[NJARC] In 2017, Norway will be first country to shut down FM radio
Louis
louis2000 at att.net
Tue Apr 21 10:35:08 EDT 2015
> any chance that the US will follow suit with FM?
"There are no plans to abandon analog radio in the U.S., Dennis Wharton
(an executive vice president at the NAB) said."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-20/norway-to-turn-off-analog-fm-radio-in-sign-of-global-shift
(I don't put much stock in his comment. If there's money to be made,
someone will do what it takes to make it, i.e., bribe Congress, pressure
the FCC, etc... Look at how Comcast is getting their way)
> I'm sure it's just a matter of time before analog radio will go by
the wayside as TV has :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBiquity
"IBOC can operate on both AM band and FM band broadcasts either in a
digital-only mode, or in a "hybrid" digital+analog mode. Most
broadcasters for the foreseeable future WILL use the hybrid method"
Great for sound quality, bad for DXing. I can't hear a thin' besides WOR
on 710 because their IBOC signal wipes out every other station on that
frequency.
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> From: "E. Suhaka" <Chitose6970 at poetworld.net>
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> Interesting article:
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> http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/19/8453165/norway-end-fm-radio-2017
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> TV went digital, any chance that the US will follow suit with FM?
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> Ed
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> I just connect one of my cone or horn speakers or phonograph adapter to
> a matching transformer and my stereo. (Found that a 12 volt filament
> transformer works.)
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> More fun to play the real deal though.
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> Aaron Hunter
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>> I think I saw these on Etsy about a year ago at 599. Maybe the price
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>> On Apr 20, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Joe Devonshire via NJARC
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>>> Ok, now at $399.99, it's more than I care to spend. On the other
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> The US is already broadcasting in FM in a digital format, along with analog. Called "HD Radio", on my SUV radio you can view the song titles, station's I.D. etc. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before analog radio will go by the wayside as TV has :(
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> Tom
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> Interesting article:
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> http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/19/8453165/norway-end-fm-radio-2017
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> TV went digital, any chance that the US will follow suit with FM?
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> Ed
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> What is gained by scrapping FM modulation and going to an all digital format? ?Admittedly, it might possibly add more content beyond FM stereo and other pilot carrier formats already in place but it doesn't appear to have any better signal quality. ?So is this just a quantity versus quality issue?
> When TV went digital in the US, we lost the frequencies below channel 7 and above channel 69 all of which were reallocated to other services. ?Similar savings do not appear to be in store for the FM radio band.
> BTW, the "HD Radio" technology can also be used on the AM band according to Wikipedia where there is an improvement in fidelity and the addition of stereo programming using a bit more then the original AM channel bandwidth.
> Getting back to the original question asked by Ed, it seems that there are no plans at this time to abandon FM in the US. ?But I guess this could change at any time. ?It is kind of sobering to realize that all of the radios I have collected over the years will go the way of spark technology if digital prevails and replaces AM and FM modulation.Jim
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