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The Radio Historian
Personal blog · theradiohistorian.orghistoryhardware
The Radio Historian is a personal blog at theradiohistorian.org about history and hardware. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its radio history writing, including a page on FM broadcasting. Comments cover FM's capture effect, fax history, and high-power AM border blasters.
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.
Historical articles and photographs from the early years of radio broadcasting in San Francisco and the United States of America
Most-linked posts?
- The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-07
- The newspaper of the air: early experiments with radio facsimile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-24
What Hacker News says?
Some more about FM at http://www.theradiohistorian.org/fm/fm.html — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471355 « FM signals were much more immune to interference than AM due to its “capture effect” – an interfering signal needed to be more than 50% the strength of the desired signal to cause audible interference, compared to 5% or less with AM. This characteristic would considerably reduce the required separation…
Comment linking /fm/fm.html
on “Why does FM sound better than AM?”Submitted The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018) as a story · 122 points
HN discussionIt would seem to be a joke. But even so, while 1966 was indeed early for "regular" use of fax - the first "user friendly" Xerox fax machines hit the market around then -, the first transmission of facsimiles of images dates to the 1840's, and the first fax that used similar methods to "modern" fax machines of scanning line by line (the "scanning phototelegraph") dates to 1880. Commercial fax machines have been aroun…
Comment linking /Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_air1.htm
on “Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online”Submitted The NBC Chimes Machine (1999) as a story · 62 points
HN discussionThere is an interesting story about the high power side of broadcasting. There was a station in the US, WLW that was 500 kW. This one station reached almost the entire country. The FCC finally limited the maximum power to 50 kW. Mexico had no such restriction, so "border blasters" appeared- high power stations on the boarder transmitting into the US. They ran ads, made money and had huge audiences. Most famous is Wo…
Comment linking /xer/xer.html
on “Pirate Act: what the law says and how it threatens pirate radio stations”Submitted Dixon, California: A United States Shortwave Mecca as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The newspaper of the air: early experiments with radio facsimile as a story · 2 points
HN discussion