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Re:Ford to drop AM radio in new models, except commercial ve... by Denvercoder9 on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:07AM (#35420534)
If we're going to regulation route, we could also require those emergency broadcasts to move to FM.
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Re:Ford to drop AM radio in new models, except commercial ve... by zamnos on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:00AM (#35420960)
The cost of issuing new regulations by the government is far lower than the cost to retrofit FM hardware to all stations.
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Re:Ford to drop AM radio in new models, except commercial ve... by the_fury on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:52PM (#35431107)
FM frequencies do not propogate in nearly the same way as MW do.
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