Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeroen Belleman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 13:43:09 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <49fhgkxdv5.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 13:41:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f050da8d7fc0bee3db548d7bcbd2e003"; logging-data="1259645"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ikcCkTi4ym2x37oIGnbWL" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qq6XM6DhnbXsNfNSZoe+CbCatWY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <49fhgkxdv5.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Bytes: 2284 On 5/4/24 12:29, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2024-05-03 17:43, John Larkin wrote: >> 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. > > Heh. The power needed is not that related to being old technology, but > to the frequency used. The lower the frequency, the more power is needed. > [...] I'm pretty sure that the power consumed by modern telecoms infrastructure exceeds that of broadcast radio manyfold. Jeroen Belleman