Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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https://www.radioworld.com/columns-...s/did-am-radio-just-get-hit-by-lightningI understand why this is a trend. But as one who heard stories from my grandfather about building his first “crystal” AM radio from a kit and listening to KDKA in the early 1920s it is a sad milestone. India is switching to “static free” AM radio using the no fee DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) transmission type. In the USA only 2 AM stations are using the “static free” 100% digital private USA company Ubiquity “Hybrid Digital” or HD AM transmission. I am not against either FM radio or streaming. It is sad that when it gets dark you cannot turn on your AM radio and get “static free” AM stations from 2000 miles away for free. Stations like 650 WSM, 820 WBAP, 840 WHAS, 1020 KDKA and more could be heard nightly static free and at FM like quality in every vehicle in the lower 48 states if DRM had been adopted in the USA like is being done in India.
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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back in the early, early 60's, i would tune in WLS, WOWO, and several others very late at night while dozing off to sleep, listening to my "pocket" size [so many "crystals", but i forget just how many] radio via ear phones.[the grandfather of "ear buds"]
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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I can't remember the last time I listened to AM radio. I was installing FM converters in the mid 70s in everything I bought (or would swap it from the last car). These days, neither my coupe nor my truck even have any form of music, and the coupe has been our long distance ride for the last 12 years (about 90,000 miles on it alone). My wife and I actually talk with each other when we are riding in the coupe or the truck! Through years of hearing abuse (factories, grinders & metal working equipment, loud cars, dirt track racing, and loud music, don't need no stinking hearing protection said that younger me), I can't hear most radios in a vehicle with the windows down, and I like to dive with the window down as much as possible through the warmer months. If you can't hear the radio, not much sense in wasting effort or money on it. As I get older, I'm considering adding AC to the truck, then a radio may be considered, but it wouldn't be an AM radio.
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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WBZ, Boston. Larry Glick. How are you? Lemme check...not bad.
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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Art Bell had serious issues switching from AM to digital, #1 I think was people downloading the show, deleting all the ads and then putting it up on youtube by 7am next morning, it was enough of an issue he flat out quit. More people were listening to the bootleg steams than his actual live show (that was done in the middle of the night)
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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When I was a kid growing up in northern Wyoming in the '60's the only station to listen to was 1520 KOMA out of Oklahoma City.
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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Funny this came up. The FM went out with the factory radio is my 96 Ram about 6 months ago. Been listening to AM since. However, I don't drive the truck much anymore.
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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Re: Goodbye AM radio, says Ford, Tesla
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