Posted on 12/14/2017 9:27:02 AM PST by Red Badger
Digital signals also have a much shorter range. When the signal gets too weak or there is a lot interference then it won’t work at all.
I’m on a Norway, radio!
This is only for their government radio stations, not commercial ones......................Like our NPR..............
I’m trying to think this out in USA terms.
It’d be like NPR leaving the FM band and going to a digital format that no one has. Meanwhile normal FM stations continue as usual.
Now that is a good idea. I could get behind an idea like this.
Bound to happen at some point.
The thing is. with analog AM and FM, or old NTSB analog video for that matter, the transmitting and receiving equipment is relatively simple, and easy to make and use.
Digital equipment is complicated, requires specialized components and software, is not easily replicated, is not electrically robust, and puts users at the mercy of equipment manufacturers.
This is one of the reasons that I don’t like the idea of digital FM ham radio bands. It works out great for the manufacturers and the FCC. Not so much for the DIY radio builders who may not have access to that technology.
That, and digital comms are much easier for government entities to monitor and mine data from.
Wish I was in Lillehammer, eating barbequed iguaner.
or Reinsdyrsteik, but it doesn’t rhyme so well.
I believe that local FM is still alive there. It’s only the national broadcast stuff. And, if their gubmit radio is anything like NPR, who’d waste money on getting digital to listen to some undereducated idiots spout the gubmit line?
Hmmm, FM - “No static at all....”
If the range is shorter it is likely because the broadcaster is using less power and relying on error correction to make the signal usable at the edge of his broadcast area and no farther.
Voluntarily cutting yourself off from 90% of your potential audience? Sounds like a helluva business plan.
Note that only public radio has switched over. They have no clue about business and profitability, they exist off of government subsidy. Losing 90% of their propaganda audience is a good thing.
The girls don’t seem to care tonight.......
Have you ever seen a digital signal skipped 350 miles at night. With AM it can be even more. But I received an FM radio station from about 350 miles away(as the crow flies) one night. And it was listenable. I couldn’t even believe it myself.
Maybe not a big deal for music. But I can think of some situations where it might matter in the news department.
Yeah...Am is just like shortwave at a lower frequency.
As long as the mood is right.
It’s so the Russian bombers can’t hone in on the radio signals.
No static at all.
Gotta put on some Steely Dan to some reason...
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