AM radio just hit a major milestone in Congress. A bill would require AM radios in every new car. But why stop there? Digital radio could fix interference and modernize the dial. Blog drops tomorrow! #AMRadio #BroadcastTech #FullyModulatedPodcast
#AMRadio
Thank you M. Trevor Baylis for your wonderful inventions. 🇬🇧
You are well missed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis
https://www.bbc.com/audio/schedules/bbc_radio_fourfm
Happy to report that my wind up crank radio bought used is still working well.
#amradio
#shortwave
#TrevorBaylis
#inventors
#UK
Take care 👋
“Helene, Milton exposed need to protect AM radio”
https://swling.com/blog/2025/06/helene-milton-exposed-need-to-protect-am-radio/
DRM for European Broadcasters? Good Luck with that
The DRM Consortium keeps pushing its case for digital radio, republishing an article their chairperson Ruxandra Obreja had published in "Radio World" three days earlier.
Their argument is that the world in its current state needs radio, that’s to say wireless communication rather than just the online shape "Deutsche Welle", "Radio Canada International" and other once important radio broadcasters have taken in the past two decades.
Ms Obreja extends the argument to DRM, i. e. digital radio mondiale:
If international radio can play a role in unfiltered news dissemination, it needs to be digital, i.e. DRM. And more than 5 or 6 million euros or dollars will be needed to bring digital radio to the listeners and give them more than imperfect audio.
In 2025 they will need clear audio and rich data, emergency warnings when drones approach, maps, lists of the disappeared and instructions on how to save their lives and that of their communities. This is in line with the position of many European governments talking in one breath about concepts such as emergencies and resilience."
Chart: DAB-using or interested countries
As far as the European (potential) audience is concerned, they seem to be determinedly on a path of DAB, although Obreja pointed out in an earlier article for "Radioworld" that DAB is a mode for rather local propagation only, and not for shortwave. So the DRM consortium’s point is that Europe should join countries like China, India and Indonesia, i. e. countries that have adopted DRM as the right mode for far-reaching broadcasts. It would be possible to keep DAB for regional broadcasts and adopt DRM for longer distances of course, but the consortium seems to see an opportunity to make DRM palatable to the European Union for all ranges of radiowaves.
However, when the talk is about crises and emergency situations as it is here, DRM alone won’t cut it. I haven’t tried DRM myself, but have heard listeners to Radio Romania International’s German service complain in the mailbag program that RRI’s DRM signal simply didn’t get processed by their receivers when it was to "weak" by DRM standards.
Should a signal have to go away in a critical or in a war situation? That’s hard to believe, no matter how weak it may be. Crisis radio isn’t supposed to be a treat for your ears – it is supposed to save your life.
There may be a solution to that problem though. In its 2019 "Minimum Receiver Requirements for DRM Receivers", the DRM Consortium suggests that receivers should come with DRM and analog reception on shortwave (page 12 there).
That could make sense. But tell that to broadcasters that are already in self-elimination mode. It is hard to see how the German Bundestag could pass legislation that would enable "Deutsche Welle" to return to shortwave, let alone both in analog and DRM mode, even though in general, German legislators and government officials have been more generous about foreign "broadcasting" than politicians in London are about the BBC World Service.
The consortium will have to work some miracles to achieve a general turn to DRM in European broadcasting.
#AMRadio #BBCWorldService #broadcasting #digitalRadioMondiale #DRM #Europe #localRadio #shortwave
On radio, via VK2MB #KiwiSDR, ALL THREE ABC AM radio networks are running the same programme 😮 #elections #mediumwave #AMradio
Pure AM Radio Nostalgia: Vintage Aircheck Recordings from the 1970s by Dan Greenall
#Aircheck #AMRadio #CFBC #DanGreenall #KFDI #KFYR #KKJO #KPCR #KRLD #KWAM #Recordings #VOA #WANN #WBT #WCPC #WDBO #WDXR #WGR #WHN #WIBC #WINZ #WIRK #WJR #WKAQ #WKBR #WLW #WMAQ #WNOE #WOKY #WPDX #WPOM #WPTR #WRKO #WSM #WSMB #WVMT #XEMO #XERF #ZBMFM #ZBM1 #ZBM2 #ZDK #ZFBFM #ZFB1 #ZNS3
Cleaned up my late grandma's 1970s #RadioShack Archer Road Patrol #radio. Originally my dad's radio for his bicycle -- it has a little threaded mounting hole at the bottom, though there's no mounting hardware anymore.
