30-04-2023, 08:48 PM
I must admit, I dont think I have ever seen an american radio here. Then again, I doubt Ive seen any English ones either.
We did have lots of German sets though, due to migration after the war. Australia had umpteen dozen small radio manufacturers and most of my experience has been with those.
Some few had RF stages. As a kid I was given a few "dead " battery radios, but the cost of batteries prevented me ever getting any going.
There may have been long wave bands here once, but thats way before my time. FM started about 1975, but was experimental and I didnt see any. After all, most FM only goes round the block, and is pretty useless in Australia.
Ive never seen any FM radios, except the German ones, and I have never owned an FM receiver, but I am only 70. :-) All the FM sets I have been have been sand and made inJapan, although I was once asked to repair a Goodmans English FM tuner.
so my clip is from Wikipedia.
cut/paste :
During the 1980s, much of the band was still occupied by a few television transmitters,[10] but by the 1990s these had been reallocated to other bands, and are now closed, along with all other analog broadcast TV services, following the advent of digital television. As AM/FM portable and car radios displaced AM-only receivers, conversion to FM-stereo became progressively more attractive to broadcasters, and the swing to FM with its superior sound quality and immunity from interference, was under way. Many AM stations transferred to FM, with its lower costs, and many new services were opened. Today, as elsewhere in the developed world, most Australian broadcasting is on FM - although AM talk stations are still very popular and high-power AM transmitters, both national and commercial, are valued by travellers and country listeners, and in emergency situations.
We did have lots of German sets though, due to migration after the war. Australia had umpteen dozen small radio manufacturers and most of my experience has been with those.
Some few had RF stages. As a kid I was given a few "dead " battery radios, but the cost of batteries prevented me ever getting any going.
There may have been long wave bands here once, but thats way before my time. FM started about 1975, but was experimental and I didnt see any. After all, most FM only goes round the block, and is pretty useless in Australia.
Ive never seen any FM radios, except the German ones, and I have never owned an FM receiver, but I am only 70. :-) All the FM sets I have been have been sand and made inJapan, although I was once asked to repair a Goodmans English FM tuner.
so my clip is from Wikipedia.
cut/paste :
During the 1980s, much of the band was still occupied by a few television transmitters,[10] but by the 1990s these had been reallocated to other bands, and are now closed, along with all other analog broadcast TV services, following the advent of digital television. As AM/FM portable and car radios displaced AM-only receivers, conversion to FM-stereo became progressively more attractive to broadcasters, and the swing to FM with its superior sound quality and immunity from interference, was under way. Many AM stations transferred to FM, with its lower costs, and many new services were opened. Today, as elsewhere in the developed world, most Australian broadcasting is on FM - although AM talk stations are still very popular and high-power AM transmitters, both national and commercial, are valued by travellers and country listeners, and in emergency situations.
