Digital radio

Digital radio describes radio technologies which carry information as a digital signal. See also software radio for a discussion of radios which use digital signal processing.

Related Topics:
Radio - Information - Digital signal - Software radio - Digital signal processing

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Examples of one-way digital radio:

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• Digital television broadcasting:
• COFDM
• DVB
• ISDB
• 8VSB
• ATSC
• Digital audio broadcasting:
• Eureka 147 (branded as DAB)
• in-band on-channel
• iBiquity (branded as HD Radio)
• Digital Radio Mondiale (branded as DRM)
• Low-bandwidth digital data broadcasting over existing FM radio:
• Radio Data System (branded as RDS)
• Radio pagers:
• FLEX
• ReFLEX
• POCSAG
• Golay
• NTT
• 5/6-tone

Examples of two-way digital radio:

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• Digital cellular telephony:
• GSM
• UMTS (sometimes called W-CDMA)
• TETRA
• IS-95 (cdmaOne)
• IS-136 (D-AMPS, sometimes called TDMA)
• IS-2000 (CDMA2000)
• iDEN
• Wireless networking:
• Wi-Fi
• HIPERLAN
• Bluetooth
• ZigBee
• Military radio systems for Network-centric warfare
• JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio System- a flexible software-defined radio)
• SINCGARS (Single channel ground to air radio system)
• Amateur packet radio:
• AX.25
• Digital modems for HF:
• PACTOR
• Satellite radio:
• Satmodems
• Wireless local loop:
• Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service
• Broadband wireless access:
• IEEE 802.16