I remember radio and TV getting affected by the aircraft scatter. Not sure how TV would be in space...
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Reception in space
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In the UK, do you use the word hiring instead of renting?
We "rent" property, "hire" items like a car or a leaf blower instead of renting them, and "recruit" workers instead of hiring them!
Americans recruit AND hire workers. But recruiting refers only to the process of seeking potential employees and inviting them to apply and interview for jobs. Hiring is what happens when an actual job offer is made and the applicant accepts.
That's "appointing"! I've just done a round of "recruitment" at work and then "appointed" the best candidate (I hope).
If it doesn’t work out, they’ll be disappointed
I'm in Tromsø now, as far as I can tell from a quick radio scan before bed, the DAB stations listed on the Radiomap.eu site are all present with "signal quality: 100" on my little Sony radio, but the three FMs listed are present but extremely weak at my location, just a few miles outside Tromsø. They must be really low-powered. Radio Tromsø and its "hits" sister station are both on DAB, so the FM service is likely legacy at this point - from experience of countries where the mainstream of listening has gone onto DAB, FM stations tend to lose out, in the same way as AM stations did, people don't switch to the old "band".Norwegians will tell you differently.I just looked over your link, and Radio Tromsø, the hit station, is the one I heard online. It's one of the regional FM remaining stations. There are some in the Oslo area as well, and the other big cities. The DAB system had only so many slots, and they were sort of raffled off to the commercial stations with the biggest ratings.
If conditions are just right, you might be able to hear some FM from northern Sweden and Finland, including a couple Sami FM stations, although the nearby mountains might preclude that. Should be interesting to listen either way.
I know the NRK has a Folkemusikk channel and a Sami channel. I believe they're both on DAB. I have heard them online before. Both channels are pretty good listening.
Radio Tromsø seems to run jockless all day, stopping only for hourly news bulletins (and if those happen to be ten seconds after the start of a song, so be it, they cut the song). There's also regular bingo numbers called out. It reminds me of SIBC, not all that far away in the great scheme of things on the Shetland Islands, which is the same - automated jockless output all day with hourly local news, but no "programming" in the traditional sense, more like a public address system for the remote area in case of emergencies.
The FM reception is poor. I tried it in the car today on the way home from a trip, and even while driving through Tromsø itself, the signal is fuzzy and the RDS system constantly "flips" between 106.9 and an unlisted 104.1, and eventually it failed over to DAB (which is perfectly clear).
Here's a nice picture of the tower that is listed as emitting 94.4 "Tromsø Hits" and local DAB, earlier today in the knee deep snow.
The FM reception is poor. I tried it in the car today on the way home from a trip, and even while driving through Tromsø itself, the signal is fuzzy and the RDS system constantly "flips" between 106.9 and an unlisted 104.1, and eventually it failed over to DAB (which is perfectly clear).
Here's a nice picture of the tower that is listed as emitting 94.4 "Tromsø Hits" and local DAB, earlier today in the knee deep snow.
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Thanks for the report. When I last listened to Radio Tromsø in 2014 (online, using TuneIn), I think they had announcers and jocks. Did you hear any spots?
There are a couple, one is for "McDonald's is now in Tromsø!", another sounds like it's for a kitchen outlet.
The playlist is weirdly small, but not small in the sense of a tightly-formatted station, it just keeps repeatedly playing the same obscure tracks. The Connells "74-75", DJ Otzi "Hey Baby" and a terrible dance version of Africa by Toto keep going round and round multiple times a day.
I haven't listened to Tromsø Hits (whose RDS name is amusingly "TROMSHIT") for any length of time, but the two appear to run pretty much the same format, Hits is perhaps slightly more CHR but it still plays classic hits as well.
I did this once with a two meter ht. There was noise, but I could hear some repeater every 10 Khz. And yes, I got yelled at by a flight attendant!
Surprised a transceiver made it into the passenger cabin. A Walkman-type device can be just a tape player, which is fine, and that's why so many fliers could get away with using one in flight, But an HT? I wouldn't even consider putting that in my carry-on bag.
I bring a bag with between 9 and 12 radio-recorders, all kinds of cables and camera gear with me when I fly.
It rarely gets even a second look going through the TSA.
That may or may not be a good thing...
This was when ht's were new, and not many knew what they were. She thought it was an FM radio.
My Walkman experience was in April 2002, not even a year after 9/11. Yours must have been much earlier. Thanks for the additional info.
Security at my local airport has really improved in recent years. Nowadays, you just put your bag in the security tray and collect it 30 seconds later at the other end. Previously (and this still seems to apply in other places I've visited), you had to take out any electronic items to scan separately, sometimes even turn them on to prove they're really a radio and not a bomb.
I should also note that I have TSA PreCheck, so I go through a security line that moves faster and more efficiently most of the time.
My phone doesn't have an FM receiver built in but I do have an offline GPS app installed (Magic Earth) and was amused on my last flight watching myself moving down the roads at 550 mph.
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