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"Hall Monitor2" wrote in message
... The bandwidth that it might "screw up" isn't being used for anything anyway. Like most digitization, is is finding ways to use resources more efficiently. It is being "used" by a few hundred old-timers who still like to scan the AM band, looking for that rare and elusive "catch" from 1000 miles away. They think their outdated hobby transcends any attempt to make real use of the bandwidth. Mind you, their intent is not to actually *listen* to any programs on said station. It's merely an ego thing - they just want to say "I heard such and such station". People who actually *listen* to the radio are derisively called "program listeners" by the "elite" DXers. Yeah, spinning the dial to see what you could find was cool 40 years ago when I was a kid, using an old tube radio. But these days it is just silly. You can "catch" nearly any station in the world these days on the net. You might as well put up a TV antenna on your roof and go up and manually spin it around every time you change channels. Or would you rather have cable/HD/satellite? There is simply no reason for AM radio to still be noisy/static filled/fading/generally sounding like crap. If it can't be fixed, then it should just go away. If it can be fixed, then let's fix it. The current technology is 100 years old, virtually unchanged. Frankly, its embarrassing. No wonder kids today have no interest in it. |
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