The death of AM radio in digital
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:31:27 -0800, dave wrote:
dave wrote:
Massachusetts was a great place to hear AM BCB DX. I managed to get
almost every state in the lower 48, including California and
Washington, plus a bunch of Canadians across the prairie, on a Radio
Shack portable using just the internal ferrite bar. Everything east of
the Rockies was a cinch. Had I know then how to loop a wire aorund the
radio for added induction, who knows what else I could have grabbed.
Nobody aims their signals thisaway, I guess...
When I was a kid growing up near Phoenix I could DX all of N. America on
an All American 5 tube superhet (with 100' of wire inductively coupled
to the loop). I listened to WLS regularly, and could get many Eastern
Seabord stations, e.g. WBZ, WIBG, etc., when conditions were right.
When you could only own a handful of stations you were much more
protective of your spectrum and much more original in your programming.
Group ownership of too many stations has turned the product into audio
junk food.
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