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beast (no login)
Posted May 17, 2007 6:26 PM
The future of digital radio.
As I was driving my new Volvo truck which has a digital radio. I was listening to my favorite classical station, when all of a sudden, the station switched to a Buffalo loud garbage. I though at first the radio was changing station by itself, when I realized it was just picking up the signal from Buffalo, and since both are digital, they were both loud and clear.
But what attracted my attention was the display, which identified each station. That means the radio can "see" each station, one at the time. Which made me think of a simple step forward, that is to multiplex digital signals on each wave length. So on each wavelength, you can actually have ten or twenty more stations, all digitally separated, in MP3 format, which would in fact, multiply the capacity of each station from one broadcasting station to twenty or more, maybe even a hundred per wavelength. All that is needed for that would be a radio that can read different digital signals on the one wavelength, which is not that hard to do.
Which bring me to the third step, that would be to use all the FM bandwidth for internet broadcasting, one way, and maybe even two ways. That would effectively make all FM stations retransmitters of all the radio stations everywhere, which means you could listen to any radio station anywhere in the world from your car radio via internet digital FM bandwidth.
Does that make any sense?
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