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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by zodPod on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:45PM (#15934026)
Plus, when they cut out it's actual silence. When FM cuts out it's a little bit of a fade in or static or fade out. Sure both are bad but there's just something about the silence during a digital broadcast interference that is just horrible.
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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by LeoPanthera on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:59PM (#15934559)
My car's XM (digital satellite in the US) radio generates artificial white noise when the signal drops out. If the signal doesn't come back within a couple of seconds, then you get silence.

I'm told GSM phone calls do the same thing, apparently so you can tell the difference between a temporary dropout and a dead line.

It's kinda funny.

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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by firethief on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:15PM (#15934245)
Yeah, interruption with noise is much less disruptive than interruption with silence. It's not a drawback of the technology though; it's a design flaw in the receiver not to mask the dropouts with some white noise.
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