcast infrastructure. Representatives from Harris and S.N.
Radiocomunicatii S.A., Romania's state-owned broadcast
organization, will provide insight into the strategies behind the
modernization program that is establishing 100 percent radio and
television coverage throughout the country. Day one of the
symposium will begin with introductory comments from John Hall,
manager of Radio Programs and High-Power Products for Harris
Broadcast Communications Division's Radio Broadcast Systems
business, and a keynote speech from Gabriel Grecu, president of
S.N. Radiocomunicatii. Mr. Grecu will discuss the advantages of
upgrading the entire country's broadcast infrastructure in two
years, as well as his vision for a digital future in radio and
television. Several presentations on DRM will follow, culminating
with a DRM demonstration at a nearby 400 kW high-power AM
transmitter site, the Tancabesti High-Power Radio station. Once at
the site, Harris engineers will install a DRM exciter package
inside the transmitter. The DRM exciter package will feature a
content server for transmission of a multiplexed,
bandwidth-efficient audio/data stream and a modulator to drive the
digitally prepared signal to a DRM-ready receiver. Attendees will
be able to listen to the results. Day two will focus on Romania's
overall modernization program and cover all aspects from finance to
technology and installation. Broadcasters from countries still
relying on tube transmitters will learn how Harris' television,
radio, microwave and networking divisions worked together to
provide a cost-effective, turnkey system that brought Romania's
antiquated system up to date with the solid-state analog technology
favored throughout Western Europe. Discussions also will point to
how Romania is now fully prepared for a digital future. Russia,
Hungary, Bulgaria, Israel, Syria, Nigeria, Algeria, Turkey, Poland
and the Ukraine are among the many countries expected to be
represented during this conference. "Now that we've established 100
percent national radio coverage, we feel it's important to get the
message out to our broadcasting peers faced with the same
challenges that we've successfully addressed," said Mr. Grecu. "Not
only have we boosted our signal quality and coverage areas, but we
were able to complete the installation in a span of two short
years. It's clear that our plan to upgrade the entire
infrastructure at once was correct. It provides a clear return on
investment and establishes a digital-ready infrastructure featuring
the best in today's solid-state analog technology." "The fact that
Romania was able to boost its national coverage from 70 to 100
percent in a two-year period is impressive," said Mr. Hall. "The
overall goal of the DRM Symposium is to educate broadcasters on
developing digital formats and inform attendees who are still
relying on outdated technology that now is the time to upgrade. As
Western Europe and other countries migrate to digital technology in
the coming years, it's important that others follow Romania's lead
and reap the immediate, significant benefits of solid-state analog
technology and its seamless, cost-effective upgrade path." Between
presentations and roundtable discussions, broadcasters will be able
to observe a continuous demonstration of DRM and DAB receivers with
live audio in the Marriott lobby. A separate DAB transmitter
demonstration and related DAB discussions also will be on the
Wednesday schedule for attendees interested in learning more about
this growing digital format. For more information, contact John
Hall at Harris in Mason, Ohio at 513-459-3808. About Harris
Broadcast Communications Division Harris Broadcast Communications
Division is one of four divisions within Harris Corporation, an
international communications equipment company focused on providing
assured communications(TM) services for government and commercial
customers in more than 150 countries. One of the world's leading
suppliers of broadcast technology, Harris Broadcast Communications
Division offers a full range of solutions that support the digital
delivery, automation and management of audio, video and data. For
more information, visit http://www.broadcast.harris.com/ .
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