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Could this possibly lead to a reduction in the number of FM transmitter projects? :-(
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Gee, that building looks like it could be an advertisement for USSteelI wish the US would dump AM. I like to listen to radio at work. I basically work in a steel box . AM won't penetrate. The stations I like are both AM. Fortunately the one has a FM HD radio station.
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USX now.Gee, that building looks like it could be an advertisement for USSteel
You can take my AM radio when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.I wish the US would dump AM.
Personally I hate the new over the air TV digital crap. Back in the good old analog days even if the signal was weak I got a tolerable image and sound or at least sound to work with but now if it isn't perfect it get either nothing or scrambled both.
Around here the digital switchover was super for boosting the sales of netflix and other internet based viewing. It's all I use being the OTA digital signals aren't worth crap here and I am litter 10 - 12 miles away from the transmitter that with analog receivers were easily picked up at 60 - 80 miles before. I tried but even with an equivalent antenna as to what most people who lived 60 - 80 miles away once used for analog even at 10 - 12 miles it's still not reliable enough to be worth trying to watch anything OTA.
I don't recall the exact numbers but when the local Tv stations went to all digital one was reporting a ~5000% jump in their online streaming traffic which pretty much said every person who was on the fringe of their analog signal who thusly go the full on middle finger from digital service went online to continue their service with that local station.
As for going full digital on FM I don't really care now and carry my on USB or CD based MP3 files . The overl the airmusic they have is largely crap and the few good or new decent songs they play get talked over for the first 10 - 20 seconds by DJ's who can't STFU and play the GD music to save their life. If I wanted to hear some blathering idiot drone on and on over stupid crap that's what AM is still around for.
That sounds like the box on top of my old CRT TV.Or a rise in the number of such projects?
I have built, ready for any such change here (UK), an FM transmitter which would receive its input audio from the one digital receiver that I have and transmit it so that I can still use all the FM receivers that I use every day.
My experience is very different. I get plenty of signals and most have outstanding HD quality. My antenna is amplified, but it's just one of those floppy rectangular antennas, maybe 10" by 12", that you can get for $20-30. The little amplifier is critical. Without it powered on, I get maybe only 2-3 channels. With the amp on, I get the full range of everything within ~50 miles of me (Rockford, IL and Madison, WI). Those two cities are in opposite directions from my house, so I do sometimes have to fiddle with the antenna to get the channel I want. In the right weather, I get them all very well with no fiddling.Personally I hate the new over the air TV digital crap.
You should probably lay off that public broadcast, "news".I tend to only watch the news and docos.
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