Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
by tormeh on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:40AM
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If you live next to the radio tower, perhaps. I prefer to have more sound in my noise than FM can offer.
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Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
by scholia on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:30AM
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What sort of aerial are you using?
Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
by scholia on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:26PM
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I ask because FM waves are 2.8 to 3.4 metres long, so a quarter-wave FM aerial should be 70-86cm (28-33 inches) long....
Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
by tormeh on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:53PM
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No idea. Car radios etc. They work amazingly well in Oslo, but they're useless out in the bushes. Radio isn't fun when you only hear half the conversation. Give me error correction and lossy codecs any time.
Re:Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
by scholia on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:50PM
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Well, if there's no signal you won't get a result whether it's analogue or digital, In fact, digital works less well at low signal strengths: instead of a noisy, hissy FM radio you usually get nothing ;-)
AM goes further, of course, if AM is available...