Re:Is Am Radio Dead?
by ridgeguy on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:52PM
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AM radio helped kindle my lifelong interest in technology and music.
Grew up in Alaska in the '50s. When I was 8, my Dad bagged me some old headphones, wire, a variable capacitor and one of those new-fangled 'diode detectors' from a friend at Elmendorf Air Base.
Much coil winding and fiddling later, I was able to hear KOMA in Oklahoma, a great rock station. KOMA Klimbers!
Nowdays, I find AM content distasteful in the extreme, hardly ever listen. But fond memories of an early influence.
Grew up in Alaska in the '50s. When I was 8, my Dad bagged me some old headphones, wire, a variable capacitor and one of those new-fangled 'diode detectors' from a friend at Elmendorf Air Base.
Much coil winding and fiddling later, I was able to hear KOMA in Oklahoma, a great rock station. KOMA Klimbers!
Nowdays, I find AM content distasteful in the extreme, hardly ever listen. But fond memories of an early influence.