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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by 112233 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:35AM (#34608332)
Is this an US thing? Because over here in 80s radios had "long wave", "medium wave", "short wave" (1..6) and "ultra short wave", the later being called "FM" in export models. I do not recall bands being reffered to as "AM".

Does it include LW/MW only, or is shortwave also called "AM radio"?

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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by jdofaz on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:38AM (#34611024)
A common radio will have an AM band 530 kHz to 1700 kHz and a FM band 88 to 108 MHz. You'd have to buy a special radio to get more options.
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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by int_19h on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:53AM (#34612216)
If you look up "AM/FM radio" on Amazon, you'll see plenty of examples. It does not include shortwave, unless specifically labelled "AM/FM/SW". Whether LW is included or not varies, probably because LW isn't used for broadcasting in US.

I don't think it's just a US or NA thing. In my experience, at least, every casual consumer radio I ever handled that had English labels on it, outside of vintage stuff, used this terminology. More advanced consumer radios like Tecsun will usually avoid "AM" and use LW/MW/SW as appropriate, but then still refer to VHF as FM.

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