Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying government order

Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by magnat on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:18PM (#15934722)

There is somewhat similar concept of Bitrate peeling [1] in Ogg Vorbis. You can drop portion of the stream without transcoding and still be able to decode original audio at lower bitrate. With proper over-the-air modulation and multiplexing scheme (like ADSL interleaving), one should be able to have graceful degradation of digital audio.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitrate_peeling

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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by madengr on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:40PM (#15936840)

Problem is the fading. You could drop the bitrate to boost the link margin a few dB, which works fine for SATCOM, but it won't help with deep fades. Putting two antennas on the car for diversity reception would work much better; surprised no one is doing it.

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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by xyzfoobarbaz on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:18PM (#15941306)

Only cheap car radios do not do diversity. A lot of cars have three antennas and three or more tuners. You do not see all antennas, with a lot of cars you do not see any radio antenna.

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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by madengr on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:39AM (#15946129)

Ha ha, I guess my cars are too cheap. I have never had a car with more than one VHF antenna.

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Re:Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying go... by voxadam on Friday December 15, 2017 @05:26PM (#15935778)

Bitrate peeling is a beautiful concept, it's too bad that it was never implemented.

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