He gave it to his mom so she could listen to her Padres games -- it was set to the station, so all she had to do was turn it on.
There's not really much to listen to on AM these days. I may gut it and install the gubbins from a BT speaker.
#Stereoscopic #stereoskopie #3Dfotografie #StereoPhoto #StereoPhotography #AMradio
He gave it to his mom so she could listen to her Padres games -- it was set to the station, so all she had to do was turn it on.
There's not really much to listen to on AM these days. I may gut it and install the gubbins from a BT speaker.
#Stereoscopic #stereoskopie #3Dfotografie #StereoPhoto #StereoPhotography #AMradio
Senate Unites to Preserve AM Radio's Vital Role in Emergency Communications
#KXLGNews #KXLGRadio991 #LiveandLocal #SouthDakota #news #AMRadio #radio
Eye On America: NC radio station becomes voice of recovery after Hurricane Helene
🚗📻 Old-man-yells-at-cloud.mp3: AM Radio is apparently the cockroach of frequencies, refusing to die despite nobody listening. 📡🎙️ The author clings to the idea like a nostalgic hoarder, convinced 90% of people are tuning in—probably just counting every time someone flips past it on the way to Spotify. 🙄 #BoomerFantasy
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/am-radio-will-never-die #AMRadio #Nostalgia #BoomerFantasy #MediaTrends #ListeningHabits #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Bob’s Radio Corner: Pairing a Phone or Tablet with a Radio
https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/bobs-radio-corner-pairing-a-phone-or-tablet-with-a-radio/
#AMRadio #BobColegrove #BobsRadioCorner #GuestPosts #KiwiSDR #Mediumwave #ShortwaveBroadcastSchedules #ShortwaveRadio #WebSDR
TECSUN PL-330 ve TECSUN AN-200 ile Orta Dalga (MW/AM) 1530 kHz Radio România Constanța Türkçe Yayını
Romanya'nın Köstence Şehri, Tulca-Nufaru'dan 15kW güçle Orta Dalga (MW/AM) 1530 kHz üzerinden yayın yapan Radio România Constanța'nın salı günleri 21:00 ile 22:00 saatleri arasında Türkçe yayın yaptığını öğrenince bu kaydı aldım.
Bu yayının bu kadar bozulmasının asıl sebebi ise "aynı yönden gelen" diğer radyo yayınlarının çoğunlukla baskın çıkmasıydı.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDc7l03em0&list=PLK2SeKwythXjCJTMrV1O4vtJB95izblU3&index=16
Video: “Automakers are losing the battle with this 100-year-old tech”
https://swling.com/blog/2025/02/video-automakers-are-losing-the-battle-with-this-100-year-old-tech/
The ‘AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act’ is Back
https://swling.com/blog/2025/01/the-am-radio-for-every-vehicle-act-is-back/
If you're an #AMradio listener/DXer... had it become so frustrating to you in recent months/years? I mean conditions, not station closures. Look what I could do with a simple 90cm dia. YouLoop 4 years ago. Cambodia, China & India on one frequency. Totally impossible now. #mediumwave #mwdx
Some #MWDX is making it to Alaska... which bodes well for us elsewhere 🙂 Stations heard on WL7NO #KiwiSDR include 1548 4QD ABC, 1467 UNID in Chinese, and NHK Radio 2 on 1386 & 774 kHz with an English lesson around a news item about solar flares & Aurora! 😅 #mediumwave #AMradio
756 is sounding pretty well at the moment from Romania here in NE Poland, 788km away from the transmitter 👍 using a 2.46m square terminated loop pointing South #Neujahrskonzert #mediumwave #AMradio
OK, time for #Neujahrskonzert from Vienna 🎻 #AMradio options in Europe are limited to Spain & Romania, but you can easily get it on TV as it's distributed by Eurovision.
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