[GreenKeys] OT - FM radio going away in Norway.

[Bruce Gentry]

Almost 60 years ago, we had the Rural Radio Network in central New York. 
It was an FM relay system where each station transmitted the programs to 
the next in the chain. They also transmitted Teletype messages mostly of 
agricultural  interest on a subcarrier. It worked fairly well as long as 
no station in the chain failed. It wasn't always catastrophic if one 
did, because the station behind the failed one could sometimes receive 
the the one before the failed one and carry on the network.  It broke 
apart in the 1960s because the stations were individually owned and FM 
was at the bottom of popularity and could not make enough profit to keep 
operating.  Most of these stations did not have a profitable AM 
affiliate to carry them through the hard times until the 1970s when FM 
became the rage.  I had some of the receivers, modems, and other 
equipment from a couple of these stations in the early 1980s, it's all 
since been scrapped or given to friends.

       Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY



On 4/21/15 11:41 AM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> Remember when FM was first introduced? "Quality audio without the
> noise"
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> And especially with the advent of FM2 band (88-108) the BIG selling
> point was "Hi-fi." Then of course stereo for an even better "listening
> experience."
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> Now the corporate raiders have figured out that the bandwidth is
> better suited to multiple income streams. They same way they've
> been pushing for IBOC on the AM bands.
>
> And it's going to be just like cable TV. 600 channels of crap.
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> /end rant
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