On Apr 17, 6:52 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On 16 Apr 2007 18:01:21 -0700, "RHF"
wrote in
Increasing numbers of people around the world are choosing to listen
to radio on a range of other platforms including FM, satellite and
online, with fewer listening on shortwave.
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It's a pity that AM is falling out of favour. I used to travel from
Calgary to Winnipeg and back, driving along the Trans-Canada highway,
a distance of about 600 miles. You could hear CBK 540 AM Saskatchewan
all the way.
There have been complaints about the coverage of the new FM
transmitters that replaced the old 50kw AM transmitters in Ottawa and
Montreal. Not only are there drop-out zones in the cities, the range
of the FM leaves large areas of the region without the coverage they
used to have with the 50k's. As a result of this, while the prairie
cities are going to get FM transmitters, the old 50k AM transmitters
will be left on in order to provide regional coverage.
The truckers seem to prefer satellite radio with some listening to
clear channel radio, but iboc will soon put an end to dx radio.
Wouldn't it be nice if some LW frequencies were opened up and
somebody's business model produced a 50kw station at, say, 400 khz. I
even have a few European radios that already have that band.