Posted on 12/30/2016 3:56:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
In just a matter of weeks, Norway will tune out FM radio for good and become the world’s first country to switch over to digital-only transmissions.
Norway's government has decided that the nation’s FM airwaves will fall silent from January 11, 2017, starting in Nordland and gradually moving south.
After nearly a century of the analog system, which revolutionized music listening with high-fidelity stereo sound compared to mono AM transmissions, the changeover to Digital Audio Broadcasting’s advanced version (DAB+) will render the country’s almost eight million radio sets obsolete.
Although it has been in the works for years, most Norwegians aren’t pleased with the move. Two out of three are opposed to the switchover, according to an Ipsos survey released by Dagbladet on Wednesday. Only 17 percent support sounding the death knell for FM radio. …
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beat me to it. Norwegian death metal is the bomb. One of my neighbors is a professional roadie and he did the tour for Immortal, one of my faves when they came stateside. They’re as normal as any guy and they dont have an altar of goatguy or anything satanic in their tour bus.
Keep in mind that the “HD” in HD Radio doesn’t mean “high definition”, though that’s what you are supposed to think. It really is just a trade name that means nothing in terms of the technology.
I wasn't aware of that,However,when my radio is in "HD" mode (a little symbol appears on the radio display) the sound quality is noticeably better than when the little symbol goes out.I suppose it could be my imagination. ;-)
With all those FM radios out there, someone could setup some stations just across the border and make a bundle.
The quality of HD radio depends on how many subchannels a given station is using. There is a certain amount of bandwidth available. If there is one HD subchannel, it gets all of it. If there are more than one, the quality can suffer.
I have HD in my car as well, and I basically only listen to one HD station (classical). The quality is excellent, and much better than satellite radio, which is horrible.
“I wish I was in
Copenhagen
eating barbecued
smakagen
I’m on a Danish radio...”
I have an early 60s German Saba Freudenstad 15M with wood grill & UK FM that would fit well in that picture. One of the last great tube radios before everything went solid state.
That looks like a cloth grill Fruedenstad 11, 2nd from right 2nd shelf from bottom.
Isn’t FM part of the HAM radio frequency bands?
I watched the first couple episodes on netflix. Not bad but I haven’t been back.
They don’t give a reason for the switch over to dab radio. I wonder what the real reason is.
I know folks who would ‘love’ to fill the gap — they’ve been there, done that!
http://www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc-13/roc13-09.htm
https://www.britannica.com/technology/pirate-radio#ref1077073
IIRC FM is a VHF band, somewhere in the middle of the TV spectrum. I wanna say between Channel 6 and Channel 7. Something like that.
I wonder if this will simply kill over-the-air radio all together in Norway? Perhaps not that many owners of the eight million obsolete radios will figure it’s worth it to replace them, preferring instead Norwegian Internet music services similar to Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Prime Music, etc.
It was a joke song made for a talk show like “the late show”
Just went viral for some reason.
Mustn’t be too hard to get out of that cartoon world if his jacket can get to the real world without him. Notice it laying in the hallway near the end.
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