Timeline for Improve AM reception on an old Walkman that has no external antenna
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| Aug 13, 2019 at 14:41 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | fills a need: it's quite a bit more robust than plain AM transmission, and hence reaches places not covered even by AM broadcasting before. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 14:38 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | DAB+ is Digital Audio Broadcasting (second generation). No, it doesn't need internet at all. It's what's planned to replace FM broadcasting all over the world, except the US. Compared to FM, it's way more robust (and it's way less tending to just drop out than first-gen DAB)). The successor for AM broadcasting, in Billion-audience deployment in India, and increasingly Australia and I think Brazil is called DRM, Digital Radio Mondial. Both can be received with inexpensive SDR hardware and free software, or dedicated hardware. While DAB(+) really has had a hard time getting popular, DRM really | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 13:13 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | I don't recognize the acronym for DAB(+). Personally, I prefer a radio that doesn't just digitize whatever voltage is on the antenna and let a computer sort it out -- i.e. analog for me, thank you. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 13:09 | comment | added | Lorthas | @ZeissIkon I guess DAB(+) need internet. Don't they? Alsgo looked for SDR usb but I haven't seen any good enough option online | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 13:07 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | Also check eBay, of course. A transistor unit from the 1980s is likely to be still good, especially if it was high end hardware when new. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 12:35 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | You can still buy a multi-band receiver for under $200. And they're at least as good as the ones that were common in the 1960s. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 3:21 | history | answered | Scott Earle♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |