Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 15:45:19 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 08:43:33 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 X-Trace: sv3-BKGCRPg6GVrQgJlQkpBOiQ5/c+3e+lHMj0d/TomLgMDCirsdi/WHrwxPJHR36FOJum/6/6m6P4Xphs1!RRjFdeUnw52Na8wcDc6ivjRrmw7cqeUTrhUiQks63M0FIXh3CI5go2obutbD0xJf88vgDSbEcNiK!GKe1VA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2172 On Thu, 02 May 2024 05:24:08 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: >AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing > https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/am-radio-is-a-lifeline-lawmakers-say-tech-and-auto-industries-disagree/ >A recent test of the emergency alert system found only 1 percent got it via AM. > >Strange. most is FM these days, or digital? >Something to do with Soros buying radio stations ;-) ? AM radio is a century-old technology. It makes more sense to push microwatts of light over a fiber, or a few watts from a gen6 cell node, than to spray tens or hundreds of kilowatts of RF out into the universe. I wonder what fraction of AM transmitter power winds up in receiver front-ends. Surely way below 1e-9. Electricity keeps getting more expensive so operating an AM station may be bad business. What I hear is bad music, dumb politics, and very boring preaching. I had a friend who was a DJ in an AM station. It was a very boring, low pay job. He killed himself.