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Old 9th Mar 2020, 7:31 pm   #43
G6Tanuki
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Default Re: Some BBC local radio MW Tx closures

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Originally Posted by rambo1152
My new Skoda doesn't have LW or MW, just DAB and FM.
More and more cars are deleting the legacy broadcast-radios and supporting Android Auto or Apple CarPlay: to the extent that the "built-in satnav" is obsolete [you use your phone's Google Maps instead - it doesn't have the vendor-lock-in issues that expected you to pay £100 every couple of years for a new mapset].

I don't fret about this: I've not used MW/LW radios in cars for decades, and have 'smoked' plenty of FM car-radio front-ends when running a couple of hundred Watts of 144MHz mobile SSB.

Broadcasting on MW/LW, let's face it, is heading towards extinction. Even the inner-city urban tower-block-pirates have abandoned it [they're now moving from FM to DAB: DAB has the advantage that you can post dynamic scrolling-messages showing the locations of the local raves]
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