f Land Mobile Radio Magazine for sharing some of his early childhood memories of living close to the Daventry transmitter. Terrestrial Broadcast/Cellular Network Integration transmitter supporting local radio and localised infocasting and data casting, SO may be playing a role in a newly developing radio network offer. Similarly this bit of history might remind us that a rebirth of short-wave, medium-wave and long-wave long-distance transmission may be possible. Unlike the Voice of Russia, the BBC did not cut back on short-wave transmission and over the years, certainly up to a few years ago listeners steadily increased both in developing and developed countries. In 2010 the Foreign Office in the UK announced significant cut backs in World Service funding. A year later the decision was reversed and the Hindi, Arabic and Somali services were all reprieved. 'Political radio' and political broadcasting remains alive and well. 15.2 Digital Radio Mondiale In the late 1990s, The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium4 successfully lobbied for an international standard for digital AM for frequencies below 30 MHz. Digital AM is comparable to FM mono in terms of sound quality and can be broadcast with a footprint of 1000 miles from one transmitter. DRM can be used for a range of audio content, including multilingual speech and music, and has the capacity to integrate data and text. The DRM signal is designed to fit in with the existing AM broadcast band plan, based on signals of 9 kHz or 10 kHz bandwidth. It has modes requiring as little as 4.5 kHz or 5 kHz bandwidth but also includes modes that can take advantage of wider bandwidths, such as 18 or 20 kHz with applications that include fixed and portable radios, car receivers, software receivers and PDAs. Remember that 'wideband' is a relative term and 20 kHz bandwidths below 30 MHz are to all intents and purposes 'wideband' in terms of their application potential. Whether DRM can survive competition from the internet in the longer term may be subject to debate but this 