[W8MWA] Fwd: Engineering Radio

[Dan Ringer]

Yes, interesting. Almost as interesting as some country mandating the 
abandonment of analog television in favor of digital television.

Dan, K8WV


On 4/21/2015 6:13 PM, Bill Shultz wrote:
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> Interesting article.
>
> I have done so much for so long with so little that I am now able to 
> do anything with nothing.   - Jim Shorts
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> Norway says “Goodbye, FM” 
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> Posted: 20 Apr 2015 05:00 AM PDT
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> Norway will switch off its national FM networks in 2017, according to 
> the Ministry of Culture announcement 
> <http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/>.  In the 
> place of analog FM will be DAB.  The aim is to have the migration to 
> DAB completed by December of 2017.  According to the article, 
> approximately 54 percent of households and 20 percent of automobiles 
> have DAB radios.  What is left unsaid is the 46 percent of households 
> and 80 percent of automobiles that do not have DAB capable receivers.
>
> I am sure that in the ensuing year and a half to two years, those 
> numbers will change somewhat.  It still seems to me that there will be 
> many people who will likely not have a DAB radio in their car before 
> the analog switch off.
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> Judging by the comments on the Slash dot 
> <http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/04/18/2036239/norway-will-switch-off-fm-radio-in-2017> 
> story, many are not happy with this decision.  Perhaps the most 
> telling comment is this:
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>     This is just Norway going off on its own crusade urged on by
>     commercial interests of 10+ new channels, fuck whether it makes
>     sense to throw out millions of radios… I expect this to lead to a
>     massive interest in building out 3G/4G coverage as ex-FMers give
>     DAB the middle finger.
>
> Yup, that sounds about right.
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> I don’t know much about radio in Norway, but it if is anything like 
> radio here, good programming trumps technical do-dads and and fancy 
> gimmickry.
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