Ah ok, sorry for the tone of my message mods.
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I spoke with him off forum and he has decided to step away from MS for health purposes
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There’s a big difference between now and decades past. Back then, while there may have been some good music that didn’t receive airplay for whatever reason (eg. poor promotion/distribution, or the whims of programmers), most of the best pop/rock music of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s etc. did get played on commercial radio.
Now? I’d argue it’s the other way around. Most of the new music that I love has never been - and likely will never be - played on a commercial radio station. They’ll only play the most mainstream of pop hits that have already been out for months or even years. Oh, and countless cover versions of old songs.
In the UK, more time is spent listening to radio via the internet (e.g. via the web, apps, smart speakers) than via AM/FM. I wonder how Australia compares.
And DAB is the most popular way to listen, followed by the internet, then FM/AM.
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Speaking of Britain, The BBC are Testing 5G Broadcast to Orkney Islands: Broadcasting Over 5G - Delivering Live Radio to Orkney
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(paywalled)
Basically the article says that the golden days of talkback radio are over, because the major personalities have left and other media (e.g. podcasts) are becoming more important.
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What benefits does 5G broadcast have over regular broadcast systems like DAB+?
One might be the availability of 5G in regional areas. Radio could perhaps piggy back off the 5G rollout rather than need to invest in DAB equipment?
That and DAB just never took off
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A fairly new EV owner here (BYD Seal). The car comes with DAB+, AM and FM (plus Android Auto and Car Play).
I’ve tried the AM receiver on 3LO, 3AW, 3EE, 3RN and 3MP and only 3MP was patchy, I suspect because of the signal strength in Melbournes north-east rather than the car’s electronics.
The DAB+ seems a bit fragile in undercover car parks and it just cut out altogether at Mornington on a drive down to Sorrento (tried with 3LO, 3KKZ, 3PTV, 3MEL, 3JJJ). At that point I just went back to analogue.
Long story short, AM works just fine in the EV.
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I can corroborate this, while I don’t have an EV myself I have had the opportunity to drive the GWM Ora EV through work.
Testing out AM, local stations were absolutely fine and more distant stations seemed to have only slightly worse reception than a petrol car on the same stretches of road (which to me suggests the difference was largely down the quality of the in car receiver rather than the EV).
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Thanks for that post, been wanting to know more about this as I’ve read that EV makers int eh US are ditching AM radios doe to interference.
Is there any/much electromagnetic interference from the car itself?
Location.
a few years ago i did weekly trips from Brisbane to Sydney in my i30 to see a very sick relative.
I have DAB in the car, but to get to Sydney, I’d have DAB in Brisbane, when it dropped out, I’d have to retune down the Gold Coast (a 10 min Job), when that dropped out, I’d have nothing until Sydney.
5/4 G (which i had all the way down on the freeway) meant i could set and forget. Eventually i migrated to overseas stations that fit my tastes more (BBC radio 2, Air1 and K-Love radio often were the default choices when i was not listening to audiobooks)
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5G Broadcast | Redefining content delivery | Rohde & Schwarz Read to Find out
I went for a 20-minute drive yesterday in the EV with 3LO on the AM receiver and there was absolutely no discernible interference from the car. None. Really, the AM broadcast sounded as clear as is possible for an AM broadcast IMHO.
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Would be interesting to see a database of which EV vehicles produce RFI on the MW & FM BCB & which ones don’t.
A betting man might well guess that the cheaper Chinese EV vehicles would more likely produce RFI re cost cutting on EMR/RFI suppression components & lack of adherence to EMC standards or higher EU EMC standards.
With mobile phone coverage these days, streaming services including out-of-area radio stations will further erode listener numbers for what used to be a strong area for broadcast radio, in-car listening. To give an example, I drove from Canberra to Port Macquarie earlier this year and did not listen to broadcast radio for any of the 6.5 hour drive each way. I did listen to streaming radio from Europe, being overnight there it was mostly music with minimal ads and talking.
For the drive there was one 10 second drop out between Canberra and Sydney (just near Sutton Forest), no drop outs between Sydney and Newcastle and a couple of short drop outs between Newcastle and Port Macquarie. That’s better reception than for commercial radio over the same trip. Edited to add: The other benefit was that I did not have to constantly change stations as you leave their broadcast area, which between Canberra and Port Macquarie would involve at least six station changes.
Given the lack of choice for commercial radio in Canberra I have been listening to overseas radio stations for several years now, there’s so much choice that you can find something that fits.
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I find mobile reception between Taree and Port quite bad. I’ve tried streaming between Brisbane and Sydney and it just doesn’t work for me. I got sick of the dropouts.
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