MUMBAI: The DRM consortium is holding a workshop for All India Radio engineers at the annual BES Expo international conference and exhibition on 23 February 2009 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India  Engineers from 35-40 AIR stations (which plan to convert to DRM) as well as other delegates will take part in the workshop.

There will also be a full DRM session on 24 February. Ruxandra Obreja, Chairperson DRM, will deliver the keynote speech on the first day of the conference that will be attended by other DRM members such as Lindsay Cornell and Julian Cable (BBC), Joseph Troxler (Thomson), Thomas Feustel (DW), TVB Subramanyam (Analogue Devices), Vineeta Dwivedi (DRM). Sharad Sadhu, Technical Director ABU, will chair the DRM session.

There will be a chance to listen to the recently launched DW / BBC channel for Europe, that will be  transmitted to India. Deutsche Welle will offer this additional DRM transmission from Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) to India (New Delhi) from 22 to 26 February at 0500-0759 UTC on 12055 kHz.