music on the radio

[knightjoke]

 

 

[illanthropist]

I tried patenting a transistor potato radio once, turned out people prefer chips instead!

[cekivi]

That was one of my first science projects back in grade school. Made it with a roll of copper wire, a peroxide bottle, a piece of plywood, a telephone (for speakers) and a diode. The tricky part is the diode. It'd be nice to have a radio in the long dark but not only would the station not have power to broadcast the little diode your radio needs to pick up AM signals would also be toast

[illanthropist]

1 minute ago, cekivi said:

It'd be nice to have a radio in the long dark

I have a feeling they will come, when I first started playing every time I set foot in a car I couldn't resist clicking the radio despite knowing nothing would happen but secretly hoping.

[cekivi]

I guess it depends on what the aurora actually did to technology. If the diodes didn't fry... well then the radios themselves would still work. It'd be really eerie actually to hear the radio spark up and start making static and white noise every time the aurora hit. It'd be even better if you could use your radio to monitor the aurora. When the static starts picking up you'll know to run inside because the temperature's going to plummet and the hydro lines are about to catch on fire!

[illanthropist]

9 hours ago, cekivi said:

I guess it depends on what the aurora actually did to technology.

How factual this is I don't know but:

http://thelongdark.wikia.com/wiki/Aurorae

[knightjoke]

13 hours ago, knightjoke said:

 

thanks for the link illanthropist.  if there would come music on radio what kind of music would it be? 

 

[illanthropist]

14 minutes ago, knightjoke said:

if there would come music on radio what kind of music would it be? 

 

[hauteecolerider]

OMG! This forum's been Rick-Rolled! 

Maybe this is the movie from 1982?

http://hinterlandforums.com/index.php?/topic/10477-the-suspense-is-killing-me/#comment-62378

[nicko]

 

[hauteecolerider]

There's a "Below Ground Sound?" 

[knightjoke]

 

[knightjoke]

 

[knightjoke]

 

 

[cekivi]

I think the forums need to think more Canadian

I propose Barrett's Privateers and Northwest Passage by Stand Rogers

The Northwest Passage is particularly appropriate for the Long Dark. Especially considering what happened to Franklin's expedition...

 

[Patrick Carlson]

Interesting video above on the "powerless" radio. I liked the warning at the end not to operate the thing during lightning storms. That would be a tough affliction to make it back from. 

[Sima]

Similarly, but I would like to get verification if that is indeed what one of the effects of the storm would be.