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On Thu, 02 May 2024 05:24:08 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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.