Timeline for Improve AM reception on an old Walkman that has no external antenna
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| Jul 7, 2022 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHam/status/1544969469029646337 | ||
| Jul 3, 2022 at 2:38 | history | edited | mike65535 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2019 at 17:38 | answer | added | hotpaw2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 12:28 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | @Lorthas you don't need to tell the users of this site that radio is cool ;) still, it's very logical that countries and broadcasters in Europe reduce their medium wave transmitters – the audience simply disappears. By the way, Spain is part of the EU – and the EU mandates that you get the same mobile data tariff as you get at home in any member state. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 12:26 | comment | added | Lorthas | @MarcusMüller The thing I like the most thinking about is that radio is kind of free (once you have the receiver). The problem with internet driven radios is that you need internet connection which is not always possible. You may not have mobile data or wifi. And being able to catch foreign radios only with a receiver sounds better to me than depending on internet. Since you have mobile limited internet data you can't depend entirely on it when traveling. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 3:21 | answer | added | Scott Earle♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 0:42 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | yeah, you won't be getting any German medium wave transmissions – the last transmitters have been switched off for more than five years. Basically, all of Europe is switching off their AM transmitters – for the listeners simply dying out, being reached by much richer FM or internet programming and because you need to switch off these century-old transmission systems to make space for better systems like DRM+. It hence doesn't surprise me that you're getting arabic-language transmissions primarily! | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 23:11 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 22:33 | comment | added | Lorthas | @MikeWaters From Spain, I'm getting an Italian, British, Arabic and another Indian "Bollywood-ish" music station, with a bad quality sound though, except for the wollywood and arabic ones. The tuner is tough to manipulate since some stations are very near in frequency from each other apparently so it gets hard to tune in perfectly enough. And I tried at night, yes. Didn't try with another radio. I'm thinking about buying some muliband radio. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 22:09 | comment | added | Mike Waters | That radio likely has an internal ferrite loop antenna, which usually are better than a short wire antenna. It appears that you are in western Europe; are there that many AM stations there? And do your friends' radios pick up more stations than this radio? Also, signals propagate much further at night; have you tried it between sunset and sunrise? | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 21:24 | history | asked | Lorthas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |