The Long Road to Entertainment Radio Broadcasting in Germany
Wolfgang Mathis
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DEI, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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Radioin Germany shortly after World War I which is called
Rundfunkin this country and consider the early radio transmitter stations in Eberswalde and Königs Wusterhausen.
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Recently, for modeling biological amplification processes, nonlinear amplifiers based on the Andronov–Hopf bifurcation have become a focus of attention.
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Seyed Mohammadamin Moosavi, Christian Widemann, and Wolfgang Mathis
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Harry Weber and Wolfgang Mathis
Adv. Radio Sci., 14, 51–54, https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-14-51-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-14-51-2016, 2016
Short summary
Short summary
In this contribution, the limitations of the Carleman linearization approach are presented and discussed. The Carleman linearization transforms an ordinary nonlinear differential equation into an infinite system of linear differential equations which cannot be solved in general. Therefore, the infinite dimensional system has to be approximated by a finite one. The idea of this contribution is to use a Taylor series for the approximation of the infinite system.
Sven Feldkord, Marco Reit, and Wolfgang Mathis
Adv. Radio Sci., 14, 47–50, https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-14-47-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-14-47-2016, 2016
Short summary
Short summary
Recently, nonlinear amplifiers based on the Andronov–Hopf bifurcation have become a focus of attention in modeling of the mammalian hearing organ. We present a flexible framework implemented on a DSP to analyze various bifurcation based amplifiers to get deeper insights in their nonlinear input-output behavior. A comparison shows the Neimark–Sacker amplifier remarkably outperforms the Andronov–Hopf amplifier regarding the CPU usage.
T. Vennemann, T. Frye, Z. Liu, M. Kahmann, and W. Mathis
Adv. Radio Sci., 13, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-13-1-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-13-1-2015, 2015
E. Hintzen, T. Vennemann, and W. Mathis
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M. Weber, T. Vennemann, and W. Mathis
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This article deals with the relatively late introduction of entertainment radio in Germany compared to other technically advanced countries. Following current broadcasting history, the German Post Office was initially interested in the commercial use of wireless technology after the end of the First World War. Due to the success of entertainment radio in the USA and UK, there were demands from industry and radio amateurs for its opening in Germany as well, which finally happened with a delay.
This article deals with the relatively late introduction of entertainment radio in Germany...