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Well congrats to the hams in this country. They're going to get a huge bandwidth that others would be envious enough. They could also explain to people that ju
by gravypod 10y ago
Well congrats to the hams in this country. They're going to get a huge bandwidth that others would be envious enough.
They could also explain to people that just switching modes isn't going to make reception better. If you're having propagation issues then you'd be much better off working on getting repeaters setup on high mountains.
- dtech 10y agoWon't the spectrum be used/sold for other purposes? Otherwise stopping FM isn't much use.
- audunw 10y ago> Otherwise stopping FM isn't much use. I think the main motivation to shut down FM is that now that DAB is built-out sufficiently (or so they say), running both at the same time is expensive. FM transmitters are supposedly quite power hungry and expensive to operate. It will take at least a decade or two to free up the FM band for other uses anyway. Norway will probably wait and use it in a way that aligns with the rest of the world, rather than finding its own local use for the spectrum.
- lb1lf 10y agoCorrect; FM is very power inefficient, particularly in Norway where one needs quite literally thousands of repeaters to provide coverage to every nook and cranny where someone saw fit to settle down... :) Also, only the national broadcasters vacate the FM network; local radio stations are free to keep using FM for the foreseeable future.
- hvidgaard 10y agoDAB was significantly worse powerwise compared to FM transmission. DAB+ has rectified some of the issues, but it remains to see if it actually better.
- TheGirondin 10y ago>It will take at least a decade or two to free up the FM band for other uses anyway. Norway will probably wait and use it in a way that aligns with the rest of the world, rather than finding its own local use for the spectrum. And that's the difference between an entrepreneurial, capitalist minded society and a socialist minded one.
- scholia 10y agoIt's not clear that there are any good alternative uses for the FM spectrum. The UK plan is to move the national stations to DAB and use the old FM bandwidth for community and local radio. My personal expectation is that the FM spectrum will be taken over by pirate stations.
- Johnythree 10y agoIt will be immediately used with for long-distance Wireless Internet. Testing has already started.
- scholia 10y agoOK, where are they testing it?
- Johnythree 10y agoHow will hams get access to the old FM band? The band will immediately be re-assigned to other licensed services.