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Engineering Radio
Personal blog · engineeringradio.us/bloghardwarescience
Engineering Radio is a personal blog at engineeringradio.us about hardware and science. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “What Bitrate Is Needed to Sound Like Analog FM? (2013)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Engineering Radio, a blog that follows broadcast radio technology over decades, covering transmitters, FM and DAB+ bitrates and automated programming. Comments cite it as a source on these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Bitrate Is Needed to Sound Like Analog FM? (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-19
What Hacker News says?
Corrected link: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2012/12/the-continental-...
Comment linking /blog/2012/12/the-continental-d323c-medium-wave-transmitter/
on “What 50,000 watts of RF energy sounds like through a jumper cable”Submitted What is the deal with those FEMA/DHS AM backup transmitters? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe bitrate requirement should be lower for DAB+, although this article seems to contradict that: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2013/11/what-bitrate-is-...
Comment linking /blog/2013/11/what-bitrate-is-needed-to-sound-like-analog-fm/
on “Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio”Submitted What Bitrate Is Needed to Sound Like Analog FM? (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might really enjoy this blog, then. The author has been watching both the decline and advancement of radio of the last few decades. It was interesting to see these big-iron transmitters being replaced by half-a-rack of solid state gear, but then still taking up four racks because of all the other gear. His last post is poignant, though: "...the absolute soul crushing mediocrity of automated programming is killin…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Norway switches off FM radio, but a station is defying government order”Submitted The Antenna Array of Intrigue as a story · 1 points
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