Fuck everyone who says AM radio should be dead

Well if there is any sort of nuclear Holocaust chances are you get off internet.
Also if internet is very controlled on your area like gov control you can still hear am. Problem is am demands very strong emitters to reach distance

I know, power outage was your argument.

You can power a receiver with a hand crank and a transmitter with a decently sized generator. You can definitely keep your phone going with lots of determined cranking (although keeping that screen on will really wind you fast), but you can't run a server farm off of a few liters of fuel oil.

I was listening to a Ham from Lithuania on 20 meter shortwave, with nothing but a $20 dollar SDR dongle and two pieces of wire. I live in New England (East coast of the US). Radio is truly amazing.

>What is the internet?

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This board is called technology, not shit that was obsolete hundreds of years ago. Please delete this post.

Yeah, by making another connection to a server for every new listener. Servers get overwhelmed when a big event is happening. Plain old radio doesn't have this problem.

An AM radio and a pack of batteries can be invaluable if a natural disaster strikes. You have no power, no internet, and maybe even the phone and cell towers are out. No power, and no internet or voice if you did manage to get your device to boot up. But that crappy old handheld AM radio can still pick up stations from hundreds of miles away and give you updates on what's going on.

take it a few steps further and get your amateur radio license. it's actually a lot of fun

Let me get this straight. Having to buy a $1000 smartphone or computer and paying for a monthly data plan (yes, we all have that, but that's not the point), plus the cost of the electricity you are wasting is more efficient than buying a $15 radio and buying two AA batteries every two years?

>inb4 but muh sound quality
Right, because you probably need a 320 kbps file in order to listen to Rush Limbaugh lol

Okay, but at the end, whats the fucking point? Listen to radio you don't understand with shitty music or people talking about topics you couldn't care less?
Radio is not obsolete because of the technology, radio is obsolete because it's useless and nobody cares anymore.

If a disaster has occurred that's left you with no power and no internet, presumably you would be able to find a station talking about that. You could find out about where to go to get emergency supplies or if the area is being evacuated.

But what if I don't live in the Philippines?

In a nuclear holocaust, wouldn't charged particles and irradiated surroundings increase noise drastically?
Legit don't know here

Yeah. Quick, everyone post more battlestatin/smartphone/headphone/keyboard/consumerproductshit threads.

Thats REAL technology.

Right. Because it's not like the West has seen two world wars and hundreds of natural disasters in the last century...

Yeah I mean those at least have to do with technogy. This thread is just anthropology.

Might be a bit noisy, but that's the nice thing about analog radio. It takes an awful lot of noise before you can't make anything out. With digital it starts dropping out randomly and makes following the discussion impossible.

>t. 13 year old brainlet

So basically, you don't say I should use radio, you just said I should keep a radio somewhere in a drawer "just in case".

Radio is for boomers.

Pic is me and the senpai using real technology.

>mfw I don't exist and I can't shitpost properly

is that a radio pic

forgot pic

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>Live in the suburbs of Madrid
>all I can pick up both on AM and FM are pirate south american evangelical scammer stations, which drown out legit ones and even each other
>The few commercial stations I can get are in mono, because you guessed it, fucking south americans fuck up the MPX signal on them
Just fuck my country up

How do I get into amateur radioing
And what exactly is it

Is it just like in anime where you sit around listening to random signals

You should at least poke around on it to see if anything interests you, particularly on frequency ranges that aren't the regular AM and FM spectrums. If not, still keep a crappy radio around in case of emergencies.

Weird frequencies need more specialized equipment, so the easiest way to browse the spectrum is through one of the many web SDR sites.

>whats the fucking point
Radio is much more difficult to censor than the internet.

Right, because its really hard to find the source of the radio

A shortwave signal can carry over thousands of miles. Even during the day I can pick up a time signal from Hawaii in New York.

Much easier to get a radio signal across the iron curtain in 1975, even with jamming, than to get an illicit website to the chinese today.

If the feds want to send lots of people after you then you're fucked obviously. But unlike on the internet you don't have to worry about some company gagging you.

>look mom. I'm trolling 4chins.

Okay, tomorrow I'll try to find interesting things but I really doubt it.
Radio is maybe not "obsolete" in terms of technology, but it's really only a legacy and emergency tech. On the other hand, it's a very obsolete way to consume medias.
BTW, now they can broadcast SMS alerts to every cellphones, and cell towers are actually very strong.

>Having to buy a $1000 smartphone
Good sir, have you considered that purchasing a cellular device for greater than $50 might be possibly avoided?

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>cell towers are actually very strong
They only function for five hours after the electrical grid goes down.
>obsolete way to consume media
Just because something is old doesn't mean it has no use at all.

