In article , John Byrns wrote:
In article , Doug Smith W9WI
wrote:

(please do not take the above post as an endorsement of IBOC. IMHO it
will deprive millions of Americans of their sole nighttime AM service,

Why do those millions of Americans need a nighttime AM service, which is
probably pretty poor anyway, when there is ubiquitous nighttime FM service
available?

If nighttime AM propagation characteristics are no longer considered useful,
then indeed the whole AM band is basically not useful any longer, because
skip is what makes AM what it is.
--scott
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