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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by insane_dreamer on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:31PM (#34605100)
Doesn't BBC WS broadcast over shortwave, not AM? I used to listen to it in many different countries (though no longer because ... Internet).
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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by mvexel on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:46PM (#34605210)
They used to have an AM transmitter that reached most? of Europe, but it was shut down in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfordness_transmitting_statio...
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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by glaucon on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:52PM (#34605271)
Broadcast shortwave (and long wave) uses Amplitude Modulation, the term "AM" has been hijacked in some forms of English to mean "medium wave" but it's not what it means to radio engineers etc. I can't complain because I regularly refer to VHF broadcasts as FM ;-)

BTW in addition to shortwave BBC World Service broadcasts (or provides material for rebroadcast by local operators) in : Long Wave; VHF; DAB and Satellite.

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