>320 kbps file in order to listen to Rush Limbaugh lol
Who else is going to warn him of his impending heart attack when we hear his labored breathing?

Many people still listen to FM radio, particularly if they don't have much data allowance and don't want to sort through a collection of music to find something. If they aren't picky and just want something with a beat, FM does the job just fine for zero cost and no storage used.

It's literally impossible to censor a shortwave transmission. You can listen to a transmission coming from Madagascar and the government can do nothing to stop it, they can only try to put noise on the signal wasting millions of dollars.

On the internet, just a call to Jewgle and you are done.

dudes been on the air for 30 years, seems like he's still going strong

>jewgle is the internet

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Or Twitter, Facebook, Cloudflare, whatever. Just look at what happened to the Daily Stormer. You can dissapear from the internet with a click.

I really doubt electrical grid can go down for hours nowadays. It's a mesh with a shit ton of connexions everywhere and we have nuclear powerplants everywhere in the country.
Shut down few neighborhood ok, but a whole city? You'll have to get 5 Godzillas to tear off every air and buried cables around the city.
>implying the internet is jewgle
If you're autistic enough to listen to conspiracy radios on AM or SW, you should be able to go on i2p, freenet or tor

>websites
>internet

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>implying a repressive government wouldn't be able to ban the internet

>nuclear powerplants everywhere in the country
If there's a heat wave then the river water usually used by nuclear power plants for cooling might be too hot to do the job and they'll have to shut down even as customers crank their air conditioners.

Or AJ last week. If the powers that be want you gone, they can make you gone.

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If anyone doesn't want to leave the safety of their computer, you can try out any of the web based software defined radios or go to Nooelectric and pick up a dongle and an upconverter for cheap $. Windows users can use SDR# , Linux users can use GQRX to tune in to various frequencies. My latest kick is decoding pocsag messages (plain text pager messages). There's a constant barrage of messages from hospitals, various devices, servers, you name it. Reading the hospital pages has really changed my outlook on life.Mortality takes on a whole new perspective when you realize how many people die in just a few hospitals on a daily basis. I've also noticed an alarming number of patients with gangrenous infections and cellulitis.

but I would still prefer to enjoy the subtle nuances of his voices

>I really doubt electrical grid can go down for hours nowadays.
Sometimes it just takes one lightning-struck transformer to kill a large area for hours. The one bad transformer causes the grid to route power through other transformers, causing some of those to fail, putting even more strain on the rest. Some of those can't take it, and so forth.

Also consider that our power plants and grid are controlled by computers that are connected to the internet. If an attacker got custom built malware on those systems, they could shut down the power grid.

Where do you live? Do would want some help?
We have 58 reactors in 19 power plants, whatever if one or two slow down. If fact it's often the case for maintenance.

>whatever if one or two slow
That depends on how large your electric grid is and how much variability in weather there is in your country.

Yeah, here in the US I listen to AM 940 from Quebec.

They play some good stuff like Mylene Farmer.

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They really need laws to mandate that cell phone manufacturers must have an FM reciever in the phones, and mandate that the carriers can't deny access to it.

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You need a shit ton of cell towers to cover the area that an AM, FM, or 162mhz Weather Band transmitter can cover.

my family used to laugh at me for listening to her when I was a kid
those weren't good times

I heard it's very stable and safe and we make so much electricity we sell a lot to other countries
That's probably why we have like 40 000 of them

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Most people with phones where they have the function to change their cellular band don't even know they have it.

Like where I'm at with 4G they have the wattage dialed down or the frequency they use isn't that great for propagation here.

If I select GSM, it is EDGE, and I get full bars, better coverage around here.

If I am not intensely using data, it is better I leave it on GSM for alerts or important phone calls.

watch your glow levels you might get run over

Actually most cellphones DO have an FM receiver.
>Nokia N900 even had an emitter

>implying radio is the go to place for big events

your delusion is showing

Actually AM receivers and earphones require so little power you can literally connect them to a large object and ground and they will draw enough current to produce audio.

>earphones
I know that this is true for a piezoelectric earpiece, but idk about conventional headphones

I have been at two of her concerts. Must have been in 1987. Le Zenith in Paris and the other... was it Macumba near Annecy?

Well here in the US and Canada, most carriers block access to it.

So people end up wasting data on streaming.

You are probably right, I don't remember what kind was in my 500 in 1 science kit.

American capitalism never cease to amaze me

>wasting data on streaming
Unless they use Tmobile and have zero rated video and audio.

user, what? Maybe you should see a doctor.

>>Your radio can't work without electricity either dumbass

Crystal radio sets beg to differ.

>I can listen to (((BBC))) for free
good for you buddy