Gospell Digital Technology acquires Newstar Electronics

Newstar Electronics has recently been acquired by Gospell Digital Technology Co.,ltd. Patents and technology of Newstar will be transferred to Gospell. This acquisition will further enable Gospell to leverage best practices and look at new opportunities in the digital radio receiver market.

Gospell Digital Technology Co.,Ltd. (GOSPELL) is a private hi-tech enterprise with R and D, manufacturing, business consultancy and planning, trade, delivery, project implementation and after sales service, acting as a complete DTV and triple-play solution provider for Digital TV/OTT related projects.

Gospell will continue on DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) development and business.

For more information about Gospell, please visit www.gospell.com

(Press Release)

Newstar announces production version of its DRM receiver DR111A

                                                                       Screenshot from CDNSE website

                    

Newstar has posted info & specifications of an updated version of the Newstar DR111 receiver - DR111A. Comparing with DR111 specifications no changes has been observed, but the newer version is marked as "available for ordering" & not marked as "pre-production sample" as was marked for DR111.

Newstar DR111A specificatons : http://www.cdnse.com/products/dr111a

Order the new Newstar DR111A here : http://www.cdnse.com/dr111a-order

Update :

Tudor Vedeanu says via drmna yg "I've just found this piece of information: according to Dave N9EWO (http://n9ewo.angelfire.com), Newstar said "DR111A is a cost-down model of DR111 which removes long wave band reception and Journaline function".

BBC DRM 5845 kHz

2012-11-04 1456 Z 0 h 39 m 28N/77E 5845 kHz #BBCWorldService_DRM #DR111 21.0 dB avg SNR 99.8% audio #drmlog 

Digital Radio Mondiale

NewStar DR-111 Review by George Ross

George Ross, Frequency Manager at KTWR Guam, Trans World Radio writes about his recent experiences of using the NewStar DR-111

http://drm.org/news_item/NewStar_DR-111_-_review

 

DRM Logs - BBC & TDP

2012-08-28 1633Z 0h40m 28N/77E 5845kHz #BBCWorldService_DRM #DR111 20.7 dB avg SNR 99.9% audio

 

2012-08-28 1613Z 0h17m 28N/77E 15775kHz #TheDiscoPalace_DRM #DR111 24.8 dB avg SNR 99.9% audio 

Maxm SNR was 29 dB best ever ! (ex TDP with 27 dB)

 

Comments at alokeshgupta@gmail.com

TDP DRM 15775 kHz 18 Aug 2012

2012-08-18: Heard The Disco Palace in DRM with DR111 790 on 15775 kHz from 15:47z. Log: 0h40m. Avg SNR: 23 dB, 99.98% audio.

"Label: ....................... The Disco Palace"
"Date: ........................ 2012-08-18"
"Frequency: ................... 15775 kHz"
"TX Location: ................. Issoudun (FRA)"
"Log start time: .............. 15:47"
"Log end time: ................ 16:27"
"Runtime: ..................... 40 min. "
"RX; Longitude: ............... 28°27'N"
"RX Latitude: ................. 77°19'E"
"Distance to TX: .............. 6685 km"
"Azimuth to TX: ............... 310 deg."
"Azimuth from TX: ............. 79 deg."
"RX Configuration: ............ Newstar DR111 + 60 Ft Longwire, New Delhi India "
"DRM Software and S/W Version: DR111 790"
"Bitrate at start: ............ 20.96 kbps"
"Mode / Bandwidth: ............ B / 10 kHz"
"DRM Mode: .................... B0010 from 15:47"
"Decoded Audio: ............... 99.98 %"
"FAC: ......................... 100.00 %"
"Main Service Channel: ........ 64 QAM"
"Protection Level: ............ 1 / 0"
"Max. SNR: .................... 25.00 dB at 16:27 UTC"
"Min. SNR: .................... 19.00 dB at 16:06 UTC"
"Average SNR: ................. 22.88 dB"
"Max. Delay: .................. 7.90 ms at 16:15 UTC"
"Min. Delay: .................. 2.05 ms at 16:22 UTC"
"Average Delay: ............... 2.74 ms"
"Max. Doppler: ................ 0.91 Hz at 15:47 UTC"
"Max. Doppler: ................ 0.36 Hz at 16:27 UTC"
"Average Doppler: ............. 0.49 Hz"
"Frame Sync. Ch. Errors: ...... 0"
"Fast Access Sync. Ch. Errors: 0"
"Main Service Ch. Errors: ..... 6"

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All India Rado VBS DRM 6100 kHz 18 Aug 2012

2012-08-18: Heard All India Radio VIVIDH BHARTI in DRM with DR111 790 on 6100 kHz from 10:41 UTC Log: 1h18m. Avg SNR: 23 dB, 99.94 % audio.